Quote Originally Posted by psteve
Inverters won't work.
Well, it will work for a couple of hours, then you'll see a drop off in power, and the ballasts will shut down.
You'd need an endless supply of fully charged batteries, and someone to switch them every couple hours.
OK for an emergency back up, for a couple hours, but not to run your grow continuously.
Small generators will have the same problem, only they will run out of gas even faster.
Don't waste your money.
10/4 on that but how do people get away with using all that power on there electric bill? is there another way all i was using b4 was about 1500w but i have a bigger place now and wanted to go bigger

and why does it say on the bigger ones 3000w or better that they will run 12hr continuously?