Salutations SpaceGod,
Salutations Troon,
Good thinking, i find this line of reasoning most appropriate! Maybe it can hardly apply to a small-scale 12/12 complementary Twin-Cabinet scenario but i do like to imagine a pair of indoor cultivation rooms managing LED heat by moving it around within the boundaries of a sealed closed circuit. How about recuperation of the wasted energy to provide hot water to a shower located in a 3rd room nearby, for example?
Plewase don't take my word for it, manufacturers make their very own documentation publicly available via the internet!
M'yeah, electric lights: their electical consumption is continuous, with no interruptions, just in case you didn't mind to read and understand the excerpt you quoted, integrally, euh... But i concur with your opinion of them having to guess, plus the idea that this helps with hardware reliability, etc. So, ultimately my point would be this: since there's a visible stable level of electrical consumption registered anyway then lets transfer part of that energy to a 3rd-party electrical device not directly associated with a cultivation space, hot water boiling for domestic purposes, for example. M'well, if it were my building i'd want to figure out some way to retain at least some amount of the energy i paid for which lamps transformed into useful light bands, and also wasted light bands (like IR) and heat. Lots of heat and even LEDs will produce heat, but i'm not ready to bet that's as much heat when changing from cabinet-size to room-size activity, nonetheless... In other words, i'm not too sure it's worth the expense if the space size doesn't match a trade-off zone where benefit from the consumed energy bloc would be optimized. Or if you prefer, lower the electrical consumption so the threshold goes down past a "noise" floor.
Euh... Camouflage. All theoretical, for the pleasure of discussion.
Fine, my underlying intention was to raise some awareness that log meters are bound to become "game changers", so to speak.
If i were in an ambiguous duality situation where i'd be actually wearing 2 hats chasing myself then i'd point out that it may be tricky to support no switching at all for months in a row, while metronome-like beating as a "barker" is to be avoided at all times, basically. Alternately, from a chaser's perspective, in a balanced 12/12 twin-setup theory there's always that massive continuous energy bloc which caused the whole consumption graph to raise vertically... So, as i pointed out previously, if all there is to find is a constant power consumption level, while i'd be able to justify the search for signs of indoor cultivation space activities (...), then i think i'd try to decide what's a trivial level - of a computer server perhaps, etc. Beyond that creativity kicks in and i begin to fly high trying to envison closed-circuit energy management!...
M'well, i know how disapointing this may sound but, well... I mean, if the electricity provider is after something directly connected to a logging meter chances are they'll find it IMO. Otherwise their supplier(s) wouldn't be able to promise location of faults even
outside of a digital grid, with assistance from the rest of a grid nearby... At least that's how i deceiphered it long ago. That's why i came to what follows next.
All bets are open. Personally i keep thinking if it's recorded then there's no telling when a situation can change. In any case it's not going to be done by humans, they'll design batch-compilators to analyse the data automagically for them. So the trick would be to figure out what parameters will be chosen, or i suppose the manufacturer's own software already incorporates optimized versions of such function. Go wonder, i only know there's been victims of electrical spying in Ontario, more specifically because of Horizon as i recall.
Consequently, my point here would be to repeat that it may be well advised to eliminate obvious signals which one could as well tagg barkers: so i wouldn't trust crystal-precision timing with no random function, nor wasteful lamp technologies where 80 % of the energy needs to be evacuated for no good purpose...
A simple bilateral power relay can deal with the "voices" by turning them off in a well balanced multi-cell design, LED-based i figure. A dual-room scenario seems fine but i believe even more complex timings like 8/16 are possible using a matrix of multiple cultivation rooms, perhaps also the Gas Lantern Routine (12-5½-1-5½) ultimately. It only depends on how many different schedule cells are available for permutation... Still very hypothetical, that's why i prefer to think just LEDs + heat recycling perhaps. The question being, would i still manage to detect the activity by analyzing low-profile cultivation log records? Hummm...
LEDs light up and turn off instantly, they don't pre-heat and hence their power consumption doesn't vary by much during state transitions. That should make them ideal for cabinet indoor cultivation - but i'd like them better if these could be built with simple/efficient (computer) CPU water-cooling technology used to feed a water-heater or similar, once hot enough... Then i begin to think it may actually require many dual-cabinet sets for this to make sense. My guess is the easier solution is always to avoid heat generation in the 1st place anyway! But then will those same LEDs still beat plain-old HPS tubes in the flowering phase?...
If the meter only records voltage, intensity and phase at a relatively slow data rate then it has no way to differentiate LED lights from any others. All it sees as long as you don't switch it on or off will be a pedestal which from their perspective may also include other electrical components happening to display similar signatures.
One problem is that a clear message is sent during the steep on/off switching transition: 300 Watts of continuous consumption here! Now, if it's barking @ 12/12 with crystal precision then the contrasting continuous bloc cycles will strongly suggest it's a light all right, while the power amount may even provide some strong hint as to what type of light exactly. So, maybe it's not possible to consume power without a (spy) provider knowing about it but this doesn't imply you're forbiden from swapping items around, to scramble their data just a little bit further, ideally. In the meantime i keep hoping for bio-engineered mushrooms with the appropriate palette of THC/CBD/CBN, etc!!
In any case, we humans may get the impression it will all get blurred eventually but i'm still convinced it's safer (and much more rational) to bet on ways to reduce the signature directly, if that's an option. Alternately, considering smoking is a waste of noble molecules (!), i'd argue that simply converting to vaporism would perform a comparable goal for a smoker because in the end less vegetal mass shall need to be grown! Now how about raising cannabic consumption efficiency and lowering the associated cultivation energy bloc, simultaneously?...
For example, imagine dividing a project as 2 x 150 Watts, powered concurently by a DPDT (2-circuits/bilateral) relay @ 12/12 to mute the voice completely above 0 Hz... It turns out my computer's PSU is rated above that and it could as well run a 24/0 server - which do have transition events, by the way. Etc., etc.
Please don't mention it, it's just fun to have fun for me and i have confidence the real gurus will add their own experienced perspective eventually. After all i got more questions than anwers, but i found desirable to open windows on a few overlooked matters, hoping these posts help to focus light on an even wider view!
Good day, have fun!
Don't take that as insult by the way, it's a compliment lol
