Mr. Vote?

Do you have one of these?

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Yes I do, but it's kind of worthless for me though. I was curiuos about it and bought one. Works great, and comes with the formula for figuring out consumption and cost. I use solar and wind power to offset the cost of my electricity bill.

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YOU ARE SUPER COOL... you use both wind and solar!!!

hats off BRO

hats OFF!!!

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Thanks!
A friend turned me on to it when he sold his house, and this is mostly what powers my grow rooms. Which is a good thing because anytime we have electrical storms here in Colorado the power boxes seem to always get hit by lightning. Guess they are not grounded very well (lol). Can't even begin to count how many times the power has went out and the solar and wind power have saved my plants.

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great thread, thanks guys, some real good info! hey Vote, bghydro is pretty damn good site! cheers fellas

Hi there ya all. Just a quickie thought, appears that your calcs takes into consideration the burner (bulb or tube) only, there are losses with the control gear as well, abt 5%. (that is the heat you feel coming off the box) I'm talking about a HPS setup, though same is true of fluros too, though to a lesser extent. Generally, there are higher losses in older control gear (more total watts) and less light from old burners. (things don't grow as well or happen as fast.) Cheers . .

Vote solar and wind power very cool.

Yes I just did the bulb sizes to keep it simpe for everyone. But the math is solid. All you would need to do is add 5% to Your Lights total for a little leway. You could also use the Your Setup cells to get totals for your pumps, fans, or anything else that has a steady draw and is on a timed schedual. Add them to Your Lights totals and get a Compleat cost instaid of just lights.

Anyways thanks for your input and I hope it was informitive.

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Ohms law is relatively straight forward and can be used to calculate an accurate figure of wattage useage from any light system, and this would probably have been a better way to go. To calculate total wattage used from a ballast HID system you need to use the amperage figure not the bulb wattage figure. To show you how your figures are inacurate, OHMS Law is Volts x Amperes = Watts, so if we know two of those figures we can calculate the third.

The real wattage of a 400w HID system is Volts x Amperes or 120 x 3.8 = 456watts for an average 400w system others would be -

250w 120 x 2.5 = 300w
400w 120 x 3.8 = 456w
600w 120 x 5.7 = 684w
1000w 120 x 9.5 = 1140

[IMG]file:///F:/DCIM/100OLYMP/P1010526.JPG[/IMG] Sorry, didn’t really mean for the subject to become pedantic, only to point out that there is greater amount of current used than that stated on a burner envelope.
However, for the record. I have a small (this one is abt 6” long ) ‘clamp amp meter’ that I use on occasion. (any clamp ammeter will do, it don’t have to be small) Place around either the active or neutral wire that supplies power to your growery, turn on all lights, pumps, blowers scrubbers etc., read off current.
Current X Volts = Watts divided by 1000 = Kilowatts X 1Hour = 1 Kilowatt hour
The Kilowatt Hour is the unit the utility company charges you for, I pay abt NZ$0.16 per kWh.
Will try and include photo of meter if this forum allows. (and I can find out how)
Keep on growing everyone, we’ve just got to win this war . . .
More is better, much more is much better, most is best. (I know, cause I paid for it.)