CaliforniaGlad
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Mare A Wanna,
Thank you again for another very interesting post!
WOW ~ 70,000 watts of HPS lighting?! Yikes. I can understand how he was so high profile.
You mentioned a barn so I gather that he may have some type of farm, so perhaps his sky-high electric bills didn't raise any eyebrows, but his power meter must have been spinning off it's axis! This also makes me wonder if power companies are compelled to advise police or feds of unusually high-power usage from any given private property? And of course industrial buildings or parks would probably not be concerned with high power consumption, but there are always meter readers and in our city, fire department inspectors too...
And yes, I know that FLIR hits alone are not enough to obtain a search warrant, but (larger) growing efforts can emit quite strong fragrances and MJ smoke is quite distinctive too. So officers who 'happen to be in the area' or who show up at a door (or next door) under some other ploy may feel he/she has enough to justify a bust... and I recall recently reading online of a bust just like that.
While FLIR detection alone is not enough for a warrant, my efforts are still to minimize my exposure ~ so to speak ~ so officers would have (hopefully) little reason to 'follow-up' any possible high-heat patterns detected from my roof.
I like to feel that every investment I make in my growing efforts is for the better and that's why I chose T5 lighting... effective, great coverage, lower power consumption and lower heat emissions too.
Mare A Wanna, thank you again for a really great post!
SOGLAD
Thank you again for another very interesting post!
WOW ~ 70,000 watts of HPS lighting?! Yikes. I can understand how he was so high profile.
You mentioned a barn so I gather that he may have some type of farm, so perhaps his sky-high electric bills didn't raise any eyebrows, but his power meter must have been spinning off it's axis! This also makes me wonder if power companies are compelled to advise police or feds of unusually high-power usage from any given private property? And of course industrial buildings or parks would probably not be concerned with high power consumption, but there are always meter readers and in our city, fire department inspectors too...
And yes, I know that FLIR hits alone are not enough to obtain a search warrant, but (larger) growing efforts can emit quite strong fragrances and MJ smoke is quite distinctive too. So officers who 'happen to be in the area' or who show up at a door (or next door) under some other ploy may feel he/she has enough to justify a bust... and I recall recently reading online of a bust just like that.
While FLIR detection alone is not enough for a warrant, my efforts are still to minimize my exposure ~ so to speak ~ so officers would have (hopefully) little reason to 'follow-up' any possible high-heat patterns detected from my roof.
I like to feel that every investment I make in my growing efforts is for the better and that's why I chose T5 lighting... effective, great coverage, lower power consumption and lower heat emissions too.
Mare A Wanna, thank you again for a really great post!
SOGLAD
