Topic: Mining accidents having caused physical damage (overheating hw, fires, etc) - page 2. (Read 12121 times)
June 09, 2011, 02:08:16 PM
So far just a pretty serious papercut from a 5830 box...seriously, it was very deep, like a knife cut.
June 09, 2011, 12:37:06 PM
nobody has posted this yet?
June 09, 2011, 11:21:54 AM
Gigabyte's 5870s have very sharp fan blades that barely have a housing. It is a good deterrent to sticking one's hand in a running machine. Ouch!
June 09, 2011, 11:13:05 AM
Thank you EU for our 230 V power.
Hey US, enjoy your doubled current drain at your wall socket
*shrug*Hey US, enjoy your doubled current drain at your wall socket
6 one way, a half dozen the other.
June 09, 2011, 08:47:45 AM
One of the power MOSFET's shot a sizable flame out the back of my 5770 no more than 3 minutes after getting my very first rig together (talk about a bad omen eh?). Luckily there I was still able to figure out the part number by looking at other transistors and pics on the internet and soldered a new one in place with what was probably my single worse soldering job in my life.
June 09, 2011, 08:30:40 AM
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Thank you EU for our 230 V power.
Hey US, enjoy your doubled current drain at your wall socket Grin
Enjoy your half-assed amperage in yours. Thank you EU for our 230 V power.
Hey US, enjoy your doubled current drain at your wall socket Grin
June 09, 2011, 06:55:11 AM
Thank you EU for our 230 V power.
Hey US, enjoy your doubled current drain at your wall socket
Hey US, enjoy your doubled current drain at your wall socket
June 09, 2011, 06:40:37 AM
Just almost set my entire mining rig room on fire... With shitty PSUs apparantly.
I hooked up 2*850W raidmax gold PSUs to 6 video cards and it started smoking like crazy.
I can hook up 6 * video cards to a 1200 watt gold psu with no problems whatsoever.
WTF raidmax?!? You made me inhale some kind of weird assed fumes!
I hooked up 2*850W raidmax gold PSUs to 6 video cards and it started smoking like crazy.
I can hook up 6 * video cards to a 1200 watt gold psu with no problems whatsoever.
WTF raidmax?!? You made me inhale some kind of weird assed fumes!
June 01, 2011, 10:06:26 PM
I'll start with one from a friend of mine (who shall remain anonymous): he lives in a place with old 120V electrical wiring. He put a rig of ~1.6kW (~13A), as measured by a kill-a-watt, on a 20A circuit for about half a day, until he started smelling smoke in his apartment, apparently coming from the wiring inside the walls. He completely stopped using this circuit, and now runs his rig on a dedicated 240V circuit. A 20A circuit is normally rated 16A for continuous loads by the National Electric Code, but that old wiring was likely defective and the insulation probably started melting.
That is makes me worry. I am putting a lot of load on my old house wiring. The electrics were redone sometime after grounded plugs became standard, but it is still very old. Yay for 100+ year old houses...
Yeah, that story actually made me purchase a kill-a-watt.
June 01, 2011, 09:51:14 PM
I'll start with one from a friend of mine (who shall remain anonymous): he lives in a place with old 120V electrical wiring. He put a rig of ~1.6kW (~13A), as measured by a kill-a-watt, on a 20A circuit for about half a day, until he started smelling smoke in his apartment, apparently coming from the wiring inside the walls. He completely stopped using this circuit, and now runs his rig on a dedicated 240V circuit. A 20A circuit is normally rated 16A for continuous loads by the National Electric Code, but that old wiring was likely defective and the insulation probably started melting.
That is makes me worry. I am putting a lot of load on my old house wiring. The electrics were redone sometime after grounded plugs became standard, but it is still very old. Yay for 100+ year old houses...
May 31, 2011, 03:00:05 AM
Yep, he did measure. I am pretty sure his PSU had active PFC, so pf = 1.0.
May 31, 2011, 02:50:59 AM
I'll start with one from a friend of mine (who shall remain anonymous): he lives in a place with old 120V electrical wiring. He put a rig of ~1.6kW (~13A), as measured by a kill-a-watt, on a 20A circuit for about half a day, until he started smelling smoke in his apartment, apparently coming from the wiring inside the walls. He completely stopped using this circuit, and now runs his rig on a dedicated 240V circuit. A 20A circuit is normally rated 16A for continuous loads by the National Electric Code, but that old wiring was likely defective and the insulation probably started melting.
Did you actually measure the current with the Kill-a-watt? Most my computer have a power factor of about 0.67. That means that for every 100W (833mA resistive), the actual current draw is closer to 1.24 amps. or in your example, 19.9 amps. My kill-a-watt is only rated to measure up to 15Amps, IIRC.
May 31, 2011, 02:23:22 AM
Typical stuff, cut fingers while working with cheap cases and fingers hurt by fans.
May 31, 2011, 02:12:51 AM
Strange. He must be really unlucky. I've had every imaginable type of heatsinking compound all over my fingers before and never had any side effects from it.
May 31, 2011, 01:28:15 AM
It was either Arctic Silver 5 or it was an OEM brand. Those are the only types I've worked with.
I don't remember exactly which it was.
I don't remember exactly which it was.
May 31, 2011, 01:05:52 AM
and remember to wash beforehand in the bathroom.
May 31, 2011, 01:03:01 AM
I'm guessing it was silver compound, when I was in chem class we were told to be very careful with it or we'll get a chemical burn that will stain the skin for a very long time when we were handling solutions with silver in it. Just a guess, lemme know if I'm right plox!
May 31, 2011, 12:48:58 AM
Tell me what thermal paste you were using, I want to put smiley faces into my fingerprints!
May 31, 2011, 12:39:46 AM
I don't have prints there anymore.
I just realized, this could be valuable information.
took you eight minutes longer than me.
May 31, 2011, 12:21:26 AM
I don't have prints there anymore.
I just realized, this could be valuable information.
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