Ah, very nice. Pickup scan was on 3/5 and UPS will deliver my C1 tomorrow 3/8!
Pump is somewhere between Chicago and Atlanta.
Now if only I had a radiator.... The radiator core purchased on Ebay from a vendor in China has shown a tracking number for some time and shows acceptance and dispatch but may be on a slow boat. Perhaps an aluminum heater core from a junkyard or aluminum radiator w/its cooling fan. Car electric radiator fan is likely muy inefficient.
C1 arrived and looks great. Presently all hooked up to power supplies. Pump hasn't arrived. Radiator tracking is unclear, Processed thru sort facility yet clearly marked Origin Post is Preparing Shipment, Notice received origin is preparing to dispatch... So no radiator. Still in China I suppose.
Looked at a large aluminum condenser for $10. Will need to lash up some kind of hose interface. Will pick it up tomorrow and work on its hose connections. May have to JB Weld some leaks.
So, opting not to use the quick disconnects for their reduced fluid flow I'm going with the standard barbs. I have the nice low pressure air hose to cut up for water flow, 56 cents/foot, but picked up a $12, 50' PVC low pressure air hose from Walmart having threaded ends that match the C1. Instead of barbs I'll use lengths of this to connect to the condenser and pump. Pump isn't yet here but another day delay won't kill me given a barb is set in JB Weld on the condenser and won't be hardened until tomorrow. I have fans from my Asicminer Blade days. Five are mounted across with a diamond mesh metal shield to keep objects from coming into contact with the fans and breaking off a blade. I have more fans and mesh if these don't drop the temperature sufficiently. Scrubbed the condenser and applied air pressure while submerged and no leaks. It looked as tho a tube was mashed and would require cut, crimp and seal but I lucked out. When the pump arrives I'll circulate distilled water for a while, dump it, and replace then hook up the C1
Started using Eligius the other day with all miners pointed to a single address and that gave me a dependable read of how much btc my hashing earns daily. Bummer. An easy calculation given the Kill-A-Watt reading on my other C1 and cost per kw with its associated state and local tax (those raise it just a little over ½ cent per kw). A C1 just breaks even almost to the penny. I thought I was doing better than that. Of course if btc goes up that's great. I did feel new miners from the manufacturer might become harder to obtain and these will warm in the winter at a better cost than propane but that was a lesser reason for buying. So, I decided to shut down my Saturn to be fired up if btc goes high enough or otherwise next winter. I probably should shut down a lousy S3 that runs hot and has a falling hashrate problem.
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New pump still hasn't left Chicago apparently. When it gets to Atlanta, that night it would leave for the PO so as to arrive the next morning so it isn't going to be here tomorrow. Maybe I'll try daisy-chaining the C1's, pump->C1#1->radiator->C1#2->Condenser->back to the one pump.
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Now wondering if the USPS is offering a get-the-customer-annoyed-international-shipping-rate-from-China.