12/12 Light Spikes

princeofrtown · Apr 6, 2011

I know this questions is always asked but lets just say in theory im in a townhome and decide to run a 1200w flower tent (600w x 2), wont the electric company see my spikes of 1200w every 12 hours? i would think that 1200w everyday at the same time would be suspicious but who knows?

anyone have input on this?

veg tent is just a 200w t5 so im not worried about that...

to break it down it would be something like this
200w running 18/6
150w running 24/0 (fans)
1300w running 12/12 (flower tent with dedicated fan for lights)

too much? im not really concerned with anything besides that 1300w spike every 12 hours

hoagtech · Apr 6, 2011

Its happened before but dea has privacy protection policies that wouldnt put you under the radar unless you were pushing much more than that. Some right winged towns do regular searches for it because of lack of population though . I wouldnt be worried myself unless you were pushing 12,0000 watts

thakillagreen · Apr 6, 2011

ya thats not that much power. i wouldnt be to worried bout it you should be fine..

GottaHaveIt · Apr 6, 2011

1200W could be a tv and a computer coming on when you get home from work...if you had a big tv.

NorthernLights#5 · Apr 6, 2011

And most Electric companies plan on a home using roughly 1000w per bedroom, per day

Green Inferno · Apr 6, 2011

princeofrtown said:
I know this questions is always asked but lets just say in theory im in a townhome and decide to run a 1200w flower tent (600w x 2), wont the electric company see my spikes of 1200w every 12 hours? i would think that 1200w everyday at the same time would be suspicious but who knows?

anyone have input on this?

veg tent is just a 200w t5 so im not worried about that...

to break it down it would be something like this
200w running 18/6
150w running 24/0 (fans)
1300w running 12/12 (flower tent with dedicated fan for lights)

too much? im not really concerned with anything besides that 1300w spike every 12 hours

I was kinda concerned myself as I am starting my 1st indoor grow soon. Most, actually everyone told me
just pay my electric bill, and there should be no worries.

I thought the electricity was measured as how many kwh you used as a whole in a month, but not when you used it...
I could be wrong.

GottaHaveIt · Apr 6, 2011

Green Inferno said:
I thought the electricity was measured as how many kwh you used as a whole in a month, but not when you used it...
I could be wrong.

you get the bill for the month, they have a real-time usage graph(histogram...whatever)

Chicago Gooner · Apr 7, 2011

GottaHaveIt said:
you get the bill for the month, they have a real-time usage graph(histogram...whatever)

lol, no they don't

frankling6 · Apr 7, 2011

I always find it so funny how paranoid pot smokers are. lmao people kill me. I am the same way I have wanted to order seeds since I was 15 still haven't got the courage for it.

sniffer · Apr 7, 2011

life is short ,,

12/12 Light Spikes

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