Ways to reduce power

Anybody have any way or tweaks to reduce the power used to grow those wounderfull tomatos?

I basicly turn off the water heater until i have to use hot water.

Turn off everything that use power until i have to use it (modem, ps3, phones,lights, i have the TV on power save, etc....)

Lol i use candels for most of my light source until i need the accual light bulb then i turn it on.

SO IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY OR THING THAT I COULD BE MISSING.

PS. I HAVE A 600W MH AND HPS LIGHT AND 424 CFM FAN ALSO 2 PUMPS.

Does it raise your electricity that much?

Get some solar panels and a power cell.....

go solar. go off the grid!

isnt that too expensive solar panels and a power cell?
plus how many will i need or how is it messured as far as power needed?
also do you have any links for a cheap reliable site i could cheak out

make sure all the light bulbs in your house are low watt cfl's. 13w vs a 150w incandescent adds up real quick

Or get LED's they use like 1 or 2 watts. You can find cheap solar panel kits on ebay. It will pay itself of really quick in energy savings.

thanx guys and how many led's would be equavelant to the 1000 watt MH/HPS lights that i currently have? (or how would it work for veg and for bud because i searched for them and they are kind of cheap)
also i have been searching online for solar panels and they say they are like 15-20 watts per panel so would i need like a 100 to run 1000 watt hps and mh light

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- Light Mover: a 600 Watt light will cover a 3' x 8' garden with a 6' light rail, and yield more per square foot than a stationary light with a 3' x 4' garden. (100% yield increase, faster harvest)

- Switch to 300 watt LED light (custom spectrum} with an elliptical trough reflector and a far red/orange separate panel for last hour light / first hour dark / first hour light.

- Go with Subcools Super Soil over hydro, get rid of the pumps, less work. (larger yield, faster harvest over pro mix).

- Make your own Air Pruning buckets (25%-50% yield increase, faster harvest)

- Install an Air Floor in your grow cage so air comes in through the bottom so the leaves can breath. (larger yield, faster harvest)

- Vent your air through the ceiling (top) if your not now. (vents heat, aids air flow)

- Look for larger yielding, faster flowering strains with the spectrum of effects, taste and smell that you want.

- Switch to a high yield, faster flowering growing method such as SOG, SCROG or CCOB.

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Using the above methods I yield 3+ litres of 4 week cured bud per plant, 60 grams to 75 grams per litre most strains, 12 plants in my garden, with a 600 watt HPS and a light rail. 8' x 3' garden, pro mix, fox farm, a few suplements, an hour to train a plant CCOB, 15 minutes maintenance work per day for the entire garden.









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https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/303229-diy-air-pruning-pot-experiment.html

https://www.rollitup.org/smoke-reports/244210-kali-mist-serious-seeds.html

https://www.rollitup.org/seed-strain-reviews/211186-pics-my-garden-ssd-km.html

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sorry hobbes i dont understand anything you wrote you made me feel like an idiot but i see you know what you are talking about the pics speak for itself.

wow dude i really need to do way more research cause i am truely an amature but thanx for the info

if hes so worried about power costs no way he can afford what it takes in solar to run a grow or a house. and shutting of the water tabnk till you need it costs you more. now it has to re heat each time.
dont waste your money on led. they suk. ya they save cause there are week. the poorest lighting out there and way over priced.

here a 400 hps is only like 15 buk a month to run. i use less than a neighbour using cfl in the house and all he does is computers/server.,..no grows. turn dopwn the tunes....a 1000 watt stereo runs same as a 1k bulb will cost

gregk said:

go solar. go off the grid!

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The problem with solar power is when you need it most there isn´t any.

Medi 1 said:

if hes so worried about power costs no way he can afford what it takes in solar to run a grow

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Maybe he´s not so worried about the cost, but more concerned that LEO may be looking at electricity consumption.

I wouldnt know about saving power i run 8 1,000 watt hps flowering and 4 400 wats hps vegging. my bill comes out to 800 in the summer and 650 in the winter

never had any problems for the past two years. so if your worried about that dont trip too hard

MrStickyScissors said:

I wouldnt know about saving power i run 8 1,000 watt hps flowering and 4 400 wats hps vegging. my bill comes out to 800 in the summer and 650 in the winter

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My light source is 4 X 10^26 watts - use the same one for veg and flower - and costs me nothing.

Spanishfly said:

My light source is 4 X 10^26 watts - use the same one for veg and flower - and costs me nothing.

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must be nice

I think you may be a little too worried about the power consumption. I think it will cost about $100 extra max on your electric bill. You can counter that buy turning you ac down and getting cfls or leds for your house.

scotch said:

I think you may be a little too worried about the power consumption. I think it will cost about $100 extra max on your electric bill. You can counter that buy turning you ac down and getting cfls or leds for your house.

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defenitly the ac runs alot of power. would help out your bill alot to turn it down when you can

scotch said:

You can counter that buy turning you ac down

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Definitely true that - turning my AC down from 22C to 24C has cut the consumption a lot. (Temperature UP means power used DOWN OK?)