[Music] what's going on everyone welcome to the Rabid Mining YouTube channel today we're taking
a look at some six pin cables courtesy of the veteran Miner so you can reach these cables at
the veteranminer.com code Robin mining will grant 25 off your total order so these essentially are
to hook up all those Apollo miners out there so you don't have to use their power supply and
maybe we can even run more efficient in doing so by utilizing a server power supply now before we
get into this let's take a look at this shirt I got in as well and this is from The hobbyist
Miner this is the RTX 3070 Founders Edition limited edition t-shirt now he currently has
a few Founders Edition limited edition store going on on his website so be sure to check it out the
link will be in the description as well and these are limited they're only here for a few months
and once time's up time is up you will no longer be able to purchase these so check
out the hobbyist miners store and check out this new merch all right so let's kind of open up this
bag to see what all we got in here and how many cables we have because that will determine how
many I will actually be able to set up so we got a variety of colors and cables so I'm gonna actually
I don't think I'll be able to do this in two hands or with one hand so I'm gonna have to actually use
two hands so give me a second here guys okay so here I have all the cables kind of laid out I do
have 11 of them so this means I should be able to utilize 10 of them and set up five by Paulo so I
do have five Apollos but I won't be able to try my KD boxes and mini dose Pro so I don't have enough
cables for that we'll see how this works out and I might have to order some more here we have two
veteran Miner stickers so that's awesome and two business cards now these are the same just each
side These are nice business cards so as you can see here's the thank you for the purchase listen
on the other side it has how to follow them with QR codes that's actually pretty sweet nice idea I
need to make some cards kind of like this as well I think that'd be pretty sweet but here is the
package that we did received with these various colored of cables now each color does depend on
the mine you're getting as you know the green and stuff is Misfit mining I believe there's pink ones
which aren't here those are pocket change we have red ones which are red panda or maybe these might
be the hobbyist but there's various YouTubers on the website and I gotta pick out my own color so
what do you think I should use for my colors so obviously red and stuff is already used I think a
red with a yellow band kind of wrapping around it would be pretty sweet but again I don't know I'm
gonna have to try to pick I think I need a solid color so I don't know what to roll with give me
some ideas on what the Rabid mining cables should look like all right so I have 11 cables each ipolo
does use two I believe I'm going to go through it to make sure maybe one only uses one so we'll
see I have five of those mini Apollo's there I'm gonna have to go into my spreadsheets and figure
out how much power all of these we're using that will help me determine what power supply I should
use as well so I'm going to find those numbers and I'll be right back all right so going over to
the Boneyard section of my basement putting all the numbers together I need about 983 Watts now
with the KD box Pros it would have been around 12 1300 watts and I want to get as close to 50
percent as possible of the server power supply so the 2400 watt I am not going to be able to use we
only need 940. I believe I do have a 1500 watt here somewhere so I'm just going to make sure so
this is 1200 this one right here is this a 750 or is this the 12 what is this uh that is 750 watts
yeah uh what's this guy here I believe this is a 15 yeah there we go so this one here is 1500 watts
it is platinum rated so awesome so we'll be using about 60 65 percent of this one so this will be
the server power supply I'm going to utilize and I believe red panda sent me this one uh a year or
two ago a year ago year and a half I don't know a while ago because he got a crap tum of them at a
sweet deal if we're also looking for server power supplies breakout boards parallel mining in the
description check it out because I will be using one of their breakout boards as well but let me
just figure out which breakout board I need to use as well all right so my selections are made
we got the 1500 watt server PSU Platinum rated and the parallel Miner X11 app now the reason
I want to go with the app now I've seen I only have one I thought I had more but I don't so I'm
gonna have to get more because you always want to have backups of these things but the X11 app it
will tell you your power consumption before your efficiency rating of the PSU so everything plugged
into this at a hundred percent by multiplying the volts by the amps and that will tell you how much
power you're using and then you can use that add on whatever your efficiency of your power supply
is and that's will give you what you're using at the wall so we're also going to look at our wall
power here so right now you guys can see we're at about forty four thousand five hundred and
