I’m curious… did the resurrection of the thread make you decide to move forward, or was it just pure coincidence? This thread was dead for over a year lol.
Pretty cool how you’re tinkering around with automating and sharing your scripts n such. Way outside of my abilities currently
@vo_o that’s looks awesome man currently using node-red on the raspberry to tie everything together it’s designed in such a way anyone can do it I’m trying to find someone that can laser cut me some enclosures so I can get this one all finished up … but yeah I definitely want to pick your brain on a few things on this… As far as like a
10A relay
I presume we can run
2 315cfl bulbs
1 600w MH
1 600w HPS
I’m using 16G wiring into the relays I want to build this to be spot on with like UL standard so there is no issues with her while AFT
AFT = away from tent lol
@ChronicMcBudz yes very very long painstakingly process so currently I have cleaned up wiring and soldered my connections solid
So basically original design back to the original design lol I guess I was overthinking the project 
Very nice work, vo_o. I’m starting to suspect that you have a significantly larger range of knowledge and skill based on your description than you’ve been letting on. “nodes”, “Matlab”, “worried about dynamic range”, etc… This is some serious deep diving and integration…humble to boot. Beautiful work.
you can quickly do the math with watts and gauge like this (i presume youre american, by the gauge measure of wires):
power = voltage x amperage (current)
max power for that relay = 120V x 10 = 1200W or 1.2 kW
your demand = 2 x 600 watts + 2 x 315 watts = 1830 watts
my recommendation = 2 relays, on each 1 600w and 1 315w lamp, so total is 915w and safe under max 1200w of power that relay can take… if those are lights for different rooms, so spacially your 600w and 315w lights are divided by some distance, i would put 600w on each relay to avoid putting 2 x 600w lamps on relay (maxing out), and 2 x 315 on one, so in total 3 relays… always rate your fuses and relays to be higher than you need…
about wire, eh, you americans are special… you will see numbers as low as 3.7 amperes, but that is over conservative imho, and here i found this chart: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wire-gauges-d_419.html that says 15 A which has more sense for me, but if you can tell me from what state you are i can find the right gauge needed… anyway, if we follow that last number, which is also around same number that is used in Europe standards, you can use that wire for devices up to 1800w, but again, that is maximum, and i would recommend keeping this up to 1500w… how does this help you? well, for your total power usage, you need at least 2 power outlets (check edit), and to have 2 relays, on each 1 x 600w bulb and 1 x 315w bulb, or, you have 3 relays, on one outlet 1 relay with 1 x 600w, on second outlet 2 relays, one has 1 x 600w and other one has 2 x 315w bulbs… does this make sense? if you can tell me how you will power this (how much outlets you have), i can make a diagram for you and give you some tips with wiring (if you have only one color, you can still use it, but you have to mark each positive and negative etc.)
edit: i just saw your rig, give me a sec to check it out… i was wrong about outlet number, somehow got mixed up in my head about it, i would need to know what is maximum power draw trough your outlet, maybe you can draw all the power from one if your circuit supports it, but you would need to go to your breaker room and find the one for the room and outlet youll connect it to, so i can tell you more…
edit nr. 2: ok, like that you have 4 relay board, im gonna draw something fast…
I’d like to suggest to those who are doing the serious DIY in the embedded space to take a look at Nvidia’s Jetson offerings, as well. These are next level up. They would take a bit more effort at integration.
But they also open up a range of possibilities and have significantly greater compute power than the arduinos and PI’s of the world. Combine this with the ‘node’ concept and you have a whole new world of flexibility.
Here’s a new term to consider, sensing “motes” then onto “smart motes”…
i know right, it makes me itching for AI, computer vision, and all that, but even what i want is kinda out of my scope, maybe for next milestone… 
<3
AI += predictive analytics and inference. It’s truly amazing what is happening in this space.
Oh, yeah. It’s a metric ton of work to get everything going, no doubt.
In the community, we’ll be getting there … eventually. I have some baseline projects leaning in that direction, at least with the analytics, that should show up here at some point.
