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the elecric company wrote back and had us look at the meter outside to see if it matched up with his bill. the guy didn't read the meter wrong, it says the same number out there as on the bill. do any electritians know why it could have gone this high or what to do next??

We should get a response from the elecric company in two days or so. Really hoping to not have the bill really be $329 for March electric and more like $27 which is our average. If it's just going to cost this much to run a grow, this might be the end of our grow. :(

We're getting charged eight cents per kw. I'd say ours is pretty cheap too lol. How do we go about righting this? Gring the elecric company out? We're writing them but I don't really know how to go about fixing this.

I think you mean 492w = 0.492 kw/h, you said 4.92 kw/h which brings us back to $283. At 0.492 it would be $28.30 a month which is what we estimated before and during the grow and what we have determined to be running costs for out setup.

$283 dollars per month for the grow. Is this correct? Does anyone else see this kind of cost on their electric bills for similar watt usages? How about the guys using the 400w, 600w or even 1000w HPS? It's just hard for me to believe it costs this much. Can you just confirm this for me?

pics of the setup are in my signature. is there any way that having that many power strips being used or maybe the little socket adapters are sapping a ton of energy?? during the 6 hours off, the timer just cuts all power to the strips so they aren't taking any idle power.

My buddy's energy is usually $30 plus or minus ten, but since the grow started, just in the last two months, it's up over $300, almost $400. Literally 10x more than it has been. My question is why the HELL is it costing so much? Here's a breakdown of what we have running: 12x 27w daylights...

My friend's mom is coming to stay in our hydro-grow room for a week starting mid April then his dad comes for two weeks in May. The whole condo reeks on the main floor cause we're growing in the guest closet with the closet doors wide open (have to control heat). Moving our plants into someone...

I was reading about becoming a caregiver and the site where you register says caregivers will be compensated for supplies and costs as well as for their time. Does anyone basically know how much a caregiver makes? Does it just go by hours spent taking care of the plants or do the caregivers...

Currently I am using Ionic Grow in my DWC and have almost gone through the entire one liter bottle. Before I go back to the hydro store to get more nutes, what do you use/reccomend for hydro application? Is there a hard water version?

I just found a thread about stupid questions and posts from this site, but people were getting offended so they closed it. What are some of the stupidest things you've heard in person or from google/yahoo answers/other sites? I'll start off with a few from my noob friend that is "helping" us...

The babies were getting a little crowded so we spent all night figuring out a solution and collecting supplies. We figured this setup would give them more room and depending on how many end up being male, we could have 2 in the little tubs and 3 in the bigger tubs. Planning on starting LST...

I'm never sure if I should believe everything I hear from someone trying to sell me something, but maybe there is some truth in what the local hydro store guy said. While showing me his $79.99 TDS meters, he said I could get a cheap one online from China that won't work properly or break, but I...

Had a little nute burn/overwater issue that is hopefully resolved the past few days. Took two inches of water out so the water wasn't touching the rockwool directly since we have long roots to soak up water now. The babies have perked up significantly since then but seem a bit crispy still and...

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I've also noticed mineral deposits on the hydroton and rockwool and think I might have hard water. Since I'm not using hardwater nutes, could this cause the problems I'm seeing? Really need help figuring out what to do here!:wall:

they are in DWCs. they were on 1/4 nutes for a week, full nutes for two days, 2/3rd nutes for the rest of that week and now 1/2 nutes for a day. i don't think i can overwater them and i think changing the water = flushing? i have two 1 foot long bubble sticks in each tub powered by a 100...

this is pretty urgent, they are getting worse by the day and i only have another hour with them until tomorrow afternoon!:o

stepped down from full nutes to half nutes and they're still getting worse! i'm getting really worried about them. temp, ph, venting, everything seems to be fine. is it possible that using 5000k CFLs is causing this? I can't imagine what else is really out of order. my nutes are Ionic Grow which...

Thanks Nick, I'll def. do that. I wish I was a caregiver and I could just grow at home without worrying about getting caught.