Electrical Question. Please help!

Hi all,

My friend will be setting up a Flowering Room in a 8ftx8ftx8ft

He will have 2x1000 hps with reflective air cooled hoods. These will be cooled by atleast a 300cfm inline fan.

He will have a canfan 100 with carbon scrubber which moves about 750cfm that will exhaust through a cut hole in the door. One hole for the exhaust canfan100 and also one hole near the bottom for the inline fan.

Also he will have an oscillating fan in the room to move air around.

****My question however is that even though i know the lights will come with a complete system with a ballast a piece but i was basically wondering how to plug all these different things in.

He doesnt want to overload the circuit or blow anything or worse start a fire.

***So will he be able to simply run an extension cord out of the room to a near by wall outlet and plug it in there, then connect the other end of the extension cord in the flower room to a multi power outlet or adapter(otherwise known as a power strip). would i be able to plug and successfully run everything in the room i have named by just simply plugging it into the powerstrip thats connected to the extension chord or will this not work?

If anyone could answer my question I would really appreciate it.

make sure your not going to draw more amps then the breaker allows. When using extension cords see how many watts and amps it is rated for. Lastly for the love of christ do not run 100% of possible load.

dutchthreat said:

make sure your not going to draw more amps then the breaker allows. When using extension cords see how many watts and amps it is rated for. Lastly for the love of christ do not run 100% of possible load.

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thats what i figured. so your saying i should make sure i look at the extension chord and also the powerstrip for there watt and amp capability? do you think if i got multiple power strips and multiple extensions chords and even connected them into different outlets in the next room over that would be better and i wouldnt face a problem?

do you happen to know about how many watts or amps is a typical house outlet can hold or withstand?

This will not work. It might work on one properly protected circuit, but certainly not on an extention cord hooked up to a power strip.

Please don't do this, for your own safety, er, um, "his" safety.

What are you talking about? If its all grounded then you can plug a power bar into a extention cord.

Sow - go to your pannel; find out what breaker the outlet is on. Look at the amps, add up all the shit your going to be running on that breaker. when you reach about 80% of max load do not draw anymore from that breaker. As for how many watts and amps.... this info should be located on the power strip/extension cord.

Make sure your shit is grounded, that would be 3 prong outlets and extension cords. If its only 2 don't use it.

you run more of a load when you run current through an extension cord. run a new circuit if you can easy to do if your in a basement or something. kinda like a semi permanent extension cord

dutchthreat said:

What are you talking about? If its all grounded then you can plug a power bar into a extention cord.

Sow - go to your pannel; find out what breaker the outlet is on. Look at the amps, add up all the shit your going to be running on that breaker. when you reach about 80% of max load do not draw anymore from that breaker. As for how many watts and amps.... this info should be located on the power strip/extension cord.

Make sure your shit is grounded, that would be 3 prong outlets and extension cords. If its only 2 don't use it.

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I'm sorry. I thought his "friend" was planning on running 2X 1000W HPS air cooled lights plus several other fans off of one extention cord plugged into a convenience outlet.

That would be very very bad indeed lol!

Solstice07 said:

I'm sorry. I thought his "friend" was planning on running 2X 1000W HPS air cooled lights plus several other fans off of one extention cord plugged into a convenience outlet.

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thanks for the replies. i think he wants to get two power strips and two extension chords all grounded. one for the fans and one for the lights. then run them to two different rooms nearby and use them on different outlets obviously, one in each different room. so hopefully they'll be on different breakers. do you think they will be? do you think this will work?

I'm no electrician but even splitting that load in half is asking for trouble. I wouldn't do that.

you can not run your lighting on extension chords but anything else you will probably get away with i have all my fans on a power strip no problems but my lights are plugged strait into the wall outlet. as everyone else says about amps you have to find out your total amp usage if its to much maybe run a extension chord for the fan of a different circuit in the house

I am not a expert but 1000w is about 9 amps, then look at your your pumps and fan they say right on them how many amps, the rest of what is written is good.

Solstice07 said:

I'm no electrician but even splitting that load in half is asking for trouble. I wouldn't do that.

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Not an electrician either, but I think that would be fine under a 20A breaker, or 25A. you need some thick wire from the breaker like 10ga or whatever the guy suggests for a 25A 120V load running 3000+ watts.

NFTGEE said:

you can not run your lighting on extension chords but anything else you will probably get away with i have all my fans on a power strip no problems but my lights are plugged strait into the wall outlet. as everyone else says about amps you have to find out your total amp usage if its to much maybe run a extension chord for the fan of a different circuit in the house

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well the flowering room will be in a walk in closet. Most closets don't have any electrical outlets in them is what i am saying. So the lights will obviously come with a Ballast and complete set or whatever. If those cords for the light don't reach under the door to another outlet then he will most certainly have to use extension chords from the ballasts to the electrical outlet in the room next to the closet. is any of this making sense? I don't know what other option he would have..

dbo24242 said:

Not an electrician either, but I think that would be fine under a 20A breaker, or 25A. you need some thick wire from the breaker like 10ga or whatever the guy suggests for a 25A 120V load running 3000+ watts.

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Distance has a play in this equation, as well.

Solstice07 said:

Distance has a play in this equation, as well.

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Tell it to the dude at home depot or consult the ratings of the wires you will purchase. In any case you may need a calculator. If you have doubts, get some real thickies and a fatty breaker. I'm thinking 10ga or 8ga if its a longer distance. But really I donno much about wiring breakers because I've never done it.


20A might be too little though, maybe mo elike 30A