also i think u r confusing the breaker with the breaker panel. the panel houses the actual breakers it can have multiple breakers inside of one panel. depending on how big the pannel if you can wire in 20000 watts into a breaker panel if you had the time money equipment and a big enough panel.
depends on if its 120 or 240 your trying for but im guessing 240. a 30 amp is fine. 4000 watts at 240 is under 17 amps. well under the limit.
if its maxed out your gonna have to get an electrician and your power company involved to get a nice boost of juice. is the 100 amp breaker really maxed out or is it just blowing the breaker for that room?
And this here is why I'm pretty certain you're not safe to give advice.. you didn't read a word of what I said, let me re-post it for you.
I'd recommend he wire to NEC code, and not take electrical advice from the forums - if you want my honest answer. My posts were merely to stop a fire. All I have to say on that. Wire it up how you want, just don't bitch or scream when there's a house fire - I'm going on record that violating code is not only reckless, but also one of the more retarded recommendations I've seen in the forums to this point.
buy a 30 amp dryer male plug end. looks like this. ten bucks at home depot. can very by outlet.
Would definitely rather it be you than some guy saying to modify extension cords, that's most certain - I'm in my 30s, and would like to formally apologize for my word choices. I do see that in more than a few ways it appeared I was trying to be inflammatory - wasn't the case, was just trying to keep sane after seeing the 'pick a few colors'.. which for some who read this who may not understand, may actually just pick a few.. and we know what would happen then... potential disaster.
i believe its maxed out cause there are no more spaces to put any breakers. Yeah i was thinking i would have to upgrade to a 200 amp service but its expensive i have a 30 amp 240v circuit hooked up to an electric dryer, im thinking i could just get a gas one and run the wire off the 30 amp back into my room. what cable would i need to run off the 30 amp? do i run it from the main panel? And all my out lets are the standard plug not 240, how would i run the 30 amp back there and hook everything up to it. or just replace the breaker to 2 20 amps and run that back there. I can post pics if you would like......
this i agree. no worries at all. yeah i should have been a little more concerned in all honesty it is in fact electricity. i never considered some random bloke reading thru and actually picking random wires like an idiot and not reading thru the rest of the thread. "tonight at ten. man burns down whole neighborhood attempting to connect marijuana grow lights. stay tuned" lmao. but i do understand where your coming from and i appologize for any rashness from my end.
actually thats what i did to save myself a whole lot of hassle. i got a gas dryer becuz my old elec one died. then i had a free 30 amp 240 outlet. lol. needless to say i have a shit ton more lights now gonna up it to about 6000 watts. but im gonna run another 30 amp in for that so i can control my veg and flower separately with other controllers.
Well i dont have any 240 plugs for the ballasts couldn't i split it 2 -15 amp circuits? and run the 2 digis on the 15 amp and the other stuff on the other 15amp? trying to eliminate all use of extension cords and the 30 amp is my last shot.
depends on the wattage of the ballasts. and if you have a dryer outlet its already pushing 30 amps at 240. i highly doubt you would have like a 60 amp 120 dryer outlet. but dryer outlets aside.
Facts are ridiculousness? Google 80 Plus.
mmm. my comp pegs out downloading and running music and graphic rendering software. oh also my autocad takes a toll on everything. points being if he has a 1000 watt and a few box fans and an inline fan and a tv from the other room going on one 15 amp 120v circuit its not going to support his computer also. once he does anything interesting on it its gonna kill the breaker. jesus take shit literally much? and no the power they are capable of drawing when pushed is ridiculousness. facts are not. i believe if you can prove something you rule the argument. im also too high and tired to read the 80 plus thing all the way but wiki gave me the just i believe.
Thanks for the reply wheels619, but I need to run a sub panel off my empty dryer plug because if I use the wall outlets for all my other accessories the breakers flip when my girl uses her hair dryer. I guess all the bedrooms run on the same circuit. So I figured running a sub panel off that empty breaker will do the trick and fix that problem since nothing is running on that dryer breaker. Also another question. I've seen many threads on DIY ballast flip flops, I wanna build a 2-4 flip. From what I understand the safe way is running 1 relay per ballast. What I don't understand is why people connect the out from the relays to the lights to an outlet then you have to figure out a way to plug in your hood cable to that outlet? Is there something unsafe about hard wiring each hood cable to the relay outs(after the relay contacts) or is it just about making it easier to unplug if you have to? Thanks again for your time and help!
hmm. maybe you should tell her to get out of the bathroom. lol. j/k um well if you buy a nice enough lighting controller it will have a 120 outlet attached thats capable of 5 actual amps of 120 or so. some give you a 2 amp but the nicer ones give more. so you still have the lighting controller but you can run the fans off of it. the ballasts on 120 are the reasons you are tripping the breaker.they pull about 10 amps off of its 15 amp breaker. when its lights out tonight unplug the ballasts and plug the hair dryer in it shouldnt blow anything even with the other stuff still plugged in. run just the ballasts and inline fans off of it. the one i listed previously is powering my 4 1000 ballasts on 240 and running my 2 6 inch inlines on 120. also flip boxes are nice but you still have to have separate flower areas for this. and in that case you can get a 2-4 flip box but you are still gonna need at least a small 2 light controller to bring in the power for the lights otherwise the chingus is still gonna pop. chingus being breaker. a flip box is gonna cost an extra couple hundies on top of the controller your still gonna need to manage the incoming power. unless you build your own but i wouldnt recommend it without an electrician handy.
