greenpriest024
Active Member
Hi everyone,
I beg you to please take a minute to properly consider my problem, as i've been debating the matter for a month now and i've decided to put my trust completely in the hands of experienced growers in a similar situation to mine. Failure will mean prison, and at 20 years of age (at any age for that matter), with parents in need of support, that is a terrible thing.
I have two complete grow rooms, one at 400watt and one at 600watt HPS, in cooltubes, one vert and one horizontal (just to see what the yield difference is). Between one fuck-up and another (first run with indoor DWC) i shut down one of the two, and am currently only running the 600watt.
My concern is with power usage and raising a red flag. I live with 3 other people, with an independent contract with Scottish Power at a fixed rate, which can/will be modified based on our actual consumption (important to note - so they're keeping an eye on how much power we use).
We've worked out that the whole house uses about 1500watt total, minus my grow op. My concern is that with both rooms running, plus the cloning room at 250watt, i will be literally almost doubling the power usage of our house.
The thing is, before having seen this website I would have thought it crazy to attempt even 400watts because "it's SO MUCH power!! how can you not get caught?", but seeing growers with three, four times my setup has made me reconsider.
I don't want to be lulled into a false sense of security, I want to fully understand the risk I'm taking because I have too much responsibility on my shoulders to end up in prison, and I want my night time sleep to be nice and easy. That said, I hate the thought of my ambitions being held back due to some vague paranoid conception of The Bobby On The Beat aware of everything that's going on around him. The police are just as stupid as the rest of us, so I want to know who is more stupid in this situation.
Do power companies affiliate themselves with the police when "inordinate amounts of power" are used? I remember reading on Overgrow back in the day that they keep an eye out for "power surges" - 1.25kw flipping on and off every 12 hours is a big red flag to anybody watching, but my rooms are separate and thus run on separate schedules.
Guys please, as I already said, my final decision is completely up to the advice I receive. I want to know that I am in no more risk with 1000w than with 600w, and what the police look for, and how to not get caught.
Thank you very much for your help in this, I really don't know what I'd do without your advice.
I beg you to please take a minute to properly consider my problem, as i've been debating the matter for a month now and i've decided to put my trust completely in the hands of experienced growers in a similar situation to mine. Failure will mean prison, and at 20 years of age (at any age for that matter), with parents in need of support, that is a terrible thing.
I have two complete grow rooms, one at 400watt and one at 600watt HPS, in cooltubes, one vert and one horizontal (just to see what the yield difference is). Between one fuck-up and another (first run with indoor DWC) i shut down one of the two, and am currently only running the 600watt.
My concern is with power usage and raising a red flag. I live with 3 other people, with an independent contract with Scottish Power at a fixed rate, which can/will be modified based on our actual consumption (important to note - so they're keeping an eye on how much power we use).
We've worked out that the whole house uses about 1500watt total, minus my grow op. My concern is that with both rooms running, plus the cloning room at 250watt, i will be literally almost doubling the power usage of our house.
The thing is, before having seen this website I would have thought it crazy to attempt even 400watts because "it's SO MUCH power!! how can you not get caught?", but seeing growers with three, four times my setup has made me reconsider.
I don't want to be lulled into a false sense of security, I want to fully understand the risk I'm taking because I have too much responsibility on my shoulders to end up in prison, and I want my night time sleep to be nice and easy. That said, I hate the thought of my ambitions being held back due to some vague paranoid conception of The Bobby On The Beat aware of everything that's going on around him. The police are just as stupid as the rest of us, so I want to know who is more stupid in this situation.
Do power companies affiliate themselves with the police when "inordinate amounts of power" are used? I remember reading on Overgrow back in the day that they keep an eye out for "power surges" - 1.25kw flipping on and off every 12 hours is a big red flag to anybody watching, but my rooms are separate and thus run on separate schedules.
Guys please, as I already said, my final decision is completely up to the advice I receive. I want to know that I am in no more risk with 1000w than with 600w, and what the police look for, and how to not get caught.
Thank you very much for your help in this, I really don't know what I'd do without your advice.