PUD is a good acro for them. every so often you read unsettling things about them and their power allocation policies. Don't live there so don't really follow them. A while ago the buzz was about them actively discouraging high-power density users like data centers and mining farms - or at least ones without political clout. They claim it is 'taking advantage' of the low-cost power and takes away power availability to smaller people. Riiiiggghttt....

Anywho thing is, power factor issues - and if needed, suppressing harmonics - can be addressed at the main feed from the utility using capacitors and/or reactors. Every so often you will see them on power poles, look like a bank of rectangular boxes with HV terminals. If serious enough that the utility might care it is a 1-time fix with analysis of issue and then installing the correction for it.

Do you see anything resembling an AC power connector on the miner? No.
The miners run on 12VDC. What provides that power? A PSU...

It is YOUR money.
It is YOUR risk.
Only YOU know your financial and infrastructure setups.
Why would you think that complete strangers with zero knowledge of your plans can help YOU decide?
Get some balls and make up YOUR OWN damn mind!

Let 'em. Mainly for the reliability factor I still would buy the Avalon's. Cut the s9 cost by 50% and ja, that would regain my attention - as long as they return to accepting BTC.

Until then, Bitmain who?

Where are people picking up this off-the-wall crap to worry about? Some New Age sites blatherin on about the Evils of Smart meters?

For at least a decade all but the most cheaply made low power computer PSU's have power-factor compensation (PFC) in them that mitigates it. ergo no issues with odd-harmonics caused by how switching supplies work. Various countries Energy regulations now mandate PFC for all non-industrial power supplies rated more than 500W output. Now the lingering specter of high K-factor loads is a scare sell for more expensive transformers where they are no longer needed.

Look in the Avalon 7 thread. Steve from Canaan said a few things about it last Monday or so. Target around 14THs and 1400w or so. They are still hammering out specs and the production processes. Target is closer to the s9 specs while still being more reliable than the s9.

cool and glad to hear it.
Ja I was seeing them pop up here while Sidehack was tweaking them and another showed up briefly 4hrs ago. Overall good machines and if I had the power budget I'd probably still have them. Now only 1 left, hacked to silence and sitting in our inspection area at work.

Glad they found new homes and all proceeds went to a good cause so win-win and Fuzzies for all

Ya listening to us Lady? Come on Blocks!

Post in the altcoin areas where this belongs to get help.
This area is BITCOIN only and that cannot be mined on PC's unless it is just an academic exercise. Costs far more to run than any income you *might* receive. The BTC world left CPU/GPU mining behind in the dust years ago.

Yer company does not even have a corporate email address and instead uses disposable gmail acts?
Riiiight... That just screams 'Trust us'.....

As Phil said - this an altcoin HW query, this area is BITCOIN only. Post in the right area for better answers 'cause BTC outgrew GPU's years ago.

I d not use pre-pay services. I use Coinbase for exchange to Fiat.
Speaking of services, this is a Services question and ya should look/post in the Currency exchange section.

No it is not ok and no other wallets have that limit. They may be doing it because it is a card and is how they make their money but nonetheless they are skimming off a large part of your earnings as a hidden fee.

a. Learn how to use a Forum. This is a software question and belongs in the software section.
b. Learn how to ask proper questions: Name of the software you looked at?
c. Learn about computers in general. Good that you pay attention to malware warnings but - also know that some anti-virus programs automatically flag ALL mining software as suspicious even the the software is perfectly clean. They do this because *some* malware will use the code to run mining in the background so to be maximum 'safe' it is flagged.

Only download software - ANY software - only from official sources. If you trust the source then Virus warnings are *probably* false. CGminer, BFGminer and others are clean when downloaded from the Authors pages.

Hope you are doing this just for fun. Bitcoin outgrew CPU/GPU's almost 4 years ago so you are losing money by the bucketful using them to mine BTC.

Depends. Is the s7 stock or has it been undervolted/underclocked? If UV/UC then it *could* be happy with 2 power cables per-board. Stock the s7 pulls 1200-1300w and needs all 3 PCIe power cables per-hash board.

Not only never seen - never WILL see. As you said the ONLY thing you need to receive BTC is a wallet address. In your example, the donation address for Sidehack and his ongoing miner dev projects  1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr

For you to send BTC to someone all you need is their address to send to. There is no 'Friend' access function to wallets. Never EVER give someone else access to your wallet keys.

On the breakout use any PCIe plugs you want. They are all the same. On the miner, yes 1 cable to the controller and at least 2 cables (pref 3) to each hash board. Doesn't matter which on the boards, they are all tied together on the boards.

Pretty bullet-proof hook up.

Given how very thin power cords are India, Asia, and many other countries best you can look at is the current (amps) rating.

Be very aware a cord's rating is the maximum amount of current that can be safely used FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME not with a constant load. You never ever want to push a cord to max for long periods of time. As you have found out - they get hot.

For loads running 24x7 like miners preferably a cord should be rated for 2x what a miner draws.

Any cord powering miners like the s9 or Avalons need cords rated for at least 13 amps, 15 is better.

Assuming Lady Luck accepts pre-orders, I did my bit for Karma 2 months ago when I donated 22x retired s7's to Sidehack to work his majik on and then sell through asicpuppy @ the damn good price of $499 (all sold out now of course). I don't resell as part of the proverbial ROI exit plan - I donate my retired miners for that Fuzzy Warm feeling A lot of Sidehacks 2PAC stick miners use harvested S5 chips from my farm.

Come on gal! Get more slaves interns to plow through your Good Deeds list!

And the s5+ was AFAIK Bitmain's introduction of the current s7/9/t9/altminers form-factor of being interlockable shoe boxes.

Still have 2x s4's sitting in upstairs storage at work. Love those things. Good looking, could be turned down to be moderately quiet, but now just too damn hungry.