Is this worth the purchase ?!

[Jimmy Verde]

Oh it's a fully finished basement has heat and ac if I want

 

[Jimmy Verde]

Just the walls are an ugly lite green wanted to paint white but wont have time til summer

 

[Jimmy Verde]

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That is an important point, Cletus. Controlling climate parameters is a 24 hours a day thing.

That is why I say, build the climate control first, then get the lights.

Letting it swing around as per outdoor temps and lights on and off changes, are far from ideal

It's a fully finished basement got central ac

 

[Jimmy Verde]

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It's a fully finished basement got central ac

And heat if I need

 

[ANC]

That is great. Forget about the wall colours.. Lets be generous and say 3% of your light falls on the walls (because you mount them at the height to cover 5x5 or 4x6) , that is like 30W on a 1000W bulb. It is simply not worth the effort unless you are in a box or growing right up to a wall (and then it helps one row of plants only)

 

[Cletus clem]

The heating will keep you in range during lights out. I dont think ypu realize what colling 8k of hps light will be like. Watts=energy=heat. Thats alot of fuggin watts. And the amount of plants needed to justify that much wattage will also need dehumidification. Lights go out, humidity gos up. Way up with that much vegetation. Without a dehuey youll be quite the mold farmer. Weed, not so much.

 

[Jimmy Verde]

The heating will keep you in range during lights out. I dont think ypu realize what colling 8k of hps light will be like. Watts=energy=heat. Thats alot of fuggin watts. And the amount of plants needed to justify that much wattage will also need dehumidification. Lights go out, humidity gos up. Way up with that much vegetation. Without a dehuey youll be quite the mold farmer. Weed, not so much.

Sweet good looks on the heads up got two nice ones I can use my damn power bill is going to be crazy tho lmao

 

[ANC]

It takes me 2.5kW aircon to cool 2kW lights.

 

[Jimmy Verde]

This should be fun

 

[MarWan]

calculating heat BTUs produced by watts per hour

P(BTU/hr) = 3.412141633 × P(W)

So

1W = 3.412141633 BTU/hr

so 8000 watts will produce 27297.133064 BTU/hr, not including ballasts and other equipment.

in cold weather you will need ~ 45-50 BTUs per hour per square foot to heat the space but this does not take into account climate, the amount of insulation you have.

to heat a 600 square ft space you will need a minimum of ~ 27297 BTUs

https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-BTU-Per-Square-Foot