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missing a photo let me see if this fixed it.

Okay its good and I deleted my alts post.

Well long delays and just in time for eth to go pos and crash the markets.

we will do all s17 pros with this.


So we put in crash pipes yellow painted

Right now load is not set up for mining as I am cleaning all the asic gear.

we will take the

L3+
s9
Avalon a721 off line.

keep the 20 something s17's
some s15's
and we have a few
Avalon 1046 and 1066 to put  on line.
and 1 whatsminer m10 still runs.

we are debating on whether to buy 10 s19xp's for 70k or so

Yeah we are pretty happy that it will be running by July 1 or so.

Life has been wicked crazy for last few years for just about everyone. I hope you are well.

Glad to hear that you still have this project going forward!

Here we after more than a 16 month delay all approvals by engineers and the town and the power company are done.

Fucking covid slowed this up bigly.

Goal is to be fully installed by July of this year.
vs dec 2020.

285 kwatts which is about 285/6= 47 kwatts 24/7/365

we were lucky to order the panels when we did as panels have jumped up 30% since we did the order.

I will try to show some tight drone shots of this once installed.

It will come just in time for the bear market.

we now have

45+115= 160 add the 285= 445 kwatts.

Damn this corona, wrecking alot of futures.

Don’t know yet. That won't be decided till covid-19 is over and done with.

The owner of the warehouse complex had to rollback some rentals. There are six buildings and multiple tenants.  Some are affected so we need to wait a bit.

Nice that's awesome to be mining at a profit after the halving.

after you kick in solar, are you going to host?

or do you have enough machines to fill your allowable Kwh.

the owner is hosting with normal grid power. He has a sweet heart deal and he extended it due to covid-19.

So we can mine at a profit but we are not doing solar for 2020.

We can do about 200kwatts

Whats the latest news on the build Phil? 

This project has travelled 🧳 sideways. The host was able to sign a longterm contract for power from the power company. After analyzing all costs he is going with the pre paid power.  we still get our power deal 50-50 coin split but no solar for at least six or seven more months.

I hear you. The wife now wants me to give up building a larger mining building on the spare lot and to build her a house instead lol I just need to convince her I need the larger mining building so I CAN build her the house lol.

We now have both verizon and optimum

4x 48 port switches

 1 on optimum  3 on verizon

and tons of spare power as we waiting for a gear deal  worth while.

keep up the good work and progress Phil!

okay

here is current plan

verizon modem

to 8 port gig wireless router   2 cables from modem to router  1 cable is a backup

8 ports leave  router

3 ports to warehouse  and needs of warehouse    assign 3 ports leave a spare port

3 eth  wires to cisco switches  48 port gig 3750   each switch will do 20-30 units for mining

1 eth wire small 5 port switch  with 2 pcs to check gear.

if this has issues  we can add a  cablevision/optimum modem so if verizon fails just switch over to cablevison.

Your network should really look something like:

Two (or more) modems (or fiber transceiver, whatever)

Two (or more) computers (Pc Engines embedded like devices do)

Your lan...

You can start with one of each of the above, but you want two for redundancy. Openbsd can do an excellent work here, using the links as fail-over, and using the second computer as firewall fail-over itself. This is the same configuration most business lans should use.

Of course this needs some software configuring. It might be possible to do with the likes of pf(opn)sense (since that uses pf, anyway) but openbsd is lighter and in my opinion, safer.

"Modem" directly connected to switch? bad. Modem should go to pc/router/firewall. And don't blind trust Microtik, an old pc with two nics can do much better (and you use two such PCs for redundancy).

You seem to be doing some redundancy inside, but are not paying attention to the outside.

yeah let me see if I have a good shot of the mining room from the outside.

exhaust fan



I took a screen shot of my youtube video



screen shot is of my video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXTn9LUI45o

we have sealed the room with some tarps since that  video and when we added the 3 fans.

so  it is a cool room  with filtered air which

feeds  into a Hot mining  room

we will be able to do 160 maybe 180 kwatts.

If you look at the newer video with no talking we have a 480volt panel  which can provide an additional 250-300kwatts with a transformer.

Maybe next spring.

So that set of fans means  you have a cool space = the warehouse

and a hot space = the mining room

9000 cfm in

11000 cfm out

So I have not updated in a while.

here goes some updates:

verizon supplied a router with the modem to the warehouse guy we have been using and  it sucks once you go past 50 or so miners.

Killed hours and hours on weds the 11th  after we got to 831 th and I added the last unit an a1041 avalon the entire network crashed and we could not restore it fully.

At the moment we have

modem >
shit router >
8 port switch>

3 idle ports.
4 ports to warehouse use

1 port to miners to a 48 port cisco switch

running our best miners
16 units to do 550th

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we will do the following next week

modem >
run 2  new cat 6 eth cables to new router  1)active and 1) spare
quality router with 8 ports>

3 ports to 3x 48 port cisco switches  run 4 cables 3 active and a spare
4 ports to warehouse use
1 idle port.

this should give us easy redundancy .

the 3 cisco switches allow us more then we need switch wise as we will have about 26 units a switch.

plus a backup cable for router
a backup cable for switches.
and if a switch dies all of the mining gear can fit on two switches.

At the moment we are running 17 pieces of the newer gear gives us 550th
all s9's =idle
all l3+ = idle
some a721 = idle

avalon a1041's are back in my garage as they run here but  the verizon router simply crashed when ever we ran them.

to be fair the verizon router crash 20+ times from 6pm to 11pm weds night not always with avalons in play.

We added monster fans.
some filters
the room can cool  125kwatts of gear maybe more like 150kwatts  which is about 600,000 btu of heat

My home furnace is only  95,000 btu of heat.

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Camera screwed up when we lost the net so I have a poor video taken before net crashed.

We we running about 110kwatts and room was under 85f   note the 3 fans they pull  9000 cfm the fan to the outside does  11,000 cfm

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Too loud to talk.  the 3 high stack of fans is  3 x 3000  cubic feet per minute  we need a safety screen put in. it is not safe as it is setup.

this is a link to the fan

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0116TNQJ0

My goal is to build mine as a data center and then also use it for housing miners - the problem is that while I have the land, I cannot get the loan to start building without agreement from the electric company to put in the power I need and the power company is being quite stubborn and does not want to agree.

I am about fed up with the headache of trying and tempted to just sell the land and then look for something ready built that I can modify. The reason I wanted to use this land is that it is adjacent to the property I live on - would be a very short drive to work

A proper data center setup costs a lot of money plus a/c units and well it's expensive. Looked into it myself as a fail safe and if you're going to do that plan it and build it as you go as renovating for it is gutting everything.