glassblower209
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Yeah I have an extra card in my comp for extra usb's. go by best buy and grab a card to plug into the back into the board. its hella easy
Experienced Electrician! Here to Answer Any and All Growroom Electrical Questions
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IAm5toned
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if your using a standard 100w bulb, then you do not have sufficient supplies to grow catnip, never mind a flowering marijuana plant.
JohnnyGreenthumb
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yes you can.find a used or new usb card for the back of your pc.where your ethernet card,video card plugs into ect aka front side bus.should be cheap like $5 used
jumboSWISHER
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thanks bros!! but i found out this comp is a BIOS V.4.5 soooo gotta download sum crazy driver or sumthin? but found at wal mart a usb to 9 prong plugin adapter for $11 tht comes with the usb 2.0 disk=)
Corrupted Nutsack
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240? Is this a hotel? 
JohnnyGreenthumb
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so you need to update your Motherboard bios. you can find direction on net to do.it will make a better diff in most cases.
amnbannert
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I am attempting a series of grow boxes using cfls from veg all the way to flower and want to use about 32 26w cfls. I want to wire them 4 to a fixture and two fixtures to each grow box. Going ghetto tech with y adapters off of shop clamp lamps. Is it safe? Is it possible ,or better yet probable to wire 8 26w cfl to one wall socket (208w to one socket)? I plan on running each socket through its own battery backed up surge protector (ya know cali brown outs). And what is the process to wire all the lights together for each box so I can run them through one timer. And can I run 832w through one breaker. nothing else will be on this breaker. I figure most refridgerators run on about 800 w. Half of the day the breaker will only be using 416w (when only veg boxes are on) and then 12 hours a day will be running at 832w. I know very little about rigging up lights myself. I always had a ballast and a hps system with just plug in and go. I dont know if ampage for these is the real prob or what probs I may face attempting this. Trying to get more tech under my belt. Any help or suggestions or even a point in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks to all!
I have a joournal I am doing for this project and will post pics and troubles I run into along the way for others to learn from my mistakes. Come by and give me advice and suggestions whenever you can!
P.S. What is the best way to attempt the lighting on this project(wiring and managing all of these wires into one cord coming out of the back of the fridge). I figure I will utilize an an extension cord for each box. just cut off the female and have all of the light hardwired into the box.
Thanks to all!
I have a joournal I am doing for this project and will post pics and troubles I run into along the way for others to learn from my mistakes. Come by and give me advice and suggestions whenever you can!
P.S. What is the best way to attempt the lighting on this project(wiring and managing all of these wires into one cord coming out of the back of the fridge). I figure I will utilize an an extension cord for each box. just cut off the female and have all of the light hardwired into the box.
LBCengineer
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208 w to one socket is no problem at all, that will only pull about 1.5 amps, and most wall sockets will be rated at either fifteen or twenty amps. as far as the breaker question, it really depends on what size the breaker is, but most likely it is either a fifteen or twenty amp breaker, in either case 832w will only pull about 7 amps assuming you are on 120v. You could even run this load (832w) on a 10A breaker, assuming the load wasn't super far from the breaker, therefore having to take voltage drop into consideration.
amnbannert
Member
That is awesome news for me! I can go bigger then. I would like 300w per box and I will try to do that. 300w of CFL= roughly 1200w conventional light. should produce some nice tight potent buds and hopefull increase yield as well although that is my second concern after quality. Also where can I find electrical air tight vent shutters that I can set on a timer to push air through my grow boxes while keeping optimum CO2 levels? Cheaper is better and I prefer to go to a store where UI can pay cash rather than paying online.
paidtoargue
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Brick, you are doing a good thing here. Thank you.
Scenario: Six dedicated 20 amp circuits. 4 1000 watt, 2 600 watt, and related items.
Each 1000 watt light can be connected to a separate dedicated 20 amp circuit. Extension cords of 25 ft or less will be required for those, and a power strip for the related items. What should the specs be on the extension cords and power strip? Any suggested configuration? It seems that a 20 amp extension cord can not be used with the 15 amp cords as the latter does not have the right angle blade of the receptacle on the 20 amp extension cord. As you can see, I know barely enough to be dangerous. Thanks in advance.
