If your main power line is max. 100A, you should try to avoid going over about 80A of continuous usage, ballpark figures.
Let's see: 80A times 240V that's somewhere around 19.2kW and about 460kWh per day if you use it all day long. That is some serious power budget and you have to keep it safe. At the currents that beefy mining rigs drain, every connection is a potential fire hazard. You will see how hot cables and power connectors can get.
I don't ask how such an amount of energy could be for free. Frankly, someone has to pay for that and it's a lot. You say, it's free for you, you do yours, none of my business.
If you run this amount of energy through mining rigs, you should not forget, that basically all of this energy turns to heat, whatever cooling you use, you must get rid of roughly 460kWh heat if you go to the limits. Immersion cooling might be more compact, but you still have to get rid of 460kWh of heat out of it. And the cooling will eat some part of your energy budget.
Don't try to start big at once as you're no way experienced in the mining business.
Here's a mining profit calculator that can take difficulty rise into account (which many calculators foolishly don't, for whatever reasons): https://jblevins.org/btcmpc/
History shows that mining difficulty rises in the long run, your hash power usually not, unless you add gear, but that means, more investment, longer periods for ROI. And Bitcoin is volatile, too. Atm, all is nice and shiny. It won't stay that way all the time. Oh wait, you have a limited "free" energy budget, you can't add gear past it. So, diminishing returns are inevitable for you. Take that into account!
Oh... and don't forget: next halving somewhere around end of March, beginning of April 2028 (currently estimated to April 14th, 2028 but it will shift to earlier days).
Let's see: 80A times 240V that's somewhere around 19.2kW and about 460kWh per day if you use it all day long. That is some serious power budget and you have to keep it safe. At the currents that beefy mining rigs drain, every connection is a potential fire hazard. You will see how hot cables and power connectors can get.
I don't ask how such an amount of energy could be for free. Frankly, someone has to pay for that and it's a lot. You say, it's free for you, you do yours, none of my business.
If you run this amount of energy through mining rigs, you should not forget, that basically all of this energy turns to heat, whatever cooling you use, you must get rid of roughly 460kWh heat if you go to the limits. Immersion cooling might be more compact, but you still have to get rid of 460kWh of heat out of it. And the cooling will eat some part of your energy budget.
Don't try to start big at once as you're no way experienced in the mining business.
Here's a mining profit calculator that can take difficulty rise into account (which many calculators foolishly don't, for whatever reasons): https://jblevins.org/btcmpc/
History shows that mining difficulty rises in the long run, your hash power usually not, unless you add gear, but that means, more investment, longer periods for ROI. And Bitcoin is volatile, too. Atm, all is nice and shiny. It won't stay that way all the time. Oh wait, you have a limited "free" energy budget, you can't add gear past it. So, diminishing returns are inevitable for you. Take that into account!
Oh... and don't forget: next halving somewhere around end of March, beginning of April 2028 (currently estimated to April 14th, 2028 but it will shift to earlier days).
Really really appreciate the reply.
Yes i have been going back and forth with everything in my head and i am calculated out.
I do have a number of new radiators from big vehicles that were never used. I have a friend who can also tig weld, so i feel an A team build coming on.
That is what i was thinking, if its a 100A feed, go no higher than 80AMP continuous maximum to leave a circa 20AMP open buffer .
I have an unlimited allowance for 2 years or so at the present time part of a fixed agreement . i appreciate that energy has to come from somewhere, and we all have to pay our way on these things.
The only way it is viable for me is with the energy for this 2 year period and make it count.
The rig i am targeting is the S21 XP 270TH, they are by no means 'cheap'. I am expecting one to arrive shortley and i guess i will learn the ropes on this one and expand as i go.
I was hoping to expand to 6 Rigs, however that does not seem likley given the power consumption, i will be limited to 5 along with the power consumption for the heat exchanger set up/pump etc
Would anyone happen to know the power draw continuous on the S21 XP 270th with the fans and if you remove the fans ?
I know i will have to work into my power figures the cooling requirement for pump/immersion heat exchanger/fan. At some point i will probably reroute the heat exchanger to a swimming pool rather than wasting more energy on an air source heat pump
