what's going on everyone welcome back to the Rabid Mining YouTube channel and today I kind of want to
talk a little bit about expansion so in the past you guys kind of seen I had this big Husky rack
here now I do plan on getting another one sometime but they're expensive and I can't afford another
one right now but we're gonna go through some parts that I do have and what I kind of plan on
doing we're in a bear market and what better time to start plotting our expansions than in that bear
market and start preparing for those future bull runs so down here I do have two meter boxes and
another 30 amp breaker that I do gotta put in so we're going to be running another 30 amp circuit
coming into here I have a hundred feet of 10 2 cable which is what we do need to utilize 240
volt so I I have uh what do we got here so here is our Leviton this is our plug for the L6 here
and then this is our digital meter which will go in here we'll get to that sometime here so I got
that one and then for this box I'm just going to use the older parts that I currently have in
this box so I'm just going to take that box apart because it's not actually electrical type of rated
material that that one's printed out of so I will be using the meter box one and also that cable
I'm going to be getting rid of it because it's not long enough I plan on moving everything from this
kind of location here where I am in this corner I want to run everything kind of around over and
run across that wall over there so I'm going to be moving the little ones PC out of there maybe move
it over to this corner and then I kind of want to go from that wall all the way to pretty much
right where the door door opens there two of these racks will fit side by side now obviously I like
I said I only have the one rack so it's going to be going kind of that corner over there and then
everything I have will fit on this single rack now thinking long term a single rack here will hold
about 60 CPU mining rigs that's right this thing will hold 60 so you can go both three across five
wide I might even be able to go Six Wide depending on some new brackets that may be getting worked on
pretty soon here but we'll see what happens there but I may be able to go Six Wide we'll see but at
least right now I can go five and three so that is 15 per row and this is a four tiered rack so
60 rigs all together will fit on this now I don't have that many rigs I only got 30. 27 of them are
actually in this room here so I'll get all those filled up and maybe you know one one and a half
two racks here and then obviously my A6 that I got hanging out over there as well as that jazz
Miner and then the 2G few rigs you know that's plenty enough room for them all to fit on one
tier until you build out but I do got to run some electrical and a whole bunch of stuff so I have a
hundred feet I believe per circuit to get two from the breaker box in the other room over to
this corner I want one meter over there one meter kind of over there and then I'm gonna have to use
about 40 feet I think it was so I have plenty of extra as long as I didn't get ripped off and I do
have a full 100 feet in there I kind of mentioned that the Black Friday sales you know what stuff
was on sale so I picked some of that stuff up now for networking I currently am running this 52 Port
D-Link switch so obviously this is for most of my CPU it's actually everything is running off this
right now but when it comes to the GP rigs I don't have that many but I am going to be trying out
this handy Dandy's full Cloud switch this thing is uh let me look at this this is the ingenious ECS
2512 so this was actually sent out to me quite a while ago it's fairly expensive but this is a
newer product line line from their cloud computing Network anything that ingenious is doing then we
also have this big Hub here for Wi-Fi hotspot so everything talks to each other and you can
navigate and whoa I'm not focusing here but you can run all this through the cloud and see all
visual displays of everything and network traffic and stuff so it's kind of cool I'm pretty excited
to try this out once we get everything going I will be pointing the GPU rigs on this like I said
because I don't need that many switches the CPUs use all the plugs so I only have a couple GPU rigs
so I don't need too many yet but for now this will work just fine so another thing though I do got
to point out is I am pretty limited when it does come to power also this is a stab lock and these
things are supposedly very very bad now I went to the stores I called around and they keep saying
oh well the newer ones are good yada yada but anything I look up online they keep saying that
this brand is bad and stay away from it and it shouldn't have even been used in the first place
this is a fairly new house I believe it's like 2008 2009 or something so it shouldn't even have
this and also it's only a hundred amp service so if I throw a 230 amps it's the current 30 amp I'm
gonna have to move this actually up one slot and then I could fit that other one right underneath
it in this spot right here I look behind the panel there is room for those two it'll be nice and
tight but it will cover those too but if I throw a 230 app so another one here that is 60 amps
dedicated to my mining Rigs and it only leaves 40 apps left for the rest of the house so you know
we'll have to watch what's going on there again I don't have enough Rigs and stuff to even utilize
two full 30 amps not yet anyway and I can't really get a 200 amp upgrade because it's going to cost
me like I don't even know ten to twenty thousand dollars because everything is underground so that
really sucks and over here we got an A hot tub this is on a 50 amp maybe I should just get rid
of the hot tub completely and get us big super pdu and throw on a 50 up here that'd be pretty sweet
you could run a couple BTC miners off that but you know there's other things more profitable in
BTC maybe load that up with l7s or something like that that'd be a nice idea so if I actually go to
