operating 1000w total power grow with batteries?
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Easier to just pay the increase in your electricity bill.
Just seems very inefficient. The batteries have to be charged when they are drained and that uses electricity.
You look at a 100Ah battery for example:
12V x 100Ah = 1200 Watt-hours
1200Wh / 1000w light = 1.2 hours
Given the Amp hours of the battery in the example, you would be cycling fresh batteries often. It takes longer to charge a battery properly than that... And that's not including the inrush when you first energize it. So maybe an hour? lol Obviously there are stronger batteries but the point is it is a way too expensive route.
Just seems very inefficient. The batteries have to be charged when they are drained and that uses electricity.
You look at a 100Ah battery for example:
12V x 100Ah = 1200 Watt-hours
1200Wh / 1000w light = 1.2 hours
Given the Amp hours of the battery in the example, you would be cycling fresh batteries often. It takes longer to charge a battery properly than that... And that's not including the inrush when you first energize it. So maybe an hour? lol Obviously there are stronger batteries but the point is it is a way too expensive route.
Ringsixty
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Don't know what Battery Array you would need. But, I'm sure it would cost you a small fortune.
I have a Photo voltaic system on my house. So, I give my excess power to the Utility Co. during the day and they give back what I need during the night. Nice to have a $17 Monthly Electric Bill.
So, during the day I generate my own power and schedule my grow accordingly.
But, this wasn't a cheap alternative either. But, I will save a Ton of Cash over it's 25 year life span.
I have a Photo voltaic system on my house. So, I give my excess power to the Utility Co. during the day and they give back what I need during the night. Nice to have a $17 Monthly Electric Bill.
So, during the day I generate my own power and schedule my grow accordingly.
But, this wasn't a cheap alternative either. But, I will save a Ton of Cash over it's 25 year life span.
Dr Strangegrow
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Be cheaper and easier to buy a gen set and really silence it a propane fuelled one will give off hardly any smell, if it is deep in the woods your going to get a hernia carrying all those batteries every day to charge them and also you stand more chance of someone seeing you if you have to make multiple trips carrying batteries even if it is a short distance to your vehicle if they don't report you they may well steal your crop. Best of luck with your project.
Can you recommend a good generator that would be cheap to maintain? Need power of like 1500w if I'm using generator.
TheSmokeMan420
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I would recommend a Honda(http://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2000i) its a bit pricey new, used ones drop in price a bit. they are fuel efficient, quiet, compact, and they don't weight a ton. I used mine for 2 weeks solid during an ice storm. They are pretty tough
Dr Strangegrow
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I agree with The Smoke Man, Honda are pretty bullet proof and you can get spares for them easily unlike some cheaper unbranded models. Always buy a generator that is rated above the power you will be consuming. It is worth considering a Hyundai if your budget won't run to a Honda, these are pretty bullet proof as well, don't know about spares for them. Hope it works out for you keep us informed with your progress.
This is what I'd be looking out for don't know where you are located but this is the set up I would go for LPG is much cheaper in the UK than Petrol/Gas
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-LPG-generator-/251348594620?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Generators_ET&hash=item3a858b2fbc
This is what I'd be looking out for don't know where you are located but this is the set up I would go for LPG is much cheaper in the UK than Petrol/Gas
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-LPG-generator-/251348594620?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Generators_ET&hash=item3a858b2fbc
Its not about sketchyness its about knowing its in a very remote location underground where I can't be connected to it and nobody would ever have a chance of finding it
I'm using an excavator to dig the hole, and i I decide to use a generator it will go In a separate smaller muffled hole in the ground with a buryed door on top just like the room.The fumes will find there way out if its not air tight I would set it up with way bigger tank to hold enough gas for weeks of power so it would be out of the way
tekdc911
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it takes alot of fuel to run a generator under a load
more then you would think
i captained commercial fishing boats for a while years ago in another life and we ran 4 250 MH a fridge and a tv and a ac and 10 gals of diesel might make the night with the tiny northern lights gen set we were running
so you figure atleast 30 bucks for a 12/12 cycle but the generator would have to be running 24/0 for circulation of air in the room
and the fact that you would have to go and start it daily if it wasnt running constantly
more then you would think
i captained commercial fishing boats for a while years ago in another life and we ran 4 250 MH a fridge and a tv and a ac and 10 gals of diesel might make the night with the tiny northern lights gen set we were running
so you figure atleast 30 bucks for a 12/12 cycle but the generator would have to be running 24/0 for circulation of air in the room
and the fact that you would have to go and start it daily if it wasnt running constantly
Its very simple. Cover the tracks afterword. Its dirt and leaves.
I'm probably not going to use a generator after all but not because the sound first of all there not loud its like a catr engine idleing if they had a underground enclosed soundproof room you wouldn't hear it. Its like the other guy said its gunna be like 20-30 bucks each day for gas i don't have that kinda money.
That is awesome. Hell yeah. But if I was going to get that I'd go all out and get like a 4 kw one. Would have to save up a bit lol
a mongo frog
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This should do the trick. It's 30,000 kw, very quiet and is cheap. 100 amp breaker.