Is it equal to or does it beat mine? Mine was roughly including the ballast losses over 3,000 WATTS!
I know someone who did a bit more though....using three 1000 watt MH and one 180 watt LPS......but I was using a lot more fixtures too! 16 fixtures man! So you are NOT insane...not even close!!!
Actually in order to change your electrical breaker to change to 200 amps, you will need to be a LICENSED (which I even am not) and you will have to have the electrical company INVOLVED because they need to change the wires that connects the transformer also!!! So good luck....you can't just change it from 100 to 200 without making sure the wires that connects from house to the powerline or transformer is the correct size! It will also need county, state, or area inspection too if you are gonna do a huge upgrade!
Well here you can upgrade your own service, but it has to be inspected and approved before the utility company will reconnect your service. And I'm sure you do have a larger service than I do, my house is about 40 years old all new houses here get 200 amp services. @Joseph, yeah that would be better!
Is it equal to or does it beat mine? Mine was roughly including the ballast losses over 3,000 WATTS!
I know someone who did a bit more though....using three 1000 watt MH and one 180 watt LPS......but I was using a lot more fixtures too! 16 fixtures man! So you are NOT insane...not even close!!!
I wonder what Niall's max amp service is......
I have a bigger service than that!