I have a trailer that belonged to my grandpa. This is a small trailer with 2 rooms that was used on construction site as an onsite office many years ago. The front of the trailer is a kitchen, but all the cabinets were removed and that part was used for an office. The back of the trailer is where they would store their tools.
There is no electricity hooked up to this trailer as it's was used to store my garden/tools, fertilize and other stuff. I have a workshop 10 foot from it, and i have electricity ran to it from the house underground. I can easily run electricity underground from my shop, under the trailer up through the floor.
I'm wanting to put my much larger grow tent in the back part of that trailer. What i'm worrying about, it nearly 50 yards away (rough guesstimate) from the house, plus there is constant air traffic (small planes & helicopters) fly over on a daily/nightly basis.
Would the larger 300 watt + led grow light put off a heat signature? I don't think it will, but if it will, what would you use to protect against flir? Because i'm worried after 30+ years with this tiny trailer not having electricity, all of sudden it has electricity and having a hot spot would set off alarms with the vultures above. The trailer is basically sitting in a middle of a blackberry patch, under a tree, with just enough walking space cut through the blackberry thorns to the front door so i can get tools out and put them back up.
I always keep the door padlocked from the outside anyways, but if someone really wants in it, they could take cut the lock. What type of lock would you think that would make it harder to be tampered with?
The next thing i'm worried about, is how far this trailer is.. Sure if i look out my window, i can see someone messing around, but at night i cant see out that far. And if someone was really quite not making a bunch of noise, i would never know someone was there. So what i'm thinking of doing is putting a couple of solar floods lights above the door pointing down at an angle. i really need one there anyhow because sometimes in the middle of the night when i'm tinkering with a project, i have to walk out there with a flash light to get a specific tool, and making that 2 1/2 foot step up and back down is a little tricky when holding the end of the flashlight in my mouth.
If someone happens to make it past the solar flood lights, i need another security feature. What i'm thinking about doing is running a wire from here underground to a switch on the inside of the trailer door. On this end, at my workstation in my home where i spend 90% of my time when i'm inside, will be a red bulb, and when that door on the trailer opens it will turn on the red bulb mounted on my wall above my pc monitor.
There is 5 windows on this trailer, but they are tinted (not by much), you really have to be up on it to see into it, but if there is a light on, you could very easily see in it from a far. What i will do is take the black side of some panda film i'm not using and staple it over the windows making sure that no can see in, or that light leaks out.
Do you think it's too much of a risk to proceed with this, or should i keep my much, much smaller grow under my desk? Anything else should i be aware of, or any ideas that can help make it safer?
There is no electricity hooked up to this trailer as it's was used to store my garden/tools, fertilize and other stuff. I have a workshop 10 foot from it, and i have electricity ran to it from the house underground. I can easily run electricity underground from my shop, under the trailer up through the floor.
I'm wanting to put my much larger grow tent in the back part of that trailer. What i'm worrying about, it nearly 50 yards away (rough guesstimate) from the house, plus there is constant air traffic (small planes & helicopters) fly over on a daily/nightly basis.
Would the larger 300 watt + led grow light put off a heat signature? I don't think it will, but if it will, what would you use to protect against flir? Because i'm worried after 30+ years with this tiny trailer not having electricity, all of sudden it has electricity and having a hot spot would set off alarms with the vultures above. The trailer is basically sitting in a middle of a blackberry patch, under a tree, with just enough walking space cut through the blackberry thorns to the front door so i can get tools out and put them back up.
I always keep the door padlocked from the outside anyways, but if someone really wants in it, they could take cut the lock. What type of lock would you think that would make it harder to be tampered with?
The next thing i'm worried about, is how far this trailer is.. Sure if i look out my window, i can see someone messing around, but at night i cant see out that far. And if someone was really quite not making a bunch of noise, i would never know someone was there. So what i'm thinking of doing is putting a couple of solar floods lights above the door pointing down at an angle. i really need one there anyhow because sometimes in the middle of the night when i'm tinkering with a project, i have to walk out there with a flash light to get a specific tool, and making that 2 1/2 foot step up and back down is a little tricky when holding the end of the flashlight in my mouth.
If someone happens to make it past the solar flood lights, i need another security feature. What i'm thinking about doing is running a wire from here underground to a switch on the inside of the trailer door. On this end, at my workstation in my home where i spend 90% of my time when i'm inside, will be a red bulb, and when that door on the trailer opens it will turn on the red bulb mounted on my wall above my pc monitor.
There is 5 windows on this trailer, but they are tinted (not by much), you really have to be up on it to see into it, but if there is a light on, you could very easily see in it from a far. What i will do is take the black side of some panda film i'm not using and staple it over the windows making sure that no can see in, or that light leaks out.
Do you think it's too much of a risk to proceed with this, or should i keep my much, much smaller grow under my desk? Anything else should i be aware of, or any ideas that can help make it safer?