@Northern_Loki thats why i intended to make a system with a lot of sensors, to have data ready for AI, and to have users with a lot of data for AI, but i aint going there… really, i need to sort basics of grow box first…
@ct2003viper ok, i think im done here… i wrote here what i think should be changed:
and here how:
i forgot to wrote, your system is using about 15.5 A, so from one source i saw, your 16 gauge is enough cause its rated for 22 amperes inside cabinets, but in europe its rated for 15 only, and since its main power income, going with 14 gauge for those 2 wires that are coming from male socket to that clamp is better imho, but not necessary…
also, this is how your cable should look at that clamp terminals:
so that it has good contact with terminal and good mechanical grip…
if you want, you can open usb power supply for raspi, and connect it there also (or just plug in one of the sockets from outside and bring that in)
all in all, you “can” even leave it as it is, but i wouldnt recommend it, only thing you must do is to connect ground wires please… <3
edit: sorry, i think i sorted this out now, it says here:
16 gauge should be ok inside cabinet, and 12 gauge 3-core cable from your socket to your cabinet, something like this:
last edit (i swear): please make sure your circuit breaker (fuse) for your outlet is rated for 18-20 ampere, 16 ampere could flip your circuit breaker (flip/break your fuse)
Absolutely perfect! Thank you now I have an open relay from that layout 
so far now 12g alittle over kill
Getting neutral wire today to wrap up this part just ordered the
aux female connectors
Cable glands
And the extension cord
Waiting for this lady to get back to me about the darn laser cutting!!!
dunno how this happened, but it seems i edited this post instead of new one, so ill tag you… @ct2003viper hey, also make sure your breaker (fuse) is rated for 18 ampere minimum, it means your wires inside your walls are rated as such also, it would make me sleep lil bit easier knowing that this is a circuit with a breaker, and that it is with a rated one for your needs… first time i do electrical work online, usually electrician will point you to your local electrician, cause of burning house and stuff, i have my concerns… btw good job on making sure isolation is all the way to the connecting points, i forgot to mention that, cause im used to doing these things by myself and its kinda in my reptilian brain…
Well guys been a while but this is it still mustering up more fail safe crap I’ll be installing a temperature sensor inside the box as a fail safe if things were to fail and overheat… also it’s pretty much plugged into GFI outlets only as another backup …
So the original project was basically a wired in temperature humidity sensor we have gone with a ESP8266 with a Bosch sensor and a secondary as a DHT22 both are reading different readings so I don’t know which one to trust lol But I thought I’d upload some pictures and let you guys see what’s up sorry for the long wait Hope everybody’s doing with all this covid crap going on
Love to all! And blessings from our family to yours 
Very nicely done my friend
Paps
Clean execution, great wire management!
Cheers
G
getting closer and closer to almost complete 
Just got this guy in India helping me out man he is FANTASTIC ! super fast coding we are going to implement next a time laps and possibly where you can access outside your network 
still debating because then its vulnerable to the public so i skeptical … especially the live camera feed …
What are you using for stats?
Have you checked out Prometheus.io and Grafana? Both opensource tools to work with time series…
Hi bro
Now that’s hi tech
Looks like it would keep you up to date
Paps
@LemonadeJoe this is all done within node red and
MQTT services for the updates on temp/humidity
Home Assistant i have as a main server in the garage collecting data if the control box reboots always a backup…
as you can see the temps what one is actually in use 
other one is sitting on top of the desktop monitoring the computer lol I do love grafan there graph way more in depth i wish i could incorporate onto node possibly make a cleaner landing page for all the settings …
Co2 is next… currently on for 10min off for 50…
—> need sensor to maintain 500PPM or more … and before lights turn on a blast of 1000PPM something
im still up in arms about the watering system setup…
@Papalag keeping up to date is a must im horrible with that. 4 thumb tacked white board to a wall is what i been using lol already fell once and broke the corner of it… now it contains 2 more tacks to stabilize it.
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I was just piecing together something like this myself, happy to stubble upon your project. I understand very little of the programming so it’s nice to see someone with the same hardware accomplish the same things I hope to! Good job so far.
