Scary rumors going around bout d e a ..

[Bosson26]

on another forum that i am on there was a group of people responding to it's normal to be paranoid bout the electric bills. 2 of them gave up their location by mentioning their city which are in miami FL . they said the power company cooperate with the police department and help out on cracking drugs in the street. when an electric bills climbs up but then goes down again then back up again it gets flag. if it's in the ghetto area it get flag. a common drug area it get flag. they are very sensitive and the police goes out with a heat seeker and look thru at your house and they use our timing 12/12 or 18/6 and such. if we match these number and they are confident enough that house is growing it's enough for a judge to provide them with a search warrant. the new technology with L.E.Ds are the best way to go when you live in such a bad city. i know it makes sense that the power company would love us cuz the more we use the more money they make but that's not the case anymore they probably MAKE money tipping off the cop that we using a strange amount of electricity!!

 

[Bosson26]

has anybody make an estimate how much they spend on electricity with their system? for example

400 watts HPS 18/6 = 90 dollars extra per month? etc

 

[That 5hit]

has anybody make an estimate how much they spend on electricity with their system? for example

400 watts HPS 18/6 = 90 dollars extra per month? etc

On average a light system will increase your electricity cost from $8 to $20 per month—the exact amount depends on the size of the system and the number of hours operated. However, since these grow lights are so energy efficient, you are getting huge amounts of light (and growing power) for your money! Make sure your grow room’s power circuit can handle the power draw. For safety reasons, do not exceed 75% of the rated ability of the fuse/breaker (for example: use no more than 15 amps on a 20-amp circuit). To calculate your cost, multiply the bulb wattage X hours of operation and divide by 1000. This figure is the number of kilowatt hours of electricity consumed. (Example: a 400 watt bulb running for 18 hours will use 7.2 kilowatt hours). Check your power bill for the cost of each kilowatt hour. Then multiply the number of kilowatt hours by the cost of a kilowatt hour (K/hr) to arrive at the cost per month to run the light in your area.

 

[That 5hit]

on another forum that i am on there was a group of people responding to it's normal to be paranoid bout the electric bills. 2 of them gave up their location by mentioning their city which are in miami FL . they said the power company cooperate with the police department and help out on cracking drugs in the street. when an electric bills climbs up but then goes down again then back up again it gets flag. if it's in the ghetto area it get flag. a common drug area it get flag. they are very sensitive and the police goes out with a heat seeker and look thru at your house and they use our timing 12/12 or 18/6 and such. if we match these number and they are confident enough that house is growing it's enough for a judge to provide them with a search warrant. the new technology with L.E.Ds are the best way to go when you live in such a bad city. i know it makes sense that the power company would love us cuz the more we use the more money they make but that's not the case anymore they probably MAKE money tipping off the cop that we using a strange amount of electricity!!

maybe for large grow ops but 2lb or less i think you wont send up any flags

 

[GrowTech]

I'm doing 2000w of lights and 1000w of airconditioning... Nothing shady here. and I'm in the hood.

 

[arrowslueth]

Agreed. It would take a lot of lights operating in a noticable pattern to send up a flag.

 

[northwoodsmoker]

im a paranoid grower also but i dont worry bout the electric bill i worry bout the pigs coming to my house busting down the door to get me n all my hard work.. having all my shit confiscated.. that would fuckin suck n doing time in jail.. then having a drug record that will fuck ur life up forever..

 

[Cyproz]

heres how i see it, if my power bill goes up cause i start using a 1000 watt HPS, i could as easily have a gaming computer with a 1000 watt power supply. I mean i have seen way bigger power supplies then 1000 watt. I dont think the power company thinks your only gonna use like 500 watts in your house, they probably have an average number for things like microwaves, LCDs, heaters, computers, chargers. it all adds up. When i add a light i try to remove something else in my house of equal value.

 

[Ronjohn7779]

heres how i see it, if my power bill goes up cause i start using a 1000 watt HPS, i could as easily have a gaming computer with a 1000 watt power supply. I mean i have seen way bigger power supplies then 1000 watt. I dont think the power company thinks your only gonna use like 500 watts in your house, they probably have an average number for things like microwaves, LCDs, heaters, computers, chargers. it all adds up. When i add a light i try to remove something else in my house of equal value.

Hell home servers use tons power. I know for a fact lots of gamers, website owners, and heavy BT users have multiple servers setup in their homes. I imagine the people that get busted growing are those that are selling and placing themselves in the limelight.

 

[breakneck]

We all know the risks we take when deciding to grow our own medicine. If you're not willing to except that if your caught you're going to go to jail, maybe growing isn't for you... my $.02

 

[Cyproz]

i dont call my herb medicine, i smoke it to get high and have good times. I know if you have a card in cali you gotta always refer to it like that but im illegal anyways so its my herb to smoke and party.

