The UK Growers Thread!

Blue brother

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Anyone in here ran 5000w plus rooms? Looking at running 6k de hps. Anyone used portable air con in a lung room, or cooled that many watts with fans? Need to pick some U.K. growers brains about scaling up? Thanks guys
 

Ghettogrower187

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Anyone in here ran 5000w plus rooms? Looking at running 6k de hps. Anyone used portable air con in a lung room, or cooled that many watts with fans? Need to pick some U.K. growers brains about scaling up? Thanks guys
Wish i had the room to hang so many lights lol, I'd imagine you'd need a big box fan and a big intake and plenty of fans all over the walls, all these big growers in America use ac in there rooms
 

Blue brother

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Wish i had the room to hang so many lights lol, I'd imagine you'd need a big box fan and a big intake and plenty of fans all over the walls, all these big growers in America use ac in there rooms
Yeah well I was looking at a couple 14” vector ecs like what you’ve just bought but if I’m moving that much air I can say goodbye to controlling humidity

yeah I started another thread with the yanks and they all just say use a mini split but obv we can’t have a huge unit bolted to the side of an empty council house hahaha, the just don’t get it haha
 

Ghettogrower187

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Yeah well I was looking at a couple 14” vector ecs like what you’ve just bought but if I’m moving that much air I can say goodbye to controlling humidity

yeah I started another thread with the yanks and they all just say use a mini split but obv we can’t have a huge unit bolted to the side of an empty council house hahaha, the just don’t get it haha
Get a humidifier bro
 

Blue brother

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Get a humidifier bro
Ah I use both humidifiers and dehumidifiers but if I’m moving 12,000m3/h they’re not gonna have a chance to make an impact. I hit this point in 2015 with 4800w of hps but they were 600w so just put them all in independently cooled cool tubes, meant I could slow down the rooms extraction to give the dehumidifier or humidifier a chance to make impact.

I’ve spent the last while dialing in vpd and seeing the results from this I can’t go back to chasing parameters

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bazoomer

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How you paying for the leccy with 6k of light ect ? Costing me £120 a week with the few I run. If ya shafting the leccy board see you in the Big house. Going up again in October ffs.
 

Blue brother

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How you paying for the leccy with 6k of light ect ? Costing me £120 a week with the few I run. If ya shafting the leccy board see you in the Big house. Going up again in October ffs.
We just pay it tbh. It’s a killer but they hammer us if we rob the leccy. Obv never ran all these watts before so not sure if the leccy board flag up excessive usage but our meter is in the house, so they need a meter reading to determine the usage, otherwise it just looks like the whole street have a 4 planter in

edit: what u up for?
 

Ghettogrower187

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Ah I use both humidifiers and dehumidifiers but if I’m moving 12,000m3/h they’re not gonna have a chance to make an impact. I hit this point in 2015 with 4800w of hps but they were 600w so just put them all in independently cooled cool tubes, meant I could slow down the rooms extraction to give the dehumidifier or humidifier a chance to make impact.

I’ve spent the last while dialing in vpd and seeing the results from this I can’t go back to chasing parameters

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I take it you've got an environment controller? Cuz that will only have you ur fans running full speed when it gets over temp
 

Blue brother

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I take it you've got an environment controller? Cuz that will only have you ur fans running full speed when it gets over temp
I have a few from over the years I use ac infinity atm, but wud use a trolmaster for the new op, that g.a.s controller is only for humidity, it controls the dehumidifier or humidifier to keep vpd correct dependant on the temperature, I’ve found this is the best way to do it when using fans for cooling. I usually run dehumidifier constant and just have the humidifier on the controller as the humidifier corrects the humidity in a couple seconds, whereas the dehumidifier needs to work constant to keep rh down in flower.
 
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