6000 watt 2 bedroom apartment?

[thingshappening]

In the basic planning stages, bare with me if you care to add your two pennies...

I've got an apartment that I've got to deal with for 6 months. Legal state, legit script, might as well blow it up. This is not my first bigger grow by any means, but it is my first grow trying to deal with the electric aspect myself.

I was thinking 3K in each bedroom, 10-12 trees per room, live in the family room. The apartment has an AEK fwiw. No washer or dryer though.

Sorry for my ignorance, but isn't there some sort of cord that you can plug into the stove wiring that can fire up 240V or 120V lights? Would said cord safely reach the kitchen area to the grow room, say 20 feet, generally speaking?

Dumb idea?

Can it be done? Ideas/suggestions in terms of electrical stuff? I've got the green thumb but the electric stuff kills me.

Thanks!

 

[Carboy]

In the basic planning stages, bare with me if you care to add your two pennies...

I've got an apartment that I've got to deal with for 6 months. Legal state, legit script, might as well blow it up. This is not my first bigger grow by any means, but it is my first grow trying to deal with the electric aspect myself.

I was thinking 3K in each bedroom, 10-12 trees per room, live in the family room. The apartment has an AEK fwiw. No washer or dryer though.

Sorry for my ignorance, but isn't there some sort of cord that you can plug into the stove wiring that can fire up 240V or 120V lights? Would said cord safely reach the kitchen area to the grow room, say 20 feet, generally speaking?

Dumb idea?

Can it be done? Ideas/suggestions in terms of electrical stuff? I've got the green thumb but the electric stuff kills me.

Thanks!

Yes it can. Better educate yourself or get a professional. Would be awfully hard to get a detailed enough explanation in a reply.

 

[thingshappening]

Yes it can. Better educate yourself

That's what I'm trying to do, bro.

 

[RedRain]

I am in a condo as well.

Du have fuses or a panel? I was luck to have a panel, and I dropped in a 60 amp breaker, and ran a big wire to my new panel for my grow.

I would hire an electrician since you are legal, and you dont know much about power.

You can always blow the main supply breaker to your panel. Killing all the power to your panel, so you can work safe.

What are you doing for cooling? I would use a full air to air split, on a damper system.

 

[GIS]

I'm a novice at electricity but I thought I'd chime in anyways. Sometimes you can get lucky and find 240v outlets for the stove, or where the washer and dryer are. I found one in the laundry room once at one place I was staying. If you have access to the panel you'd want to find out how many amps are on that circuit. It's usually pretty big for appliances, like 30 amps at least. Since it's 240v the 1kw lights only use something like 5 amps, so you could theoretically run 6 lights off a 30 amp 240v circuit. They sell 240v controller boxes that you can plug all your lights into, and they make extra long ballast cords so it could reach the controller box. If you're not lucky enough to have any 240v outlets though, and don't or can't hire an electrician to custom do something for you, you can always run extension cords to various circuits and just run like 1 light per breaker, it might not be ideal but it works. It helps to have access to the panel when figuring all his out. I'm sure you'll get some great advice from the electrical pros soon here.

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

That's what I'm trying to do, bro.

look up power box controllers on google bro thats a simple way for ya to deal with the electic... 6k in apartment is nothing but balls bro... good luck....

 

[VagPuncher]

I run 6 in mine. I don't give a motherfuck.

 

[RedRain]

I run 6 in mine. I don't give a motherfuck.

^ this.

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[Yes4Prop215]

typical apartment bedroom has two 15 amp circuits per bedroom, some only have one, you gotta play with your breakers to see how many circuits each bedroom has.. you can only run 1k off each circuit...so you can only do about 2k in each room unless you find that 240v plug.

honestly this has bad idea all over it. do you own the apartment? do you know the landlord? its gonna be hard to hide two bedrooms when they gotta fix the garbage disposal or do other apartment maintenance...plus if you overload the circuits and burn the place down you are gonna fuck your neighbors up too...