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Title: My power cost for mining...??? Post by: rabbit1979 on March 16, 2015, 01:56:02 PM I run for mining at home:
BFL 10 gh/s btc unit Gaw fury Asic LTC miner 3 USb dual miners (LTC only) At roughly $0.11 / kWh, what is my approximate energy cost / month? Title: Re: My power cost for mining...??? Post by: TheRealSteve on March 16, 2015, 02:47:19 PM To get this out of the way: All of that hardware is horribly obsolete, and getting good figures on power consumption is difficult. Given the low numbers, this in itself presents significant error. You did say 'roughly' and 'approximate' though, so let's roll with it:
BFL 10Gh/s is supposedly ~60W at the wall (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8882266). GAW Gury is supposedly ~48W at the wall (http://www.techunboxed.com/2014/06/gaw-miners-fury.html) with the included PSU. DualMiner in LTC mode is supposedly ~1.5W (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=409756.0) on the USB interface. You'd have to take a bunch of losses into account in the vregs of your computer, its power supply, etc. Let's call it 6.5W for all 3. Add those up, round that off a bit more, 120W. 0.120W*24h*30.5d*$0.11 ~= $10/month Title: Re: My power cost for mining...??? Post by: rabbit1979 on March 16, 2015, 06:09:08 PM I'm not really looking for ROI. I feel it's too pricey to reach enough h/s to achieve that. I'm just doing it for fun and to support the currencies.
Title: Re: My power cost for mining...??? Post by: guitarplinker on March 17, 2015, 01:06:30 PM Keep in mind if you're running those miners with a PC as a host, the PC alone probably takes more power than the miners. If you're looking to run them a little more efficiently you could try buying a Raspberry Pi and putting MinePeon on it, that would take less than 3 watts. They sell for pretty cheap too, I just saw someone sell 3 RPi's today in the marketplace for $20 each shipped.
Title: Re: My power cost for mining...??? Post by: MCHouston on March 17, 2015, 02:29:16 PM I'm not really looking for ROI. I feel it's too pricey to reach enough h/s to achieve that. I'm just doing it for fun and to support the currencies. Nice to see people mining just to support bitcoin. Your hardware will not be that much addition to your electric bill assuming the PC you are using is always on and you are not CPU or GPU mining with it. Your ASIC miners are adding around $8.75 to your bill a month. Title: Re: My power cost for mining...??? Post by: Stmoor on March 17, 2015, 08:58:12 PM I'm not really looking for ROI. I feel it's too pricey to reach enough h/s to achieve that. I'm just doing it for fun and to support the currencies. +1 Applaud your efforts and commitment. Title: Re: My power cost for mining...??? Post by: kano on March 22, 2015, 11:21:33 AM I'm not really looking for ROI. I feel it's too pricey to reach enough h/s to achieve that. I'm just doing it for fun and to support the currencies. Um - you are misunderstanding something there.More hardware means more loss, not less :P |