FAQ! How To Save Electricity whilst growing! Or just lower your power bill!

[socialistpete]

If anything saving electricity is a better safe then sorry analogy. If you can help prevent it, you might as well.

And its great for the enviroment!

[sleepless]

cant you just turn stuff off at the socket? do you really have to unplug? dont fancy shoving the washing machine arount to do that, and what about the oven? thoes are wired into the mains.

[faithlessxxx]

Yeah great, now my printers broken after being turned off and on once with a timer...:wtf:

[Shovelhandle]

Retired electrician here. I've done many lighting (efficiency) upgrades in factories over the years as technology moved up. I've been using CFLs in the home for a few years now. I did our church's lighting upgrade to 200W CFLs this past year. They do work really well. My home electrical use went down quite a bit, until I started indoor growing. This present crop I am using the flourescent lighting exclusively. My impression is that the HPS lights worked very well but the plants that were under flourescent only did just as well. We'll see.

Shovelhandle

[4x5]

Just using cfls (13w in most sockets here) has offset the cost of my grows completely(lights that is), now I just wish it would warm up so I didn't need a space heater in the room.

[Tomthehippie]

Im still surprised not more people do things like this to lower the electricity usage! it just makes a huge difference for such littler extra work or money.

[KL4D4]

So having to wait 2 seconds for a light to reach its maximum brightness is too long? Slow down people.

[dusto2k3]

Yeah great, now my printers broken after being turned off and on once with a timer...:wtf:

Are you kidding me, why would you put that on a timer???? Did you put your PC on the timer too?

[Tomthehippie]

yea man! my pc uses as much power as a 600w hps when on when off it still uses alot of watts.

[GaGrown]

It depends on what your pc is running.. Some run at over 1000 watts.But your right! One can be equal to or even greater than a 600 watter.

Ga Grown!