look at the current power I'm pulling right now I got all my CPUs on we got the Apollo A6 the mini
Doge Pro the KD box Pro the OCTA Miner X12 we got the Jazz Miner Q this rig is turned off so the X8
octominer is off it's not being used right now but the power I'm currently pulling is hanging out at
you know 5900 Watts almost 6 000 Watts so I'm actually over my 80 limit on that circuit right
there because 30 amp 240 volt that is actually 7 200 Peaks so max and I believe 6 or 5700 is
your 80 so I'm a couple hundred Watts over that 80 percent right now so two circuits for me right now
will give me plenty of leeway in between but again I don't think I'll be able to fill up the full 230
amp circuits but hey we'll see what happens I will probably get popping main Breakers but that's once
we do start expanding oh another thing I also have another one of these pdus it is not here
yet but I don't need it yet until we start doing that expansion because I can get away with this
single pdu it can run everything no issues but eventually you know I do have one on the
way I found it on eBay I don't even know three four weeks ago actually some people in Discord
pointed it out to me it was a lot cheaper than anything Amazon and stuff had so I did find the
exact same pdu and I actually love this pdu this is a wicked pdu so if you're unfamiliar with like
pdus and stuff I like these smaller ones they're nice and compact not some big monster super long
thing and also it's non-meter so the reason why I also go with non-metered is because it's cheaper
and then if you just run your power meters you can see all how much power you can Subs you're
using there we also got a variety of plugs so we got like c19 plugs here which is for your 1500
watts or higher which is what a lot of those L7 A6 BTC miners power supplies and stuff 1500 watts
plus use this style plug so I got a few of those and then we got a whole bunch of the C13 which is
your standard and what you mostly see on those big long ones there's four plugs here and then I think
there's three or four banks in the back side of four of these plugs so there's plenty of plugs
here and a nice variety depending what you want to use each one of these are actually on their
own 12 amp breaker like little sockets you can see this plug here is on an 8 Amp or 12 amp let's just
have a look what is that uh yeah so that's on a 12 amp and these ones I believe are on eight amps so
four plugs for eight amp little breaker and each one's on its own little type of fuse box thing
so you know these are great pdus an exact same one is on the way so I will be utilizing that
one for just the GPU rigs I'm trying to decide how I'm gonna do this maybe you guys can kind of
help me out in this so I'm thinking I'm gonna have one full circuit so 130 amp will be just
for CPU rig so that'll give me essentially 5700 watts worth of power just for CPUs and then the
second one that I'm putting in I'll use that for like my GPU rigs as well as the Apollos and the
A6 and whatever else so I'm thinking that's how I'm going to spread it out then I can keep an
eye you know total power consumption of the C fuse and then the power consumption of my kind of Asic
gpus on the other side so that's what I'm thinking I'm going to do right now but I'm not 100 sure
let me know your guys's ideas on how I should maybe set this up and I know a lot of you guys
are like hey hurry up and get that drywall done yeah I can't afford drywall where we're talking
about mining rigs right now so you know that's top priority we're talking priorities right now
and right now it's uh getting the electrical the electrical is kind of the worst part to do because
one it is kind of expensive and two well you're not getting any Roi out of it you're not making
money off doing the expense so it's pretty much just expense expenses to expand though but you
know eventually that is you know twice the power to actually I can build into and I feel kind of
neat because I remember watching panda way back when and he was running his basement there with
230 amps I was like awesome I wish I had 130 app you know I was running off 120 volt with
a couple Rigs and stuff then I finally got my first 30 up and I'm still slowly building into
that I'm finally getting maxed out on it now I'm expanding into the second 30th I'm like awesome
about you know the progression on this crypto mining thing is it's pretty sweet now Panda's
up to like a 400 amp double 200 amp service thing and it's insane the level he's at but it's wicked
to see people expanding and just doing the things that you love all right guys so that pretty much
does wrap up this video I appreciate the time for you guys for checking it out and kind of helping
me out yes my cable management does suck but you know give you some ideas how do you think I should
set all of this up when I do finally get to it I'm probably going to wait until the hash rate
picks up on something crazy so something's not profitable and then I can turn everything off and
start doing it you know I'm not in any big rush to get this expansion so I probably will wait
for some bad times but for now I'm just trying to plan everything out and kind of go through it now
once I'm done with that I can use one or two of these rocks and I could probably throw that over
on this side over here somewhere because I have a whole bunch of Boneyard stuff sitting over there
got all these power supplies let's have a little light action I got all this stuff here we got
a bunch of rev tacks uh I can't really see the light we got some of these motherboards here we
got server power supplies breakout boards and so on so I gotta have a rack instead of leaving them
right here I want to put them on one of those racks here somewhere in the corner over here
so we'll see what happens but you know that's kind of what I'm leaning towards currently let
me know what you guys think about it thanks for watching I'll see you on the next one Rabid Out
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