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DrBudGreengenes · #8 (**permalink**) 06-08-2007, 12:25 PM

I make all my own power up here on the "Hill" Solar ,Wind...(I build mine from a volvo disc brake) and a back-up Genny....you can only count on "Good Solar" power 4 hours per day unless you are in the desert in AZ....I have 22 L16's and that is not enuff to run a HID grow with all the bells and whistles.....How many Battries are ya' gonna have in yer' bank?
And also ya' might wanna think CFL's.......Inverters and HID ballasts don't like each other.....I learned that the hard way
Good Luck ....Bro

#8 (permalink) 06-08-2007, 12:25 PM
DrBudGreengenes "The Red-Eyed Jedi" Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 892	I make all my own power up here on the "Hill" Solar ,Wind...(I build mine from a volvo disc brake) and a back-up Genny....you can only count on "Good Solar" power 4 hours per day unless you are in the desert in AZ....I have 22 L16's and that is not enuff to run a HID grow with all the bells and whistles.....How many Battries are ya' gonna have in yer' bank? And also ya' might wanna think CFL's.......Inverters and HID ballasts don't like each other.....I learned that the hard way Good Luck ....Bro __________________ Dr. Bud Greengenes, D.M.C. A.K.A "The Red-Eyed-Jedi" "He Is Your Friend, Your Partner, Your Defender, Your Dog.......You Are His Life, His Love, His Leader.....He Will Be Yours, Faithful, And True...To The Last Beat Of His Heart......You Owe It To Him To Be Worthy Of Such Devotion" ............... "Qui me amat.......Amet et Canus meum." http://forum.grasscity.com/advanced-...-per-week.html CFL's SOG.... Off-Grid Grow