Hey everybody-
Just got my SP10 today and so did my Dad. Both of them work great and we had them up and running in just a few minutes. I also just upgraded the firmware. A little icon exclamation mark near the button "firmware upgrade" appeared, so I upgraded and it only took a few seconds.
One problem I'm having though. The noise. I really didn't think they would be that loud. These are truly meant for the data center and the build design should have clued me in on that when I saw it. My father is also a little perturbed about the noise level. So we are wondering. Can these be ran with the unit opened up and the enterprise fans turned off and use another type fan/blower to keep it cool? Has anyone done this? I know I should have known they were this loud from the design, but for in-home use it may be just a little too loud for me, and my father also. We both agreed we would sleep on it and make a decision soon on what to do. Has anyone here cooled an SP10 in any other way then using the stock enterprise fans? I really DO NOT want to sell it or be without it, but there is a limit to what I'm willing to do.
1. So, if we do decide not to keep our rigs does Spondoolies have anykind of return policy? I looked all over their website and couldn't find anything. I think this is the first thing I have ever purchased without knowing if it had a warranty and if it could be returned or not. I know this is a very touchy subject with companies, but both of them are in perfect working order and of course we'd pay for the shipping cost to send them back. I guess I should send an email to Spondoolie to from their website and ask there also. I don't know if they monitor this thread or not.
2. Me and my Dad both live in NJ. If we made the decision not keep our SP10's would anyone be interested in buying them? They are both already in NJ, so you wouldn't have to wait and could possibly have them up and running this weekend if we made the decision that quickly to sell them.
I myself would really love to keep it, but being that I live in a ranch style house there's really no where to place the unit without it being heard from every room. And then I need to keep the window air conditioner on 24/7 in there to keep the temps at a decent level. I only have a 6000 BTU window unit and that's running on high right now and the temperature in that room is 78 degrees. I'm just thinking ahead a little bit and wondering what kind of melt down I'm going to have when the temperature outside is 95. I
I know I really should have done a little more research, but I really got hung up on getting another miner. I still use and run my KNC Jupiter, which is in the same room...adding to the heat, but that unit run literally silent. I'm usually a more picky buyer and don't buy out of impulse, but what I really feel guilty about is I talked my Dad into buying one also. I told him it would be "noisier" then our KNC's but really didn't tell him it would sound like a Jet Plane.
I think the Spondoolie is built like a tank and works great. I just wish I had a data center rack somewhere to put it in. It wouldn't be cost effective to lease rack space, since it would cost more then what the miner would bring in. I did send an email to Spondoolie asking them these questions also. Maybe they can just host our SP10's if we are able to ship them back to them, who knows. I don't know how much it cost to lease rack space in a data center, but probably in NJ it is quite high. Maybe that's something else me and good ol' Dad can look into as well.
Well, thanks for listening and sorry for such a long winded post.
I suggest looking into water cooling, you can place a small car radiator from Amazon and a thermal pad on the bottom of the miner and with a relatively cheap pump (you can get a good USED "Little Giant" impeller pump on ebay for under $100) to move enough water through to keep the miner plenty cool at least on the bottom, you will also need a thermostat to control the pump which is on amazon new for like $15 (even better if you have amazon prime) it is model STC-1000, 110v, you need to get some wires and plugs and sockets for the timer but that is cheap and some fittings and tubing for the radiators and pump. Then you can get some 12v large radiator fans from 90w (14") to 200w (16") with another larger radiator(s) that you can pipe out a window and evacuate all that heat outside. Since these radiators are made for cars they can exhaust a lot of heat so for 1-2 miners you may only need 1 radiator per miner then 1 with the fan to cool the water/water solvent mix. This is all without a chiller, you can get chillers on ebay that should work too but you may not need that for 1-2 miners.
All in all, the cost of this will most likely be cheaper than power for the AC in the heat of summer, cheaper than hosting as at least you will be spending your money on the hardware that you will own.
Just a thought...
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