Assuming you are generating electricity for the sole use of mining:-

The general understanding is that 7 hours of sunshine alone is not enough to offset your usage in such a way that the solar side of the system will ROI in 3years unless you have a grid-tie setup. That money could infact be invested in more energy efficient (hence expensive) miners. So do your math carefully considering your electricity provider's policies around grid-tie.

But if you are a solar farm and want to mine, that's a different aspect altogether - which I believe is not the case.

As I understand, the usual domestic connection has a 3kw max connected load and wirings are usually done based on that (240v). So if you already have high powered equipment like geyser, AC, Waterpumps etc, your MCCB/MCB may not take the extra load and may tripp.

However, you MAY have higher powered connection. The point is, check your electricity bill and see the tariff. As far as 3phase is concerned, you don't always need that for a single S17 to run. Just connect the miner to a MCB with atleast 16A freely usable for the miner.

However, based on the noise and heat produced I don't recommend running it it at home. You may make some money but you may have to explain a few things every now and then ;-)

Did you say ICICI?

Sarcasm alert! :-)

Internet explorer is a tool to explore internet. Block Explorer is a web based service to explore the blocks generated by the bitcoin network. On another sense it allows you to look at a set of bitcoin transactions (block) to know who got how much from whom and when.

I always change it to google DNS in the router/switch so no need to change the miners.

Why are you forcasting it will go down again? How are you doing your calculations? In general, (still) the sentiment is opposite.

Got my s3+ shipment (they shipped early and customs was kind enough to clear it quickly). Just connected one of them. Stock is 225Mhz and obviously you can overclock from miner config webinterface. This is the non-blinking LED miner (like some of the early versions)

The pool is fluctuating -- will try overclocking in a while.

Working trailer link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwnpvODd-8

I would definitely RMA it if I don't have to keep any antminers switched off because I dont have any PSU left. If I have other PSUs, I will see if the problem is with Antminer itself. Also, I don't think anyone's gonna suggest you try to use this faulty PSU anymore even if you have plenty of cables and pcies left.

Yeah, it would. Read the DrG's post above. You need to look for single rail highest current. That's what matters. Two s3s initially spike to 850W and your PSU will most likely burn especially when power efficiency is not good.

Yes. S3 is only 366W. A 650w PSU can safely run one.

It may be a nice college project. But the issue with 486 machines is that their computational and power efficiency is nowhere near the current ASICs. So even if you get them for free, you will be running in loss from day 1 if your objective is Bitcoin mining.  

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As far as I know there are 5A and 20A original molexes but you can find others as well I guess.

A normal 15A house wiring can hold ~3450w and so, if you are careful you can probably manage 2500w per socket.

But a typical bangalore home has 3kva load (instead of 5) officially and if you exceed it, it can be there on the bill and the BESCOM(or any COM) may demand explanation. Did anyone face the situation? Did they charge penalties (you can also PM if don't want to discuss here)

How do you manage high power consumption required as a typical home will have low allowed load? When the authorities/landlords created problems like changing to a commercial electricity tariff, what have you done?

Did anyone shift to industrial spaces?

Updated: corrected to explain the question better.

Great review once again dogie. Added the miner to the hardware comparison list
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gtj8ts3zEUZPwSBZQnYZwi__zGfg-0SKVIdH_17GqYw


Very true for AM, Bitmine chips. Hashfast has designed everything to be watercooled I guess. May be a good way to reduce the airconditioning but use some clever hotair ducts :-)

No need to think. The initial root-cause analysis says that the avalanche effect started off at Bitfinex HKG exchange (by dropping a truckload of coins ofcourse) and other opportunists started encashing on arbitrage and prices dropped in all exchanges.

Guess this will keep on happening since the exchanges have variable scale/technical ability or/and no incentive to act against manipulation. The price stability is a distant dream.

Good initiative Benson. I guess, if time permits, you may add discoverable nodes list as well in the explorer. May be it can give india specific bitcoin network health. (I have been running a full node for coupla months now)

If it's s3, you can log into S3 web interface and it will tell you how much data it is transferring. Afterall, s3 controller is a router by iteself :-)