Electrical Safety concern For Minning

[elproducto]

Hello All,

Just started mining a few weeks ago.  These miners pull a lot of amperage.  I recommend folks do not attempt to run two miners on the same average residential breakers.  It will seem cool at first.  Then one or more of your PSUs will pop.  You can avoid this by running on separate breakers or calculating Amperage needed per breaker and staying within your calculations.  I used the Volts / Watts / Amps Converter on SuperCircuits to calculate mine.

[Photon939]

You mean the breakers will pop?

PSUs popping means you have other problems, likely buying 1000W CoolMAX power supplies for $20 and wondering why they explode when you actually load them to 1000W.

[Foxpup]

You seem to misunderstand the purpose of a circuit breaker. Breakers protect your wiring, not your equipment. Breakers do not protect against power surges (you need a surge protector for that), only continuous overcurrent, which would otherwise melt your wiring and burn your house down. If your PSU explodes, it's either because the PSU is a piece of shit, or you had a power surge, neither of which a circuit breaker will protect you from. If your breakers are tripping regularly, you might want to have an electrician wire up a higher amperage circuit (don't just slap a higher amperage breaker on an existing circuit - nothing good will come of it).

[psybase64]

The breakers are meant to break the circuit if it becomes overloaded to protect the house wiring and whatever is on the end of it causing the overload.

If your PSUs fail it's because they have probably been overloaded with GPUs or faulty in some way.

Still it is a very good idea to spread the load of multiple GPU mining rigs onto different circuits that some people would overlook.

Remember to use a good quality extension lead though if you are running from another circuit. Thicker wire less loss.