Topic: Anyone Farming Bitcoin in their Garage or outdoor Shed? - page 4. (Read 9838 times)

Hence your Signature Dmwardjr.  "The Few, The Proud, The BTC".  I was sadden to hear my Bro-n-law who was really interested in this idea but his Electric rate was way too high to participate.  He would definitely be a huge contributor as he's a super Genious in programming, electrical and all things GEEKY.  I saw your 15 box of S7 waiting for power, that definitely does hurt.  But then again to get to your level, lots of things have lined up properly before this delay so I'm not concern about you the "Professional".   I just really need more people with experience hosting it in a shed to Chime in to let me know it's possible and this idea is not a stupid one before I invest over $4000 in Electrical, Shed and other land clearance to make it happen.  Until then I'm experimenting in the garage. 

P.S Wife finally notice the S7 after I've had other similar boxes laying around the house for almost 3 weeks now.  She said what is that thing, it's so hot!  Is it safe to be here?  I said "hmmmmmmmmmm................we have a bunch of it's siblings (S3+) as space heaters all over the house and you didn't notice, so yeah, it's safe no worries"

Good luck with what you have going at the moment.

As for the power upgrade later:  Just be sure to time it properly.  You would hate to upgrade power and have no ability to add more rigs because of being trapped by the difficulty if BTC remained the same price.  Timing is everything...  I waited a little over a year before I was able to do what I'm doing now.  Patience is a virtue.  If you can find other investors to join in your venture, try to get them to come on board.  As for me, I'm going it alone.  I'm not hosting anyone's gear but my own.  I only have room for my own.

Hehe.  Just admiring DMwardjr's setup.  He's going to upgrade to 800AMP!!!   I'm getting my Power upgraded to add 2 x 220V line outlet on Monday so I can house up to at least 8 x S7 or equivalent boxes in my garage and see how that goes first.  Going to install the Windeevent also to help with the circulation.  Very cool stuff, will start with 2 Vent and see how that work before adding more as they are a bit costly at $150 for just 2 vents.  They have bug net and can open and close for winter / summer so it's quite nice and worth it even if I'm not mining in the garage.

https://windeevent.com/installation/


Next step is to get price quote to see how much it will cost for me to upgrade my home circuit panel from 125AMP to 300-400AMP so I can power the Garage with more S7s.

P.S Thanks VirosaGITS on the Tip for connecting the S7 to EVGA G2 1300 PSU.  Box is running like a Champ on 110V right now until the 220V circuit is ready.

I,m sorry to say that, few cents per year at 450dollars is still going to be few cents per year at 1200 dollars. If someone has a miner doing Mh/s, they should probably sell it to collectors and earn many, many time more back than they ever will with the stick miner.

Wow! Hope bitstamp rise on near to 1200 dollars/BTC.   Then even Mh/S is taking good profit on mining.

Surely there are more than just a few people that either mine in their Garage or Outdoor Shed.

TPI posts that on their website but it's presently under construction (maintenance).  Here is the link but you may have to navigate to it later after they complete whatever it is they are doing with their website.



Well it is back up.  Here is the site:  http://www.tpicorp.com  Once you get their, click on "Ventilation and Lighting Catalog."

I might have to look into the TPI, the thing I don't like about Lasko is that they don't publish the CFM level nor the Sound (SONE) level to make it easier to compare between their different product.  These TPI do and I'm quite impress with some of their numbers especially for the smaller size Fans.

I prefer fans by TPI Corporation.  They do tend to cost a bit more than most but worth it in my opinion.  Some models they make are not very good but most of them are.  The TPI fans I purchased have ran strong now for over a year with no issues.

This is just a link for TPI fans at Amazon.  Their website is under maintenance (construction) at the moment.  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_7?url=search-alias%3Dtools&field-keywords=tpi+fan&sprefix=TPI+fan%2Cgarden%2C167

Don't let me determine your decision or your budget on a fan.  It may be the one's you have in mind will do just fine.

Thanks DMwardjr / David.  S7 is coming tomorrow, very excited.  However 240V power supply is not ready yet so I will have to try and use the EVGA G2 with my extra Dual PCI-E Cable ( I have a couple more than what the PSU shipped with) and see if that will do the trick.  The 2 x 2000Watt PSU arrived and is very compact.  The fans and break out boards are arriving tomorrow.  Really like how this is shaping up thanks to all your advice.

Bought FAN since it was ver 2300CFM to test how it can push the air across the garage.  It was good for only about 10 ft of flow so not strong or forceful enough. 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0073CQ9BW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage


So it will either be the Lasko MAX Pivotal FAN or the Vornado.
http://www.amazon.com/Lasko%C2%AE-Performance-Pivoting-Utility-U15701/dp/B00BT9C9F0/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1450418493&sr=1-2&keywords=lasko+pivoting+fan

http://www.amazon.com/Vornado-293-Heavy-Duty-Shop-Circulator/dp/B0013LNKIY/ref=sr_1_16?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1450418529&sr=1-16&keywords=vornado+fan

Got a few months to plan so plenty of time to test different solutions before the Houston weather get baking hot.

