Hey guys, I plan on installing maybe 10 miners in my garage. The thing is that I know each miners needs to be plugged on a 15 AMP breaker minimum, so technically ill need 150 AMP to make this project work. The issue is when i checked on my breaker at home I believe theres a maximum of 200 AMP for the whole house (maybe im wrong im not very good with these stuffs). What can I do? Can I call an electrician to install more breakers...? I don't really know if thats possible.. If someone know better let me know please it would help me a lot, thank you for your time
Call an electrician for sure. But, let's assume you are picking up 10 Antminer S9s. That's roughly 70A at 220. To cover 10 you'll need 4 30A circuits with 3 per circuit so you might as well buy 12 miners or round down to 9
Depending on how many you decide on, and you should always plan for growth, the electrician will probably recommend a 100-125A subpanel if your main panel has the capacity.That's staying on the safe side, you *could* make 4 miners per circuit work, but you want you and your family to be safe so never run more than 80% of a circuit's capacity continuously.
Now you also have to address heat and noise, have you actually been near one? They are incredibly loud, like 80DB loud. And the heat is roughly 5,000 BTU. Now figure 10 of those and you need serious heat removal in addition to all the noise they make. You might just pick up 1 and go from there.