Topic: Placing machines outside on cold winter? -20 - page 2. (Read 16759 times)
I actually do this often. Just be sure to put them in milk crates or somthing
For my small setup, I open the windows and allow the cold are to come into the basement if the miners get 'heated'
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
Nice setup you have going there, I'd like to have something similar to this. For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
If the temperature is -20 in your area, why not put the miner in home to get some heating out of the miner?
Yeah! That's a good idea, you can save on electricity bills then.
If the temperature is -20 in your area, why not put the miner in home to get some heating out of the miner?
For my small setup, I open the windows and allow the cold are to come into the basement if the miners get 'heated'
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
I like your setup! Firstly, you don't have fire-hazardous things around, like some other home-made setups I've seen. Secondly, your setup is inside so no worries about rain/snow and such. And also I like that the shelf you put your miners on has holes in it, which is better than just plain shelf IMO for cooling.
Thanks! When I saw the 'Miner Pr0n' post I had to clean it up a bit. Didn't look like that before lol.
For my small setup, I open the windows and allow the cold are to come into the basement if the miners get 'heated'
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
I like your setup! Firstly, you don't have fire-hazardous things around, like some other home-made setups I've seen. Secondly, your setup is inside so no worries about rain/snow and such. And also I like that the shelf you put your miners on has holes in it, which is better than just plain shelf IMO for cooling.
You should be aware that by placing the miners outside can damage the hardware, the same is with the laptop putting in fridge, it will damage the screen. Better open the door or the window for few hours if you can afford it.
For my small setup, I open the windows and allow the cold are to come into the basement if the miners get 'heated'
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
That is much better then outside solution. You get the cool air. But if it's going to raiin/snow or moisture you can close window.
So I like this much more then the idea of leaving a miner outdoors. I'm no fan of outside.
For my small setup, I open the windows and allow the cold are to come into the basement if the miners get 'heated'
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
For OC'ing this has really helped out this winter
ron7684 is right. You are not only dealing with moisture but also dust. You're saying that condensation won't be a problem, but you're thinking of a working miner under constant load. If the miner disconnects and the temperature goes down it will appear.
If the miners disconnects for some time, there will be condensation. So you have to take it into home to dry and move it out again.
Hey why would you want to put it outside ? Use it to heat your house, voila, problem solved ? If noise is a problem, there are ways to deal with that.
I think it is noise for a lot of people. There are some miners that just run hot and loud. Running hot is not a bad thing in winter.
But I think it's the noise of some of them that is the issue. Could also be they have a outlet outside on a different breaker. Maybe overloading one rooms breaker with miners and other items.
But I agree outside is not a good solution.
Hey why would you want to put it outside ? Use it to heat your house, voila, problem solved ? If noise is a problem, there are ways to deal with that.
I doubt that connecting wires may become brittle in some time.
But for sure you ll get good performance on lower temperatures.
But for sure you ll get good performance on lower temperatures.
I have to S7 running on the same setup. running for 2 weeks now with outside temp 10 to -2 with no problems.
witch temp shows your miner, and whats the hashrate, because I figured out today, that if the them is under 36°C then the performance goes down and with an them at 59 I had the best hashrate.
I develop atm an custom firmware for the S7 Miners (all batches), so that we have more options to set and also throwing some stupid messages out of the cgminer, an setting specific values for the fans.
Register at https://www.zwilla.de the first 50 users will get it for free, and all others have to pay 0,05btc
that is strange, every HW is known to work better with lower temperature, and 36 is still high, chipset should equal to a cpu and cpu give the best at lowest temp for OC for example
it's the same for GPU, threfore it should be the same for asic
I have to S7 running on the same setup. running for 2 weeks now with outside temp 10 to -2 with no problems.
witch temp shows your miner, and whats the hashrate, because I figured out today, that if the them is under 36°C then the performance goes down and with an them at 59 I had the best hashrate.
I develop atm an custom firmware for the S7 Miners (all batches), so that we have more options to set and also throwing some stupid messages out of the cgminer, an setting specific values for the fans.
Register at https://www.zwilla.de the first 50 users will get it for free, and all others have to pay 0,05btc
I have to S7 running on the same setup. running for 2 weeks now with outside temp 10 to -2 with no problems.
professional expensive electronics is covered in lacque that prevent corrosion and some resistance against moisture.
however these cheap things don't have that and they are designed for indoor operation
read the manual
however these cheap things don't have that and they are designed for indoor operation
read the manual
Look into bitcoin miners they were meant to be ran indoors. And for almost everyone that works good. It would rise costs of all miners who knows how much if they made them moisture proof... and most put it inside.
So putting outside is just a bad idea. I know someone will say but I made a box! I just think moisture is hard to keep out, and it kills macines. So leave machines indoors where they belong.
professional expensive electronics is covered in lacque that prevent corrosion and some resistance against moisture.
however these cheap things don't have that and they are designed for indoor operation
read the manual
however these cheap things don't have that and they are designed for indoor operation
read the manual
ron7684 is right. You are not only dealing with moisture but also dust. You're saying that condensation won't be a problem, but you're thinking of a working miner under constant load. If the miner disconnects and the temperature goes down it will appear.
I agree. In case of disconnection you'll have moisture covering your miner inside and out. Since some details inside don't meant to be covered with water you might have a problem.
ron7684 is right. You are not only dealing with moisture but also dust. You're saying that condensation won't be a problem, but you're thinking of a working miner under constant load. If the miner disconnects and the temperature goes down it will appear.
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