Quote from: StigHelmer on January 18, 2018, 10:42:42 PM

Looks great! Thanks for sharing. I also mount my motherboards on boxes Cheesy

I'm working on a custom rig frame now (similar to other ones out there with stylistic touches) which I will sell if my prototypes look worth it.

Can you elaborate on what your electrician friend did, or what it would cost? that is the piece that I am most debating, right now I have rigs on various circuits but I want to move to a dedicated location and route power there. In the middle of this I am learning about how to become an electrician.

Also can you tell us what the embarrassing mistake you made that fried one of your cards was, in the interest of not making it ourselves?

Thanks. And I can't believe I have been so obsessed with crypto and just found this forum, it's excellent.

My electrician buddy wired 2 seperate 240v circuits (The ones with red wire in the pics). He came by, told me what I needed to buy, and I went out to my local electrical supply store and bought it.

I bought 2 x 240v receptables, 10ft 20amp cable, 2 x 20amp breakers, and some 240v computer power cords, to fit the receptacles. Along with a few other odds and ends, my bill was around $60 USD.

My friend spent 1 hour the first day, to talk me through what we needed to do, capacity, etc, and 1 hour the following day installing it. I paid him $30 USD per hour for helping me out.

For the embarrassing mistake, I plugged in PCI-e adapter into a PCI slot on the motherboard backwards. It slides in like butter, there was no resistance. I turned it on, smelled smoke, cut the power... bye bye mobo. I knew the correct way to plug them in, but it was at the end of a very long night trying to troubleshoot my rig's issues, I had my headphones on blasting music because that room is now very loud with all the fans, and poof, made the mistake. I did almost exactly what this guy did: https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/6ja5i7/burnt_riser_pcie_slot_help_would_be_greatly/

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