Mining accidents having caused physical damage (overheating hw, fires, etc) - page 3.

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Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 05:41:04 PM

Quote from: grue on May 30, 2011, 05:04:46 PM

Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 04:51:37 PM

My mining rigs have kicked the breaker in my house once, but beyond that I don't have any scary mining stories.

Hardware stories though?
Once I was replacing the thermal paste on my CPU, I got some thermal paste on my hand and didn't wash it off. (That's a BIG mistake depending on what type of thermal paste...)

I now have a permanent chemical burn on my hand from CPU thermal paste...
Any skin I have that grows over the burn dies at a very accelerated rate, it looks like psoriasis.

did you go to the doctor for that?

Nah, I didn't go to a doctor, I went over the affected area with a razor blade as soon as I realized it was burning, to get out the skin and chemicals.
I washed off what I could, and I tried to cut the chemicals out of my skin, but I didn't get all of it.
I don't have prints there anymore.
It's on the right side of my right hand's index finger.

really? interesting.

what brand of thermal paste, and what was the formulation: silver? zinc? how long did it stay on your skin? how long have the prints been gone? much pain?

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Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 05:41:04 PM

Nah, I didn't go to a doctor, I went over the affected area with a razor blade as soon as I realized it was burning, to get out the skin and chemicals.
I washed off what I could, and I tried to cut the chemicals out of my skin, but I didn't get all of it.
I don't have prints there anymore.
It's on the right side of my right hand's index finger.

that sounds very painful. That will probably remind me to wear gloves when handling ANY chemical.

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Quote from: lacedwithkerosene on May 30, 2011, 05:23:38 PM

Who here would be willing to be interviewed for articles on my site, bitcoinminingaccidents.com (reg'd but undeveloped) ?

I would, but you'd have to pay me for it. Tongue

Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 05:41:04 PM

Quote from: grue on May 30, 2011, 05:04:46 PM

Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 04:51:37 PM

My mining rigs have kicked the breaker in my house once, but beyond that I don't have any scary mining stories.

Hardware stories though?
Once I was replacing the thermal paste on my CPU, I got some thermal paste on my hand and didn't wash it off. (That's a BIG mistake depending on what type of thermal paste...)

I now have a permanent chemical burn on my hand from CPU thermal paste...
Any skin I have that grows over the burn dies at a very accelerated rate, it looks like psoriasis.

did you go to the doctor for that?

Nah, I didn't go to a doctor, I went over the affected area with a razor blade as soon as I realized it was burning, to get out the skin and chemicals.
I washed off what I could, and I tried to cut the chemicals out of my skin, but I didn't get all of it.
I don't have prints there anymore.
It's on the right side of my right hand's index finger.

Dang, I had no idea thermal paste could do that!

Genrobo

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Quote from: grue on May 30, 2011, 05:04:46 PM

Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 04:51:37 PM

My mining rigs have kicked the breaker in my house once, but beyond that I don't have any scary mining stories.

Hardware stories though?
Once I was replacing the thermal paste on my CPU, I got some thermal paste on my hand and didn't wash it off. (That's a BIG mistake depending on what type of thermal paste...)

I now have a permanent chemical burn on my hand from CPU thermal paste...
Any skin I have that grows over the burn dies at a very accelerated rate, it looks like psoriasis.

did you go to the doctor for that?

Nah, I didn't go to a doctor, I went over the affected area with a razor blade as soon as I realized it was burning, to get out the skin and chemicals.
I washed off what I could, and I tried to cut the chemicals out of my skin, but I didn't get all of it.
I don't have prints there anymore.
It's on the right side of my right hand's index finger.

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Not a 100% mining related accident, but I found out the hard way that my whole flat has a 16A fuse (which is BEFORE my circuit breaker... and of course irreplaceable without redoing the whole wiring in the flat and probably house).

At least now I know about it and will be more careful when planning to boil water for tea while having the washing machine switched on.

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Quote from: lacedwithkerosene on May 30, 2011, 05:23:38 PM

Who here would be willing to be interviewed for articles on my site, www.bitcoinminingaccidents.com ?

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Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 04:51:37 PM

I now have a permanent chemical burn on my hand from CPU thermal paste...
Any skin I have that grows over the burn dies at a very accelerated rate, it looks like psoriasis.

