Solar Power

i am moving into a house that has space for an indoor grown room, yay!
i have grown indoors b4 w/ some good luck and am really interested to know if it is possible to run my lights w/ solar power. i have looked into generators and found one on craigslist for a steal, but don't want to buy it unless i am sure it's going to work. so far i don't see many problems other than having no power on not sunny days...
even if i can run the lights from solar some of the time would be great.

any advice?

its $20,000 for 650kwh

you'd need a shit load of solar power to run a descent grow light.

also beware because unless you have your solar power set up well you will fry a digital ballast or if you try to hook up a digi to a generator it will fry it in the long run.

Gbusandthedisciples said:

also beware because unless you have your solar power set up well you will fry a digital ballast or if you try to hook up a digi to a generator it will fry it in the long run.

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Why? I can see the solar, but a generator? A gen shouldn't give a modified sine wave, should give a true.

Wind has better bang for the buck then solar. solar is pretty poor on ROI.

Just pay the elec bill.


(now I just saw on tv a gen where the heat from the gen is used to help heat the house)

generators does not run smooth electricity, at least the old ones, maybe they have something newer and better out these days but from what I have always seen a digital can't handle it but the old analog one get along just fine.

hey man, check out the thread i started
some one just needs to make some phone calls and crunch some numbers ,... i will if i get some time

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/113358-ultimate-go-green-growing-green.html

And if you wanted to know even on a cloudy day you will still get a decent percentage of your solar power