I like it.  Sounds like a good option.  Try one first.  If you think you need another one to install, you can always do it later.

Found these Vents for the Garage.  Wonder if they're sufficient if I use 1 Vornado type fan to push the hot air out of 1 of the vent while the other vent draws in cooler air.  If this works then perhaps I may not need a shed but I'm not sure if they're big enough to reduce the heat from 5000 watts.

https://windeevent.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Vornado-293-Heavy-Duty-Shop-Circulator/dp/B0013LNKIY/ref=sr_1_7?s=home-garden&srs=2603405011&ie=UTF8&qid=1450417274&sr=1-7&keywords=vornado

That would be Awesome MCHouston especially since you have to deal with the same temperature as mine.  Also another question is whether the Garage is a good option to house about 3 Antminer S7, and 1 Avalon 6 which puts out the same amount of heat but is very quiet.   Any negative issues with installing vents and exhaust fans for Garage?  If I use quiet PSU, would 3 S7 still be too loud where you can hear them quite loud thru the garage door?

Yes I can post up some pics.  I will post pics of a 36KW mine. Should be close to what you are thinking.

It depends on how much gear as far as how many CFM fan...  I don't want to tell you more than what you need.

I bought my rack from Sams Club.  The next one's I buy would be this particular one:  

Home Depot is cheaper by $50:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Gladiator-4-Shelf-73-in-H-x-77-in-W-x-24-in-D-Welded-Steel-Garage-Shelving-Unit-GARS774SZG/204280487;jsessionid=3FF93B1B350A0F16F64FA38CC22B4D8F

Sam's Club:

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/4-tier-rack-shelf-rack-shelving/prod16820534.ip?origin=item_page.rr3&campaign=rr&sn=ClickCP&campaign_data=prod3790537

That vent hood is located here but they do not sell it here.  You need to look it up on Amazon probably:  The fan I have is made by the same manufacture as the vent hood.  However, I purchased my fan on Amazon.

http://www.tpidatapoint.com/ocat/f-tpicorpelectrical/103114-web/electricalcatalog_price/index.html#29/z

Excellent TIP DMwardjr and thanks for sharing with us your wonderful setup.  I really like that Vent hood, that would save me from having them build a a small slanted roof over it.  How much CFM of an Exhaust FAN do you think I will need for a 100-120SF Shed?  Also that is a beautiful equipment rack.  Where can I purchase something like that?

Something like this can be made out of wood into this shape with wood shingles nailed as roofing:

I would say one fan [If it's a good one] should be fine.  It's not like my situation inside my house where the one fan I was using was sucking out all of my AC (summer) or all of my HEAT (winter) from my home.  It is 7,800 CFM when on high [It has 2 speeds].  Even when I had another window open downstairs, that was not enough to offset the static pressure built up from the 7,800 CFM fan on high.  I ended up having to get another one of these fans to install in the other window to offset the static pressure to keep the single fan from sucking all of the AC out of my house.

Seeing that no one would live in this shed except your rigs, the one fan would do just fine as long as it's sufficient for the amount of rigs you have or intend to have inside.

Right now, my fans are on low because I have less rigs than before [All S7's] and it's cooler outside [Winter].

This is the fan I have in two windows:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002R1XFP2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s02

Here's a photo of one of them inside the closet.  However, all the HW you see inside was sold on eBay and has been replaced with S7's.  Don't mind the black paint on the wall.  I painted cast iron staircase spindles there.



A closer look:  Don't be fooled...  That is not zip ties supporting it.  They were initially used to hold it up briefly while I did what you will see next.



Even closer: I used a clamp that's normally used to fasten conduit to a wall or ceiling to hold this into the wood with screws.  Approximately 1 third (1/3) of the fan is sticking outside through the wood but still covered by the brick and window seal.

Not that would properly show this. But anyways, i have a Boxfan jammed IN the window, and the miners are almost against it, just a few CM away. The air pressure of the miners are actually very high, i can feel the air of the whole setup at 5m away (because right now its inverted for a reason not relevant to this). (This will produce noise because the exhaust of the miners will hit the fan)

So anyways, if you point the exhaust of your mine toward the exhaust fan, you will have no problem, the fan you linked move plenty of air, you would not need a second one, unless you're blowing your S7's hot air all over the place, and even then it probably has enough CFM to cycle all the air you will need for 8KW.

I've been thinking about heating my motorhome with S3's or something.. Plenty of 12V there..