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Quote from: Didz on Today at 06:40:45 PM

Quote from: bitcoinsc on May 26, 2021, 07:03:16 PM

I got a little miner rig set up in my little room. My bill came home and its through the roof. Estimate $520 in power bill.
I got 15 gpus all running some in different location and 2 inline fans. 3070 n 3080.
I gotta pay rent too. In Ca. Bill From pg and e. At least I have money left over to keep in my piggie crypto bank.

I recommend to have power meter to monitor the electricity you draw from your mining rigs. I use a 2 Power Distribution Unit (PDU), this model : https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B076MJMDLN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You have a PDU Remote Management you can use on your laptop or PC to monitor all the stats and it's connected via your LAN (WiFi).

If you a buy a PDU you must be sure to buy the model for your electricity circuit for instance 120V/20A or 240V/30A.

I think it's pretty vital to have that so you can be sure to stay under the 80% capacity and also the voltage sag (if your wall socket is 240V and 20A, you have to take 220V multiply by 20A which equals 4400 Watt and you apply 80% on that which is 3520 Watt which you should not go above that to stay safe and avoid voltage sag).

Also with a PDU you know exactly how much you pay per day of electricity which is really important when you mine to know if you are profitable. Here for instance on my PDU Remote Management:

I entered my electricity cost, here in Québec it's 0.07 $ per Kw/h and you see on the column "Interval Cost (Unit)" it's the total cost for the day in CAD for that PDU. So I easily calculate my electricity cost like that. It's good that my electricity comes from a green source (Hydro Québec).

If I was spending $ 500 on useless things, then I would not be able to recoup my equipment soon. I have had stable electricity consumption figures every month in recent years. I don't even look at the electricity meter readings. If you like to control online, then you can purchase an ammeter and a webcam, which will be directed to the ammeter and electricity meter.
All costs will be less than $ 30

Funny when you wrote "useless things". I have 4 rigs so 4 power cords to plug on one wall socket with 2 entries, how do I do without at least a power strip? So you don't look how many watts you draw from your wall sockets? Not surprising that some people put fire doing mining rig. Understanding the electricity and monitoring it is super important.