Cheers guys some really good info. You're right these would be 16A

As for heat I wouldn't see as too much of an issue as I live in Scotland and it's always cold but I wouldn't intend to have such a powerful rig to draw that much heat.

It's not a dream really. I have an opportunity (i've checked the rental contract and there are no issues rising about electricity) I have spare power sockets that aren't doing anything and just wanted to see what my options are.

You guys were great at giving those options a real big help.

So now I have 3 options

A) Do Nothing and just work in office as per
b) use existing rig to farm some over night alt coints
c) invest some money into a few antminers or something.

Cheers again guys... now to ponder. 

Thanks guys, some interesting ideas! Some of them I don't quite understand but i've got a good idea.


Ok I'll clear up a few things.

For quite some time now 've been renting a office within a bigger office (basically lots of studios) which is linked to over a hundred other studios, it's only just hit me I could be using this spare power for mining. These studios are all meant to be powered but your lucky if 70% really use that power (they are used for offline purposes, art etc.) Some studios use big power as they have lazer machines, huge format printers and other heavy machinary. But majority are all offline (no or small usage of power)

You only pay rent, you don't pay any electricity etc. I know some of their power is obtained via solar/wind and on grid.

I have 7 240 volt sockets available (typical UK spec) not sure on how much power they can handle but quick google reseach will probably give me the answer.

So these sockets are there with power available but not being used.

I realisticly don't want to spend any more money (because I'm in the middle of starting up a company and it's all going to that) I wanted to see what I could use my existing rig to make a little bit of overnight cash mining.

My friend has a huge rig down south (in newcastle) and I know he's been having power problems. So when I told him about this yesterday he almost cried as he's already sold half of his rig. He would have sent the whole lot up to my office lol. he has left ready for ebay 6x 280x and 4 x 1000watt corsair psu's with all riser cables and 2 psu splitters.

Hosting sounds good, I have the power there but not the rig I suppose.


Oh I just read  the last comment on the last post.

I have full public liability insurance and contents insurance. Hosting other miners wouldn't be a problem.

So with my rig it wouldn't be worth getting into mining at all (unless upgrading/buying new equipment?)

Hi Folks

My first post in the forums so nice to meet you guys! I stay in Edinburgh, Scotland

I tried the search function but couldn't really find anything on it.

As the title says I have free unlimited electricity. I would like to start mining bit coins but my knowledge isn't all that great. I know the market is pretty saturated so solo mining will pretty much get you no where so mining in a pool is your best shot. Apart from that my knowledge starts to run a little dry.

I have an alienware Aurora R3, it has 6Gb Ram, i7 processor overclocked from 2.67ghz to 3.2ghz with 8 cores.  2 ATI HD5700 graphics cards crossfired.

Where do I start?

Any advice is greatly appreciated folks

Thanks