When am I using too many watts?

[TheGreenFog]

Spot on. Well said. BTW, thanks for the compliment,

However, even 26K lumens of CFL is still low intensity light. Suffice it to say that a CFL lumen is not quite equal to an HPS lumen; kinda apples and applesauce.

Yea, that's kinda where I was going with that when I said the whole penetration part, but thanks for putting 2 & 2 together for me.

If you think you need a huge CFL, what you probably need is a small HPS!

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking! And even with a CFL grow, you are going to have to figure out a way to ventilate, so why not just get an HPS and ventilate that?


I went and saw some of your stuff over at GC and your set up looks very nice. I like the SOG & it's definitely nice to have a harvest every couple weeks. Welcome over here, man. We need more people who know their stuff...and actually post it.

If you haven't planned your watering system yet, flood types are the most reliable. They're mechanically simpler than most other systems and simply can't clog like systems that pump nutes through small spray or drip apertures. Much less maintenance.

I completely agree. If you haven't seen my logs, the flowering room is flood & drain, veg/mother is drip, and clones are hand watered. The problem with the drip (using the apertures) has been clogging due to using organics. Removal of the drip apertures helped, but it still clogs up and that is a disaster waiting to happen if the grow is left alone for a couple days at a time.

Watering clones isn't one of those where I've managed any automation yet.

I was recently thinking about this same thing and came up with an idea pretty much like what Pharma was saying...

Well, they make misters for misting people outdoors. The technology exsts, you just need to adapt it. I bet if you set something up in a medium sized aquarium tank you could have a little rain forest for your clones.

I was thinking about just setting up a small res and pump with a little mister hitting the top of the cloning dome (for a small # of clones) an then raining down on them. But hell if Al B. didn't just remind me about watering the individual rockwool cubes. That would require flooding or dripping like he said...shoot...well, on goes the saga. I'm going to smoke a nice Hashplant/Northern Lights joint I have ready and rolled and ponder it s'more.



So, do we call this thread officially hijacked now??? lol


The Fog :rastasmoke:

TheGreenFog Reviewed by TheGreenFog on 06-07-2007. When am I using too many watts? Using too many watts for a grow is one of the indicators that can get the police on your case. I was just wondering how many Watts a typical household uses in an hour/day. How many Watts of power before you are obviously doing something out of the norm. If anyone knows of an ways to produce Electricity without leaving a sign, post some Ideas. I thought about a Hydrogen Generator, they exist, and can be converted from existing Internal Combustion Engine, but Hydrogen Rating: 5