Topic: Anyone Farming Bitcoin in their Garage or outdoor Shed? - page 3. (Read 9859 times)

what is your electricity rate? and how is the heat and noise?

Very impressive KILO!!  That's quite a farm of Avalons.  What model is your 50AMP PDU?  I was considering getting 50AMP Breakers and and outlets but seems like it's so hard to find PDU for 50AMP vs 30AMPs.  Please keep us posted after your power is upgraded.  What is your strategy for cooling when the summer comes?

Of course I have 6 50 amp PDU's in the bags on the floor and 12 - 2880's and 4 - DBS-2000's

Mine is a freakin mess but it will come together soon.  I have a 100 amp panel on the left and they are almost done with the 200 amp panel on the right.  I have miners all over the house and all over the garage waiting for them to finish up

Quoted as asked so you can see the pictures in thread.

here is my set-up

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/my-set-up-to-heat-house-using-bitmain-s7-update-03jan2016-1297331

Rack is quickly starting to fill up.  I'm still waiting for my power and Exhaust to be upgraded before I order another larger batch on top of the 4 x S7 that is already purchased.  This setup does not include a couple of S3 left in the house for the free heat.  Currently testing a larger FAN setup to cool 3 x IBM 2KW PSU. 

http://i.imgur.com/vM5BFEs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/btr6mES.jpg

P.S Can a elder member please quote this so that the picture will show up.  Thanks.   

Can you share a picture of your setup Rocky?  I'm planning on having up to 20-25 so it will be much more challenging.  Right now I'm seeing even with just 4 S7, I can bring my ambient temperature easily up to another 15-20 degrees from the ambient temp.  Planning on installing 2 more Windeevents as well as a strong Exhaust Fan in the Attic to pull the hot air from the Garage via the ceiling Vent.   The only challenge is my HOA ruling is very tough.  They already request I take down my shed as it's not following the code for height and space requirement.  My rear lot is small because I have a single story home but they use very generic standard rules for all home and require 8 ft from the rear fence and 10 feet from the residence which is 18 ft gone when my rear lot is only 16ft width total!

My challenge is that roof / attic fans are very large.  Anything that is stronger than 2400 CFM is like 36-48" or larger so it will stick out like a sore thumb on that roof.  I don't think 2400 CFM is sufficient to keep 15-20 S7 cool so I need to come up with better solutions.  I would guess I will need a minimum of 5000 CFM per talking to other experienced miners.  If my side wall for the garage is sidings, it would be much easier as I can just cut holes in them but they're bricks so I don't want to modify anything that I would regret later.  My HOA is also very tough, so it's not like I can just put any size fans I want as well.

Would love to see this after you have it installed. 

Right now it's winter so it's much easier on cooling down then winter.  How many watt's of gear are you powering?

I used a heck of a lot of CFM's to move hot air through my hobby mine during the summer: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/summer-mining-fansother-summer-equipment-1020826  The good news is I now have enough cooling gear to make it through summers without a problem now.

That should work. I utilized the register box and flexible duct in my set-up and works great. what is the cfm on the fan pulling the hot air out or do you have one? I found if I didn't have a fan sucking out, the fans from the miners blow enough hot air quickly but enough (especially in that register box) that the hot air lingers instead of follows the tubing quick enough which heated by miners past my normal ranges they usually run at.

Have a few A6's and started planning for summer.

My garage has 2 vent ports to the outside on a side wall. I currently use the following fan in front of the lower port taped to the wall to pull in air: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Lasko-20-in-3-Speed-Box-Fan-3733/100405665

Will start experiments shortly using the following from Home Depot:

 http://www.homedepot.com/p/Master-Flow-12-in-x-6-in-to-6-in-90-Degree-Register-Box-90RB12X6X6/100113467?MERCH=RV-_-rv_nav_plp_rr-_-NA-_-100113467-_-N

The rectangular slot is 12" x 6". If not noted previously, A6's are just under 6" x 6". So 2 A6's can be put side by side in one register box.

