what's going on everyone welcome to the Rabid Mining youtube channel and today i'm going to take
this ipolo etc mini the kd box pro mini doge miner pro as well as the apollo v1 ETH miner and i want
to attempt to run all of these off a single server power supply so because each one does require its
own cable currently i do want to free everything up and essentially if i can get everything running
on a single server power supply that's only one plug to go into my pdu up here versus you know
one two three that i got going here plus four when i bring that f minor over here so that'll free up
four of these c13 pdu plugs and just have to use one coming in to give me some more slots if i
do need to use something else in the future now there is one thing i'm kind of curious about is
these little kd box pro over there and this mini doge pro they only use a single six pin and it's
quite a thick cable that's coming into here and they're using like 230 watts off a single six pin
now that mini etc classic miner down there it only uses like 135 watts but it does use two six pins
so that's like a safer route to go so the one thing that concerns me again is these two mini
doge miners or one's the kd and one's the mini does but these little boxes here use 230 watts off
a single six pin but you know what i'm still going to try it out anyway so i'm also going to have
to figure out what psu i do want to use so 230 plus 230 plus 135 and 240 watts equals 835 watts
that i am gonna need here so we're gonna need 835 watts so i am coming into our motherboard uh psu
breakout board type of boneyard here and i gotta find something and i think i have a 1500 watt here
somewhere so this is a platinum 750 watt from dell we have a hp server 1200 watt and yes this is a 94
uh 1500 watt server psu so these hp server power supplies their peak efficiency rating is around 50
so this would get me as close to 50 as possible i'll probably be around 55 or something
but overall you know we'll be at pretty much top efficiency rating running this 1500 watt with
that 835 so i'm just going to set this up here for now we're going to have to try to find ourselves a
breakout board which one we want to use now if you are looking for any miner or anything that you do
ever see in my crypto mining basement power supplies server psus whatever i do have it links
in the description for anything i ever do talk about so for breakout board selection we got to
figure out how many plugs we actually need so we need two here one in each of those so that's four
and two for this v1 mini so we're gonna need six plugs for this and i'm gonna go with the x11 app
now i could go with the regular x11 but i want to use the amp because it will dictate how much
power we're actually using at a hundred percent efficiency so it's going to give us an amp reading
at the bottom and at the top here will tell us how many volts we're utilizing so if we times our amps
by our volts it will tell us how much power all of these are using throughout the breakout board
at 100 percent efficiency and then you just got to kind of calculate the efficiency of the psu
you are using in this case we're using the 94 gold so it shouldn't be too too much more but
you know we're gonna get a nice idea of how much these things are actually drawing as a whole okay
so i do have six cables here i'm just gonna plug them all in and get everything ready so we're just
gonna do that right quick they don't get all in a big tangled mess so i'm just gonna plug all these
into the breakout board make sure they're all in nice and tight that way i can just plug everything
in i want to try and do this as quick as possible for the least amount of down time as we can get
all right we got two
so let's go straight across like it doesn't really matter which way they go
i want to kind of keep the face open so that i can see all the
watts and bolts and everything that's actually going through here or i suppose apps because
this does amps not watts the walk calculation you have to do on your own we got four in there
five and number six the last one
now this next step i like to always do as well is i like to make sure that this is not
on or off now these do retain their power state so if i unplug this long time ago when it was on
as soon as i plug it in it's going to be on again so i want to plug in my server power supply into
the pdu here and make sure it doesn't turn on and if it does i'm just going to turn it off because
i want to make sure it's off that way when i hit the on button everything turns on and i don't get
surprised as soon as i plug it in or something so i did unplug one of the miners and now i'm
just gonna see as you can see the lights off so this was remained off so if i hit the on switch
that will give us some power there we can see our wattage 12.3 volts and zero amps
because there's nothing plugged in yet so i'm going to turn this off that way it remains off
i'm going to plug this into all my miners bring that v1 over and then hopefully this all works out
for the best okay guys so there is a little bit of technical difficulties on this apollo right now so
it looks like these are in but they are because these are a little bit fatter on the clips it
won't push in all the way the metal bracket here is catching the corner so it won't allow it to go
in so i could simply as you can see look at that i can just pull these out they're not in all the
way so that's a loose connection due to the fact it's hitting the very core you see the little tabs
there sticking out the side that will not go in so i could break these off and then probably get
it in but then that's kind of your safety feature if you go to put these on gpus or something later
on so that'd be a bad idea so i do not want to do that on this apollo maybe if i had some different
cables with skinnier clips here it might work now the other end that plugs into the breakout board
that does fit in here and clips in just fine so it is these ends here that don't work and it
is a six pin you can see this is the eight pin side the proper side to put in here so i'm not
going to use these and i don't have any skinnier cables to utilize this so this whole experiment
is already a wash so apollo mini etc classic miner is a no go at least with the cables i do have
but let's see if these would at least work on the gold shells i'm going to
put everything back to normal at the end of this video i'm not going to use this anymore
because i want everything back the way it was and so nothing shorts out or something
but let's at least see if these fit into these kd box pro and the mini doge miner now so the kd box
pro as well as the mini doge pro they clipped in just fine they got a lot more space there
so there's no issues clipping them in i heard a snap and everything so we're all good there so
i'm going to plug this in at least so that we know if it'll fire these things up or not and
then i'm just gonna put everything back to default all right guys so here we go i'm about to hit the
power button let's see if anything melts power on and the fans are spinning it's starting to do
some stuff we're gonna get some lights we got some lights happening so these are beginning to fire up
let's let these run for a couple minutes see if anything happens don't quite have any readings
going out yet because it has to boot up and start mining so i'll come back to in a couple minutes
once it does finally start doing its thing okay so they're kind of ramped up the numbers started
spiking and went one two three and then it just went like five six seven eight nine ten total all
the way up to like 34 that we're sitting at so 34 apps at 12.2 volts let's just have a look here 34.
um let me see here 34 times hanging out at 414 watts right now and then you got to calculate
the efficiency of the psu which is who knows times up by 94 so we're losing about six percent here so
you have to add like six percent extra that's if we were at that peak efficiency right now we're
not but we're slightly under it you can give it a rough idea of what you think we're using so
not too bad here it is working on the gold shell boxes but too bad i could not get it to work on
this and i just didn't want to do it we probably could get it to work we stuffed it in and broke
those clips off but i wouldn't recommend anybody to do that so i'm not going to do that but you
know it is a possibility of an option you could do but we can use server power supplies on these it
does save you a little bit of money if you don't want to purchase these boxes with the power supply
because you already have maybe breakout boards and power supplies yourself so you know that's one way
to save money when purchasing these items but this is just one thing to keep an eye on it will
not work here without different plugs you're going to have to look for the skinny tabs to
fit inside of these things and the f minor the v1 it's the same as this it just won't fit well guys
i do kind of hate ending videos on a sad note our experiment was a failure i am unable to at least
run this on a server power supply with the cables i have so there may be other cables i can use
that will work on those miners but for now it won't work everything is back the way it was i
do want to point one thing out when i pulled these miners off or these power supplies off
these two kd boxes and that mini gold pro or mini doze pro these things were hot very very hot and
i have heard of people burning out the gold shell power supplies and i can see why those things were
burning hot i could barely touch them i had to let them cool down for a couple minutes and then carry
them over but yeah they were very very warm so i really wish i could get that server power supply
rolling here because i believe it will probably run cooler than those power supplies anyway guys
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