60 watts? You mean 600? Either way its not enough to show anything. Add another person to the place and the elec usage would go up more then that.I was just wondering, does the electric company have "smart meters" and if im just running lets say 60 watts on a 12/12 schedule will i get someone knocking on my door? Im thinking of just running an empty box and putting the lights on a 12/12 just to see if it draws attention...
this may be a stupid question but i was wondering if anyone could help me out. In my room there is a plug for the dryer which is bigger than a standard outlet so im assuming its for 240volts instead of a 120volt like a normal outlet. I have 1600 watts of light i need to run and also 2 fans that pull about 640 cfm a piece. There are multiple outlets in the room a long with the larger one but i dont know if the normal sized ones will be able to support all of my equipment without blowing the circuit. If i plug my lights, ballast, fans, into a power strip, how can i convert this to plug into the big 240volt dryer outlet. Ive heard that if i could plugg all my equipment into the dryer outlet when im not using the dryer that it could successfully support all my equipment. To make a long story short ( sorry for rambling ) can anyone help me on how to plug all this stuff in or convert it to work with this dryer outlet. Is the some chord or something i can buy to convert from a 120volt to 240volt? I would like to be safe and not take the chance of plugging things into the 2 other outlets in the room and them not being able to support everything. thanks
I am putting up a shed and need to run power out to it. Say i want to have 20 amps out there, can i add http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/productdetails.aspx?sku=31481&source=GoogleBase to an empty slot on the main panel in my garage, and run my wire out to receptacles in the shed?
I disagree, if you hook onto 480, it may all be over, and if someone tries to pull you off, its probably over for them too..............No lower voltage is more dangerous than higher voltage. High voltage has tendancy to knock you away from it, lower voltage likes to hold on. Not only that there are more amps in the same load at lower voltage.
Regardless to what you think fresh water is not very conductive at all. You have to add salts or acids for conductivity. I've seen server rooms get flooded by a river and the computers just kept on chugging.
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The plug on your light has to be replaced with a 3 wire dryer plug. Or better yet replace both the plug and rec. to a standard 240 volt, 20 amp, 3 wire plug. Or get a 4" square box and cover cut off the plug and rec. and hard wire (wirenut) it in the box. or put a 20 amp 240volt switch in the box with a raised cover switch platethis is a picture of a 240volt dryer outlet like i have. My 1000 watt hps ballast and light comes with a standard 3 prong chord for a regular 120volt outlet, but my 1000 watt ballast has a switch that i can flip to adjust it to run on 240volts like you said. But how can I fit my regular 3 prong chord that comes with my light in an outlet that looks like this. i cant picture how this is supposed to work. Thanks again. View attachment 968115
No. You need a 150watt HPS ballast, cap and igniter.is it possible to straight wire a 150w hps light? I have a small ballast that I build for fluro's would it be possible to use that. I would rather straight wire it though,.
I disagree, if you hook onto 480, it may all be over, and if someone tries to pull you off, its probably over for them too..............