Hydro consumption

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bill gluckman

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Does anyone know what the average household hydro consumption would be for an Ontario residence? Just a little worried about the amount of consumption. I'm running 6 600's for flowering and about 1000W for vegetation and want to up it to 10 600's. I have a 3 bedroom house and this is the only electricity being used. I keep hearing different things these days about the SAFE amount of consumption and am looking for some clarification. I used to run 2400w for flowering and 1000w for vegetation somewhere else for two years plus I lived in the place and never had a problem. What do you think??
 
ViRedd

ViRedd

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Ten 600s would be 6000 watts. If that's the only electricity you use, I honestly don't think it would cause a problem. The average household has a couple of TVs, a computer, a stereo system, ect.

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bill gluckman

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ya I guess they would but i am going to try my best to cover it with running other things after the 12 hours and those twelve hours will be during daytime hours. I was also thinking of running a generator a few times a week to cover up some of the wattage use. Or even break the room up into two or three different hours of the day. Any suggestions
 
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bill gluckman

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ya, thats what I am thinking. I just set up the place so haven't put much thought into how to do it but did all of a sudden have a spike of about 3500watts. I think I should definetely put the vegetation later at night
 
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Nemsist221

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techniacally they wont notice anything as long as you dont try to stealmpwer or get late on your bills, electricity is monitered electronically by a computer it does not check for nething it just moniters the ones who dont pay there bills on time, or if they see that someone is syphening eletrticty thats when u get busted
 
greatwhitehunter

greatwhitehunter

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I always try to hook my lights up as soon as I move into a place to keep the power about the same. But the power company cant tell what time of the day you have more usage at . they just read Kill-watt hrs once a month. A regular stove is based at 6000w . when we do service demand calculations so if you arent using a stove or any other power then you should be ok. A 600w is only 6.3 amps so 8 would be just around 50 amps. A range is 40 amps.
 
MacGuyver

MacGuyver

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u are fine bud... ive heard 97 kilowatts per day is the limit which equals 5 1k lights + fans , ac and all the other stuff .... as for power surges such as 12 hors on 12 off the only way power companie s can detect that is if u havea smart reader on ur place
 
peaceb2usall

peaceb2usall

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I really didn't want to create another thread. Can someone explain to me how much a 1000W bulb / unit will use? How is it calculated is that 1000w's every second, minute, hour or what?
 
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