Hydro (electrical) Bills and evading suspiscion

moxtox

moxtox

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Hey everyone,


I'm new to the indoor scene, but a vet on the outdoor circuit :mrgreen:. I've been thinking of different ways to avoid detection by anyone looking for something suspicsious like a spike in electrical consumption. Now I know that the average computer uses at least 300W power supply, so I know something about electricity. But what I was wondering is if you could keep your furnace connected and install a couple wood pellet stoves and use those to heat your house. That way, your consumption from Lights can compensate for you not using your furnace. This way you'd be able to Jack up your light usage without worrying about the bill. So, has anyone done this, see any problems with it or otherwise? Please get back to me when you can.


Cheers


MT
 
Mr.Pyrex

Mr.Pyrex

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moxtox said:
Hey everyone,


I'm new to the indoor scene, but a vet on the outdoor circuit :mrgreen:. I've been thinking of different ways to avoid detection by anyone looking for something suspicsious like a spike in electrical consumption. Now I know that the average computer uses at least 300W power supply, so I know something about electricity. But what I was wondering is if you could keep your furnace connected and install a couple wood pellet stoves and use those to heat your house. That way, your consumption from Lights can compensate for you not using your furnace. This way you'd be able to Jack up your light usage without worrying about the bill. So, has anyone done this, see any problems with it or otherwise? Please get back to me when you can.


Cheers


MT
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Really depends on how much lighting your going to run in the first place. Unless your doing a mass commercial grow and turned your whole basement into a grow op it wont be noticeable
 
MagusALL

MagusALL

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unplug appliances you arent using like the microwave and tv set cuz just n standby and off they use electricity. switch to cfls for your normal lights instead of 40 or 60w incandescents. swap out six or seven lamps and save 20w each and thats nearly 200w right there. then a "spike" of 1000w will only be 600 or so and that isnt noticeable at all.
 
joepro

joepro

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"a spike" of 1000w is NOTHING to worrie about
Id use a electrical generator if ur that worried.
You can find cheap on ebay.
...and a computer runs more then 300w
you have to facter in the monitor,speakers,printer,modem
closer to 1000watts for ur computer set up.
 
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