Zeroman9898
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Hi I am new to the grow scene & I am just starting off with a small tent setup. I do NOT want the electricity bill for my apartment to be to high because they probably use smart meters to detect if there is a huge spike in electricity consumed, so I had this idea of using a high powered watt inverter (2300 watts+) hooked to like 5-7 deep cycle marine batteries so the lights can remain on & be powered by a separate energy source. Each HID light bulb takes up 400 watts & I want to use just 3 of them so it's 1200 watts I need powered up by these batteries. I read on another post here someone talked about a setup of splicing 2 deep cycle batteries together to power a bunch of CFL bulbs. He said could get it to work for about a week before he'd need to recharge the batteries. Also I have a friend who is willing to charge the batteries at his place so I wouldn't be drawing more electricity from my apartment just to recharge them. Since I'm extremely bad in the math department when it comes to these things I would like to know how many DEEP CYCLE BATTERIES I would need for the watt inverter to power 2-3 for a significant period of time, say 5+ days. Another thing is I have 3 other HID bulbs which I want to hook into the wall (consumes 1200 watts) but I am weary if that is a suspicious amount of high electricity to be used for an apartment with utilities included. I would shut off all the other appliances in my house of course during the period where most lights would be used (18 hours a day). But I'm sure if they had a smart meter they would be suspicious in the sudden drop of electricity on a consistent basis after 18 hours? Same go's with the 12 hours on/ 12 hours off phase. But I'm mainly concerned witht he batteries because I cannot plug in more than 3 lights into apartment outlet. BTW is it very safe to post on here using TorBrowser? I don't want anyone tracing my IP or snooping.