Comes a Time, First Grow, Please Step Inside -- 2000 watt Sour Diesel

i have the same problem razz. My electricity is hooked up through extension chords and i dont have enough power left to run a cell phone charger if i wanted to. this can be a big problem because certified electricians charge alot and un-certified electricians will burn your house down which cost 10x more money. if you cant move to a room that has more amps running to it you might be able to switch the breakers in your fuse box from say 15 amps to 30 amps. this is dangerous because the wires under your house might not be able to bring that much electricity to the room, which is why you need a certified electrician to make shure. if you have house insurance an electrical fire wouldnt be covered unless everything was done with certified electricians.


my 2 cents would be to go to your fuse box, see which breakers are marked with highest amps and find which part of the house those breakers are for. if you need to stay in the room your in you will probably need an electrician or a $100 - 500 extension chord. hope this helps.

Well, taking air out of your room is called an exhaust and bringing it in is called an intake. In my room with 2K right now I just have a Dayton blower as an intake bringing in cool air in from out side and it is working fine, will need to change things around in the summer, but for now it is fine.
Well as far as your light, you can run a heavy duty extension cord to a plug in that is not on the same breaker as your bathroom plugs and you should be fine, for instance, try running a plug from the living room or a hall way plug. Just make sure that the extension cord you get is rated for about 1300W and I would plug it into a power strip because if the light starts to pull to much electric then the power strip will just trip the on and off button and you don't have to get into your breaker box and mess with anything.
Hope this helps.

So, blue... right now I have a closed circuit with cool air coming from outside going through the hoods into the attic. So now I need to set up the exhaust system with the Dayton blower? I was thinking I would get a carbon filter, and with the blower, push the air through the carbon filter and then into the attic as well (great another six inch hole lol) I am open to extension cords, but that is just painfully obvious that you are growing herb in a room when an extension cord goes right in there (I am trying to keep this a secret obviously)

Right now I have an extension cord going from the bathroom into the room (its one of those with a power strip included) I do not believe it's geared up for 1300watts, however it's been working just fine for the last 2-3 days -- I would assume it would continue to? My buddy said it should be able to handle the 1000 watt lamp just fine without risk of fire.

Unfortunately I do need to stay in this room, changes really can't be made for the time being. I wish I knew the room would not be able to handle the two lamps with fans, I would have hired an electrition right off the bat, and put that into my budget, now I have marijauna plants in the room, and lack the budget to do so =(

You can vent into the attic, it will help to suck any unwanted heat out as well as the smell, and some growers just put the carbon filter right in the grow room along with the fan and that works to.
Perhaps you can run a extention coard up into the attic threw another part of the hous and then run it down into the grow room threw the attic??
Good luck.
Adieu

Blue, yeah that's what I am looking into, trying to run a cord through the attic and then into the room...

Now now I have the circuit open, so no air is being pushed directly through the hoods, but my temps seem to be fine.. perhaps I can get away without intake during the winter eh?

Now = right now

remember Razz, the longer the extension cord the more electricity you will be sucking. if your cable is a standard 1250w orange extension cord which has a gage rating at around 16 you will only be able to run one light and one fan or so. if you got a wire from a different location i.e. your power box that had a gage rating of 8 you could probably run your whole setup off of one cord.
it also depends on the length of the distantce or cord. a 16 gage cord under 50 ft will give you ruffly 1650w where a 16 gage cord over 50ft will only give you 1250w. if your stoned like i am you might have to read this twice. hope any info helps.

Thanks for the information santacruz. I'm leaving town on the 18th for nine days, blows because I start to flower tomorrow eeech! I have a friend who will be stopping by the house to make sure all is well but I wish I could be around for this exciting time. I just went to the hydro store to grab some stuff and they told me the easiest fix is to hook up a thirty amp box through the washer and dryer outlet. It sounds like you just put two breaker boxes in between the dryer/washer outlet, and the box is actually in the room. He said I could even step up to four hundred watts in the room with the 30 amp box. Anyone have experience with this? Thanks all!

Quick problem I wanted to post... some slight curling of top leaves... the curling is from the middle and the sides of the leaves curl up into each other... anyone know what the problem is? I had a calcium diff. before, and I'm thinking maybe this is it again? Will cal-mag help all diff's? I will try to post pictures later on.

P.S Problem is on newest plant growth.