Quote from: y_boonstra on July 26, 2014, 08:38:53 PM

Quote from: greyscales on July 25, 2014, 02:14:52 PM

It seems to me, pretty much any of the miners I look at, after I buy a couple of them, I'll fill up the capacity of a Power Supply.

One of the things I'm worried about is buying more and more Power Supplies as I buy miners. For example, if I buy a Zeus Thunder X3 miner that consumes 1200 watts of power - I need a power supply for that unit. Should I wish to buy a second Thunder X3, I need a second power supply.

What I'd like to do as I move forward, instead of buying lots and lots of PC based Power Supplies, I'd like to buy larger power supplies (maybe units that can provide 5,000 watts of 12 volts - or something...) and connect multiple miners to one larger PSU. Except, I have little to no knowledge / experience with large Power Supplies.

GS

Lol you don't know what your talking about 5000W at 12 v equals 400A at least. That's 1 very expensive power rail you will need

You are taking the resulting wattage and not considering the input.

220v @ 20 Amps would produce 4400 Watts (watts = Volts * Amps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt) So, to have a power supply supply 5000 watts of juice would require a 25 Amp circuit at 220 volts.

As I said when I started this thread, my goal is to power as many units with as few power supplies as possible. To everyone who pointed me to Server Grade power supplies, I thank you for your input!

GS