- MODEL
- APW12-15
- OUTPUT
- 3600 W continuous
- RAIL
- 12.0 V DC / 300 A
- INPUT
- 200 to 277 V AC
- EFFICIENCY
- 93 to 96%
- CONNECTORS
- 10 x PCIe 6 pin
Power supply
The only component in the machine that is running at its rated maximum every second it is on.
What it does
Mining is not a bursty workload. A gaming PSU spends most of its life at twenty percent load with occasional spikes, and it is designed around that duty cycle. A mining PSU sits at ninety plus percent of rated output continuously, for months, and is built accordingly: heavier rectifiers, better capacitors, and a fan that never idles.
It converts 200 to 277 V AC from the wall into a 12 V DC rail delivering upward of 300 amps. That rail is what the hashboards draw on. The reason mining hardware wants high voltage input is simple resistive loss: at 110 V the current required for 3600 W is high enough to make the cabling itself a heat source.
Undersizing here does not fail loudly. It browns out the rail under load, the boards lose sync mid nonce range, and you spend a week blaming the pool.
Capacitor ageing under permanent full load. The rail sags before it dies, so hashrate drifts down for weeks before anything actually stops.
