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Quote from: w3e30us on June 14, 2014, 12:05:52 AM

Here are some pics from CAD.

Front:
(openings for 120 fans, stock fan guards will mount here; rack mounting holes, holes for handles if desired, mounting for RJ45 pass through connectors, some holes far cable management (zip ties for now:))

looks nice, two suggestions:

1) KISS. Make the front and rear identical, similar to this image. might not rack as nicely without bottom/top/sides, but allows clean 3-wide builds
2) Re-design it so that 3*120mm fans cool 8-10 blades packed more densely. This would be terrific for those underclocking to 150GH/210W.

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Quote from: w3e30us on June 14, 2014, 01:06:20 AM

If there's enough interest I could probably do side and front vents like this (although this would definitely compromise airflow):

(shape needs to be cleaned up, it's a bit uneven)

Very nice. EDM could do the delicate work of hollowing out the BTC.

Picturing it lit up with leds now...

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If there's enough interest I could probably do side and front vents like this (although this would definitely compromise airflow):

(shape needs to be cleaned up, it's a bit uneven)

http://e30.us/4sale/4u8s1/4u8bs1sidebtc.jpg

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Here are some pics from CAD.

Front:
(openings for 120 fans, stock fan guards will mount here; rack mounting holes, holes for handles if desired, mounting for RJ45 pass through connectors, some holes far cable management (zip ties for now:))

http://e30.us/4sale/4u8s1/4u8bs1front.jpg

Rear:
(mounts for 2 PSUs and 6 of 80mm fans)

http://e30.us/4sale/4u8s1/4u8bs1rear.jpg

Side:
(with air intake for PSU fan)

http://e30.us/4sale/4u8s1/4u8bs1side.jpg

Bottom:
(mounting holes for blade brackets and heatsinks)

http://e30.us/4sale/4u8s1/4u8bs1bottom.jpg

Top is similar to bottom except no mounting for heatsinks.

Blades' bracket:
(with mounting for 120mm fans and some holes for zip ties for cables management)

http://e30.us/4sale/4u8s1/4u8bs1bracket.jpg

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Interested in pics as well.

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Quote from: w3e30us on June 13, 2014, 03:45:42 PM

I've designed a 4U case to house 8 Antminer S1 blades with 2 powers supplies, mounting for 6x120mm (3 front and 3 in the middle) and 6x80mm fans on back wall .

The order went to machine shop today to have a prototype made, should be done in about a week.

I'll post pictures in a little bit.

Prototype with some missing mounting holes etc was just over $500, if I do a run of about 20-30 units it should bring cost down to around $350 or so shipped.

Got any pics?

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I've designed a 4U case to house 8 Antminer S1 blades with 2 powers supplies, mounting for 6x120mm (3 front and 3 in the middle) and 6x80mm fans on back wall .

The order went to machine shop today to have a prototype made, should be done in about a week.

I'll post pictures in a little bit.

Prototype with some missing mounting holes etc was just over $500, if I do a run of about 20-30 units it should bring cost down to around $350 or so shipped.

Mister S

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Power supplies are likely either in the middle, or there's a 12v transformer feeding them. There's clean and effective ways to cable up a rack like that.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817147105
Server cases on the back end, Custom 12v and 12v negative cables to the miners, Patch panel and/or Cisco router to handle your data transport.

It can be done nice and clean. A little expensive, but when you've got that many miners rolling, a little higher RoI in return for some server room geekporn eye candy is a good trade off.

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Quote from: Mister S on June 13, 2014, 01:15:31 AM

You can mount S1's on a rackmount 1u tray, or, if you have an enclosure, and not just a freestanding rack, you can bolt them together, 4 across. the endplates have screw holes in them, and those screw holes match up keenly to a 4u rackmount 'ear'.

Overclocked, in an enclosure, DO add fans to the back. and be sure the enclosure can evacuate hot air from the top. Unless it's a 18c server room, you can bump right up to the chip tolerances without a second thought

okay thanks for the info

i noticed they would screw together. but what about all of the cables. i recently saw a member that was selling antminers from a dedicated hosting centre which was in a rack. and every single shelf was full. how would they be doing something like that?especially with power supplies... any ideas?

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You can mount S1's on a rackmount 1u tray, or, if you have an enclosure, and not just a freestanding rack, you can bolt them together, 4 across. the endplates have screw holes in them, and those screw holes match up keenly to a 4u rackmount 'ear'.

Overclocked, in an enclosure, DO add fans to the back. and be sure the enclosure can evacuate hot air from the top. Unless it's a 18c server room, you can bump right up to the chip tolerances without a second thought

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i have seen pictures of antminers s1's sitting on racks but i have also seen them on full size server racks and am wonder how that is done. i have a server and 24 port switch that im using for my router lmfao so i will be getting a rack as i plan to continue doing this. the question is how the hell are the s1's mounted on a rack?

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