Scenario: Six dedicated 20 amp circuits. 4 1000 watt, 2 600 watt, and related items.
Each 1000 watt light can be connected to a separate dedicated 20 amp circuit. Extension cords of 25 ft or less will be required for those, and a power strip for the related items. What should the specs be on the extension cords and power strip? Any suggested configuration? It seems that a 20 amp extension cord can not be used with the 15 amp cords as the latter does not have the right angle blade of the receptacle on the 20 amp extension cord. As you can see, I know barely enough to be dangerous. Thanks in advance.
lonleysmoka
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I have a question... I just bought an inline duct fan that has to be wired to a male end of a socket. Where would I find a cord that would fit those 3 wires and how would I know? The inline fan has white, black, and yellow/green wires..... its for my exhaust I need to put it up already but dont want to until I have the fan running. Please help me out here.
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?jspStoreDir=hdus&catalogId=10053&productId=100067594&navFlow=3&keyword=6"+inline+ducting+fan&langId=-1&searchRedirect=6"+inline+ducting+fan&storeId=10051&endecaDataBean=com.homedepot.sa.el.wc.integration.endeca.EndecaDataBean@5dff8a1e&ddkey=THDStoreFinder
thats the fan there
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?jspStoreDir=hdus&catalogId=10053&productId=100067594&navFlow=3&keyword=6"+inline+ducting+fan&langId=-1&searchRedirect=6"+inline+ducting+fan&storeId=10051&endecaDataBean=com.homedepot.sa.el.wc.integration.endeca.EndecaDataBean@5dff8a1e&ddkey=THDStoreFinder
thats the fan there
spanishmainly
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How do you make a high temperature cut out switch?
I live in Europe and can't locate one to purchase. If my power goes out and comes back on in my sealed room I'll have lights on with no AC, and that would be lethal.
I live in Europe and can't locate one to purchase. If my power goes out and comes back on in my sealed room I'll have lights on with no AC, and that would be lethal.
BigBudBalls
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Black is hot (120VAC, white is neutral (0V) and the green is ground. Mixing the black and white to the motor would be ok.
BigBudBalls
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Why won't the AC come back on?
Should be able to get a termo switch from Newark or digikey, both have distribution centers in the UK. then use it to fire a relay that runs the lights.
lonleysmoka
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Thanks. I got it running just fine now to put it up and be done with it!
powerslide
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this might not really be Electrical related... but maybe you can help you answered a couple of my other questions.
I have a 7000 portable a/c unit. i only have one hole in and one hole out for air. i need to add some inline odor control(carbon filter). knowing it will be rough on my a/c unit to exhaust through this i want to throw in a inline fan. But i think i need to be pretty close to the same CFM's as the a/c unit.
Now thats been said how many CFM's do most 7000 portable generators produce? would it be bad to run a bigger CFM fan than whats on the a/c unit? Will it hurt the a/c unit if it keeps running when the a/c unit kicks off?
I have a 7000 portable a/c unit. i only have one hole in and one hole out for air. i need to add some inline odor control(carbon filter). knowing it will be rough on my a/c unit to exhaust through this i want to throw in a inline fan. But i think i need to be pretty close to the same CFM's as the a/c unit.
Now thats been said how many CFM's do most 7000 portable generators produce? would it be bad to run a bigger CFM fan than whats on the a/c unit? Will it hurt the a/c unit if it keeps running when the a/c unit kicks off?
bickeybammer
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so i am running a 1000watt hps for flower and am using a extension cord (12g) (25ft) to run the light from another room. because i have my potable ac unit (550 watts), 1 (600 cfm fan), 2 (220 cfm fans), 5 air pumps and water pums, and 125 watt light for vegging, mothers ect. in the room i use for growing and if i plug the 1000 watt in there the breaker pops. i have a 600 watt ballast and light i want to hook up for vegging and another 1000 watt for flower that i want to hook up.. how can i safely run these with all the power im pulling right now..? do i have to pull power from another part of the house? i havent hooked the 600 watt up yet because i dont want it to trip the breaker
