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You won't see the start-up spikes using the digital ballast. That serves as your isolation transformer between the lamp and your ammeter.I use digital ballast, and my lighting controller has an ammeter, I am not seeing these huge spikes of power consumption upon startup that many here are talking about.
As of now has anyone heard of people actually being busted for their power signature?
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But it is simple to write an app that will scan records and find places that have a large change that happens at same time everyday with a person to weed those down to ones that the cops might be interested inI don't think so. There are a lot of varibles in play when it comes to the amount of electricity a home can use, which should make it difficult to target you soley based on your load patterns. Additionally not every grower runs the same set up so each individual garden will have a unique load. Add that to central A/C, a plasma tv or two each one uses about the same power as a 400W light, computers, DVRs, XBox, PS3 etc and since your garden won't always being running while nothing else is, the load on the whole house will vary based on what other appliances you're using when your garden is drawing power.
There are so many reasons to have a higher electric bill than your neighbor that power use alone can't be used to obtain probable cause.
It depends on the rate you pay for electric. I have it good. I live in a 2000 square foot house and run two small tents. My bill for the whole house is under $100 most months.dang you guys were ruthless to doogle. i got a question about my setup and since theres so manyseasoned growers on this thread im hoping ill get a straight answer. next week ill be buying the Mortgage Lifter Grow Tent. My question is about what that type of system will do to my current electrical bill. i pay around 100-160 a month now. I read all the other posts that say no one cares about a big bill but it seems like going from my current bill which has been pretty stable for 3 yrs to a 400% jump (just assuming) that it would cause some curiousity. let me know please.
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