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1000 watt Growroom completed **check 14th post down**
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Ok so i just built a 9 foot by 9 foot room in my basement that in a couple days ill be lining with reflective mylar and hanging a 1000 watt system in. Now my question is, Would anyone have an estimate on how much it will raise my power bill to be running it on a 12/12 and 14/10 cycle or what ever. I dont want to be shocked later on.


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Edited by deformedreality (01/04/08 08:24 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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super-grow.biz/Electricity.jsp

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: Legoulash]
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sweet :]

+5 rating.

and here is the work in progress grow room. The light system and 600 square feet of mylar are in the mail and will be here in a couple days. It has a door on the left side wall that you cant see in the pictures.
I think this is a good use for wasted space.






Ill update with pictures with progress later on.


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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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you plan on using a 1000w for a 81 square feet area?? I hope not.

to calculate your power usuage, take however much your energy company charges you per kilowatt hour then multiply by how many hours it will be on per month. Not really that difficult.

12hours*30days*.15c/day = ???


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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: derx]
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Oh no its not the only light going in there. I got in touch with a college the next state over and they are going to send me a bunch of their lighting systems for free. They usually just throw them away every time they upgrade their lights. So ill probally set up maybe 4 more systems (all 400 watt) and a bunch of fluorescents (in a different room). I just wanted to know what all i could set up before the powerbill gets too outrageous.


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Edited by deformedreality (12/27/07 11:58 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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That'll become one hardcore grow-system. :awesome:


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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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dude u are so fucking lucky.... id LOVE to have that much space for a grow room... most i have is a corner of my computer room... just thinking of what i could grow in all that space  :bigjoint:  :headbanger:


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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: Zinglons Acolyte]
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Well my basement is about 1600 square feet and all it started out with is just have 2 framed walls and 4 large double windows. It has enough room and plumbing set up to build 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, a living room/kitchen and still have enough room for either a walk in closet, sauna, or grow room. Im only putting one door in it just incase i decide to change it later. If anyone is wondering, I am not going to be growing anything illegal in there. I am setting it up because a green house costs alot and cant be used year around and i get very depressed during the winter months when plants go dormant. I just hope this will be enough to grow some tamarillo's and some chili peppers.


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Edited by deformedreality (12/28/07 09:47 AM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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I got a huge basement to work with also.
  I only use tarps as walls though :tongue:
  someday I will have a solar greenhouse though.

Edited by cpw1971 (12/28/07 01:48 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: cpw1971]
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Well for me tarps cost as much as the wall did. 2 by 4's are only 1.93 right now here. So the wall cost around 20 bucks. I already had the screws, the primers for setting the baseboard against the cement and the nails for that. And i had all the stuff to put the 9 x 9 room on its own dedicated circuit.


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Edited by deformedreality (12/28/07 11:38 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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cool man. maybe I will build walls someday
the thing about the tarp is I can take them down or resize the whole room fast

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: cpw1971]
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it wouldnt take much for me to move the wall forward or back but if anything im going to line it with waterproof sheetrock and cedar and make a sauna out of it eventually :-D


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Edited by deformedreality (12/28/07 11:52 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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I use mine as a tanning booth as is :tongue:

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: cpw1971]
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Well my tanning booth/table are complete. I currently have a tobasco plant, a rosemarry bush, and a cat tanning in it. The light fucks up my camera (on my phone hehe) I ended up building a small table (on the right) to hold my ballast so it gets air at all angles. I have a fan on the other side of the room tilted upwards that is circulating the air. and uh.. guess thats it for now.

**images below**


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Edited by deformedreality (01/04/08 08:55 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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cool man.
  hold sungasses right in front of the lens and try taking another pic :thumbup:
it works I used to do that with my cheaper camera to take out the bands

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: cpw1971]
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awesome, id love that setup for my gardening... licit and illicit plants alike! lol


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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: Zinglons Acolyte]
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Thanks cpw1971, it worked great! anyways here is my shit :-]

oh and do you guys like my sexy new carpet... completely free! I have some kick ass connections.








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Edited by deformedreality (01/04/08 08:59 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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Your chili plant is wilting you should move it further away from the light.


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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: TurntableJunky]
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Actually it just came out of a window like 30 minutes ago that was getting like 7 hours of light a day. It needs some fertilizer and light. Can you see how its tilted towards the camera? Thats where the window was, it was completely hugging the window trying to get light lol.

EDIT: ahhh crap, it is wilting some on the very top of it. Guess ill work on giving them some shade. anyways heres all my plants and cacti. there is like 6 different types of sacred cacti seedlings in this picture. 2 mini rose plants that are starting to go dormant (i hope i can take them out of this), 2 agave plants, 3 spider plants.. and some other plants including a mystery plant that was supposed to be pereskiopsis but looks nothing like pereskiopsis (picture of the mystery plant at the end of this post). These are just all my light thirsty plants that are not happy right now cause of winter. all my normal houseplants are in my living room.





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Edited by deformedreality (01/04/08 09:32 PM)

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Re: 1000 watt hps question. [Re: deformedreality]
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carpet bad in grow room.
harbors pests, collects moisture, supports mold, absorbs light.


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