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I need help to wire my 10 L3+ Antminers.

I would like a diagram that I can present to an electrician.

The farm will be setup up in my home in USA so 120v with standard 15 amp breakers.

The diagram should be scalable for when I inevitably add more miners.

I'm not opposed to adding bigger breakers, safety first efficiency second.

I will compensate you with BTC for the diagram if it is legit.

Thanks in advance.

You're probably going to want 2-pole (240V) breakers. Twice the equipment for the same run of wire, PSUs will be a bit more efficient and it'll draw a more balanced load from your service transformer.

The specifics of a wiring diagram are going to depend a lot on what PSUs you use, and your breaker box, and a lot of other factors. An actual good electrician shouldn't need the customer to give him a wiring diagram, especially if the customer doesn't know how to do that himself.

Just let the guy know what loads you'll be drawing in what location, what kind of outlets you'll need for plugging things in, and let him take it from there.

Thanks for the feedback. There's suprisingly little information on the interwebz as far as this topic is concerned. Maybe because it's easy and I'm and idiot, but I'd rather be safe and hire a pro than attempt to do it myself and risk $30k worth of equipment or worse, burning down my house.

Each of those units is rated at 800watts.   10 of them is 8000 watts. you are going to need heavy duty power to run them safely. 

You really need to do some research. Most bitcoin farms are located in china were they pay 3 cents per kilowatt. Some are in new zealand were they pay 5 cents a kw. Depending on your location here in the states your probably paying at least 7 cents. Most likely 10 cents or more.
When you use online profit caculators to view you expected profit they do not take into account the daily increase in network hashrate. The higher the network hashrate is the less your return will be. This is a common mistake people make.
There is a slim possibility you would ever see a profit. If bitcoin price continues to rise that would become more probabable. However, that will also cause more people to purchase miners which will raise the network hashrate and again lower your return.

here you go  you want 2x   30 amp  240 volt  put in

use 10 gauge wire  use 2 pole breakers.

have two l6 30r one for each circuit


http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEMA-L6-30R-Turn-Twist-Lock-Locking-Receptacle-Outlet-30A-250V-2P-3W-L6-30-/162134424426?


use 2 pdu's  each has 4 plugs and can do 24 x 240 volts =

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Hewlett-Packard-228481-002-Module-PDU-Control-Unit-200-240VAC/261469140311?

  use a few of these on each pdu
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-modular-PDU-extension-bar-p-n-228480-002-BEST-PRICE/272270265827?


lastly get some of these


http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-of-20-IEC-C13-to-C14-jumper-cord-cable-5-ft-length-/232389461182?



1 30 amp circuit breaker to 1 30 amp  receptacle to  1 24 amp pdu to 2  breakout extensions   to   your  6 power cords

do this one time  for 6x   800 watt l3's
do this two time for 12x  800  watt l3's

if you want to send me coin  here is an ltc address

LWdix5Rxpqmzk6w7xjZjq7Vvm9TBquDYH8

If you are having an electrician do the work, all they need to know is that you need "10 standard 15 amp NEMA 5-15 outlets, each on a separate circuit" and where to put the outlets.

There is no "wiring diagram" needed.

 You MAY have to upgrade your main panel and the power feed to it, or get a separate panel with it's own feed installed though, depending on the available capacity of your current main panel and main feed circuit.

 If you're planning future expansion, you should probably go ahead and upgrade your main feed NOW.

 "adding bigger breakers" is NOT how you expand power capacity.

I think philipma1957 takes the cake (or the coins ;) ) here. In my opinion, that would be a great option, it allows for just enough overhead for safety without wasting too much on permanent equipment (wires, plugs).