First Legal grow and got a huge basement.

PKHydro

PKHydro

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I'm jealous of the soon to be fresh clean space, and the endless choices of strains. It must be like Christmas there everyday at this point. @ODanksta
 
Tim Fox

Tim Fox

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ttystikk said:
No smoking around plants! Particulates in the smoke clog the stomata, interfering with the plant's ability to breathe.
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i was assuming we would seperate the two areas,and have carbon filters or outside venting,,, we are all good growers around here right,,, i can picture some bar stools, some couches , big screen,,
 
fandango

fandango

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covert222 said:
Does work like that. The amount of amps you have coming into your house isn't equal to your box size holmes. That's why you can put 500 amps in a 100 amp box and 1000 amps in a 200 amp box
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True story..that big old transformer hanging in the sky out there will feed your 200 amp upgrade.You need the owners written permission to pull a permit.
 
fandango

fandango

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We,my partner and me set up 20,ooo watts in Cali on a limited budget(I took a jet down to Texas and drove the uhaul back to Cali while he followed with the wife and kid)
We had a 100amp drop to work with...it was feeding the house and well and garage.
I installed a 60amp breaker in the main panel and ran conduit 160 feet to the garage(30x50)ten foot ceilings.
put some #6 thhn wire in the run and mounted a 40 space sub panel with a 50amp 2 pole breaker
Than ran 20amp breakers to each light and a/c unit
built 2 12x12 and 1 12x12 veg rooms and 1 12x16 baby room
No problem running all at 1 time
Just keep an eye on the breaker connections,look for wire insulation burning some times the screw will need tightened to the wire at the breaker.
As the breakers got older we were changing out some breakers,we started with 120v and switched to 240v ballast

We did the weedmaps delivery thing...now with the prices dropping we shut down and are small time
 
Blunted 4 lyfe

Blunted 4 lyfe

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fandango said:
We,my partner and me set up 20,ooo watts in Cali on a limited budget(I took a jet down to Texas and drove the uhaul back to Cali while he followed with the wife and kid)
We had a 100amp drop to work with...it was feeding the house and well and garage.
I installed a 60amp breaker in the main panel and ran conduit 160 feet to the garage(30x50)ten foot ceilings.
put some #6 thhn wire in the run and mounted a 40 space sub panel with a 50amp 2 pole breaker
Than ran 20amp breakers to each light and a/c unit
built 2 12x12 and 1 12x12 veg rooms and 1 12x16 baby room
No problem running all at 1 time
Just keep an eye on the breaker connections,look for wire insulation burning some times the screw will need tightened to the wire at the breaker.
As the breakers got older we were changing out some breakers,we started with 120v and switched to 240v ballast

We did the weedmaps delivery thing...now with the prices dropping we shut down and are small time
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Now that is reasonable you did isolate your grow op from the house panel and although you did exceed the 100amp service by 10% (60a & 50a) that's a whole lot safer than 100%. Coupled with the fact that you constantly check for damage to wires, breakers lesson the chance of unexpected problems if the load remains 15-20% below the service amperage.

B4L
 
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