Good lord! Cut it off man, before it spreads! Grin

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Quote from: Genrobo on May 30, 2011, 04:51:37 PM

My mining rigs have kicked the breaker in my house once, but beyond that I don't have any scary mining stories.

Hardware stories though?
Once I was replacing the thermal paste on my CPU, I got some thermal paste on my hand and didn't wash it off. (That's a BIG mistake depending on what type of thermal paste...)

I now have a permanent chemical burn on my hand from CPU thermal paste...
Any skin I have that grows over the burn dies at a very accelerated rate, it looks like psoriasis.

did you go to the doctor for that?

Genrobo

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My mining rigs have kicked the breaker in my house once, but beyond that I don't have any scary mining stories.

Hardware stories though?
Once I was replacing the thermal paste on my CPU, I got some thermal paste on my hand and didn't wash it off. (That's a BIG mistake depending on what type of thermal paste...)

I now have a permanent chemical burn on my hand from CPU thermal paste...
Any skin I have that grows over the burn dies at a very accelerated rate, it looks like psoriasis.

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Quote from: rezin777 on May 30, 2011, 11:45:06 AM

When installing new hardware in "modified" cases I have repeatedly cut myself on sharp metal edges. Oh, and quite a few times I've touched spinning fans, which causes some damage as well.

exactly my experience Tongue

and once i hold finger on my fully working 5970 for too long

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Fires! Yikes! Shocked

Please install dedicated circuits for your miner rigs!

This is what u need:
12AGW insulated three-strand wire
20A circuit breaker
20A receptacle

Also keep in mind that most power bars are only rated for 15A (continuous load needs to be 20% less than max load!).

I had a decent Belkin power bar attached and it tripped after a few minutes with three mining rigs connected. The 20A circuit breaker did not trip, as it was well within spec drawing around 1800 watts @ 120 volts, or 15 amps.

With a properly installed 20A circuit, the continuous current draw can be 1900 watts @ 120 volts (or 1750 watts @ 110 volts).

A Kill-A-Watt meter is a very handy tool, it is so cheap there is no excuse not to have one!

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Worst I've had so far is I stood on a plug facing this way up when building my new rig the other day. Angry

Just hoping my house electrics aren't going to catch fire now while I'm away Undecided

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I was working on finding the optimal cooling solution for my miner and so I reached in to the case to unplug a case fan while the computer was running. All of a sudden I see a huge spark and the comp shuts down. Of course, I'm crapping my pants at this point but after unplugging the machine and plugging it back in everything came right back with no problem. No idea what happened but thankfully no physical damage. At that point I decided that my cooling was ok and no need to mess with it further.

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Glad i'm not the only one that likes to stick his fingers in fans.

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Haha, good thread.

I was trying to figure out why one of my 5830's said fan speed was at 100%, but the temps were 90-95c and RPMs was just -. I thought the sensor was broken for RPMs. A little more investigation revealed that the card was being severely throttled (down from 800 to 600 or 300mhz). I stuck my fingers into the fan, because it was too close to the bottom of the case to see if it was actually spinning or not, and to my dismay, nothing. It was also almost impossible to turn.

Turns out, the PCIe extension cable I was using for my 3rd 5830 in the case was caught in the fan of the 2nd 5830 in the slot right above it. I took a screwdriver to it while it was still plugged in and managed to bend it out of the way of the cards. All cards are working well now. Wink

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Quote from: KnuttyD on May 30, 2011, 12:50:59 PM

Also, I had a small fire start in one of the sockets that the miner was plugged into. Luckly, it was at night, so I was home and caught it in time.

Jesus. if I wasn't paranoid enough already.

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This does not necessarily mean it's caused by mining directly, but more or less, indirectly. I overclocked too much to gain faster mhash/s and rendered the card useless under extreme load. It will shutdown if i were to try and bench it with a stressing program.
This is why i set -f on poclbm to a big higher so that it's not fully stressed.

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I lost a finger nail from a 5400 RMP Gentle Typhoon liquid cooling fan Shocked

Also, I had a small fire start in one of the sockets that the miner was plugged into. Luckly, it was at night, so I was home and caught it in time.

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I have my fingers in fans all day erry day, nothing happened until now though, but it's always a shock.

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