Amoeba
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In about a month or so I will be moving so size of room(s) are still undetermined.
I picked up 5 1k lights off CL early last year with 4 cooltubes and 1 hood for a killer deal, along with other misc equipment they've been in storage waiting patiently until I move as my last 2 living situations have not allowed me to grow.
What I want to do / Thinking about doing:
Perpetual, 2 rooms of 2k watts on a flip flop with the extra 1k being backup or for veg if electrical will allow it.
In my head I'm thinking of building an 8x8x? flower room inside a room or garage where ever I move and splitting that into 2, 4x8 areas contained in the 8x8x? room. A few of the houses I've looked at have the washer and dryer in the garage and I think that might be my best bet and just buy a pre made flip flop online to plug into the 240 there, no extension cords needed really. The downside of the garage is that in the summer here it gets over 115+ temps, garage would have to be insulated very well. I have seen a few houses here with the bedrooms closer to the washer and dryers which might be another option assuming I could run VERY short extension cords? If that's a bad idea please chime in lol.
If I was forced to use a bedroom, away from the larger circuit I think I would run into issues and have to downsize. Asking you guys what do you think my best option is here? I haven't bought ventilation or cooling yet as I'm pretty far away from firing these lights up. Those 3ton split ACs are sexy and I'm sure worth the $2k investment but initially I will not be able to afford that unless I come up on a killer deal on craigslist again.
Tents are an option as well I'd just rather build something out of wood or poly plastic instead of forking out the $$ for two 4x8s. On the other hand this will be a rental in a non medical state and the ability to tear down a tent as opposed to 2x4s and plywood is an attractive idea and I'm totally open to it if my budget allows and you guys think that would be a better option.
There are endless ways to do this I'm sure. Open to any and all ideas here you guys have seen and done it all over the years, enlighten me a little please!
Growers with 4k watts doing 2k perpetuals please show me some love here!
I picked up 5 1k lights off CL early last year with 4 cooltubes and 1 hood for a killer deal, along with other misc equipment they've been in storage waiting patiently until I move as my last 2 living situations have not allowed me to grow.
What I want to do / Thinking about doing:
Perpetual, 2 rooms of 2k watts on a flip flop with the extra 1k being backup or for veg if electrical will allow it.
In my head I'm thinking of building an 8x8x? flower room inside a room or garage where ever I move and splitting that into 2, 4x8 areas contained in the 8x8x? room. A few of the houses I've looked at have the washer and dryer in the garage and I think that might be my best bet and just buy a pre made flip flop online to plug into the 240 there, no extension cords needed really. The downside of the garage is that in the summer here it gets over 115+ temps, garage would have to be insulated very well. I have seen a few houses here with the bedrooms closer to the washer and dryers which might be another option assuming I could run VERY short extension cords? If that's a bad idea please chime in lol.
If I was forced to use a bedroom, away from the larger circuit I think I would run into issues and have to downsize. Asking you guys what do you think my best option is here? I haven't bought ventilation or cooling yet as I'm pretty far away from firing these lights up. Those 3ton split ACs are sexy and I'm sure worth the $2k investment but initially I will not be able to afford that unless I come up on a killer deal on craigslist again.
Tents are an option as well I'd just rather build something out of wood or poly plastic instead of forking out the $$ for two 4x8s. On the other hand this will be a rental in a non medical state and the ability to tear down a tent as opposed to 2x4s and plywood is an attractive idea and I'm totally open to it if my budget allows and you guys think that would be a better option.
There are endless ways to do this I'm sure. Open to any and all ideas here you guys have seen and done it all over the years, enlighten me a little please!
Growers with 4k watts doing 2k perpetuals please show me some love here!
