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Forgive the wording, but how do you work out how many S7's you can plug into one socket?

If i get an electrician, would they be able to install more sockets?

I'm not sure how it work, i don't want to blow the electrics!

Thanks!

It depends on how many amps your breaker is. Also the gauge of wire you are using.

well an s7 pulls about 1400w at the wall pretty much.  so 15A socket assuming its the ONLY thing on that breaker would equal : 15a * 120v = 1800w BUT only 80% to be safe continuous load = 1440w.  So in THEORY, one s7 can go on a 15A socket.  I would advise putting one s7 on a 20A breaker instead.  20A you can put safely 1920w.  So one s7 per breaker.  edit: 20A needs better wire than 15A (12 vs 14 i think)

Are you in the USA with 120 volts and 15 or 20 amp sockets?

or are you in a place like the U.K.with 230 volts.

If you live in North America you can safely put one S7 per circuit.  Note that a circuit may (more likely will) contain more than one socket and or load.
The same goes for Europe for the most part.  There are 16amp 220V circuits in Europe that could handle two s7s but if you don't know, don't try it.
If you trip the breaker, you've overloaded the circuit.  It's not so dangerous to do that unless you persist.  If you continue to reset the breaker and try to run your device you may cause thermal overload which could result in fire.

That's for the advice I am in the UK yes :)

So how easy/hard is it to add more circuits?

Sara x

 I don't know much more about the UK.  I think 80 Amps is a standard home service and your kitchen probably has sockets to allow for toaster/kettle/microwave and it is probably already on a ring main with a 30amp breaker.  Any of the sockets for those devices you could use for an Antminer S7 and the circuit should easily handle 3 of those (with power to spare) but if you also run your toasted, microwave and kettle, you will trip the breaker.
  You have to install sockets where you want to plug in the devices, run wire through the walls and connect to a breaker in the Consumer unit.  Connecting the breaker to the unit is easy if you have space for it but running the wire and connecting the sockets must be done properly and inspected.   My advice would be to call an electrician and ask if he could give you a free quote for a separate circuit for your Antminers.

 Post an image of your consumer unit and we'll be able to tell if you can add a circuit.

Don't do it if you don't know what our doing but opening circuit box can easily tell amps.  It is on the fuses in the box.   If you ever trip a fuse this is the box you reset them.

But again be careful and don't do it if your not comfortable around it.  Lots of electricity goes through a main, which means touch wrong thing bad deal.

What he's trying to tell you is "If you touch the live electrical wires, you will experience extreme pain and may die, will probably die, ok, you will die" No, I'm not kidding.

What he's trying to tell you is "Touch the wrong thing and the best case scenario is you will WISH you had died"  ;)

Seriously though, seeking advice from strangers who are incapable of knowing the details of the wiring in your home ie. the age of the wiring, the capacity of your panel etc. is a losing proposition.
If you are considering purchasing something as power-hungry as an S7 it behooves you to seek the advice of a licensed electrician.
Nobody wins if you decide to fudge something together and the consequences range from fire, property damage (including potentially frying an expensive miner), and, as talks_cheep was so kind to point out, a severe case of death.

 Well, if you keep one hand behind your back, you won't die.  I wonder what a non-severe case of death looks like?
If OP posts a pic of his/her consumer unit, we can give pretty good advice.  The UK has standards.

Honestly if you are not comparable with seeing amps on a circuit breaker (which I am not pushing as if you touch main possible death as mentioned).  But if you are this far away from being able to look at breakers I would not invest in Bitcoin.  As it's possible you could trip a breaker if use to much... and if you cannot flip it yourself your electrician bills will be big and kill profit.

I know I tripped breakers before before I got a mining area.  It was a game to put some on one circuit and some on others. But if someone turned my microwave long ago I remember it would trip a breaker if I had to much mining gear on it.   So in home mining you can run into this.

But getting a electrician for starting to check breaker, and wire guage.  Is not a bad idea.   Also might ask about getting a dedicated line or two and see price.  All depends on what your long term plans are.