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Pidgeon
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It doesn't jam any signal. It is a material similar to mylar that blocks the heat from being seen on IR cameras. There would be none to small heat signatures by using the material, so it is doubtful that they would be able to detect that you are using anything to block it. It doesn't operate like a radar detector for your car. Oh, and here is a link to where you can get some.
Discount Hydroponics - Block-IR
Discount Hydroponics - Block-IR
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I am wondering I am new here but I have been into tropical fish forever and we use alot of the same lights on planted and reef tanks as you guys use for growing so if they really were to raid everyone who has heat inside there house or a high electric bill alot of fish geeks would be getting raided witch I have never heard off. just a thought.
DR. VonDankenstine
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Stick with one strain---easy to maintain and feed----personal recommendation is the sweet god----short, fast growth with very good yield-----run your veg cycle 2 weeks longer for max weight-even with the extra two weeks you will finish under 65 days in flowering.
DR. VonDankenstine
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The T5's are not going to get you through flowering and since you will be running such big trees the 600 wont do it either(you would need 16+ units anyway) it would be a minimum and you would probably see some running(airy buds) but you could get away with 8 1000's---to save you a pile of cash I would get a HID FOOTPRINT, that would allow you to split the room into 2 12 hour cycles and you would only have to purchase half as many ballasts as lights used
DR. VonDankenstine
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I want to save all my growing buddies some major cash so here's the deal on this so called----Block-IR film that some hydro companies and a lot of retailers are pushing on us for as much as $400.00 a roll. The stuff does work very well but it wasn't designed by a hydro company or growers for the purpose of blocking IR. It was designed as a radiant heat barrier for attics(insulation) under the brand name "REFLECTIX". You can readily pick the stuff up at LOWES/HOMEDEPOT/TRUEVALUE for 1/4 the price of what even the cheapest Internet sites sell it for. I picked mine up on sale at LOWES for 19.95 a roll(4'x25' roll, the same stuff Discount Hydroponics sells for 79.95). I did a good size room floor to ceiling for under 160.00(8rolls 4'x25'). spread the news!!!-----tell them DR. VonDankenstine sent ya.
Hydro Wholesale offers Wholesale Hydroponics, HPS and MH Grow Lights, HydroWholesale hydroponic Supp: Thermal & Poly Shields $80 for 350 square feet of thermal shield... even shows the before and after images with an IR camera. Edit: it also shows the heat signals from mylar and poly shield.
Oh yea and at HTGSupply you can get 600 square feet of mylar for $40. Heres the link (High Tech Garden Supply)
Pidgeon
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+reps for you. I am going to go to my local Lowes today and pick some of this up.
skunkstarxxx
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get an UFO LED light ...no heat signature - problem solved
Pidgeon
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Hahaha. And hardly any buds to smoke either. How many times do you have to tell people that LEDs are terrible grow lights for mj. You would need a ridicules amount of LEDs before you even come close to getting the same yields as even a 250w hps.
GregNak
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haha my buddy got one of those about 6 months ago, it is now collecting dust on the shelf in his room...it was cool at first until the final product was finished, smoke wasnt bad but size was terrible, all was looking good in veg but come flower the weight just never got packed on
moler
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iv had bad expieriance with t5's, if you wont big fat dank nuds, use 3 400w hps with 3 430w bulbs with blue spec....i saw this on a dvd and it works brilliant m8ty, with u sayin u gotta be carefull cos of IR camara, take it ur in usin attack or an upstairs bedroom, if you are spend that extra £300 and buy reflective plaster boards and box in ur room, this will stop any lite penetration, all you gotts to worry about then is heat control....you gunna get jacksy with t5's dunt matta wether u use the best nuts in the world and the best hydro system in the universe....t5's just dont work for flower, i use 4 duel bulb 4ft flores for my veg room and it's brilliant, then in my 8ft x 4ft flower room i use 3 x 400w hps with 430w blue spec bulbs....my last crop with widow made me nearly 2keys of dank bud....if you wonna get big, u gotta use big and spend big....just my input, but it awaste of ime, money, nuts, power with t5's...
moler
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Black Light
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WOW thanks for the info on the IR Blocking.
hugetom80s
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Just because you block heat doesn't mean it goes away. Heat (IR) is a form of energy and can't be created or destroyed, but rather simply converted from one form to another just as your lights convert electricity into light and heat.
If your box is totally encased in IR blocking materials that energy is just trapped in the box. It heats things up inside, meaning you up your air circulation (or whatever) to cool it off, which in turn ejects the waste heat some other way - like out the air exhaust. A big bright plume of hot air outside your house might look like a clothes dryer is running, but if the cops notice it seems to run for most of the day every day they're going to wonder just how much laundry you're doing.
And if the air exits the box into some other part of your house you're just going to heat it up instead. If you can spread it out over a wide enough area that can make it less obvious, but my point is that simply blocking heat doesn't make it go away. If it it's being allowed to radiate out you need to consider where it is going to go.
Ultimately the advice several people gave here is good - if your house is being thermal imaged by the cops you've already got problems that some reflective film isn't going to help much. Fix the other leaks first: light, lips, and smell. A decent reflective film should be more than enough as long as you've taken care of the other stuff that might draw unwanted attention.
If your box is totally encased in IR blocking materials that energy is just trapped in the box. It heats things up inside, meaning you up your air circulation (or whatever) to cool it off, which in turn ejects the waste heat some other way - like out the air exhaust. A big bright plume of hot air outside your house might look like a clothes dryer is running, but if the cops notice it seems to run for most of the day every day they're going to wonder just how much laundry you're doing.
And if the air exits the box into some other part of your house you're just going to heat it up instead. If you can spread it out over a wide enough area that can make it less obvious, but my point is that simply blocking heat doesn't make it go away. If it it's being allowed to radiate out you need to consider where it is going to go.
Ultimately the advice several people gave here is good - if your house is being thermal imaged by the cops you've already got problems that some reflective film isn't going to help much. Fix the other leaks first: light, lips, and smell. A decent reflective film should be more than enough as long as you've taken care of the other stuff that might draw unwanted attention.
Blow4Life
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I just bought these water cooled fans that I think will work great for getting rid of heat. They have these little rings on them that make the air cooler by putting the water in the air. I'm not sure how they'll work, I just bought them for the room I'm about to start building. I'll use it in my veg room with 6 1000 watt mh on parabolic reflectors. Anybody heard of these fans and how much will it increase my humidity. I have two DH's and a 22000 btu ac that I hope will help with the humidity. I got em from this company called grotek. They're used for cooling barns and warehouse with animals. Just wondering if anyone has heard of anything like this before?
F4o12te
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U must b talking about D-day. yeh liv in miai tooo i duno how tha fuk they r finding all these fuking houses....it must b more than snitching...
F4o12te
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Ive herd about the hellicopters but i know of(not any in miami but in the NE) instances where they have found houses with infered and supreem court deemed it illegal...i dot hav the link on hand guna hav research if u dont beleive me...but w\e i dont care if they can use it in court or not its still a tool they use.
"It can cost more than $4,000 a pound and hard-to-detect indoor operations can produce four harvests a year."
"Authorities said there's an epidemic of indoor marijuana cultivation in Florida run by organized crime groups."
i'm seeing hard to detect. i'm seeing "organized crime". what i'm not seeing is heat seeking helicopters.YouTube - Psycho complains to city about "rogue helicopter pilot"
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