Sticky - Thanks for the comments.

Four 1000's does sound like a lot of lights in such a small space, but most of the experienced growers seem to not go over 5'x5' max per 1,000w lamp. I'm hoping some of the old pros will chime in here and add some input but this board has been really dead for about the last week. ...maybe they all harvest at the same time??????

The temperature where I live is well into the 100's during the summer months, so air conditioning is a must even before the heat from the lamps. I'll just build an a/c unit into the wall and control it with a thermostat. Building the room is the least of my worries, 'cuz I'm a construction kinda guy, and really the cobstruction cost isn't all that much compared to the equipment one has to buy.

My home has a three-car garage, as do all the other homes in my neighborhood. Many of the residents here have built offices, shops, etc. in part of their garage, almost exactly like I'm doing, so there will be nothing conspicous or unusual about what I'm doing. I was married when I bought this home and got divorced about a year later. My former wife, in her parting "fuck you", told a couple of her neighborhood girlfriends that I beat her and that I was once tried for child molestation. None of that is true, but truth seldoms stands in the way of good gossip. LOL After that, the neighbors around here, while remaining cordial, never did get really friendly... never hostile, just never really sure enough that they wanted their kids around my house - and I can't say I blame them because, when it comes to our children, "better safe than sorry" is the only way to go - and that actually suits me just fine because now no one around here knows anything at all about my business and I don't have any kids playing and snooping around. Bottom line I guess is that my major stealth requirement is to keep my mouth shut about what I'm doing.

My grow will be in strict compliance with the California Compassionate Care Act and will be 100% legal under California law. The grow will be small enough that I doubt it would attract any attention from the Feds. There's a trend in SoCal for big-time growers to rent houses in the 3,000 - 4,000 square foot size range and then fill the entire house with one or two thousand plants. and completely automated hydro systems. They've been taking down about one of these houses a month for the past several months. Interestingly, I haven't read of any arrests, only the houses get popped, not the growers. But the growers that have been identified, or named, have all been foreign nationals and there's around 8 million illegal aliens in California and there's such an evolved infrastructure for illegals to change identities that the growers will just disappear and re-emerge as someone else.

In one of the largest operations to be taken down, the main suspects were identified as a Chinese man name Wang and a Korean named Park. ROFLMAO There's about 100million Chinese named Wang; next to Kim, Park is the most common surname in Korea; and, 99% of Americans couldn't tell the difference between a Korean and a Chinese anyway. So good fucking luck sorting those two "suspects" out.

Enough of my rambling...