Re: Conradino23's Another Outdoor Grow With High Brix Soil - Air-Pots & SoCal Seed St
I'm leaning towards cooling hood one, should get my temps down effectively. I'm thinking about something nice for veg too. Is it still about CFLs or is there something better?
I like CFL for a dedicated veg space. Cheap. Reliable. Not too much heat. (I don't have any cooling in my veg space.)
If you are vegging and flowering in the same space, you might want to go for LEDs to veg quicker. If you have seperate spaces, the speed of veg doesn't matter much.
Hmm Radogast, do you think I could get a scheme of this additional circuit somewhere, so I can show it to my electrician?
Conrad if you are getting an electrician to take a look at your wires and do an upgrade, be sure and have him/her give you a grounded circuit. Don't know the code in Italy but safety is a thing. Grounded circuits around things like water and if it 230v @ 50Hz ground is VERY important.
Safety 1st 2nd and 3rd.
Congrats on your hauls, those trimmed buds look fantastic.... again sorry about you having to leave a bunch behind, but live to grow another day, eh?
Indoor growing has all it's own drawbacks... try and stay away from Burple LEDs, they are hard to keep stealthy.
GL with your lighting project. I'm sure there's folks in the EU making quality lamps... and maybe even higher quality than what we make here in the USA.
The circuit drawing a straight line from a new salvavita fuse in your fuse box to your power outlets.
I like 4-plug outlet boxes and have put in 8-12 outlets per room. Every time I put in a 2-plug outlet box I later wish it was 4.
Don't use power strips with one plug to many plugs - install lots of outlets instead.
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Grounding is essential - All 3 pins on your plug have to be correctly wired.
Ground fault protection is essential - I put in a hospital grade GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) outlet for the first box and daisy chain the outlets through the Circuit interrupter outlet. In Britain these devices are called RCD (Residual Current Devices) or RCCB (Residual Current Circuit Breakers.)
I see a word for italy, a salvavita fuse. I can't tell if this is one for the whole house or one for each fuse. Best is a salvavita fuse protecting just your grow area outlets.
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For me, the master outlet box has the GFCI(salvavita) that protects 12 outlets in 3 boxes
Here you see the red test button (and black reset button) for the GFCI(salvavita) outlet.
A salvavita fuse (GFCI circuit breaker) would be better but is not common in USA due to building codes for bathrooms and kitchens.
The wiring for the other outlets are simpler
The second ceiling outlet is running the veg light and the air circulating fan.
I installed a third outlet for the shelves at the end of the room. I imagine this will power the cloner, stereo, tea bubbler, etc.
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The pictures are pretty much useless since the italian setup looks totally different.
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Bottom line is I encourage you to use a dedicated circuit if you can.
This means new (grounded and salvavita protected) wiring and outlets connected from the main fuse box.
Decide how much equipment you will plug in
Add up the total number of amps (or watts)
Decide how many outlets you will have and where you want them - put in 3 or 4 more outlets than you expect to need
Intall fuses, wiring, and outlets of the correct power rating for safety (probably 16 amp @ 230V = 3600 watts - or more.)