Power Question

[Musent]

I currently have 2 miners, 1 using 1400 watt PS and 1 using 1000 watt PS. I live in an apartment and when I place the 2 miners on the same breaker, I trip it. I have 2 more miners slated to come online in the next week and was wondering what I could do for power? I don't have any clue on power usage, wattage, etc needed or jargon so please dumb it down a little for me.

[philipma1957]

buy a kill-a-watt meter

http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1390151781&sr=1-1&keywords=kill-a-watt

 also answer questions below.

okay first off what country?

second what miners?

do you mine with gpu's?

next how many breakers does your apartment have?



  suggestions are as follows

I assume you are usa.

 Most breakers are 15 amps and 110/120 volts  that can run    15 x 120 x .80  or  about 1440 watts safely for 24/7/365

 so  if you have a 1400 watter that is 1 breaker stand alone for that unit.

you have a 1000 watter in needs a second breaker if the one you have coming in is a 1000 watter and the 2 add up to 2000 watts they may or may not overload your second breaker.  as maybe they pull  700 of the 1000 watts which would be 700 + 700 = 1400 just under the safe number.


but the 1400 + the 1000 maybe be 1050 plus 700 = 1750 too high.

buy  a kill-a-watt meter cost is 20 bucks at amazon

 http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1390151781&sr=1-1&keywords=kill-a-watt

[Musent]

okay first off what country?

second what miners?

do you mine with gpu's?

next how many breakers does your apartment have?

1. USA
2. 2 scrypt based miners with 3 GPU's in each. The new miners will be another scrypt based miner with 4 GPU and 1 ASIC.
3. I'm not sure about the breakers, but I have one panel. When I trip the breaker, my computer room, living room and kitchen go out with my other 2 bedrooms still live. I moved the 2nd miner to my bedroom for now and everything stays on. With that information, do I have 2 breakers?

Thank you for your help philipma1957!

[philipma1957]

okay first off what country?

second what miners?

do you mine with gpu's?

next how many breakers does your apartment have?

1. USA
2. 2 scrypt based miners with 3 GPU's in each. The new miners will be another scrypt based miner with 4 GPU and 1 ASIC.
3. I'm not sure about the breakers, but I have one panel. When I trip the breaker, my computer room, living room and kitchen go out with my other 2 bedrooms still live. I moved the 2nd miner to my bedroom for now and everything stays on. With that information, do I have 2 breakers?

Thank you for your help philipma1957!

 

yes at least 2 breakers please buy a k-watt-meter

http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1390151781&sr=1-1&keywords=kill-a-watt

you can figure out just how much you pull from the wall.

I have 3 pc's running lite coins  I under clock them just a bit. it helps keep over pulling watts  on the power.

I use msi afterburner to control clocks .

 my 7970's  are 1.050 volts / 950 core     and  1.550 volts /1400 ram

  I lose a bit of kh's but they run cooler and pull lower power.
 Setting clocks a little lower may help the watts pulled a lot.  you can tell by the k-watt-meter.  I lose about 5% in kh's and save 15% in power.  but with lite coin you can't until you try.

[Musent]

So, if I'm at my max on the current 2 breakers for the existing miners, what can I do for the incoming miners?

[philipma1957]

So, if I'm at my max on the current 2 breakers for the existing miners, what can I do for the incoming miners?

try getting the k-watt-meter and doing a small underclock set the volts at 1.050  for core  and 1.550  for ram  lower the core to 940- 970 the ram to 1375-1400 (if you have  a hd7970)  keep looking at the k-watt-meter to see if you get low enough to add another miner.

 it is a shit load of trail and error.  and you may not be able to run the next miner no matter had much you tweak.

then:

  (find a trusted friend's house)  or  ask here on site if someone can host.   sebdude has hosted in his pc shop  he is in CA.

  I am in New Jersey, but I am adding a fourth pc today I don't think I could host one for you.

[Musent]

So, if I'm at my max on the current 2 breakers for the existing miners, what can I do for the incoming miners?

try getting the k-watt-meter and doing a small underclock set the volts at 1.050  for core  and 1.550  for ram  lower the core to 940- 970 the ram to 1375-1400 (if you have  a hd7970)  keep looking at the k-watt-meter to see if you get low enough to add another miner.

I'm assuming all this is done in the BIOS? If not, where would I do this? I'm using all ASUS r9 280x for GPUs.

[philipma1957]

So, if I'm at my max on the current 2 breakers for the existing miners, what can I do for the incoming miners?

try getting the k-watt-meter and doing a small underclock set the volts at 1.050  for core  and 1.550  for ram  lower the core to 940- 970 the ram to 1375-1400 (if you have  a hd7970)  keep looking at the k-watt-meter to see if you get low enough to add another miner.

I'm assuming all this is done in the BIOS? If not, where would I do this? I'm using all ASUS r9 280x for GPUs.

you should have an asus tweak cd/dvd  and it has an over under clocking program.

  But I have 1 asus myself and it does not let me do under clocking with msi afterburning.
  it did let me do a very little underclock with the asus tweak utility. 
  Asus are not so good for underclocking (at least I am not that good at doing it.)

[soy]

I currently have 2 miners, 1 using 1400 watt PS and 1 using 1000 watt PS. I live in an apartment and when I place the 2 miners on the same breaker, I trip it. I have 2 more miners slated to come online in the next week and was wondering what I could do for power? I don't have any clue on power usage, wattage, etc needed or jargon so please dumb it down a little for me.

Buy a gasoline powered generator and put it out on your balcony.

or

Rip out sheetrock exposing your neighbor's outlets and tap in.

[chowdan]

I currently have 2 miners, 1 using 1400 watt PS and 1 using 1000 watt PS. I live in an apartment and when I place the 2 miners on the same breaker, I trip it. I have 2 more miners slated to come online in the next week and was wondering what I could do for power? I don't have any clue on power usage, wattage, etc needed or jargon so please dumb it down a little for me.

Rip out sheetrock exposing your neighbor's outlets and tap in.

Dont recommend this as it will put your ass in jail, however i love the idea of it! I have contemplated doing this, however the reward totally is not worht it considering the neighbors will see a nice spike in power bills and start to get concerned.....Though the idea continues to go through my head every minute.

[Lucky Cris]

I currently have 2 miners, 1 using 1400 watt PS and 1 using 1000 watt PS. I live in an apartment and when I place the 2 miners on the same breaker, I trip it. I have 2 more miners slated to come online in the next week and was wondering what I could do for power? I don't have any clue on power usage, wattage, etc needed or jargon so please dumb it down a little for me.

Buy a gasoline powered generator and put it out on your balcony.

or

Rip out sheetrock exposing your neighbor's outlets and tap in.

ROTFL

[Musent]

Tapped into neighbor's outlet. Thanks soy!