Guinea pig heater - UK news

[BET]

So I searched on here at the time, but didn't find anything related when using the term 'guinea pig', so after a few more days I thought I'd ask here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-12169711

Its about a woman who had the po po come knocking because of a heli snapping a heat source in her garage. Turned out to be a guinea pig heater. My question is how hot does something have to be in order to cause the authorities concern, if they happen to scan your house from a helicopter?

I'm growing in my attic, and at present have a tiny 150W HPS with ballast, but it still gets warm. Although I'm not concerned about that, I'm interested to know whether something like a 400W HPS and its ballast would show up like? An attic isn't something you generally have much if any electrical heat sources coming from.


I guess the answers will point out that if you cool your equipment properly, you shouldn't have any worries.


Thoughts?


Cheers

BET

 

[GrassRoots]

There are tons of threads on heat signature on here, just search. The cameras police use take a surface temperature reading they can't see through walls. So this lady's garage roof was probably hotter than the roof of her house making the police think there was a significant source of heat in the garage, which there was. Your attic grow will be fine with either of those wattages, I don't think 400w is a significant source of heat, insulate the grow, and circulate the rest of the air in your attic with a box fan or something and I'm sure that your roofs surface temperature won't be much hotter than your neighbors.

 

[BET]

Thanks man, I didn't think about searching for heat signature, I searched to see whether that article had been posted.

Cheers

BET

 

[HighDesertJoe]

I thought we where going to be talking about Guinea pig farming. I know there Good to BBQ

 

[GoldenSilence]

I thought we where going to be talking about Guinea pig farming. I know there Good to BBQ

Hahaha i used to have a portuguese lady who'd come in once a week to clean for me. She was always eyeing my sisters guinea pigs. According to her, finger licking good