Quote from: senseless on January 23, 2018, 01:23:54 AM

Quote from: eth_mining on January 23, 2018, 01:18:27 AM

Quote from: senseless on January 23, 2018, 01:02:09 AM

Quote from: eth_mining on January 23, 2018, 12:58:50 AM

How about the below method?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2769696.msg28709171#msg28709171

Shouldnt that work without the need for electrician? I am planning to run only 1 miner as of now

What is your dryer breaker rated at? The wire needs to be the same rating as the breaker. Otherwise, you could burn down your house accidentally. If you try to pull 40A through a 20A cord connected to a 50A breaker, the 20A rated wire will catch on fire. If the breaker was rated at 20A the breaker would trip before the wire would come close to catching on fire.

I suspect your breaker is probably 50A or more. It will more than likely need to be swapped out. 2 pole breakers are like $15-$25.

It's really NOT that expensive to do things the correct way. I'm looking at like $300 max to do it yourself on a 100 foot run +/-. Another $600 if you wanted a switched PSU that can remote reboot miners via web interface, monitor temperature, humidity, etc. You can get a basic PDU for around $200. So, $500-$900 per 5.76kW. If your breaker box is in the garage, and you want to mine in the garage, it's even cheaper. You're looking at less than $75 in parts for each 240V 30A circuit exclusive of PDU cost ($200-$600) -- (< 10 foot run).

If you're going to spend $8000 on miners to necessitate a 240v 30A circuit, why not spend another $1000 so you have the proper facilities (which you will probably use for years on different mining hardware).

Here is a pic of the breaker.. looks like 2-pole 50 A.

https://imgur.com/a/zH6XM

I really get what you are saying and appreciate your response/help. There is no way the A3 is going to pull more than 8 A right? So should we really worry about it pulling above 20 A?

I reay agree on what you are saying about spending for the setup. I live in an Apartment and I am trying to find a temp solution to run the A3 for a couple of weeks before I move it to a colocation

The adapter would be fine then for temporary use on a single machine. Being in an apartment is even worse. Keep in mind, If you do anything not up to code and it does damage the place... Renters insurance isn't going to help you and you'll be on the hook for damages.

The A3 would run just fine off a 15A or 20A 120v circuit. How many did you order?

I got 2 but planning to run only 1 in my apartment.

Well, I am planning to use the APW3++. It says that it wont provide more than 1200 W if ran from 110 V. My initial plan was to use one of the GFCI (https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFCI) from the bathroom or kitchen since they have dedicated 15 A breakers. But if APW3++ cant give the A3 more than 1200 W, theb I am SOL, right? That is when I started researching about using dryer plug.

Why do you think a single A3 should be fine to run from a 15A 120 V if the AWP3++ cant do well on 120 V? Sad

i saw a couple of posts here that it wont work

If it will work, i will just use the GFCI