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Topic: Genernal water coolling solution for AntMiner S9 S7 D3 L3+ , Pangolin M3 - page 2. (Read 842 times)

legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
As with most concepts, the theory is good, the reality isn't. Water is the mortal enemy of these units. In an industrial setting, this concept is totally impractical and down right fatal to the business if one mistake causes water to get everywhere. Every board that gets touched with water is bricked and your investment is down the toilet. Air flow is how these units were meant to operate.

This is a false claim.

Water cooling is safe when you know how to do it properly.

In Russia they are actually taking advantage of the heat produced by miners, and they have built water cooled Bitfury-based miner (Sunrise series).
So those miners are not only mining btc, but also working as 'water boilers'.
See  RMC  (Russian Miner Coin) for more information about that case.
They have some pictures of the water cooling builds at their Facebook page.
newbie
Activity: 19
Merit: 0
As with most concepts, the theory is good, the reality isn't. Water is the mortal enemy of these units. In an industrial setting, this concept is totally impractical and down right fatal to the business if one mistake causes water to get everywhere. Every board that gets touched with water is bricked and your investment is down the toilet. Air flow is how these units were meant to operate.
legendary
Activity: 1624
Merit: 1130
Bitcoin FTW!
Not completely useless if it mitigates the heat effectively and is quasi-silent.

All heat mitigation solutions cost money.  But without cost specs and decibel facts, not sure how it stacks up against other cooling methods.
Watercooling is mostly a gimmick for most miners today, they do have a niche but for the most part in their intended industrial environment there's no need for watercooling. Why bother investing additional money in watercooling when aircooling works just fine for 99% of modern miners? Just additional overhead. Most of us know about the Antminer C1 and how it worked- it was the first and last factory-watercooled miner from Bitmain, and for a good reason.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 560
Not completely useless if it mitigates the heat effectively and is quasi-silent.

All heat mitigation solutions cost money.  But without cost specs and decibel facts, not sure how it stacks up against other cooling methods.

Its an industrial miner, the fans mitigate the heat just fine, sound should not even enter the equation.

You dont buy a Tesla and take it to an off road park.

You shouldnt buy industrial equipment and then run it in a residential environment.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 560
That looks like an insane amount of work and money that you will never get back. Its interesting as a proof of concept but completely useless in the real world.
member
Activity: 85
Merit: 16
@lrowland21093
Did you read the guide and see all the pictures? This is done with a S9.
Sorry, I thought it was a S7 - my mistake.

I looked at it all again and it looks like this reused the existing fans so he did not have to solve the problem of the S9 expecting the factory fans to be there.
I will read more carefully next time, sorry.
legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
@lrowland21093
Did you read the guide and see all the pictures?
This is done with a S9.


@hjelc
Very cool project, thanks for sharing!  Smiley
Are you staff member in the Syscooling company?
Could you share the details where to buy parts needed to setup this kit?
member
Activity: 85
Merit: 16
Very interesting post!  Have you been able to do this with any recent miner like a S9 or a 741? 
I think one of the stumbling blocks could be the latest firmware that requires the jet-engine fans they come with.  You would need to figure out how to either fool the machine or replace the fan with something.

Nevertheless - it looks like an interesting project!
newbie
Activity: 24
Merit: 0
Would it leak in the long run?
sr. member
Activity: 244
Merit: 280
Can you estimate the surface area of the water block that is making contact?
newbie
Activity: 16
Merit: 0
This is a great idea, how long did it take you?
sr. member
Activity: 518
Merit: 250
Very cool. Is this yours? Very creative!
newbie
Activity: 18
Merit: 2
Genernal water coolling solution for AntMiner S9 S7 D3 L3+ , Pangolin M3 , Frozen and Quiet!

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Unplug the power core

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Unplug the power core

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Remove screws from fan

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Unscrew the screws from baffle

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Unscrew screws from the fan on the other side

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Unscrew screws from baffle too.

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Take out hash boards.

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Prepare 6 M6*190 bolts, and screw 1 nut on end of each bolt.

https://s1.ax1x.com/2017/12/30/zzoD0.png
Assemble the baffle plate and bolts as shown.

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Place a water block on the baffle plate,

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According to the size of hash board tailor thermal transfer tape to suitable size

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Strip off the plastic film from one side of the thermal transfer tape

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Paste the thermal transfer tape to hash board, then strip off plastic film from other side.

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Fist step is done. It will looks like this picture.

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Place the finished hash board on the water block.

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Paste thermal transfer tape on the other side of the hash board as the above steps.

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Attention! Thermal transfer tape pasted on the place circled with red mark, just need to strip off one side  film, pls keep the film on the other side.

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That is how it looks when the first hash board is done.

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Place the second water block!

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Paste thermal transfer tape on the second hash board just as the first one.

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As the fist one, at the circled place just strip off one side film from the thermal transfer tape and keep the other one.

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Place the third water block.

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Place the third hash board after pasted the thermal transfer tape.

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As the two ahead, strip off film from one side, and keep the other side.

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Place the fourth water block.

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Place last the baffle plate.

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Screw on 6 M6 nuts.

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Screw as tight as possible.

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Screw as tight as possible.

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Link the pipe as shown in the picture. (In winter the pipe would be hard, this work maybe is not easy to do. Don’t worry, dip the pipe to hot water for seconds things would be better)

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Link the 2 fans, fan cover, wind scooper together with M4×90 screw and M4 nuts. (this time we used 2 ultra-quiet low speed fans to replace the original violent fans. Contact me, if you need Ultra-quiet fan.)

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Fix them to the water block with M4*6 screw.

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Remove the PCB board as shown in the photo.

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Then take down the metal shell of PCB board. You can use plier to knock it out, if it is not easy to take down.

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Place the PCB Board into metal shell. Paste 2 small pieces of 3M double side tape on PCB board.

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Pasted a plastic board or hardboard to the back surface of PCB board.

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Plug all kinds of plugs and wires.

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Connect the fan’s plug to extension cord.

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Connect all the red extension cords to pump red cords together. And connect all the black cords together.

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Almost done. Finally power on reset, add liquid, turn on power. Bingo!  

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Sorry for not resuming for so long, recently been busy, put this post to forget : (
Recently I plan to further modified the miner, using the heat for warming the house. Here's a progress picture, and when I finish it all, I'll show you guys more picture.
https://s1.ax1x.com/2018/01/26/pq0vNj.jpg
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