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Quote from: TTravis on March 10, 2016, 09:47:34 PM

I am interested in hosting also. I've got a bunch of S5's and S7's in my home garage currently drawing right around 300A @ 240V.

They are claiming I am using too much power for my meter that is rated CL-300 or 300 amp continuous load.

I have a feeling they are wanting me to upgrade the meter and go on commercial power which costs twice as much.

They don't know what I am up to. All they know is that I am, by far, their biggest residential customer. My last bill was over $4000!
This is raising all sorts of red flags on their end.

They are hesitant to answer questions like "How much power can I use with my 400 A service?" I actually have a 2nd 400 amp service which
I was planning on building a shed and expanding to, but right not is not the time for me to expand.

If they push me, I may have to retire my s5's and have my s7's hosted if I can do it at a reasonable price. Hopefully I will be armed with
this information before that meeting. Also I've been reading here that some of you are renting hash power. This is something I need to look
into as well.

It seems funny to me that, while the power company is running radio advertisements, they don't like selling a lot of power to me.

I know this is continuing an off topic post, but I like the audience here.

I have 400AMP running at my house for my Test/Dev equipment on top of the 125AMP existing service. The electric company won't care, they will just charge you a premium to go beyond the normal kws for residential and in reverse you get a discount for going beyond for Commercial. The biggest challenge is really whether your Transformer can support the additional load, they won't be willing to pay for the upgraded transformer unless it's currently overloaded for residential. I got lucky as they were planning on the upgrade anyways so the new transformer BUS bar can support my 500MCM cables for the 400AMP vs the previous one wouldn't. If you have cheap electrical rates and knows how to control heat, I think it's best to run it at home rather than have it hosted, unless noise is a concern. Heck, if I have the cycle, I would love to host for others as that's free money and I can provide a good service for the community.

Renting Hash is only a good supplemental gamble but it can also cost you. The rental fee is usually 3% or higher and most time it may be difficult to get market rate which means pool luck have to be 103%+ for you just to break even. So long term that may not work out too well. So it's only best to gamble for the biggest hashing power over the short term as you're gambling for pool luck over 103% if you're able to get market rates else you will be losing money. Renting hash is like playing options for stocks, it's simply a leverage game. It only make sense if you're willing to gamble for big hashing power over short period of time where you think Kano will hit beyond 110%, etc.

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