It's really fucked up and it pisses me off. 16 cops?! Are you kidding me? Spending all that tax money on choppers and SIXTEEN cops, for fucks sake solve some crimes instead.Every electronic device has an electronic signature just like a fingerprint or a snowflake, but now there are regulated power supplies available out there you can purchase that are electrical current conditioners and can be used to power sensitive lab equipment or expensive computer servers with a constant amount of regulated power. Some electronics can be damaged by power spikes or shortages in the current so these are readily available as a solution. A regulated power supply between your wall outlet & ballast of the appropriate size will disguise any electronic signature and prevent it's detection. Think buffer zone.
Damn man I really feel for you
Sorry for the rant, haha it won't help you a single bit. Keep on thinking positive thoughts and you'll soon be rolling again. A fresh start might bring something good out of it in the end
Well it's really the start-up voltage spike signature that tells them it's an HID ballast, Newer electronic ballasts that are instant on without needing the voltage spike to ignite the lamp do not have this tell tale spike issue but they have a specific frequency they operate at that is easily detected & known as well and unique to a digital HID ballast.
Right now I think the absolute safest way to grow is using high powered LED lights, less heat, no thermal signature to FLIR, not an HID ballast, less fire risk, the list goes on.
I would not run anything more than maybe 1k max on 12/12 if you live in a bad state to grow it's just too risky. Split your flower room in half or use two rooms side by side and flip/flop it if you have to run HID.
The other option is autoflowering strains, there are some really good ones now that can grow some killer buds and you can just keep the light on the whole time! But then you have heat build-up that is FLIR detectable still from an HID that must be dealt with.
Here is the safest scenario from what I can tell:
Growroom inside an air conditioned room, like a Growlab tent (top quality tent) it has IR blocking material used for reflection of light back onto the plants.
High Powered LED light (Lumigrow ES) on 24/7 - basically no detectable heat signature for FLIR to find, no 12/12 cycle. Now 350 watts or so for a personal grow should be able to go on 12/12 no problem whatsoever but if you are running several it could be an issue. Under most conditions with decent strains you should get roughly 400 hps - 600 hps results per LED mentioned. They cost more money but they last alot longer and grow some killer pot.
Autoflowering strains of your choice if you do not want to do a 12/12 cycle for extra safety, there are tons of them available from several seed companies and many grow reports on here about big yielders such as the AK-47 crosses.
This would for the most part be undetectable as long as you have a carbon filter going and nobody knows about it except for you & you alone.
Because water heaters are a resistive load while HID lamps are an inductive load. The phase characteristics of the different types of loads are the "tell" in this particular case.
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