Quote from: pixel375 on August 07, 2017, 05:37:17 PM

Hello,
I decided to run my two S5 miners for a bit again, got them all connected to my evga 1300 (110V), but after running them for a couple days, I came back and when I touched the power cord going from the UPS into the wall, it was cooking hot, the shielding was soft and sticky. So I quickly shut everything off.

What would cause this?
Cheap power cable?
Wall outlet not providing enough power?

I really don't want to try a different cable before I know what caused that to happen, since I work 10-16 hours a day, and don't want to start an electrical fire.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like you changed out the power cable at some point - the EVGA 1300 G2 comes with a 14 AWG cable that is rated for plenty of capacity and should NOT be doing that - especially since a pair of S5 units do NOT push the 1300 to full capacity (unless you're doing some SERIOUS overclocking on them).

Make sure the power cable you are using is 14 AWG (it's right there on the cable on any decent-quality power cord).

If you were using a 16 AWG cord, you WERE overloading it a hair, if you were using 18AWG I'm amazed the cable DIDN'T short out due to major overload meltdown.

"THICK" does not matter - I've seen occasional 16AWG cords that were thicker than some of the 14AWG cords I have, and quite a few 18AWG that were thicker than some of the 16AWG I have.