ninety four ninety five Watts so 4500 almost 4 600 watts with my entire CPU Farm uh that jazz
Miner is on it that's 500 watts and then we got all these so if we see some wattage drop at the
wall there after we convert all these over we'll get an idea on if we're using less power or not so
let's get these things hooked up and see what things start to look like all right guys so I
already had all of these in once there you can see I have everything in the power supply ready and I
have one cable left but I started plugging them in and I ran into an issue after two or three A6
in and as you can see if you look at the plug this is just so that you guys don't run into it one has
a thicker end and the other one has a skinnier end right there and as you can see the skinnier
end is also actually it's the fatter end here is marked TVM so this end goes into your breakout
Board of your server power supply because on some of the Apollos this thicker plug right here would
not fit inside there now it's focusing so that one would not fit in you do got to use the side with
this skinnier plug now if I would have looked at this earlier I might have caught it but I didn't
I just threw them all in and that's what it came out to be so make sure you do have that thicker
plug that is marked TVM inside your braco board okay guys so I got all the Apollos right there
they're not turned on yet there's the garbage psus now they're not garbage they still work it's just
the default psus but here we are on that server power supply so let's just kind of have a look
so cables are looking a little better for the most part now it kind of sucks that they have ethernet
and some of them's in the back some of them's in the front the plot power plugs are in the back and
all of them I have all the fans blowing out but they're laid out nice and all that good stuff so
here's the power supply now all I got to do is hit that red button now remember with these parallel
minor breakout boards they do remember their power state so I did plug this in beforehand
to make sure it was off that way when I plugged it in it didn't just turn on all by itself so it
is off right now I gotta hit this power button and then we'll see if anything Sparks snaps or
blows up and this is always the most nervous time when doing something is turning on now I
went through all the plugs always recommended make sure everything is tight so I did do that
and we're about to find out if these turn on so bam all right looks like everything turned on now
I'm gonna have to go I'm gonna make sure these are up and Mining they take three to five minutes to
kick in but so far everything is looking pretty good just on idle here we're at 12 volts and or
12.3 amps with 12 volts I'm not sure what that equals out of 12 times 12 that's about 144 so
around 144 Watts right now with all of these just on idle so I'm going to make sure everything is
loaded up all the ethernet cables are kind of switched around so I'm just going to make sure
the IPS and everything are good I cleaned some of them off that one's still a little Dusty up top so
I might have hit some reset switches so I do got to make sure everything is working right now and
then we'll come back once everything is Mining and kind of look at our power consumption all right
guys so here we are it has been about 45 minutes or so everything's been rocking and if we take a
look at our amp meter 82 amps at 12 to 12.1 volts so if we calculate that right here at 12 volts
82 times 12 volts is 900 and 84 Watts so we're pretty darn close in our calculations there on
estimating this is the proper power supply to use but we take a look at our power consumption now
we actually have 46 000 24 Watts or so so we are up like 30 or 40 watts in power which means
a couple things one those power supplies are actually pretty efficient that it does come
with also I do notice it is warmer here because I did have one up here before and they're a lot
closer together so they may be all their fans are a little bit louder than they were so that
could be where the extra Power is coming from as well regardless I figured I should show the high
here so that you guys can see that is using some power now there were times when I was actually
down about 50 Watts so you add up a bunch of fans here together ramped up it does bring that
power down now saving electricity would also result in keeping these things cool so maybe
I'm gonna open a window or something and see if we can drop the power consumption down on these
or maybe I'll do that at a different video time or something because it is actually pretty warm
out today it's not really winter time so that might be an updated video but we'll see what
happens regardless here is what we're doing we can easily see our power consumption throughout
the breakout board everything is nice and neat stacked better I do like this better
yes I'm currently using a bit more power but I have seen times when it has been lower in power
based on the ambient temperature in your area regardless everything is working as intended
so awesome thank you for checking out this video guys if you have any questions at all let me know
down in the comment section below I will see you on the next one Rabid Out [Music] foreign
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