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    Experienced Electrician! Here to Answer Any and All Growroom Electrical Questions

    in all my years as an electrician, getting lit up whilst sweaty is worse than having dry skin. stings more too. 120 that is
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    Barneys Farm LSD 90 watt CFL scrog grow

    thats sweet! talk about stealth
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    Experienced Electrician! Here to Answer Any and All Growroom Electrical Questions

    then you need to run some 10/2 romex from your main panel use a double pole 30 amp breaker then run it to your grow room with the appropriate outlet for your controler to plug into.
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    Experienced Electrician! Here to Answer Any and All Growroom Electrical Questions

    ya go with the 12/3 cause you never know when your gonna need more power. if you plan on running wire on the outside of your house, either use UF wire as its rated for outside, or if your just going to use romex, put it in some pvc conduit to protect it, that stuff is dirt cheap and easy to work...
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    Cutting electric costs for HID lighting by 25%.

    the company i work for was one of the first to introduce this product. the unit works bets for motor loads, its not going to save you any money with just lights. it works like this. when you turn on a motor, like a vac of when your fridge kicks on, it draws additional start up power to get the...
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    Electrical question about Ground

    yea, the mc will act as your ground, you must be using old bx cable. just pigtail the ground from the receptacle to the box and youl be fine
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    Ways to prevent tripping breaker?

    run a 20 amp dedacated circut to your room
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    Electrical Help...New sub-panel project

    this help? remember to keep in mind 15 amp circut - 14 guage 20 amp circut - 12 guage 30 amp circut - 10 guage 40 amp circut - 8 guage
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    Lightheaded

    low blood sugar, get something to eat, man
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    Help with sub-panel

    nope, go get some 6/3 uf direct burial, and run a 60amp 2 pole breaker from main panel out to the sub, , and if you are drawing 40 amps total, your main breaker feeding it must no exceed 80 percent of your FLA
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    switching to 12 / 12 what should i expect??

    i read as much as i can, but when i read something new i forget something old. using no nutes, tap water, and was on a 24/0 sched. first grow btw. yea, i taught theyd be much bigger afret a month an a half but oh well, all im tryin to do is keep em alive and grow something smokeable. thank god i...
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    switching to 12 / 12 what should i expect??

    cmon, 77 views and only 7 replys??? tell me something more. they look healthy, stretched?? anything i should add or take away? first timer here
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    switching to 12 / 12 what should i expect??

    aha i should of said that this is my first grow. yea thanks for the info. and i guess them little jawns came with the dirt, il rip em up
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    switching to 12 / 12 what should i expect??

    heres some new pics just took last night. the 3 red pots are bagseed and the 3 green are skunky haze (freebe seeds). they had been vegging for about a monts and a half give or take a week or so. i just changed the lights and light cycle to 12/12. i am using 12 100w warm cfl's. i repotted them...
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    switching to 12 / 12 what should i expect??

    shit, no pix
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    Question About CFL's

    exactly that. lamp fixtures. dude sereusly go to the depot and look thru the electrical books they have laying all around the store, read up on some basic knowledge and splicing and you should be golden.
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    first cfl grow, suggestions please

    so jus move em into bigger pots and closer to the lights then? otherwise they look good????
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    first cfl grow, suggestions please

    long time reader, first time grower/poster. 4 weeks into veg, had each under 23 watt cfl's, then just built a hood containing 6 sockets with y splitters. the entire back row of lights are the 23w warm bulb. the front row have 4 13 watt blue spectrum light and also 2 23 watt bright white. all...
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    Electrical questions, post em here!

    no no no!, for the love of god people, do not use the, quick, backstabs on outlets and switches. take the extra 10 secoands to properly loop the ware and wrap it around the screw. backstabbing with a large load, will lead to heat, which leads to loose connection, archiing, thousanmd degree...
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