my spare bedroom about to become a dedicated growroom it will be 10x12 all electrical will be handled by solar panels directly outside of the window as that side of the building faces south and recieves sun all day unless over cast then its a question of batteries or plug directly into wall outlets using 2 600 watt mh/hps to start with along with 5000 window ac also central ac but i think i will close off that vent and evaporater humidifier and plenty of fans for circulation and maybe a couple of carbon filters just in case i will be covering the current walls with mylar (pics to come) as you can see the floor is has carpet to solve that i will use vivosun 8x4 tent floors currently i am growing a plant in the closet of the larger bedroom to get the environmental parameters worked out and dialed in as you can see from the brightness in the window plenty of solar shine and its only 1 pm ac in the window now 5000 btu should do it
Hope all enjoy my adventure!
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will be a good one to watch. what will you be growing?
some indica some sativa strains probably autoflower for a while i need to get my stash back up
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i run my grow off solar as well, keep in mind that you may find grid coupled panels much more reliable. i tried doing an offgrid type thing and my batteries were not able to keep up with the lamps current draw
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Your looking close to $3500 in lithium battery storage to just run the lights for 12hrs and nothing else. This is diy lithium at that. How much do you plan on spending?
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lol yeah i know ive been using solar in one form or another for years
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Im ttly interested in the solar aspect of this and how much you can push. looking forward to the pics and write up… ive been holding off on adding solar but one day i hope to be able to do it (cost effectively)
and im really surprised you will not be running LED on this setup.
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i know ive been collecting power cells for a while now i have a buddy thats a wizz at solar he has been advising me for a while if a run 12 on 12 off during the day there shouldnt be an issue with power as the panels will produce enuf juice to run them and the batteries will run minor electrical at night when needed
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Yeah used panels aren’t too expensive. Make sure you get an inverter with a low standby consumption(like victron).
Good luck will be following along!
just do it a bit at a time as your budget allows as far as led goes i have a couple of led lights but they are used in my tents one in my bedroom and one in my daughters i use them in tentns because of the heat aspect as opposed to mh i like metal ahlede and think with the right bulb you get as close to natural sunlight without being outside
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thanks for the advice but i get my panels from a company out of tampa and i use renolgy products for control and inverter i pay about $190 for 315 watt panels im in oklahoma now but my buddy in florida brings panels to me when he goes to colorade a couple of times a year saves on shipping…lol my battery storage is handles by no name lithium cells strapped together 4 cells put out about a little more thgan a straight up cased lithium battery that costs $4-500 for right around $250-300
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That’s cool with the solar. If you are spending lots of money I offer you another solution 
. Get a large generator head or electric motor and use a much smaller electric motor to turn it. A small motor can turn a large generator head because torque is not needed when a 100lb generator head gets spinning…inertia 
!
There are also self spinning magnetic generators. This is a generator and the PTO in one and it is self powered. Provides a spinning PTO if needed as well as the kilowatts it generates. I haven’t seen these for sale though.
Good luck!!
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I have 6kwh@12v of lithium storage. Here is 3kwh of it.
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ok time for an update i have way to much time on my hands nowadayzzz.
going to use the bigger extra bedroon for grow room instead caus e im already using the small cloet as a test kitchen.
just need to get a few things moved out and get it ready for a “few” plants!the bigger one is a Gods space needle and the baby thats about 10 days or so behind is a lemon something or other…lol (my other trait is that i am to lazy to go look at the tag right now
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ok some new pics
one more time getting there needing new lights got a new humidifer today and the girls are looking pretty good i think baby is about 2 weeks behind the gods space needle
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more upgrades took 3 trips to walmart to get 2 racks to hang lights because the boxes didnt have all the parts 4 in store only 2 were complete sheesh. one more MH/HPS on the way 
these 12 are 50/50 black funk dog and bubblegum
hanging LEDs for now also have decided to use another room as a veg room
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ok a little more almost there in this room getting another MH/HPS tomorrow
the excitement is building found a usb microscope that i fergot i had took a while but figured out how to use it on the laptop new mh is up but my older one was acting up both have settled in now
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ok pretty much all set up in the grow room for now 2 600 watt MH and a cheapy 1200 watt LED in the middle will substitute another MH next month im going to veg out all until the beginning of dec and then flip em so i dont have 2 or 3 different cycles going on the other room is getting set up as a cloning/early veg room with just LEDs next id another setup on the opposite side of the grow room in the same configuration except i may go with some kinda fancy LEDs any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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alright i think this and hope this will be the final configuration of my 2 rooms one will be for VEG and one for FLOWER right now i have 5 bubblegum autos and 4 black funk dog in veg the others are a gods space needle and a orange goji crossed with ???
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