[Big Sky]

[Big Sky]

A free Energy Harvest of about 4.25 OZ's dry. not to shabby





Thats Solar energy grow #1, in the books. #2 starting up. I have a few pre-vegged spacedragons under a 2x2 screen..hitting the switch today! 10/17/12!
keep a look out for the next one!

[village green]

Very impressive. Can you do us a tutorial to up the yield by a factor of 15? jk

[junior_grower]

Very nice grow. What did the solar panels cost you?

[Big Sky]

Originally Posted by junior_grower

Very nice grow. What did the solar panels cost you?

ebay- 180 ea usd-

[Big Sky]

Originally Posted by village green

Very impressive. Can you do us a tutorial to up the yield by a factor of 15? jk

lol yea that would take a while but yeah its the same concept- this system will run this op in a small scale but you can upgrade this unit to around 60amps of power- 6000w..just add panels, wind turbines, batteries-
but its fully upgradeable- eventually i will have it up to a scale like that lol
cheers thanks for the kind words-

[village green]

Originally Posted by Big Sky

lol yea that would take a while but yeah its the same concept- this system will run this op in a small scale but you can upgrade this unit to around 60amps of power- 6000w..just add panels, wind turbines, batteries-
but its fully upgradeable- eventually i will have it up to a scale like that lol
cheers thanks for the kind words-

We have companies around here who finance or lease solar systems. I wonder how much it would cost to set up a 6kw system excluding the panels?

[Big Sky]

well if you look on ebay there are a ton of overstocks from the UK for the solar panels i bought- they have a 92% +output warranty..best in the business-
they sell them by the crate on the bay- 4000w worth for around 3800-4000$ shipped to you-
hell of a deal-
I'll prob use this deal in the future for a massive upgrade-
But then you have to buy multiple 5000w puresine wave inverters, you would need 2 at about 900$ ea and then batteries- a 24v system, and that kind of power would need an extensive bank , about 16-20 batteries at 200$ ea- 3200+$$$
then the charge controller to handle it-about 200-300$
so your looking at about 10-12g's..i could source everything out for that-
all parts ac panel breakers you name it-
a solar company or installation company would fork you over for about 35-40 grand maybe more depending on who's doing the forking
But you learn these systems inside out building them a piece at a time- my system is a basic 1000w solar system-
3g's-
but theers a lot of initial parts in that 3g's wich allow massive upgrading ..hybrid your system wind and solar- produce electricity day and night-
the ideal way to rid your grid power would be this idea ive been working on-

A solar generation machine-
solar comes in and the system then powers an electric generator of twice to 3 times the systems power output-
this would be ideal-

[gaiusmarius]

very impressive, so you are able to produce enough power to run that whole grow? pretty slick i must say. kudos on the workmanship too.

[Big Sky]

Originally Posted by gaiusmarius

very impressive, so you are able to produce enough power to run that whole grow? pretty slick i must say. kudos on the workmanship too.

yesssss sir!
a little balancing of lighting can really go a long way- on a cloudy day, or rainy day, i can use only 180watts for veg or flower by just using the LEDS saving the banks power- Then on the next full sun day i use just the LEDS one last time really allowing my battery bank to overcharge to around 27 volts instead of 24 normal or nominal volts-
Then its full blast lighting with dual LED UFO's and the cooltube DIgital 400 Watt HPS-

Im a stoned scientist that went a little mad-
and obviously a control freak lol-haha-