Someone big company is working on something to help us not get noticed hopefully. I don't like the digital meters...Freaks me out everytime I think about it..
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Digital Power Meters
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Digital Power Meters
One thing is if they catch someone stealing the power.. Even then there has been people busted stealing power and the company sent them a hefty bill and no leo was involved..
I find it rare for a company to call the Feds and be like"hey this guy is paying me 3500 in elect every month can you go see what's going on?"
One thing is if they catch someone stealing the power.. Even then there has been people busted stealing power and the company sent them a hefty bill and no leo was involved..
I find it rare for a company to call the Feds and be like"hey this guy is paying me 3500 in elect every month can you go see what's going on?"
this doesn't seem to be the most likely way to get caught, but there are enough credible threads that say it can happen
i don't buy the power usage in the article quoted by strainhunter(good article, just thinking cops were blowing some smoke), but i do believe power usage was part of the investigation
notice where it was? Indiana, also known as the 'death to every MJ grower' state
location, location, location - whole different set of rules in some places, Indiana is one of them
Isn't also a major matter of scale?
I know shit about it, but it seems to me that a house that adds a couple of 400W or 600W lamps, even a couple of 1K lamps, as in typical small indoor grows, is extremely unlikely to draw attention.
Bring 6 or 7 1K lights on line and starting running daily big garden operations and yeh, it would seem easy and oh so obvious to pick that out.
What else, at a residential addresss would draw that kind of power? Running arc welders daily?
I know shit about it, but it seems to me that a house that adds a couple of 400W or 600W lamps, even a couple of 1K lamps, as in typical small indoor grows, is extremely unlikely to draw attention.
Bring 6 or 7 1K lights on line and starting running daily big garden operations and yeh, it would seem easy and oh so obvious to pick that out.
What else, at a residential addresss would draw that kind of power? Running arc welders daily?
haha .... hard to prove maybe, but very possible.
I'll google it, but not sure what I'm googling my search on ... "power company ratting out growers"? or something?
I have heard LEO comments in the news over the years that they do work with the power companies on these investigations at some level. Perhaps, like IR heat readings off homes, power consumption isn't considered sufficient evidence for a search warrant, but may lead to further inquiry by the investigators.
best,
rabbit
I'll google it, but not sure what I'm googling my search on ... "power company ratting out growers"? or something?
I have heard LEO comments in the news over the years that they do work with the power companies on these investigations at some level. Perhaps, like IR heat readings off homes, power consumption isn't considered sufficient evidence for a search warrant, but may lead to further inquiry by the investigators.
best,
rabbit
Thanks for the links guys.
SH - I had initially misread your post as disagreeing with my thought, when I now see you were disagreeing with asher's idea that profit motive would keep the power company from pointing you out. Couldn't agree more ... mountains of evidence say otherwise.
I think the two relevant issues would be the relative amount of kw usage compared to similar home sizes, especially in the same area, and as I saw in one article, an examination of past power use to a noticable jump in usage.
In the one story, they we're running 2,700 kw per hour ... hahahaha! What did you buy? A full size transformer robot? A set of backyard area heaters?
All goes back to common sense ... and the fact that if you're going to go big, you definitely put yourself above the radar.
much cheer,
rabbit
SH - I had initially misread your post as disagreeing with my thought, when I now see you were disagreeing with asher's idea that profit motive would keep the power company from pointing you out. Couldn't agree more ... mountains of evidence say otherwise.
I think the two relevant issues would be the relative amount of kw usage compared to similar home sizes, especially in the same area, and as I saw in one article, an examination of past power use to a noticable jump in usage.
In the one story, they we're running 2,700 kw per hour ... hahahaha! What did you buy? A full size transformer robot? A set of backyard area heaters?
All goes back to common sense ... and the fact that if you're going to go big, you definitely put yourself above the radar.
much cheer,
rabbit
i just can't get over the article that SH posted, it's just hilarious<br>
it works out to 5000w per plant, 5 kilowatt bulbs per plant, if you like that arrangement<br>
just what kind of tree could you grow with that? i'd think the legendary 15 footers of outdoors would be possible
it works out to 5000w per plant, 5 kilowatt bulbs per plant, if you like that arrangement<br>
just what kind of tree could you grow with that? i'd think the legendary 15 footers of outdoors would be possible
