In our old server rooms, we had a system, that replaced the oxygen in the room, with a gas, less flammable. So you starve the fire, from oxygen and it cannot burn or burns slower, to give you more time to extinguish it.
What we found, was that it cause less water damage.
Topic: Fire hazard and bitcoin mining at home (Read 8694 times)
Buy some self activating fireballs. I have one on top of each of my metal wire racks, and also tempered glass between each shelf and miner to prevent one from killing them all. If the heat and fire actually spreads the fireball takes care of the shelf and the room.
What is a self activating fireballs?
They are just normal balls, which you throw in a fire and they splash open or something, thus extinguishing the fire.
Its a better alternative to the fire extinguisher. And you could just leave it aside the miner, and it will extinguish it itself.
Buy some self activating fireballs. I have one on top of each of my metal wire racks, and also tempered glass between each shelf and miner to prevent one from killing them all. If the heat and fire actually spreads the fireball takes care of the shelf and the room.
What is a self activating fireballs?
This thread is a interesting read. Myself a Electrical Engineer as a Trade knows simply.... If you decide to mine at home make sure you have properly worked out the current load on the circuit and calculate the new load of be added. Also allow a further 10% for movement.
Again making sure you use the correct sized power cable and not the cheap cable you get free with your monitor!. The more copper you have in the cable the more the heat can be dispersed.
Once you have all the above sorted a good RCD wouldn't go a miss!
I would be interested to see the pictures of this fire as 9/10 fires come from human error!.
Again making sure you use the correct sized power cable and not the cheap cable you get free with your monitor!. The more copper you have in the cable the more the heat can be dispersed.
Once you have all the above sorted a good RCD wouldn't go a miss!
I would be interested to see the pictures of this fire as 9/10 fires come from human error!.
No amount of money, is worth it, when someone has to die for it. Invest in smoke detectors and keep the insurance companies happy too.
They will look for any bloody excuse not to pay, in the event of a fire.
I run out of a basement, and had two close calls already. {Risk is, if you do not invest in it, you loose everything, and possibly your life}
They will look for any bloody excuse not to pay, in the event of a fire.
I run out of a basement, and had two close calls already. {Risk is, if you do not invest in it, you loose everything, and possibly your life}
Where are the pictures? 
Buy some self activating fireballs. I have one on top of each of my metal wire racks, and also tempered glass between each shelf and miner to prevent one from killing them all. If the heat and fire actually spreads the fireball takes care of the shelf and the room.
My biggest worry about my rigs is the heat coming from the cables. They got pretty warm after a day.
Increase the gauge of your cables and sleep easy. You must keep the dust out of your miners make sure they stay clear of dust , make sure you watch the temperatures too if you see ne getting hotter than usual you should check out why, make sure all the wires are normal temps as well. feel your wires frequently that plug your miner into the wall, if that wire gets to Hot check the Guage of the wire and get one that does not heat up. Fire prevention is the best policy.
Both the raise in difficulty and the price drop in bitcoins will effect your income.
I can sell you some miners if your interested shared profit s not something I am interested in.
If anyone has any mining equipment that they no longer want/need because it uses too much electricity with the current difficulty to make much profit.....if you don't want them I will GLADY take them off your hands. Let's just say I have free electricity. I split the mined profits with you even if it's something worth doing 500GH+ or something.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
Both the raise in difficulty and the price drop in bitcoins will effect your income.
I can sell you some miners if your interested shared profit s not something I am interested in.
Even if you clean it every month and check the temperature. Hardware would sometimes just fail for no reason and cause fire, the safest way is to make sure all material that you use in the room is fire proof. That would stop the fire from going mad..
You must keep the dust out of your miners make sure they stay clear of dust , make sure you watch the temperatures too if you see ne getting hotter than usual you should check out why, make sure all the wires are normal temps as well. feel your wires frequently that plug your miner into the wall, if that wire gets to Hot check the Guage of the wire and get one that does not heat up. Fire prevention is the best policy.
Both the raise in difficulty and the price drop in bitcoins will effect your income.
I can sell you some miners if your interested shared profit s not something I am interested in.
If anyone has any mining equipment that they no longer want/need because it uses too much electricity with the current difficulty to make much profit.....if you don't want them I will GLADY take them off your hands. Let's just say I have free electricity. I split the mined profits with you even if it's something worth doing 500GH+ or something.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
Both the raise in difficulty and the price drop in bitcoins will effect your income.
I can sell you some miners if your interested shared profit s not something I am interested in.
I mined 50 coins today 
If anyone has any mining equipment that they no longer want/need because it uses too much electricity with the current difficulty to make much profit.....if you don't want them I will GLADY take them off your hands. Let's just say I have free electricity. I split the mined profits with you even if it's something worth doing 500GH+ or something.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
For some reason, asic still have good price on ebay. So I believe it's easier to sell then to ship to someone else hopping for some share profit..
If anyone has any mining equipment that they no longer want/need because it uses too much electricity with the current difficulty to make much profit.....if you don't want them I will GLADY take them off your hands. Let's just say I have free electricity. I split the mined profits with you even if it's something worth doing 500GH+ or something.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
I remember when my 5GH/s miner would easily make $175 in a month. Now a year later I'm lucky to make 52 cents in a month...wtf is up with that.
Get your miners hosted at a proffesional dc like the rest of us simple solution. Mining with miners at home is not recommended unless you can monitor it 24/7 which is not possible for anyone unless your loner who never leaves home lol. Cloud mining is not at all profitable and sucks I would never suggest that. If you buy a miner at least you have a hardware you can sell or trade later.
I had one of my gpu rigs by the window, i had the window open, which was causing a draft of wind which was good keeping the rig cooler this was in Feb time. Anyway i had a book on the floor and it had a lose sheet of paper in it, well the sheet of paper come out of the book and landed onto the edge of the mother board, i had come upstairs just because i sensed something wasn't right, just had a feeling, the sheet of paper was smouldering very bad along with the mother board which was then broke, luckily not a electrical fire because they can get out of hand very quickly and i was also in the house, if i wasn't im sure it would have been bad. You have to be carefull and don't take nothing for granted!!
If you do it right the risk of fire should be no more than with any other electronic equipment. Your miners and power supplies will fail long before they get hot enough to go on fire. The biggest risk is probably the wiring in the walls, but if you have a problem there you are at risk no matter what you plug in.
Agree on this, if people are using a lot of power then they need to make sure their cable is able to withstand the amp that they pull. If not it would be really dangerous even if its normal household item like air conditional.
Do you know if the fees increase as hash power increases or what the fee is attached to?
I would say the fees would increase coz you're paying for the maintenance fee of it.
If you do it right the risk of fire should be no more than with any other electronic equipment. Your miners and power supplies will fail long before they get hot enough to go on fire. The biggest risk is probably the wiring in the walls, but if you have a problem there you are at risk no matter what you plug in.
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