 

[headband707]

on another forum that i am on there was a group of people responding to it's normal to be paranoid bout the electric bills. 2 of them gave up their location by mentioning their city which are in miami FL . they said the power company cooperate with the police department and help out on cracking drugs in the street. when an electric bills climbs up but then goes down again then back up again it gets flag. if it's in the ghetto area it get flag. a common drug area it get flag. they are very sensitive and the police goes out with a heat seeker and look thru at your house and they use our timing 12/12 or 18/6 and such. if we match these number and they are confident enough that house is growing it's enough for a judge to provide them with a search warrant. the new technology with L.E.Ds are the best way to go when you live in such a bad city. i know it makes sense that the power company would love us cuz the more we use the more money they make but that's not the case anymore they probably MAKE money tipping off the cop that we using a strange amount of electricity!!

Here in B.C. BC Hydro does report to the police if more then I think it is 1000 watts are being used and it is not a commercal place. If anyone should show up at your door you are fined up too $5000.00 for them showing . They do have heat seeking helicopters and much much more from the war. They have been using these toys for along time now including audio devices computer hacking etc. Do not think these guys don't have it all the pricks.Just can't get greedy peace out Headband707

 

[That 5hit]

this is what you do
build your room, put everything together, pumps, setup lights, vents, CO2,.... etc , everything
then run your system
everything, all of it (but no weed) ,,, for at least 6 month empty ,,, that should be enough time for the feds to to do a drive by with the thermo scanner and see the heat sig. from the lights and then go get a search warrant and the raid just to find an empty room, there's no law aganist haveing a grow room,,,, hell why not even grow some eggplants and fried green tomato's and cucombers
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some people would say that this is the worst idea ever because you would have to waste time runnig your system without the + of having buds at the end of the 6 month
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but on the other hand you could use this time to collect your seeds and also gain a peace of mind on your setup -if you dont get raided in 6 month (or even a year, however long you can wait it worth it) then you are cool + you have some nice veggies

 

[OregonMeds]

Holy fuck little paranoid guy getting advice from other paranoid guys...

Run your shit for 6 months empty?

Where's Penn and Teller when you need them, they could do a bullshit story on all the crap in this thread.

Unless you are growing BIG and I mean 10kw, you're under everyones radar power wise. Heat wise you'd have to pump your attic full of the heat off your lamps for any FLIR (that is the correct term it's not infrared or heat seeking or whatever the fuck) to even notice.

Damn people without a clue should be banned from giving advice and I don't mean to rip on you all specifically actually what pissed me off is the OP suggesting LED's when he doesn't have a clue about shit to begin with. So, I call you out OP why are you scaring the other newbies and suggesting the worst lights in history with some 3rd hand information that's only a false rumor to begin with?

Yes I was an asshole in this post, sorry, but this shit is wrong in so many ways it's not even funny.

 

[GrowTech]

Holy fuck little paranoid guy getting advice from other paranoid guys...

Run your shit for 6 months empty?

Where's Penn and Teller when you need them, they could do a bullshit story on all the crap in this thread.

Unless you are growing BIG and I mean 10kw, you're under everyones radar power wise. Heat wise you'd have to pump your attic full of the heat off your lamps for any FLIR (that is the correct term it's not infrared or heat seeking or whatever the fuck) to even notice.

Damn people without a clue should be banned from giving advice and I don't mean to rip on you all specifically actually what pissed me off is the OP suggesting LED's when he doesn't have a clue about shit to begin with. So, I call you out OP why are you scaring the other newbies and suggesting the worst lights in history with some 3rd hand information that's only a false rumor to begin with?

Yes I was an asshole in this post, sorry, but this shit is wrong in so many ways it's not even funny.

Well said.

 

[AquafinaOrbit]

Here in B.C. BC Hydro does report to the police if more then I think it is 1000 watts are being used and it is not a commercal place. If anyone should show up at your door you are fined up too $5000.00 for them showing . They do have heat seeking helicopters and much much more from the war. They have been using these toys for along time now including audio devices computer hacking etc. Do not think these guys don't have it all the pricks.Just can't get greedy peace out Headband707

That's funny because a typical house hold heater, the small kind that you plug into a wall pull on avg 1500watts. Then things like the water heater and range pull upwards of 5000watts.

Really all of this is crazy, these lights are sold legally so even if a cop was able to prove you were running a 1000watt HPS 12/12 they have no way to prove what you are growing. Not to mention they couldn't actually prove you were running the 1000watt because power companies don't report that information.

As for accepting it if you get caught, yeah that sounds nice but it does not mean you should be stupid about your grow and not try to avoid being caught.

 

[That 5hit]

anything to ease the mind
it may be worth it to him

 

[That 5hit]

once he sees that running his system yeilded no raid
then he would be at ease to grow big bud

 

[OregonMeds]

Try all you want That 5hit but you can't justify being completely clueless and giving advice worth less than nothing. Do you even realize how much time and money you'd potentially cost others for no reason at all with that advice? Maybe if it's a 17 year old taking your advice you'd have accidentally made them wait until 18 and done some good, but that's about the only upside I can see.

 

[That 5hit]

Try all you want That 5hit but you can't justify being completely clueless and giving advice worth less than nothing. Do you even realize how much time and money you'd potentially cost others for no reason at all with that advice? Maybe if it's a 17 year old taking your advice you'd have accidentally made them wait until 18 and done some good, but that's about the only upside I can see.

lol, your kidding right



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