Quote from: xane on July 31, 2011, 07:18:45 PM

I live in an apartment in a place where no one has ACs... unless you are bitcoin mining that is.

I have two rigs pulling around 900w combined I think on full GPU load. I also have a 10,000btu portable AC unit cooling the room. I can't find out specifically, but I am led to believe such a unit would pull around 1000w. I'm not an electrical engineer at all, but I've done some reading and it seems a common breaker trips at 15amps or 1800watts at 120v. Is there anything I can do from an engineering standpoint to help out this situation? Obviously I am trying to avoid moving any of the devices to other rooms. All the outlets in this room seem to be on the same breaker switch. There are also radiant heaters in the floorboards which have two switches on the breaker. Could someone who knew what they were doing easily "patch into" these and turn them into outlets for me?

Thanks.

I'd suggesting ducting the hotair from your rig out the window so you can live without the aircon. Help saves money in the long run, otherwise you're paying double for the mining, once to generate coins and heat, twice to remove that heat using an aircon.