I wanted to learn more about mining so I got myself an antminer u1. I finally got it up and running and as I type this, it's currently running an average of 1.539 Gh/s with cgminer on a raspberry pi.
However, the first time I had it running, it got pretty hot so I put a usb fan in the hub. It's only a small ext powered usb hub that came with my raspberry pi so the fan was pretty close to the antminer. After about 15 mins the antminer had an error and stopped working. It was really cool to the touch when I unplugged it and I unplugged the fan too. I put the antminer back in and it started mining again.
My two questions (albeit probably stupid) are:
Could the fan have lowered the temp too much for the antminer to work?
Will it set on fire and kill me while I sleep in the same room as it without some sort of external cooling?
Yes it could as the "Fan" is a DC motor and it could be emitting EMF that is a problem, as for running cooler is no problem >-30 C
It could put out harmonics that interfere with the miner. Just a thought.. Also you know about helicopters make a lot of high voltage, the fan is like that.
Ah ok, I didn't know that. It's a cheap fan too. Maybe I should get one of those arctic breeze fans that everyone seems to have.
If it does kill you can I have it?
Yeah, I'll have my grieving family post the charred remains to you
OMG I thought you were worried about about the
Korean Death Fan Myth
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4287Theres a weird meme in Korea that if you go to sleep in a room with a fan running, it could kill you.
Exactly why and how remains unclear to this day.
LOL
Ha, those crazy Koreans.
Time to have another go
