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I live in an older apartment and found out each outlet can handle 1500w.  If I have like 4-5 usable outlets, is there a way to create a decent mining farm.

My main concern is obviously overloading the outlets.

Probably not because you won't know which circuit each outlet is on or which ones are daisy-chained.

You could run a rig or 2 in each room depending on how many gpus you use.

You should also think about cooling - if you have 20+ GPU's running 24/7 you will heat up the apartment quiet nice and for air condition you need power too ;)
How old is the building and when was the last renovation of your apartment (including the power cabling / fuses)?

Go for it. As kog as you paying for it then it is fine. Like the above user said 1500w per socket is not much but you have many sockets.
Is your country cold ? It is a bonus then the heat from the cards can be a heater.

You could check if you have some special power outlets e.g. for washing mashine, dryer, .... - they should have stronger cables / fuses and if you don't need them for their original use you can plug your rigs into them ;)

I see a future of...

Paper plates and laundromats with crazy crack heads.

If you have access to the fuse box, you can check each breaker for the scokets it uses with a light bulb. Running more than 2-3 six card rigs is going to present a ventilation problem even with AC.

You need to find out which outlets are connected to which fuse. You probably only have 15A fuses, which is enough to power one rig of 7 cards. If two outlets are on the same circuit then you can only run one rig on either of the outlets.

You also need to know exactly what other devices/appliances are on the same circuit.

Turn on everything in the apartment, and go around one by one turning off a fuse and see what is mapped to where.

I have two dedicated 20A outlets with only one rig of 7 running on each at about 10.5 amps with fans and stuff.

Yes, after assuring that you can hold several rigs with your outlet, the ventilation comes next and the electricity bill at the end of the month. I'm living in an apartment and I was also mining before. But I stopped as ventilation was really a problem and I'm not living in a cold area. With the added factor of high electricity bill. So you need to gauge if it will be profitable for you to run a mining farm with your situation.

this should take place mate knowing the precaution before you start doing the mining farm as we knew that it can heat up your place if you will not do some research abut the ventilation and the capability of your electrical connection, you can pursue after you are done checking everything.

If you got a spare room with a window to put in some vent fans and wont overload your electrical setup then go for it.
I don't think apartment is per se the best structure for a mining farm, but a few rigs of 4-6 cards should be fine.
You start doing a actual farm without being able to get your electrical prepared and you risk not only destroying
your apartment and belongings, but also others and possibly harming/killing people.
Ideally you'll want a nice ventilated garage, a storage shed in the back yard something like that for your average farm.

Im running a 32GPU mini farm in my apartment right now. I did have a 220v line installed, after getting permission from the leasing office, but so far everything is running well.

What does installing the 220v line do?

Wow stop it guys. Everyone is suggesting as if it is really possible even though he can get rid of electrical mess. But what about the heating and high decibel sounds that will produced during noise. Do you really think nobody will complain about you for being so much noisy. The noise of miners are so heavy you couldn't really bear that without empty space. The heat is always dangerous no matter how it produces. If you read few of the article around the internet then you can see how bad heat was even when people were mining into non residence zone and having a pretty good set up. It is mandatory to have good quality of ventilation system in place to keep everything smoothly running.

220v line allows for me to run upwards of 5300w of power off a single PDU. Also most power supplies run at a higher efficiency when at 220v

 Heat is probably an issue, but if the apartment has 2 openable windows placed right can be dealt with.

 Noise - for GPU rigs not so much so, open-air rigs tend to be pretty quiet.

 If the place has a FUSE BOX instead of a breaker box, though, I'd be VERY iffy about trying to mine in it at all - ghods only know how old and what kind of shape the wiring would be in.

Lol you are a really funny guy. I live in Montreal Canada (city with over 4 mil people). I live in a duplex and less than 4 inches away is the next building on each side. I am currently running 4 S9 and 1 T9 in my room and i moved my bed into the living room. Also bought 7 1080 and going to run those in the same room. I have 1 12k btu a/c in the windows (planning on getting another one for when the heats gets higher) and i also have 2 S9 and my T9 that are in isolated ducts and have their exhaust go directly outside. (which causes a negative pressure but etc etc.)

TL;DR I have a 100A apartment and I am running 4 S9 and 1 T9 and planning to run some gpu miners. So it is very possible.

I dont think it is feasible. At least not more than a few rigs.

I have 11 GTX 1060 3GB in one room and a 5000 BTU window AC cannot overcome the heat produced. I should have bought at least 8000 BTU but it was another $70. Although the window AC keeps the room at a far colder temp(73 F) than it would be without (80+ f).

When I had the door open to that room for airflow it affected the thermostat in the hallway such that the main AC never turned off and this froze the AC coil.... Thankfully the living room has a mitsubishi overhead AC/heat as well.

Once you get into the thousands of watts your going to have a very difficult time dealing with the heat, especially in an apt. Are you OK with living in 75 + degree climate?

It all depends how much rigs you want to put in it,i have 1 rx470 rig 1 rx570 rig and 1 mixed 1080 rig in apartment and in same room.Heat is starting to be a problem and I have to keep the window open 24/7,2nd problem is the noise and can't really use the room for anything else

I live in a 2 room apartment with my girlfriend, she is very supportive of my mining. heat is not an issue thanks too cold climate (sweden), but noise is starting to get to her :D All profits go to make her happy about the noise, its contra productive :D

In my place, every apartment has 100A supply with 240V. So we can install quite a few rigs.

If your ambient temps are low then you can lower fan speed of GPUs. In that case noise shouldn't be a problem.

I maxed out 100A service in a 525sq.ft. studio.  6x 6-card 1070 rigs, 6x 7-card 470 rigs.  If I wanted to use the stove I needed to switch out the server PSUs.  If I wanted to use the microwave I needed to shutdown a 470 rig.  I wore heavy-duty noise canceling headphones during the day and slept with earplugs in.  I made it through fall, winter and spring in Chicago.  Obviously I never turned on the heat.  Once the outside temperature started getting above 60F in spring it would get to about 80F inside despite the massive fans and airflow I had setup.  I made enough money in 9 months of living like this to buy a house and scale up.

Is it possible?  Yes.  Does it come with sacrifices?  Yes.  You decide if it's worth it.

-TBT

you got 12 rigs... hope you bought a nice house with a nice 30tons a/c for a medium shed in the backyard  ;D

it is necessary that conducting was normal, old wires can not sustain tension. :o

That is pure dedication.  Good on you man

I think he is joking.

has anybody thought about using the heat as an advantage , lets say for

"growing strong potent smelling plants" , im not sure about the forum rules but you can read between the lines

Good for you that you do have a cold country on which it does reduce the heat being produced by those miners but you cant really get rid of the noise no matter what and you should tell your girlfriend that she must got used to it because she will still able to get those mining profits later on. For op, 1500w/socket or on the entire series? If entire series then it would accumulate 2 miners as far as i know.

I think the heat from GPU mining is not enough to grow that kind of plant. The humidity is not right.

I am setting up the same setup in an apartment I will move in to next week, how do you deal with the noise? I made "silent boxes" and plan on attaching a duct from the exhaust fan and out the window for all 5 antminer machines I have. For intake, the intake fan will be placed inside the box as to control the noise but I was wondering should I attach a intake duct to each box or will having an AC keep ambient/cold temperature in the room enough?

How big is the apartment? If it is anything less than 100 sq. meters i would highly discourage it. You would have a headache with all the humming fan noise and you would have to device effective cooling solutions. A simple rig or tow will do, but not a farm.