Topic: My electricty bill is through the roof. Got 15 gpus. CA - page 2. (Read 612 times)

Funny when you wrote "useless things". On one wall socket with 2 entries, I have 4 rigs so 4 power cords to plug, how do I do without at least a power strip? So FP91G you don't look how many watts you draw from your wall sockets? Not surprising that some people put fire doing mining rig. Understanding the electricity and monitoring it is super important for safety and business management.

If I was spending $ 500 on useless things, then I would not be able to recoup my equipment soon. I have had stable electricity consumption figures every month in recent years. I don't even look at the electricity meter readings. If you like to control online, then you can purchase an ammeter and a webcam, which will be directed to the ammeter and electricity meter.
All costs will be less than $ 30 

I recommend to have power meter to monitor the electricity you draw from your mining rigs. I use a 2 Power Distribution Unit (PDU), this model : https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B076MJMDLN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You have a PDU Remote Management you can use on your laptop or PC to monitor all the stats and it's connected via your LAN (WiFi).

If you a buy a PDU you must be sure to buy the model for your electricity circuit for instance 120V/20A or  240V/30A.

I think it's pretty vital to have that so you can be sure to stay under the 80% capacity and also the voltage sag (if your wall socket is 240V and 20A, you have to take 220V multiply by 20A which equals 4400 Watt and you apply 80% on that which is 3520 Watt which you should not go above that to stay safe and avoid voltage sag).

Also with a PDU you know exactly how much you pay per day of electricity which is really important when you mine to know if you are profitable. Here for instance on my PDU Remote Management:



I entered my electricity cost, here in Québec it's 0.07 $ per Kw/h and you see on the column "Interval Cost (Unit)" it's the total cost for the day in CAD for that PDU. So I easily calculate my electricity cost like that. It's good that my electricity comes from a green source (Hydro Québec).

Also I forgot to mention, the new "Core Clock Lock support for Nvidia" from HiveOS is amazing. For a RTX 3070 it only draw 114 W so it can help you reduce your electricity consumption.
https://forum.hiveos.farm/t/system-changelog-and-news/11778/41

Well you are right but he already jumped off the bridge so to speak.

And if we plunge a bit more he will be in the red and looking to dump cards. At a small loss if he is lucky.

Friend. If I had such electricity prices, I would not even start mining. I know that each state has its own electricity prices, but as soon as the price of Ethereum drops or Ethereum changes the algorithm, then the mass will have a huge sale of video cards.
Other coins will be unprofitable at these electricity prices.

WELL  if those are at the wall kill-a-watt readings they are decent.

If they are software numbers they are a bit high

the 3080 can be set to 225 -230 on software 96-101
the 3070 can be set to 130 on software and do 61
the rx 6800 xt can set to 137 and do 62

Don't you guys typically get rolling black-outs from time to time. This is hardly due to the fact that its very hot there and in the Summer everybody turns on their air conditioner at the same time and there isn't enough load to support all this power. At times it gets really bad and you got these blackouts from what I hear.

From what I understand you guys can't use nuclear power because you have too many earth quakes and its way too risky. I wonder what will happen in a decade when every vehicle there is an electrical car.

I'm hitting 240watts on my 3080 and 150 watts on my 3070 and 175watts on my rx 6800

Lol shortage of electricity. I really don't understand how that works. But I'm get 40 cents peak time and about 20 cents average. I was making a bunch of profits when eth was ath. But now its crashing like a mofo.  Everyday my profits gets less. Eth hashrates are down too. So I'm not sure.

I was thinking mining during a bear market But my mining profit drastically decrease also. Killing two birds n one stone.. oh well I'm a hardcore btc investor. Mine 4 yrs and earn 500k.. lol if history repeats itself.. but with some trading cus eth pow will likely end . And I have to switch to $ergo.. thats when mining is less fun. Cus of shitcoin..

I think California and Hawaii are one of the worst places to mine. Usually when there is a massive price corrections its the miners from these locations that have no choice but to power off their rigs.

Currently unless you pay more than $0.60/kwh you are mining at a profit. However it won't that much of a ETH correction or hashrate spike to render mining unprofitable for some. In Europe in certain countries mining is also expensive at like 0.40Euro kwh.

I also dont think you should mine in California especially during the Summertime when there is a shortage of electricity and they turn off peoples power due to shortages.

How much is 1KWt? But i really cannt understand, why it becomes a problem now? You are getting huge profit from mining and dont want to pay electricity bill?
PS. Try to configure your GPUs correct. I think it is possible to downvolt them.

buy some solar panels without battery it will reduce your electric bill alot. it will mix power when outside is sunny.And you in CA so many days are sunny.

It is better to familiarize yourself with electricity prices before mining.
15 of your video cards give 70-120 dollars of profit per day (I don't know exactly how many 3080 you have and how much 3070 you have)
In 5 days you will pay your electricity bill. I hope this is a monthly bill?

You cant mine in California power is very costly.

15 x 3080 if clocked wrong can burn about  4kwatts

15 x 3070 if clocked wrong can burn about 3kwatts.

720 x 4 = 2880 kwatts
720 x 3 = 2160 kwatts.


with really low clocks done well

15 x 3080 = 3.3kwatts
15 x 3070 = 2.1kwatts.

so at the lowes you could be doing 2.1 x 720 = 1510 kwatts in power

at 10 cent it is 151 usd
at 20 cent it is 302 usd
at 30 cent it is 453 usd
at 40 cent is is 604 usd

so my guess is you pay typical cali power rates 30 to 40 cents a kwatt

I am in NJ

in my home I pay 13 cents in the winter and 20 cents in the summer.

huh, crazy bill for 15 gpus

I got a little miner rig set up in my little room. My bill came home and its through the roof. Estimate $520 in power bill.
I got 15 gpus all running some in different location and 2 inline fans. 3070 n 3080.
I gotta pay rent too. In Ca. Bill From pg and e. At least I have money left over to keep in my piggie crypto bank.