how many Watts is too many

i think the biggest i question is how many watts until you start to draw attention?

guys around here run multiple 1000 watts i doubt if youre starting off youll touch that

when something melts or you have a glow coming out of your house.

i was always paranoid about power usage, but i have seem some ops that make meter wheels just spiiiiiinnnnnnn and they have no problems.

i used 250 watts total for my 2 plants and i dont even stress, i wouldn't really think about it untill i break 1000 watts

I use a thousand and some change in mine with no problems yet.Knock on wood.

4000 - 6000 watts will draw attention, otherwise I wouldnt worry... my computer has a 1000 watt power supply, allthough I dont max it out all the time, I do have 4 computers running in my home office, as well as other kinds of equipment which uses alot of electricity. My friends have told me my office alone uses more watts than my grow. My guitar amp alone is another 100 watts.
Most big screens are somewhere near 400 watts or more.

you gotta think about all the people with welders in their garage and other shop equipment that use up tons of watts. if youre running 2000 watts youre fine.

1,000,000 watts..........anything less and your good.

Florida Girl said:

According to Karma696969 the answer is 2 CFLs

ROFLMAO!!!!

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Yeah i think i read the thread your talking about... llol, that was some funny shit. He said he had like 50 plants under cfls right?

Edit: Oh and my instincts tell me up to 2000 should be A okk

upinchronic1 said:

Yeah i think i read the thread your talking about... llol, that was some funny shit. He said he had like 50 plants under cfls right?

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The thread was this one: https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/62471-how-do-people-get-power.html

basically the poster said the electric company called his house to ask about the power increase for a couple of CFLs.... funny shit!

yup thats the one, said he had 50 plants under 2 cfls and a thousand dollars worth of nutes lmao, entertainment at its finnest.

wow, i just read that..... LMFAO is this guy still around? Seriously, I was laughing all the way into the 10th page then got bored.

the biggest concern on how many watts is too many is what your main will take... generally, a couple few thousand watts is ok.

from what i have read, most circuits or fuses or whatever controls the power flow, only start taking real bumps at 2500-3000 watts in a room. ust my interpetation however.

lol you guys are crazy? i know people who use 4000k-7000k just in lights and have never had a problem

If you pay your bill on time, why would they care, unless its a huge increase and it could be seen as broken equipment?

If you have 2000+ watts I would just avoid starting all the lights at exact same time, put a 10min buffer or something depending on how many watts your starting up.

2.2 jigawatts

BigBudBalls said:

2.2 jigawatts

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2.2 Jigawatts! I bet in your time you can just walk into any store and pick up a can of plutonium.

I was running close to 5,000 watts with a monthly bill around $350. I did get a call from the power company asking about the increased usage. I explained that i work from home (operating my computer consulting business). computer are notorious for using a lot of electricity, especiaslly 5-6 of them. no problem