What cools your lights?

If you can 'hood' or 'cool tube' your lights, that'll take off a big load off the air conditioner.
Especially the HPS... they love to give off heat.

Do you *have* to run the humidifier 24/7?
Can't you set it on high for one-two hours, two times per day?
Same thing for the air cleaners.

And, why the ozone generator if you have the carbon air filters?
Try it out with the generator OFF, and see if the carbon air scrubber can handle it.
If it can't... oh well.

WOW!
Lighting bolt!

You use a humidifier?!
Well, ergo, that would mean you have low humidity.

"Swamp coolers" work very good in low-humidity.
They consume MUCH less energy than an air conditioning unit, and they can drop the air temperatures considerably.
Wiki swamp coolers to see what I'm talking about.
eBay has shitloads of them.

They won't replace your a/c unit, but if it can take off a 4,000BTU load off your a/c, that's less electricity consumption from you.

You can buy a 'Kill A Watt' to measure exactly how much electricity everything consumes.
Then do an Excel sheet, punch in the hours, and you can get creative really fast.

Finally, try and run the house as "energy efficient" as possible... CFLs everywhere... etc.

Hope that helps!

-turtle420
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turtle420 Reviewed by turtle420 on . Holy electric bill!!!! Hey again my friends. I'm a little concerned; I just received my first electric bill with my whole setup going -- cloning, vegging and flowering at the same time and my normally (non-growing) electric bill is about $200 a month with the central air going.... the one I just got was $550!!! I nearly dropped a load in my shorts. I have a t-5 in the clone room, full spectrum flourecents in the veg room - with fans, humidifiers and air cleaners going 24-7; and in the flower room - ozone Rating: 5