who said what about 800 ppfd?
New LEDs: Are they overpowering them just for the sales pitch?
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ttystikk
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Okay, and what about your power? Also, what's your budget for HVAC equipment? Where are you? City, not street address; the outside climate will make a difference in how HVAC is handled.
I have 2x 200a 240V service panels. I live in rochester, NY so cold winters and the real heat is only about 3-4 months of the year. Id like to keep hvac below 40k and was just going to load up on minisplits. It already has stand alone gas overhead heater (Hot Dawg) if needed in the winter.
Im really trying to go bare bones as I hope to outgrow this facility being that the layout is not optimal.
Jonesfamily7715
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How much is electricity there, I'm in okc and we're at $0.09 per kw maybe $0.10 now, shits gone up. I hear states close to the ocean are expensive for lack of fresh water as compared to landlocked areas with fresh water rivers.
ttystikk
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That's a pretty damn small electricity drop for a grow facility. Fortunately for you, I can stretch an amp a lot farther than most and I am confident I can help you if you like.
DM me for more discussion if you like.
ttystikk
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Power is a lot more expensive because of the huge demand of all that population.
I can barely read these confusing ass bills but electric is def on the higher end here. And this is with the warehouse being totally empty so I dont know of the actual rates will go up for the higher usage or what. They are constantly increasing and squeezing more out of us.
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Rocket Soul
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You guys live in luxury, just one of those 200A panels is 5-6 times the power we had o manage grow and house/living.
Jonesfamily7715
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I think our electricity rates in oklahoma are one of the reasons we had so many people flood over hear for comercial grows. It's dying off now, so many people failed. You can't expect to survive in such a flooded market.
ttystikk
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But it's a warehouse, not a residential drop.
Rocket Soul
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Still... US residentials seems to have no problem getting a 100 amp installed just by phone call and a credit card. Wed have to rewire with an electrician signing off on the work and get thru spanish bureaucracy.
Jonesfamily7715
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Wow, I got a 150 Amp panel on a 2 bedroom house and a 50 Amp in my shop/grow. My bill is rarely over $200. Efficiency doesn't worry me to much, but I could imagine over there
ttystikk
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Fair enough. I did not need any permission to upgrade my residential service from 100A@240V single phase to 150A@240V single phase power; I just needed to have a city inspector come out and make sure the work performed was up to code.
I have the right to apply for as much as 320A at my home. Any drop from 200A on up would require getting permission from the city.
ttystikk
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Does your shop panel come through your residential drop? Many of my rural friends have two separate drops; one each for home and shop/barn, often 200A@240V single phase each.
You can grow a lot of weed with that lol
Jonesfamily7715
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Yeah it's coming off the house they got 3 phase 277/480 on my block it wouldn't cost much to get in on it, just can't justify the cost. I live 1/8th of a mile from I35 I can see the highway from my porch
ttystikk
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What would you use all that power for?