I just got beat up bad by my electric company!
I was running 300A with 125TH mining power on my 400A service at home.
The electric company called me in and want to put me on commercial rate which works out to be about $.13/KWh.
I shut 40 S5's down and the draw went to roughly 200A to eliminate any "equipment safety concerns". I need to get rid of them.
I have to get rid of the rest of my s5's, another 40 of them in May.
That leaves me with a dozen s7's which I have to sell or get hosted elsewhere in July.
They are watching to see if I use more than the "average" customer in my area with my size home. They said that should
be no more than 6679 KWh/month which I figure to be about a 9.27 amp continuous draw.
Basically, I am screwed. At least I bought some time till the halving. I never did tell them what I was doing, just lots of ''math'.
I hope none of you find yourself in the same situation.
Anyone want some S5's in the United States, make me an offer. I also have the PSU's and power cables that went with them.
What state do you live in? Can't you just switch providers? It doesn't make sense, if they allowed 400A connection to your house, you're allowed to use all of it. Otherwise they will reject the connection to the transformer. Most residential transformer doesn't even allow connecting 400AMP from 1 house as typically you will need 500MCM cable which is too big for their connector Bus Bar. The work around is via using 6 smaller parallel cables. That was the issue at my house. Fortunately that transformer was overloaded and overdue to be upgraded so I got lucky and was able to hook up the 500MCM which is a FAT heavy Copper cable to the new transformer. I had no issues driving most of the 400AMP at 80% which is 320AMP. DMwardjr have similar configuration and was actually trying to go to 800AMP to 1000AMP for his house. Just tell them you're running a lot of servers at your house. Sounds like they're just trying to make more money from you.