I can use http://www.homedepot.com/p/Master-Flow-6-in-x-25-ft-Insulated-Flexible-Duct-R6-Silver-Jacket-F6IFD6X300/100396935?MERCH=REC-_-NavPLPHorizontal1_rr-_-NA-_-100396935-_-N

to move the hot air to the other vent.

Home Depot also sells several types of 6" duct fans if needed.

Quoting so people can see:

Thanks.  I've been busy testing many FAN and EXHAUST Vent combinations in the garage while being busy chopping trees and building a Shed in the backyard to host some of these miners.  The Electricians are working on the trench from the Transformer to my Shed and Garage for a 200AMP upgrade.  The Shed will allow me to do more customizing and testing then my garage which have brick sidings which limits my mods. 

http://imgur.com/a/NJCXn

Nice Setup.  Any updates on how you planning to keep it cool for the summer?

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Latest update.

1) Added 2 x 30AMP L6-30R outlets.  Unfortunately the only slot to add another breaker, the legs to attach the breaker is either not there or broken off so the Electrician can't add anymore breaker to it.  This means the 2 outlet is sharing the same 30AMP breaker from my Dryer line that was converted to Gas.
2) Just added 1 S7 to my existing Avalon 6 and 4 S3 for a total of 10TH.  The S3 are spread out all over the house to use as space heaters.  =)
3) Installed 2 Windeevents to help circulate air to keep garage cool.  They can open and close and have a net to keep insects n rodents out.
4) Dell PDU arrived as well as the IBM 2K PSU that I'm combining using the breakout boards and the Ultra Kaze fans.  Going to upgrade the breakout boards to the new Finksy / J4bberwock boards once they are available as those combine the PSU better and have voltage controls.  These PSU with these fans are much quieter than the other Server PSU I've own.

These boxes are keeping my house warm even last night with the 49F temperature, it keep the Garage and house temperature from dropping below 70 degrees.  Extra bonus for the Winter, but when Spring / Summer come, it will be new challenges.  Just change electric provider to be at 5.5cents a KW from my existing 9.4kw with free Saturday plan.


Pictures of all the work in the link below.
http://imgur.com/a/0zDDz

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No worries with those still in boxes.  I'm about to hook up 9 more of those 15 soon enough.  I held off from hooking up more because I figured out a way to have 6 x S7's within a space of approximately 36 inches wide with a clearance of 11 inches overhead before the next shelf above it.  I went to Lowe's to get what I needed to accomplish the job.  Now, I'm just waiting on more PCI-e cords to arrive Monday or Tuesday from Finksy.  So, I'm leaving them still in the boxes until the PCI-e cords arrive.  That will leave only 7 units sitting in my old mining closet until my power gets upgraded.  

I actually have 16 instead of 15.  One was unboxed and sitting upstairs.  I have 35 x S7's in all.  I haven't mentioned this in the forums yet:  I have one rig [The second box I opened] that came with one burnt PCI-e jack on each blade.  It was very disappointing to say the least to receive a rig that is supposedly not under warranty because it ARRIVED burnt.  I checked to see if it will still hash.  It will but it's sporadic.  That's the one that is upstairs.  I'm hoping to have no issues with an RMA on that one before my power gets upgraded hopefully 3 weeks from now.

I never have my power cord plugged in the wall while hooking up PCI-e cords to new rigs.  It is just a habit for me not to have power hooked up while setting up.  That's what kind of perturbs me with receiving this burnt rig.  An employee probably hooked up with hot cords OR put them in reversed then flipped the power on and burnt them.  Who knows...  I just can't understand how one would do this AND THEN still package the damn thing.  It just pisses me off!

I did not mention it to avoid putting a bad light on BITMAIN.  It's more the fault of an employee for bitmain instead of bitmain himself.

EDIT:  I just got an email saying they wanted to confirm my address.  So, I'm not sure if they are sending new blades to me first OR if they want me to send my blades to them.  I'll find out today more than likely.