25000 kilowats per hour led police to this Indiana Gorge wannabes

Bryguy420

Bryguy420

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April 15, 2010

Power Bill Leads To Pot Bust




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If you're going to go to the trouble of helming a large marijuana growing business, you might want to do your homework and come up with the best way to not get caught. Some growers in Gary, Indiana obviously didn't and were nabbed after their astronomical power bill tipped off the power company. The power usage raised eyebrows at NIPSCO, a gas and power provider in Northwest Indiana, who turned over the suspicious info to law enforcement. According to WBBM 780:
Officials' suspicions were first raised when NIPSCO said Monday that the house had averaged between 2,300 kilowatts per hour to 2,700 kilowatts per hour in the past four months. An air-conditioning wall unit uses about one kilowatt per hour, meaning the house was using the energy of what amounted to running 2,300 to 2,700 air conditioning wall units per hour.​
Of course, that's just an example. The power was actually being used for a complex irrigation and light system that harbored the growth of 493 marijuana plants. The three men were arrested yesterday. A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Hammond yesterday quoted one of the men as denying he knew anything about the operation while another admitted it was his first attempt at growing marijuana and is quoted as saying, "If you're going to do it, you might as well go big." There's that entrepreneurial spirit that makes America great.


BY TERESA AUCH SCHULTZ, (219) 648-3120
 
KlosetKing

KlosetKing

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Bryguy420 said:
April 15, 2010

Power Bill Leads To Pot Bust




Photo by ex magician
If you're going to go to the trouble of helming a large marijuana growing business, you might want to do your homework and come up with the best way to not get caught. Some growers in Gary, Indiana obviously didn't and were nabbed after their astronomical power bill tipped off the power company. The power usage raised eyebrows at NIPSCO, a gas and power provider in Northwest Indiana, who turned over the suspicious info to law enforcement. According to WBBM 780:
Officials' suspicions were first raised when NIPSCO said Monday that the house had averaged between 2,300 kilowatts per hour to 2,700 kilowatts per hour in the past four months. An air-conditioning wall unit uses about one kilowatt per hour, meaning the house was using the energy of what amounted to running 2,300 to 2,700 air conditioning wall units per hour.​
Of course, that's just an example. The power was actually being used for a complex irrigation and light system that harbored the growth of 493 marijuana plants. The three men were arrested yesterday. A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Hammond yesterday quoted one of the men as denying he knew anything about the operation while another admitted it was his first attempt at growing marijuana and is quoted as saying, "If you're going to do it, you might as well go big." There's that entrepreneurial spirit that makes America great.


BY TERESA AUCH SCHULTZ, (219) 648-3120
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funny stuff. i just made a post about this last night, thread called electric bills. unfortunately the article i linked had no where near this much detail, but ya, shitty stuff for them. i mean, wouldnt 3 1kw hps lights be like 3kw/hr? 2300kw/hr is absolutely absurd.
 
patlpp

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It's an error. Take one Communications Major know-it-all journalist with shit for editors and this is what you get. The whole neiborhood would have gone out with power like that. Check the # zero's again.
 
KlosetKing

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patlpp said:
It's an error. Take one Communications Major know-it-all journalist with shit for editors and this is what you get. The whole neiborhood would have gone out with power like that. Check the # zero's again.
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i was thinking this, but iam no electrician. iam a lazy stoner, so i read it, say 'huh thats wierd, kinda crazy' but i dont put any real research or thought into it cuz it isnt as interesting as the bong in my hand LOL
 
CLOSETGROWTH

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patlpp said:
It's an error. Take one Communications Major know-it-all journalist with shit for editors and this is what you get. The whole neiborhood would have gone out with power like that. Check the # zero's again.
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I dont know about that, It is possible :roll:
 
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Prot3us1`

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Do you think they mean 25000 watts lol... 25 kilowatts? More realistic, and still an unreasonably large just to make in power usage all of a sudden.
 
Anjinsan

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does that mean they were using 2.3 million watts an hour? REALLY? So 2,300 - 1,000 watt lights? (hell let's just say 1,600 - 1,000 watt lamps and that they rest of the power was for pumps, and a/c units) For 400 plants? Each plant got FOUR 1,000 watt lamps? HOLY FUCK. They must've been like 20' tall each.
 
trichlone fiend

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Anjinsan said:
does that mean they were using 2.3 million watts an hour? REALLY? So 2,300 - 1,000 watt lights? (hell let's just say 1,600 - 1,000 watt lamps and that they rest of the power was for pumps, and a/c units) For 400 plants? Each plant got FOUR 1,000 watt lamps? HOLY FUCK. They must've been like 20' tall each.
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...Indiana electric is like $0.07 per k/w/h
2,300 x .o7 = $161.00 each hour to run
161 x 24(hours of day)= $3,864.00

$3,864 PER DAY? :o:o:o
 
Anjinsan

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trichlone fiend said:
...Indiana electric is like $0.07 per k/w/h
2,300 x .o7 = $161.00 each hour to run
161 x 24(hours of day)= $3,864.00

$3,864 PER DAY? :o:o:o
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lolz. That's what we get for getting our news from the internet. I truly think there are ZERO editors left that are employed. Whatever the $8 a hour "journalists" produce? Goes straight to "press". :)
 
AlterdImage777

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That is just crazy...for 400 plants he couldn't have more than 400 lights right? Probably less than that...so someone screwed up some part of their information for sure...I would figure 2-4 plants under a single light but who knows... even 400, 1000w HPS's wouldn't be that expensive 400 x ($50 a month), that would be $20,000 a month at most...thought it would be significantly less than that if they were 400's....but just speculating...
 
KlosetKing

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AlterdImage777 said:
That is just crazy...for 400 plants he couldn't have more than 400 lights right? Probably less than that...so someone screwed up some part of their information for sure...I would figure 2-4 plants under a single light but who knows... even 400, 1000w HPS's wouldn't be that expensive 400 x ($50 a month), that would be $20,000 a month at most...thought it would be significantly less than that if they were 400's....but just speculating...
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i was thinking if this article was accurate, the dudes behind it had NO IDEA how to build a decent grow room and utilize their light lol
 
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