Grow room Electrical Safety Guidelines

kingofqueen said:

House circuits for general usage are 15 amps . No it doesn't mean you can load it up to 15 amps , to be safe you go 80% of that which is 12 amps . If your loaded up to 15 amps now you should adding another circuit .

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When you say add another curcuit.... WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

I am try to run (4) 600W HPS light in a house... Suggestions???

Any ideas on how you would hook up 6-1k lights. It needs to all work off of a control outlet. I am going to use a CAP 8 controller to plug the lights in. witch will have a control plug that goes into a timer. What should I run that to? I am on 120 power so I am thinking I would need at least an 80 A breaker correct? 6000/120=50 50/.8= 62.5 A, so I would figure just a straight up 80 amp for safety. How much power can you pull into a building? Is it generally a standard number of Amps or is it unlimited? Not completely sure about electricity (I am having a professional do the work) Haven't seen the box I'm drawing from but I would think if it were like my parents house its a bunch of 15 amp breakers lined up right? And then You can switch say 4 15 Amps for a 60? Hot or Cold

Also I don't see any controllers that can handle that many amps in 120V so is it easy to switch to 240?

Does anyone know about cfm's, setting up a room 10 x 6 x 7 room??? Will a 95 cfm blower fan exhaust this room properly???

http://www.plantlightinghydroponics.com/cap-mlc24x-24-light-controller-pi-2453.html?image=0

Here you go quite overkill but if I wanted to not rewire to 240 it looks like that's it. This is how you do this professionally. Not just little metal boxes with wires attached to a piece of plywood. I saw some news article somewhere in Denver that they had like 12 house fires in 3 months in one area due to improper electrical work. This controller is like bigtime piece of equipment, and it's only 600 bucks. I mean is risking burning your house down to save a couple hundred bucks worth it? Cause if so enjoy prison. It's one thing if you destroy property. How would you feel if someone was hurt in a fire cause of some crappy wiring? Just couldn't fathom it.

so what if you use a light outlet in your ceiling for your source of electricity? maybe 300-400W? using an adapter with an outlet in the light socket with cords being plugged into the adapter?

There is another electrician on here with a thread just for answering electrical questions I'd suggest asking alot of these questions over there. This thread is for general saftey . I'm not here all the time and rather not give out complicated advice for saftey reasons .

kingofqueen said:

There is another electrician on here with a thread just for answering electrical questions I'd suggest asking alot of these questions over there. This thread is for general saftey . I'm not here all the time and rather not give out complicated advice for saftey reasons .

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im pretty sure hes talking about me...i have an electrical questions thread. but im not about to answer questions pertaining to how to wire up 6000 WATTS of grow lights in your home, or how easy it it to switch from 120v to 240v in your home. its just not safe...sorry dude

Canabian420...i dont understand

Nope not talking about u .

haha great

Canabian420 said:

so what if you use a light outlet in your ceiling for your source of electricity? maybe 300-400W? using an adapter with an outlet in the light socket with cords being plugged into the adapter?

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is this safe?

Canabian420 said:

is this safe?

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depends on a lot of things, how old is the wiring in the house? if its less than 40 yrs old,3-400 watts should be OK. if its 80 yrs old, I would not go over 100 watts. & either way using an adaptor to get power out of a light socket wont have a ground so I would limit it to fans & other devices that use a 2 prong male plug.

Grow room Electrical Safety Guidelines

Where does this say "help me burn my house down?" Saftey guidlines PERIOD ! Hire an electrician or find a buddy thats one . Not here to teach the unexperianced electricity . If your worried about your setup I'd be more than glad to look it over and point out issues , but how to wire it , NO move along to someone else . Don't get me wrong I love to help out ppl especially fellow growers , but electricity is very dangerous to work with a silent killer that can grab ahold of you, shake u violently, and leave u unconscience or dead ! I have been there and it is never any fun to get your dick knocked into the dirt !

And that doesn't mean others are welcome to answer the questions , get the eff out if you think so this is my thread and I'm not tolerating it .

Preach on brother...I'm in the process of building a new room and it need power badly! Im got an old trailer and a detached 2 car garage. The garage has power but it's on one pussy circuit that goes to the trailer...so my thoughts are to at least run a hefty new circuit. If not a new sub panel box to my garage? Do I just hollar at the power co or can we do this?

Seriously ? Read or reread post 93 .

holy shit i cant stop laughing...just holler at the power co man, theyll walk you through a sub panel over the phone

Dr. G said:

Do I just hollar at the power co or can we do this?

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THis is something you can do yourself. If you are comfortable with electricity then read up. If not call an electrician. DO NOT CALL THE POWER CO! I live in CA and my circuit breaker is on the exterior of my house AND its recessed into the stucko. If it werent for this i would have done my panel myself. Im doing a 240 subox tomorrow. I can post the process for you if you like.

kingofqueen said:

Seriously ? Read or reread post 93 .

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Sorry yo.. I was way back in the thread, and Im new to this forum stuff... im NOT trying to call the power co! just want a few circuits in my garage. What can I do to prep it out enough so an electrician could just hook it to my panel?

MasterOfKushes said:

THis is something you can do yourself. If you are comfortable with electricity then read up. If not call an electrician. DO NOT CALL THE POWER CO! I live in CA and my circuit breaker is on the exterior of my house AND its recessed into the stucko. If it werent for this i would have done my panel myself. Im doing a 240 subox tomorrow. I can post the process for you if you like.

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That would be pretty sick!