Hello,
I don't have much of a EE background and did CSC in college so the power portion of creating a mining pool is confusing me.
I currently have one rig that takes ~1200W running in my room. I've noticed many times the surge protector will shut that machine down. It used to trip the circuit breaker, but luckily that doesn't happen anymore as the strip stops it. I'm not sure how or why the strip goes off, but it seems to have fixed my circuit breaker from tripping.
I'd like to buy two or four more of these machines, but can't figure out how to tell/test if my current power can support it. Naturally I'd want to put it on another circuit because the current one wouldn't handle it ( how can I tell? ). How do you guys figure out if your current home can support the added power load before buying a new rig?
Thanks for your time
I don't have much of a EE background and did CSC in college so the power portion of creating a mining pool is confusing me.
I currently have one rig that takes ~1200W running in my room. I've noticed many times the surge protector will shut that machine down. It used to trip the circuit breaker, but luckily that doesn't happen anymore as the strip stops it. I'm not sure how or why the strip goes off, but it seems to have fixed my circuit breaker from tripping.
I'd like to buy two or four more of these machines, but can't figure out how to tell/test if my current power can support it. Naturally I'd want to put it on another circuit because the current one wouldn't handle it ( how can I tell? ). How do you guys figure out if your current home can support the added power load before buying a new rig?
Thanks for your time
If you are in NA, buy
http://www.amazon.com/Arbor-Scientific-P4400-Kill-Meter/dp/B001JHGY2Q/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1370874423&sr=8-4&keywords=killa+watt
or something similar and measure how much power does your current system draw from the wall. If you are around 750-800W/machine, you should be able to run two of these systems on one dedicated
15A circuit. Most breakers disconnect at 1600W+ if run for some time. You have to find out what else is connected to that circuit and estimate the extra power consumption of the other stuff.
I split up 60A (6 gauge wire) secondary panel into 4x15A dedicated outlets, each with double pole 15A breaker feeding (with 14-3 wire) one outlet (broke the tab to run two hots to the panel).
