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#522
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Here in the US, 240v is actually the standard, except that we use center-tapped pole transformers to make it seem like 120v, where the center tap of the transformer is neutral, which is also grounded. Technically, it's a split-phase system.
Here's a diagram:
For a 120v outlet, you connect between neutral and either V1 or V2. So polarity matters, since one pin is at 0v (neutral) and the other is at 120v. For each 120v circuit, you're only seeing half of the transformer's secondary winding, and the job of the electrician who installs the distribution panel is to make sure that the 120v loads are more-or-less balanced across the two halves.
For a 240v outlet, one pin is V1 and the other is V2, and you don't have a neutral connection. So you could make an argument that polarity matters if you care about phasing, but for >99% of applications, it doesn't matter. What's important is that both pins are "hot" as compared to ground.
Serious answer: surge protectors are mostly BS when it comes to domestic computer applications. A lightning strike delivers so much more energy than an MOV is capable of shunting that there's virtually zero chance of a $10 power strip saving your computer from a pole hit, which is fortunately a rare event.
#523
Serious answer: surge protectors are mostly BS when it comes to domestic computer applications. A lightning strike delivers so much more energy than an MOV is capable of shunting that there's virtually zero chance of a $10 power strip saving your computer from a pole hit, which is fortunately a rare event.
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Honestly, there's not much you can actually do about lightning, short of running a galvanically isolated, full-conversion UPS on the whole building. That's what I have here at WGN. For reference, the UPS is on the 3rd floor, and the battery is on the 1st floor, mostly because the weight of the battery exceeds the structural capacity of the upper floors of the building.
If you're really dedicated to this idea, just buy a 6-15 plug at Home Depot and splice it onto an existing C13 cable. Use it to power the PC, and drive everything else off of 120v.
Seriously, these plugs are less than $10.
Example: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Legrand-...CCV4/100206376
Wiring instructions in next paragraph
The pinout is that ground is ground (green or yellow / green wire), and the other two pins are both hot (usually brown & blue or white & black wires).
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Yeah, now that I'm about to get some bonus money I've been looking back into building a sim rig.......................yeah no. I'm not paying $1400 for a 1080Ti that was $750 2 months ago. Hopefully Stripe (is it Stripe that just stopped accepting Bitcoins?) will help get these values back down.
So we can watch experiments like yours cost you 2x the electricity vs the value of a Coin.
So we can watch experiments like yours cost you 2x the electricity vs the value of a Coin.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...e-gtx-1080-ti/
Today power cost is $3 a day vs. mined value of $30 a day.
I should note that I'm mining using only 100% renewable electricity.
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Have you ever done something stupid, and then thought "I shouldn't have done that. I knew better than to do that. Why did I do that?"
I have.
Basic rule of engineering: don't design a system so that you can accidentally plug Thing A into Thing B, if doing so will result in fire and destruction. Because someone will eventually do it.
Failure to heed this rule is what started the event which resulted in the core meltdown at Three Mile Island. When they built the plant, they used the same fittings for instrument air and utility water in the turbine hall, and an overly tired maintenance engineer accidentally connected a hose between the two systems. This flooded the instrument air line with water, which disabled all of the feedwater valves in the secondary loop. And this caused a lot of bad things to happen very quickly.
I have.
Basic rule of engineering: don't design a system so that you can accidentally plug Thing A into Thing B, if doing so will result in fire and destruction. Because someone will eventually do it.
Failure to heed this rule is what started the event which resulted in the core meltdown at Three Mile Island. When they built the plant, they used the same fittings for instrument air and utility water in the turbine hall, and an overly tired maintenance engineer accidentally connected a hose between the two systems. This flooded the instrument air line with water, which disabled all of the feedwater valves in the secondary loop. And this caused a lot of bad things to happen very quickly.
#536
So set up notifications for when they come in stock. NVIDIA's website had the Founders cards below the cost of most stores... today. You just have to be fast.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...e-gtx-1080-ti/
Today power cost is $3 a day vs. mined value of $30 a day.
I should note that I'm mining using only 100% renewable electricity.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...e-gtx-1080-ti/
Today power cost is $3 a day vs. mined value of $30 a day.
I should note that I'm mining using only 100% renewable electricity.
I guess I'll go ahead and just start collection the other stuff first (wheel, seat, monitors, etc) and then wait to build the computer last.
#537
Same here, got 1070 for gaming a little while back and now that they are going for $600-800. Wondering if I should sell it.
This card and my speakers (Klipsch Reference 7 front and center) could pay for Xida Race setup....If only I drove a Miata as much as I sit in front of computer (all day long) or use my speakers (every other day).
This card and my speakers (Klipsch Reference 7 front and center) could pay for Xida Race setup....If only I drove a Miata as much as I sit in front of computer (all day long) or use my speakers (every other day).
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Put your card on ebay. Then buy a cheaper one when they come up. I see various 1070s come up for sale about two or three times a day for under $500. Ti's less often for under $650.
I've got a 560Ti if anyone wants it. Can't mine.
You just have to be hair trigger when you get the notification or you'll miss it.
I've got a 560Ti if anyone wants it. Can't mine.
You just have to be hair trigger when you get the notification or you'll miss it.