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So I bought a house... it's pretty shitty, most of the plumbing was half assed, the electrical has been modified at least 3 times since 1960, and it has been a grow house before. SO... Basically, I need to totaly remodel the house, and I get to build the whole basement as a grow space... Happy Happy Joy Joy. The main room is a 45x13 monster... with easy access to the external (well, it will be external) breaker box and service line, as well as the airconditioner (s) I guess for now I am going to run 8K lights in flower, and like.. 2k in veg. (there is a separate 9x25 room for that as well). I dunno, just putting it out here for planning purposes. I already have a full fledged veg room brewing up clones mothers and ready to flower plants at my temporary spot, so thats all taken care of. I'm just going simple and doing hand watered canna coco in 15 gallon smart pots with full nutrients. Thinking vertically hung cool tubes with air cooling, a 2x4 grid of lights hung between the 3x5 grid of plants. I've come close to pound plants before, and that was with 600w horizontal reflector based lights. I am sure I can do it this time, got a great cut of Durban Poison I've run to amazing success, as well as a northern lights I am enjoying very much.
I plan on doubling this system in 3 months, and starting DD med buckets in there, while running the sure fire canna I've come to love, (don't put all your eggs in one basket).
So, I need a second service line put in, not gonna do that myself, but I could... Just gotta determine the maximum possible amperage that system would need to support itself. For now, I only need 80amps.. probably 100 after a bigger/second A/C, but I guess I should go HUGE or... well I'm already home, but I would do well to prepare for the future, so I'm not having contractors come in all the time and get jealous.
Other things... for my lights I will be using half of a CAP 16 site 80 amp control box, and I am going to pipe in nat gas for the co2 gen, with an all in one day/night sentinel co2 point set/environmental controller for that, and a bunch of 10" max fans. (got a nice air cooling system set uo through my adjoinging garage, so I'm gonna put the fans in the roof, so they are nice and quiet. Um... Thinking just painting the whole room white with Killz 2 paint, cause there was mould there before (of course I'm going to bleach and wash the whole place first.. but I'm hoping that white will be enough reflective for the purpose).
And.... Man I'm high. Thanks to reeferman's willie nelson. yay, good stuff.
Anyone been through this before? any things you regret not considering sooner? I've only been growing for 4 years (though from the begining it could have paid my living expenses, and this is now a full time profession), used industrial space before, I hate landlords so much.... not having long term security and certainty makes building these things such a pain!
Well, goonight farmers, stay classy
I plan on doubling this system in 3 months, and starting DD med buckets in there, while running the sure fire canna I've come to love, (don't put all your eggs in one basket).
So, I need a second service line put in, not gonna do that myself, but I could... Just gotta determine the maximum possible amperage that system would need to support itself. For now, I only need 80amps.. probably 100 after a bigger/second A/C, but I guess I should go HUGE or... well I'm already home, but I would do well to prepare for the future, so I'm not having contractors come in all the time and get jealous.
Other things... for my lights I will be using half of a CAP 16 site 80 amp control box, and I am going to pipe in nat gas for the co2 gen, with an all in one day/night sentinel co2 point set/environmental controller for that, and a bunch of 10" max fans. (got a nice air cooling system set uo through my adjoinging garage, so I'm gonna put the fans in the roof, so they are nice and quiet. Um... Thinking just painting the whole room white with Killz 2 paint, cause there was mould there before (of course I'm going to bleach and wash the whole place first.. but I'm hoping that white will be enough reflective for the purpose).
And.... Man I'm high. Thanks to reeferman's willie nelson. yay, good stuff.
Anyone been through this before? any things you regret not considering sooner? I've only been growing for 4 years (though from the begining it could have paid my living expenses, and this is now a full time profession), used industrial space before, I hate landlords so much.... not having long term security and certainty makes building these things such a pain!
Well, goonight farmers, stay classy
