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July 20, 2017, 04:43:29 AM
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Hello,

I want to protect my investments, and I am looking at Minuteman Power Tech.
Any recommendations for machines at 800w machine? 1300W machine?

Anyone one own any of these machines?

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July 21, 2017, 08:08:08 AM
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Hello,

I want to protect my investments, and I am looking at Minuteman Power Tech.
Any recommendations for machines at 800w machine? 1300W machine?

Anyone one own any of these machines?

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I don't own them but UPS is well recommended if you are mining in an area where electricity goes off regularly.

If electricity is stable in your area then UPS may be costly and overkill.
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July 21, 2017, 01:17:55 PM
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Hello,

I want to protect my investments, and I am looking at Minuteman Power Tech.
Any recommendations for machines at 800w machine? 1300W machine?

Anyone one own any of these machines?

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I have 2 APC 2200 models that provide power for 2 S7s.   I tried splitting a 3rd S7 (e.g., power supply A for control board and hashing board #1 plugged into UPS A and power supply B for the remaining 2 hashing boards plugged into UPS B) but they were overloaded.  As it is, one S7 uses 68% of their capacity.

I would not recommend UPSes since they are expensive when you're talking 1400 WATTS (not VA) and the "return" is possibly longer Miner life (since it's fed better power?) or 5 minutes of "uptime" during a power outage.  Not worth it.

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July 21, 2017, 03:49:51 PM
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A UPS is only for saving what you have on the OS so you can shut down cleanly. In a mining situation there is no need as it does not protect the hardware in any specific way. If you have unstable power just make sure your PSU is set to NOT turn back on after power loss in BIOS as rapidly powering up and down a bunch will hurt things, otherwise you will be fine.

Stop buying industrial miners, running them at home, and then complaining about the noise.
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