Electricity worries!

How much are you growing man? Sounds pretty excessive.

 

I'd be more concerned with the possibility that you likely wont be able to run that much amperage on any single circuit in that apartment... especially if any of your circuits are shared with other parts of the apartment.

Of course, if you have access to the electrical panel, etc. then you could probably make it work.

... but then theres the rest of the questions that go along with a grow that size.

Heating/Cooling efficiently, etc.

 

How about you just take it slow instead of jumpin right in to X amount of lights/fans/etc. Apts only have so much amps they can handle... and starting off like you are... is a HUGE indication you're growing. IMO, start small, maybe 1 1000 light... or hell 2 600's or 2 400's.

 

Mhm. The #1 question is how much do you know about electricity? Even the 4 600's in an apartment probably poses a serious problem, long before your consumption gets to the point of being noticeable by johnny law.

 

Well either will work. The 1000w will definitly be better but at the end of the day if your in a small flat then yeh I'm pretty confident that this will raise alarms :\ sucks hey. And phalanx is on the money about the electricity usage.

 

And you have the electrical know-how to wire new circuits, etc?

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I realize that you only want 2 specific questions answered. However, there are many vastly more experienced people here that are seeing GIANT red flags with your proposal thus far, and each additional detail provided shows you dont really know what youre getting into.

 

Spot on. With whatever you choose though, good luck

 

Yeh it'd be hard enough in a house let alone an apartment. Cops would be knocking on the door pretty quickly

 

Umm... math?

1,000 watts = 1,000 watts
4x 600 watts = 2,400 watts

Since when is 140% more 'not much more'?

Youre also talking about doing 4x 1000w in one room in the initial post... that'd be 4,000watts

Just because its on a different outlet doesnt mean its on a different circuit.

I dont know how it is in Cali, but up here in new england it is not uncommon to find apartments wired on one circuit (major appliances etc notwithstanding)

 

And there's nothing wrong with not knowing what you're getting into. Gotta start somewhere. I'm far from a growing expert, just a measly noob myself, but electricity is something I have a pretty solid grasp on and CD is dead right. The risks of setting things up wrong is too great. Best case scenerio here is that you overload the circuit and it keeps popping tyerefore your grow fails. Worse case......are there kids that live in your apartment complex? No one likes to be responsible for making a child homeless or even potentially causing their death because you set up a fire hazard.


IMO the ideal set up in your situation (or what we know of your situation) would be 2 600s in a 4x8'ish area and a separate 150-400w in a corner of the room for a veg chamber. Less potential weight per harvest but more harvests every year and less of a hazard

 

^ I agree with Jmosley 100%. You absolutely should try growing on your own. Im new as well... but this is basic electricity we're talking about here. Not exactly cannabis-specific.

We just want to make sure you're safe.

by the way... "1000 watts per room" is not something Ive ever heard of, nor can I imagine its valid. Assuming you can effectively cool/supply electricity (safely), et... you can run many 1kw lights in a single room.