Mining is a function of mathematics in many ways than one. While your mining rig helps to squash hash-generating mathematics, it, in turn, generates the need for another kind of calculation: measuring your rig’s power consumption.
Most miners cringe when they finally get to count the costs of powering their rigs, after skimping on this side of the equation all along. Electricity is often times a miner’s third-biggest expense, ranking after computer components and rent costs. As a miner, you’re looking to run a profitable business. You don’t want to miscalculate your profit margin or even taxes by not properly accounting for your mining rig’s power consumption. But there’s no point in getting jittery over it. It’s easy to measure and minimize your rig’s power consumption.
Ways to Monitor your Mining rig’s Power Consumption
To this day, computer hardware is yet to come with inbuilt apparatuses which measure the whole system’s power consumption. However, there is installable software that can take rough readings of power consumption. But even these require calibrations supplied by a power meter.
There are a number of instrument-based methods for measuring a computer system’s power consumption. What follows is a rundown of the three main types.
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