Power Consumption / Light Cost

I don't know if it's been added or not. But depending on where you live you're going to see an increase in your delivery charge as well. It wont really set off the authorities, but it's just something to take into consideration when budgeting your costs.
 
quick question for anyone that can help.
I've calculated my power consumption to be about 3,500 kWh/month.
I live in a 2000 sq. ft. place, i dont know what that has to do with anything, its a 3 bedroom.
Is this enough to raise some eyebrows?
 
Maso said:
quick question for anyone that can help.
I've calculated my power consumption to be about 3,500 kWh/month.
I live in a 2000 sq. ft. place, i dont know what that has to do with anything, its a 3 bedroom.
Is this enough to raise some eyebrows?
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Depends on what your baseline is really.

That will be a huge amount if you have a smaller or older home with a low baseline allotment, but not so much with a bigger or newer house or a house with a pool you can shutdown, or something of that sort.

One way to see how obvious it will be is pop open your breaker box and see how much juice you have coming in on your mains. 50A-100A is low for something like your talking. 150A-300A would be plausible with an empty/very unused house.
 
i use a generator.......it runs 80 lights afraid of the electric bill being so public but it costs an average of 200.00 a day in diesal to run well worth it
 
Maso said:
quick question for anyone that can help.
I've calculated my power consumption to be about 3,500 kWh/month.
I live in a 2000 sq. ft. place, i dont know what that has to do with anything, its a 3 bedroom.
Is this enough to raise some eyebrows?
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Usually 1kWh per bedroom per month is the "norm". Depending on the economic class of neighborhood you live in could be suspect.
 
Greetings and salutations Enigma.
Yes it will raise eyebrows.
It's more than 3X the monthly average of 920kWh.
Stealth is the name of the game:
Don't be seen.
Don't be heard.
Don't be smelt and don't be measured in excess (on the meter).
Big brother is all eyes and ears (no brains though).
Go green and use LEDs.
I've had good results with 60W RED/BLUE units.
Rincewind
 
So in order for us to stay below the radar we need to cut things in order to live a great lively hood of growth and burn? I have a family that I have to look after too, thus why I plan on moving green, however, do you believe that this site build would raise any eyebrows as to me running a cloner, veg site, and 3 budding sites, with 2 1000W HIDs a fan to pull through 2-3 cannisters? the sites are aero with a 369 (or 396) pump.
 
whats up everyone! im still fairly new here but in was checkin things out and came across this thread...i thought to myself if you were only growing 3-5 plants with flouros could u get away with timing your lights to on at night that way your not using a whole lot during peak hours???
 
is ther no simple or average answer.....like i cant get my head round it ?? if i left 2 HPS 600w bulbs on for 8 week growing and 8 week flowering wots it gonna cost give r take
 
iv got a 600w hps light and not yet used it can any1 say how much elec this light going to use per week in £s when i start growing
 
humboldthunnie said:
i use a generator.......it runs 80 lights afraid of the electric bill being so public but it costs an average of 200.00 a day in diesal to run well worth it
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wow thats alot of diesel i spend 400 a day to keep a dump truck running 12 hrs a day! That must be a serious grow!!!
 
Here is a comparison of L.E.D Vs H.I.D as I think this is within the scope of this thread on power and light consumption.
The link has some unnessassary speaking for the first min or so but then switches to time lapse.......This should put an end to the L.E.D mongerers!!!

Dont forget to look for cannabis time lapse while you're there too.. Heres the link........ http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtROw3uiVg
 
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