Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 334. (Read 531168 times)

No, the wire gauge allows you to run the higher current required for a 1600W PSU. You'll be looking at 7-8A, which you'd want minimum 16AWG (and 14AWG is better) to keep it from being a fire hazard.

I will look for one.

so the power supply end is a iec320c13

but what are you plugging it into?  


this wall plug?

http://www.amazon.com/SF-Cable-Universal-Power-Cord/dp/B0064SZ5K2?


a pdu socket takes this

http://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-IEC-320-C14-IEC-320-C13-P005-006/dp/B0027JTJ22?


notice 14awg  for the sake of safety in both types

Could anyone recommend a power cord (preferably Amazon Prime) that would work with the Bitmain APW3-12-1600 PSU's that would work on 208v and/or 220v?  

Thanks.

I wished there was a 1600w 120v server PSU instead of having to spend $320 on the EVGA.

I know how you feel.  I'd love to run on IBMs 2800s, but I simply don't have the electrical infrastructure to make it work.  I don't have the luxury of starting from scratch and ROI is tough enough without electrical modifications (and what would I do with a ton of 240V when I'm done mining).

That said, ATX PSUs are far too expensive to be a long term solution also.  What I did was grab a few 900W (on 115v) HP-DPS1200s and hard wired them for load sharing.  That effectively gives you an 1,800W server PSU for about $70.  Add the cost of cables and you're still way ahead when compared to EVGA.

Past 750W I don't think it makes sense to buy ATX.  I wish someone would push out a single, or even double, blade version of the high efficiency chips for home mining.

@OgNasty,

Please wait for a few more minutes!!  PM on the way

Shocker...   

Looks good, I don't see any issues with kano pool.

S9 can hash in other pools as usual. I will upload more screenshots from other pools as they becomes available.

I have 3 S7's from 3 different batches and mining on Kano with greater than 100% luck, none of them have broken even yet, although 2 of them are close if I do not include the PSU.  But I do include the PSU in my ROI calculations since I buy them from newegg with BTC.  I bought brand new EVGA 1600's for the S7's so they were somewhere around 1 BTC each at the time of purchase.  So those two S7's need to generate about 1.2 BTC to break even on the miner itself plus the PSU.  My 3rd S7 is further behind, it needs another half bitcoin to get caught up to the other two, so 1.7 BTC to break even on the miner plus the PSU.  I expect I will probably break even on the miners by the halving but the PSU's may not get paid for for some time.  I could sell the S7's at or close to break even on the miner and upgrade to S9's (just transfer the cost of the PSU's from the S7's to the S9's in my calculations) but I am with Puffy on this, it would cost more BTC then it would generate so totally not worth it at the current price.  If BTC value continues to rise it may get to a point where it is worth it even at $2100 but we got a lot more value to go up before that happens.  I have never purchased BTC with fiat so all of my miners are purchased with BTC I already mined going back a while now.  It makes zero sense for me to buy a miner with BTC I already have that will generate less BTC than it costs.  Until that calculus changes I won't be buying one of these things.