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Now that's a [H]ardPSU

Most homes in the US have 15a wire in the walls, and would need to have a wiring upgrade to safely handle more than 1440W. Newer homes may have 20a and would allow 1920W (120v x 20a x 0.8) so it would be pushing past the 80% limit for continuous load only a little bit. Don't install 20a breakers without verifying that wire is 20a all the way unless you like wall fires.

Better would be a 240v line, since you're obviously doing something semi-commercial like bitcoin mining with a load like that.
 
evilsofa said:
Most homes in the US have 15a wire in the walls,
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Let me let you in on a secret: the USA is not the whole world. Many countries use > 200V AC with that 15A wire, so a 2kW PSU is no problem at all.
 
Quartz-1 said:
Let me let you in on a secret: the USA is not the whole world. Many countries use > 200V AC with that 15A wire, so a 2kW PSU is no problem at all.
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Let me let you in on a secret: the majority of users and hits on this site are from North America. Many countries in the main demographic use < 200V AC, so a 2kW PSU is not feasible to use at all. Which was his point :)
 
Paul_Johnson said:
Let me let you in on a secret: the majority of users and hits on this site are from North America. Many countries in the main demographic use < 200V AC, so a 2kW PSU is not feasible to use at all. Which was his point :)
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well said paul!.......but i wonder what the percentage of us single pole outlets are 20amp with 12 gauge wire......but like you said even then not to many which puts us at about 1600 watts max if it was a dedicated line by itself lol :D (please correct me if i did the math wrong):D

For those building new house's (they plan to keep) 20amp circuits with the heavier wire (12 gauge) and 20 amp outlets where needed come in real handy and i believe the larger gauge wire is slightly less resistance and therefore a small bit more efficient.

Most of residential America uses 15 amp circuits (14 gauge wire) cause the wire and plugs are cheaper and nothing more i believe:(

edit: had wire gauge wrong (14 gauge is most common) 10 guage is 30 amp wire lol
 
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primetime said:
Most of residential America uses 15 amp circuits (12 gauge wire) cause the wire and plugs are cheaper and nothing more i believe:(
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^^^this^^^ +1

Unfortunately, in most homes built in N.A. in the last 20yrs, the wiring is so jury-rigged and over-extended it's not funny, simply because the cheap-ass contractors dont wanna spend an extra few $$ to run dedicated lines/outlets/recepticles that only branch off to 1 or 2 others...

been there, done that.....
 
LOL old houses had like 3 circuts for outlet breakers and a few lighting breakers a stove and clothes dryer circuit and that is it.

you only throw 8 and everything is OFF
 
d50man said:
LOL old houses had like 3 circuts for outlet breakers and a few lighting breakers a stove and clothes dryer circuit and that is it.

you only throw 8 and everything is OFF
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Old houses breakers? Heck, until I had the panel switched out, my house had fuses. Our house before that had spool and bobbin wiring!

When I was a kid, my folks had some of these new fangled circuit breakers. It was fun to flip a breaker off and put a penny under the bulb in a socket and flip the breaker on and see what went first.... the penny, the wiring, or the breaker. Fortunately, the breaker always won! :)
 
spool and bobbin wiring
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you meant knob and tube wiring:) That crap all needs to come out when the insulator just crumbles off by touching it lol
 
The spec sheet is confusing, it says 230v only in one place, and then it says input voltage is 100v to 240v, then the overview says input ac is 200v-240v. So which is it?
 
Most likely built-in switcher for various zone mains on the primary AC from 100, 115, 220, 230 (240)vac.
 
The only true [H] power supply is a custom-built one running on its own 30-amp circuit! :D
 
Matthew Kane said:
Most likely built-in switcher for various zone mains on the primary AC from 100, 115, 220, 230 (240)vac.
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most times i would agree except is clearly says SF-2000F14HP (230V only) and 200Vac~ 240Vac 15A 50Hz so its like this is a EU model that probably runs on 2 phase only
 
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