Ya as long as everyone is polite, discuss and debate away =) Its healthy, and that's the reason the forums are here! Its the name calling and blah blahs that I cant stand.
So, since I'm posting might as well update a little bit with some random thoughts.
ELECTRIC: I'm very displeased with my electric panel. Its wired with the wrong circuit breakers on the wrong sized subpanel (I need double breakers, these are tandems, and I'd need 4 breakers, this box has room for 2). I figure I can sell the 240v timers and the 240v ballast cables and the breakers/subpanel for the same cost as buying the C.A.P. MLC-16DX. The MLC-16DX is a 16 light controller that has two timers on it that control two banks of 8 lights. All I have to do is screw in the 3 power wires (hot hot ground) and the panel does the rest. It was about $475 from HorticultureSource after shipping, the cheapest I could find. With the two banks of timers it'll be lighter on the generators initial load when that stuff gets installed months from now.
WATER COOLING: Everyone was whining about me using lake/river water as bad for waste and such, I just got the water bill. I used 1500 gallons of water in a month here from the water company. None of it was waste, as plants drank it all. Ok, some waste as I do pee in a toilet here too and like to flush that.
My house has a 7000 gallon water bill and all I do there is shower and cook and such. Because I never "empty" a reservoir, and only top them off then balance the ppm, there's very little water waste. Electric bill this month was just over $400.
PLANTS: Topped all of the grapefruit diesels today, using the UncleBen method removing everything above the second node. The flower plants are nice, they are middle of week 5 and will be chopped at the end of week 8. Put another 48 or so plants under 3 new lights in Flower Room B on Monday, those all are looking very nice and healthy.
Video soon, should be up in a few hours.