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Re: Mining Farm Capacity Planning
by
fanatic26
on 30/03/2018, 21:08:44 UTC
With 400A of 208v, you can run 80 S9 13.5, should be able to load panel with 40 breakers, than on a few of them just run 1 S9 and 2 L3.  Obviously just watch the panel when loading up, transformer with poor harmonics will tend to draw lower voltage increasing amperage.  

80 s9 running at 6.5-7 amps each would be well over 500 amps. How exactly did you make your math?

400 amp panel @ 80% capacity is 320 amps of usable power. S9s drawing 7 amps each would mean you could run 45 total. You would probably want to run less because you need to leave power for ventilation and other things.


I also run 3 phase 208. My setup is like this.

I run 3 phase all the way to the PDU. To balance power I run them as follows....


Miner layout per PDU:

                  Phase A    Phase B   Phase C
PDU 1:              2            1            1
PDU 2:              1            2            1
PDU 3:              1            1            2


I run 9 breakers per sub panel and balance the 3 phases to the panel this way leaving the 10th breaker for ventilation. The draw across the 3 phases as measured at the subpanel stays within a few amps of each other. (Not all machines pull the exact same amount of power, I have some S9s pulling 1380w, some pulling nearly 1500w depending on batch and PSU used.)