First Time Grow 4 x 1000w Soil
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Harrekin
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15amps for 4000w of lights? Thats INSANELY way off man,if you have a 240v circuit the 4000w would use 16.6amps and on a 120v circuit it'd use 33amps...plus when you first fire the HIDs it might use double that...not even mentioning that a circuit for safety reasons should only be used at 80% of its max capacity.
Ryknow1
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We are running 2000w on 30a and 2000w on another 30a both on the same box.
Harrekin
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Thats perfect man, I was replying to the guy saying you could run the lights on 15amps...thats an insane thing for them to have said to you!
By the way, enjoy rep, I wish Id the stones to go that big on my first grow!
The.Smokerator
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Yeah!!!! That 8" Ducting is a bitch to find...I wound up getting reducers to acoomadate.....Looking good bro !!!! 
GrowfaceKillah
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It can easily be done with a large solid perpetual setup..... You can get two plants to yield 2 pounds if you want.... don't you know that? I'm not kidding. 1 Pound a plant is possible. Order some Chocolope seeds from single seed centre and flower them for 8 weeks, topping every week. Let them become BUSHES and then flower them.... you'll see a pound per plant... or REALLY close to it. Go google it - (1 pound per 1000w?) You'll see what I mean. You have ALL of the material and space you need to do this... just get readin! You'll see.....
Good luck bro!
seanwinsall
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It can easily be done with a large solid perpetual setup..... You can get two plants to yield 2 pounds if you want.... don't you know that? I'm not kidding. 1 Pound a plant is possible. Order some Chocolope seeds from single seed centre and flower them for 8 weeks, topping every week. Let them become BUSHES and then flower them.... you'll see a pound per plant... or REALLY close to it. Go google it - (1 pound per 1000w?) You'll see what I mean. You have ALL of the material and space you need to do this... just get readin! You'll see.....
Good luck bro!
Pulling pounds out of the system or 1gram/watt is not what we were talking about. Being able to pull 2 pounds out of 4 lights every 2 weeks would be pretty hard. We just setup our vegging room so we are on our way. We have 47 new clones taken from all the strains. Hopefully in 3-4 weeks we will pull in 12 more plants under a light and compress the ones we have in the flowering room.
superbub52
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lovely grow and may i sign up to be a tenants also lol ill stand guard just pay me in bud lol
seanwinsall
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Come to nor cal we need more scripts for more plants 
seanwinsall
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so last night we had a huge problem. At 2:30-3:00 our lighting went down. We don't know what the problem is but only 1 outlet in the entire garage is working. We are running 2 lights now over all the plants and will try to figure out the issue tonight. The clones came inside our house and are under a t5.
If you guys have ideas on what we should be looking for to fix electrically that would be great!
If you guys have ideas on what we should be looking for to fix electrically that would be great!
[email protected]
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wow that sux. are the breakers tripped or are they still good and you still not getting any power?
seanwinsall
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Well it was a little late to get crazy but doing some reading I think the gfi was tripped so I ripped it out and threw in a new one and nothing. I replaced the old one and went through checking every outlet for loose wires. I guess I found one? lol power is restored. It is dark time right now but tonight we will be able to get the room back to normal.
I think it was that cheap 1500 watt heater. I have it running now so I can see if it screws with anything.
LesterBurnum
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I thought someone said above that the heater was a 15A? If so you would want to run that on it's own circuit. If you run that with lights and other stuff on the same circuit that could trip the circuit. Especially since that heater alone is enough to trip it cycling on for a while and off. I bet that last night was one of the colder nights so far and that's what did it. But..........i know just enough about electricity to be dangerous so some advice from a sparky is better than mine. However, I do think that this is the problem.
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marsellus wallace
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seanwinsall
how are you running your lights, 120-240v???? if you are running them on 120 you were pulling too much eletricity for your op... if you can ALWAYS GO 240!!! it is WAY MORE EFFECIENT, compared to 120v which uses 10 amp , at 240volts my lights run at only 4 AMP!!! thats a huge difference... if your running it at 240 then all i can say is cross your fingers because you might not be getting enough electricity from the actual breaker.. meaning you are not getting enough electricity from the powerline connected to your establishment , via the electric pole outside... please keep me posted i am very intrigued in your post.
how are you running your lights, 120-240v???? if you are running them on 120 you were pulling too much eletricity for your op... if you can ALWAYS GO 240!!! it is WAY MORE EFFECIENT, compared to 120v which uses 10 amp , at 240volts my lights run at only 4 AMP!!! thats a huge difference... if your running it at 240 then all i can say is cross your fingers because you might not be getting enough electricity from the actual breaker.. meaning you are not getting enough electricity from the powerline connected to your establishment , via the electric pole outside... please keep me posted i am very intrigued in your post.
marsellus wallace
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giving you some rep too 
seanwinsall
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giving you some rep too
Thanks for the rep
We are running it on 240v right now. I am pretty sure it was just a loose wire in the GFI plug that did it. It probably would have happened at one point or another. This is a picture of our wiring, 240v adapter and our breaker box.
All 4 lights run out of this. 
There are more photos by clicking on my sig. I only put the ones that I describe.
marsellus wallace
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do you know how many amps of electricity your curently getting ? do you have any plans on adding more lights in the future?? we have a very similar setup as u , atleast the room is... we had a hallow ceiling like you but put sheetrock where the wood starts as a roof about 10 feet above the ground?? the sheetrock is needed to keep all co2 inside the room, and also to prevent any heat or cold air from escaping.. u guys should think about it .. ill be posting some pics of my op soon, you had commented on it earlier looking forward to the pictures
.. ill be posting some pics of my op soon, you had commented on it earlier looking forward to the pictures
seanwinsall
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do you know how many amps of electricity your curently getting ? do you have any plans on adding more lights in the future?? we have a very similar setup as u , atleast the room is... we had a hallow ceiling like you but put sheetrock where the wood starts as a roof about 10 feet above the ground?? the sheetrock is needed to keep all co2 inside the room, and also to prevent any heat or cold air from escaping.. u guys should think about it
Yeah I am excited to see your grow. We were thinking about running panda on the rafters and seal it there. The cool air we have to keep out not in where we are at. Co2 is something we really really want to add and just don't have the money for it right now.
marsellus wallace
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honestly thats going to be the first thing you want to add.... co2 increases yields 33%!!! no exageration.... we are using the titan atlas 1 control to control our co2 ppm http://www.amazon.com/TITAN-ATLAS-CO2-Monitor-Controller/dp/B003D4IUWK ..... we bump it up 100 ppm every week , starting off at 1000, finishing at 1700ppm (parts per millions)... if you dont want cool air in your sure as hell going to want to keep the hot air in !!! trust me if you guys are trying to put in a co2 system YOU MUST MAKE SURE THE ROOM IS AIR TIGHT ...no air coming in no air leaving.. if you dont mind me asking , do you guys have an ac??? the word of key is to have 1 ton of ac for every 3 1000 watt lights u have up.. we have a 5 ton a/c for our room..
keep up the good work!!! your doing fine
keep up the good work!!! your doing fine
