When my plants were seedlings I stuck them in a little cupboard with led lights and I didn't notice change in my electricity price, but ide assume proper lights would cost more, as when I see homes raided on TV
, they always have hot wired electricity, I know that's a different scale from my 3 but just saying, so electricity must be high for proper equipment, as most people here can afford electricity normally
Doesn't matter what kind of equipment, a watt is a watt, it costs the same no matter the device using it. A 600 watt led by definition uses the same amount of power as a 600 watt hps. Im not suggesting the op convert their entire home into one big grow operation with dozens of lights so I don't think any hot wiring would be necessary. I have 8 grow lights going in my basement for veg and flower equaling just under 3000 watts, they cost less than $100/month to run and didn't require any sketchy electrical setup.When my plants were seedlings I stuck them in a little cupboard with led lights and I didn't notice change in my electricity price, but ide assume proper lights would cost more, as when I see homes raided on TV
a small led you won't but plug a 600w Hps in and you can watch the money tick down . Don't hot wire lol
It's how efficient the light can produce for the watage it's uses that's why you get equivalent watt for led and Hps are in lux lumens and not . Also Hps produces a lot wasted heat the led can put most energy into producing light . So a watt is never a watt comparing Hps to led
I would never hot wire
, I wouldn't even know how too
