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Topic: Who's turning off their mining rigs due to high tempepratures in summer? (Read 862 times)

sr. member
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I've def had to turn it off a few days here and there

Generally a few hours later a rain storm will come through, cool everything down and I'll open the doors and windows and after an hour or so turn the miner back on
hero member
Activity: 504
Merit: 500
Hmmm...I just crank the AC and keep going.

I assume your elect. free?

no doubt... my summer elec bill is near $500 without mining.... don't even ask what mining plus central AC + a window unit going to keep cool bring it to. ;p
full member
Activity: 155
Merit: 100
Hmmm...I just crank the AC and keep going.

I assume your elect. free?
legendary
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Merit: 1000
Hmmm...I just crank the AC and keep going.
hero member
Activity: 504
Merit: 500
It's not so much that the miners can't handle the heat as much as us humans can't handle the extra heat they make indoors.

amen to that. Not having a secure location to place mine outdoors and failing to install enough exhaust flow to remove the hot air, I just slap got rid of mine. Can't stand being hot.

I welcome our ASIC overlords!  would really like to see some competition there....

edit; location = Florida
hero member
Activity: 630
Merit: 500
It's not so much that the miners can't handle the heat as much as us humans can't handle the extra heat they make indoors.
vip
Activity: 980
Merit: 1001
People in the northern hemisphere, presumably. I, on the other hand, am freezing my tail off down here in Australia. Sad
I'm in Australia too, but I moved my rigs inside for winter- toasty warm Cheesy
Rigs go outside in summer in regular 100C+ days, cgminer FTW Cheesy

The guy that authors cgminer lives in Australia too - he optimised it before our summer, time for the N hemisphere to catch up again Tongue
hero member
Activity: 482
Merit: 502
Sorry ... have been away since I moved last year. I haven't been keeping up with the BTC lingo. What are BFL and ASIC??
BFL - Butterfly Labs
ASIC - Custom one purpose chip

http://www.butterflylabs.com/products/
-See the BitForce SC product line, and compare with GPUs...
newbie
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Merit: 0
Hell, it's hard for me to even run my computer when it's too hot
member
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Merit: 100
Sorry ... have been away since I moved last year. I haven't been keeping up with the BTC lingo. What are BFL and ASIC??
hero member
Activity: 482
Merit: 502
As my mining rig was running outside, I had to turn it off few months ago. I was hoping to get back to GPU mining one last time in October or November, but BFL destroyed my plans. I will switch to ASIC instead.
full member
Activity: 155
Merit: 100
People in the northern hemisphere, presumably. I, on the other hand, am freezing my tail off down here in Australia. Sad

Indeed.   Smiley
legendary
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Vile Vixen and Miss Bitcointalk 2021-2023
People in the northern hemisphere, presumably. I, on the other hand, am freezing my tail off down here in Australia. Sad
newbie
Activity: 39
Merit: 0
I had to shut mine down since my ac died and it was heating up my house plus we are in the middle of a heat wave...i think i will have to ride the ASIC wave
hero member
Activity: 630
Merit: 500
It's going to hit 100F here is SoCal soon and we don't run the AC.  It's getting to about 88F in my "mining" room so it's starting to get unbearable.  So far all I have done is lower the clockspeed on my main 7970 during the heat of the day.  There are going to be days when I need to shut down during the middle of the day and that is going to suck.  I have a window fan running 24/7 that is reverseable , but it isn't very effective unless it is cooler than 80F outside.  If ASIC's ever come out they are going to look real attractive one heat-wave afterwards.
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Not sure if that was a good idea calling yourself out.
full member
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