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Re: Mining bitcoin at home**electrical cicuit query**
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Tsub
on 21/08/2021, 16:01:13 UTC
The voltage is fine.
Question is, how many amps can be supplied? Each miner pulls around 3.3kw which if fed 230v means it pulls 14.35 amps.
Then there is the noise and heat produced. All that power is turned into heat and the fans used to remove it from the miner sound on par with a large industrial vacuum cleaner.

You really want that in an apartment with you?


I second this!  Or my wife does.  I first did a bad by miscalculating the amps.  Watt / Volt = Amp.  You are probably 240v so make sure you know where you can plug it in and make sure you have the right cable.  I don't know how many cables I bought that were wrong (I have a pile of them now).

Don't underestimate the beast you are creating.  Noise (70 - 80 db), heat (72C or hotter) and location.  I put mine in the laundry room so I can close the door but the miners run hot and my wife tolerates me running 2 in the house right now...  But am rapidly working to relocate them to the garage given the strains it causes.  Shocked

I literally talked to my electrician yesterday about expanding my home test lab environment and he indicated it would be something like 280amps....  And I started blowing my 30amp circuit with just 2 miners (A10 and a S19J 100).  So do that math repeatedly, triple check.

Most miners use 1P 220-240v.  no 3P needed unless you start getting into immersion cooling.