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Danks2005

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I think you are willing to invest in solar panels, battery bank, and inverter. Then, you should put the panels outside under the Sun, and use the power to run your growroom. I mean if your gonna spend the money, why run it inefficiently in the growroom.
 
Think Green

Think Green

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I agree with danks. If I were planning to invest money on serious equipment I would do as suggested. But like I said...this,at the moment, is hypothetical until someone takes a first step. I do not have the resources to do this at the moment, but maybe in the near future.
 
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GimmeShelter

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Solar Energy from your H.I.D.

How big is the panel? Is there any way to remove the panel and place it outside. Hell even if you can't remove the panel and it's not getting full contact with the light source, you are going to be seeing some savings in electricity. Interested to see where this goes. Goodluck and be safe
GS
 
Lazyman

Lazyman

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I've been thinking about this thread, and I agree that a small use (pump or fan) wouldn't be a bad thing, using wasted light. But I think any significant light should be used for plants, and any solar panel put inside would do better outside.

At my last grow I had a bunch of extra plants, and light adjacent to the grow was weak, but enough that I didn't want to waste it. I set up a couple sheets of plywood on sawhorses and made some shelves to stagger two rows of plants, the full length of the grow. They ended up taking an extra week to finish, but I ended up cropping a little over an extra pound off the wasted side-lighting from 4 of my 8 lights. Not spectacular, but a pound is a pound!
 
!PeAcE!

!PeAcE!

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Danks2005 said:
I think you are willing to invest in solar panels, battery bank, and inverter. Then, you should put the panels outside under the Sun, and use the power to run your growroom. I mean if your gonna spend the money, why run it inefficiently in the growroom.
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yea i agree here because solar tech is expensive so you might aswell go all out and get a full system for your house especially with those intriuging rebates they have these days that bring the cost down to virtually nothing compared to what you WILL save and what you WILL make generating electricity for your own utilities company, its a nice gig. there is someone down the road who has a little solar farm probly half the size of a football field and makes a check around 10k$ a month from his utilities company for the energy he makes for them, now im not sure if this is actually 10k cash or 10k credit. dont know the payment details or the currency in which its paid out but i just know its around 10k a month. its worth looking into.
 
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Danks2005

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!PeAcE! said:
yea i agree here because solar tech is expensive so you might aswell go all out and get a full system for your house especially with those intriuging rebates they have these days that bring the cost down to virtually nothing compared to what you WILL save and what you WILL make generating electricity for your own utilities company, its a nice gig. there is someone down the road who has a little solar farm probly half the size of a football field and makes a check around 10k$ a month from his utilities company for the energy he makes for them, now im not sure if this is actually 10k cash or 10k credit. dont know the payment details or the currency in which its paid out but i just know its around 10k a month. its worth looking into.
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Now that's pretty dope. Buy some land, then everytime you harvest add some panels, untill the check from the utility company lets you retire. Hmmm......
 
accessndx

accessndx

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I already employ this "recycling" trick with solar powered fans. I use the peripheral lighting that was previously going to waste to power them. Works like a charm......

The panels that come with the fans come off and are attached by a wire....so you can orient the small panels where they don't impede the light to the plants....but the "lost" light can be re-utilized to power small devices such as a fan.

Absolutely works. Not sure if you could pull this off with much larger appliances...but FTR fans work great. (and everyone needs fans!)
 
Think Green

Think Green

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Fantastic Access! I knew someone would pop up to shed some light on this theory. It seems to me that, yes it would be nice to have 10 or 15k to invest in an "off the grid" setup to power the equipment but I'm convinced that there may be enough light, given the grow, to really make an impact over time. I'm thinking if the majority of smaller required items is solar.....over a year... hmmm :dunno:
 
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bushdriver

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i was thinkin the same thing the other day, but forgot about it till now.. what wud be ideal would be some kind of flip flop where while one room was on it was charging the other rooms battery bank.. i do think it would be possible to sly loadsa panels in on wall etc but doubt u cud fully charge a big enough battery bank.... but that is at trickle charge speed... which is longer than 12hrs. with an unearthly amount of panels and batteries maybe this cud be a feasability... but solar powered fans- that is genius
 
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Airnut

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WHAA??
I thought this subject was answered, this might be the reson of none reply on this thread!
A door that opens and and a fan runs on HPS light and closes by the lightcyckle trough a sunpanel! (theory setup)
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=179470

If this is on the edge sort of speak we are about two monts away from completing the setup i link too? And then we all know if it works or not?

All i need to know is if the wireing to the relaysetup will work?

Airnut and AIM-9
 
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