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What do you mean by stopped or running backwards? I don't follow... why would a meter ever do that? Edit: Nevermind, I think I understand what you're saying.
Yeah, generators seem like the way to go, but I would have to haul a shi.t ton of diesel, propane or gas to power it every day (maybe not, I really don't know about generators, I'm just assuming). I'd imagine that there are some generators that I could hook up to the gas line in my house and do it that way, but then the problem goes from being a high electrical bill to a being a high gas bill and I'm thinking that may raise some flags... maybe not. I've been trying to get some in depth research on this stuff but can't.Really though, I'm only parroting what I've seen other people write online, that generators raise flags and blah, blah, blah. But I really don't get why, other than the reason I stated above. I figure if you can power the lights with a generator then you should be in the clear... but what do I know...If you know anything about generators, please elaborate. Thanks man.Just looking at this generator http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,1631573,00.html, I don't see how it isn't do able. Maybe this is still on the grid or what not, I don't know, I'm pretty ignorant to this type of stuff, but I'll keep researching.
i think he means if your useing solar power when they are not under a load and on the grid it feeds back into the HOLE power grid witch makes your meter go backwards, for a small home and enough solar power the power company could have to pay you instead of you paying them witch they usally just give you as a credit on your bill,
Where the fuck are you that 3200w adds $700 to your bill? And wtf kind of pump are you guys running that your bills are $1000 and other people have $1500? Seriously man, $1500 is more than I pay in an entire year including AC (but not including the grow). Seems like it would be cheaper for you to just purchase bottled water rather than run that well pump. Seriously, you can buy a shit load of bottled water for $1000 each month.
no shit my none growing bill a month is like $150 and im in a 3200 square foot home
You can get a large reservoir of fuel (a tank) to go with. And the oil and gas company isn't going to raise red flags, they're just going to be really happy to be doing business with you. You definitely need to think through the fuel delivery though.
Yeah, I figured it wouldn't, but don't know why it wouldn't. Kind of like it seemed to good to be true.But you seem like you know why it wouldn't, so please enlighten me. Noise, exhaust, hauling fuel?
I'm not in the house yet, so there would be no increase in usage.
When there are 2 houses on your property and both are being lived in, + finding out after taking the grow room apart that the house that you were using to grow in was maxing out a 200 amp when it wasn't putting out near that much power. I'm in CA and the regular electric bill is right around $875-$900 a month, just for electricity out here in the mountains. I found out we had a lot of problems with the electricity because the lines were melted and it was a major fire hazard(previous owner had it installed, we didn't check it right out) Got lucky I guess.
If your meter is still capable of turning backwards, you got an OLD fucking meter.
Oh, ok then. It's not like the power company has no data on what the average electricity usage is based on the sq ft of the home. If you guys think that power companies don't look at usage numbers and create spreadsheets and graphs of power usage for different delivery grids, you should think again. What they do with that info is another story but of your running 4k or more lights rest assured that your popping up.
All three of those factors makes it less than stealthy in a typical residential area. Would be quite stealthy in some though, if you don't have close neighbors etc.