Yay! Another Need Advice Thread! (Industrial Growing)

[chiapet]

Hey all,

I have been on this site for awhile. Lately, I have been growing for my uncle who has brain cancer and he has been smoking legally in order to enjoy the remaining months of his life. Recently, he went under hospice care and he he getting ready to die. Before he died, he gave me roughly 20k to do what I wanted with. We talked, and I told him I wanted to grow for medical purposes. I enjoy growing, I have years of experience with it and I can generate a profit doing it. So, now I am doing the business plan so I can ensure I do this right. So, I have a question for you guys:

My current plan is that I do a 3 grow room, each of which are custom built to be 16x16 feet (ideally) with 4 1000w HPS's in each room. so we are talking about 12 kWh which will equal roughly (not exactly calculated) 160kWh/day (based on 2 rooms vegging and 1 room flowering). Not to mention CO2 Generator, fans, automated watering system, etc.. I have never done an op this big, so I wanted to know

1) How dangerous is this to do in a residential area with no other appliances or energy being used. I know this may seem like a stupid question, but I just wanted to gather some logical opinions.

2) If I do commercial/industrial space, roughly 1200 sq feet, what recommendations are there for choosing and selecting this space. I personally dont want to spend more than 2k a month on rent as I dont plan on producing a profit for 4 months.

Thanks you guys, I plan on posting the pics of the grow and coming back to this wonderful community. Hope you guys have an awesome day!

 

[lowerarchy]

1) How dangerous is this to do in a residential area with no other appliances or energy being used. I know this may seem like a stupid question, but I just wanted to gather some logical opinions.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Are you asking about the capacity of your average residential breaker box? Because if you are, and please don't take this to be anything more than a friendly concern, you probably need to do a bit more reading and research because there's going to be a ton of electrical work to do for 12 lights.

2) If I do commercial/industrial space, roughly 1200 sq feet, what recommendations are there for choosing and selecting this space. I personally dont want to spend more than 2k a month on rent as I dont plan on producing a profit for 4 months.

Can you explain your plan a little more thoroughly? Specifically, where did you come up with the 4 month timeframe for cropping out?

 

[veedubin]

In a residential area you are looking at about 110 amp draw for just your 12 1000's on 120v or 55 amp at 240v. That is a shit ton of amp draw for residential. I run 2 600hps and a 400MH and I barely see an extra 60 or 70 on my electric bill. I draw some where in the ball park of like 15 amps total continuous draw. I would say if you house had 240v then you may be okay but that is sooo much power that it would be hard to justify it in a house. I would say industrial would be the way to go. lowerachy is right about there being a lot of work. first things first would be to figure out how many total amps your panel can take and if its 240v. I have an older house with 100 amp service and only 120v so I would have to get my power company to run a new line into my house from the meter to get 240v. It sounds like you really want to turn out pounds... I would suggest getting diesel or propane powered generators and rock that shit for power. I have one for standby power if my power ever goes out. The propane ones are really cheap to run (more so than diesel) and they have really long service intervals.