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Re: [ANN] Sfards: Results of The Best Miner is…Contest [Updated 26/05/15]
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on 28/05/2015, 03:57:23 UTC
Quote from: klondike_bar on May 27, 2015, 12:21:46 PM
Quote from: notlist3d on May 27, 2015, 03:33:47 AM
Quote from: OgNasty on May 26, 2015, 07:26:13 PM


I will forever cherish my Most Creative title as a miner inventor.  Thank you Sfards and if a lava lamp miner ever does come into existence, I hope I will be considered as a beta tester. Smiley Best of luck to you!

I give you huge credit on this.  It was a idea that made us all smile I think. It was one of those ideas that is crazy enough it could actually even work.   

I hope to see someone mod a miner to provide heat to a lava lamp.  I will be honest you have me thinking about putting a old lava lamp I know of in my pile of stuff behind a miner to see if I can get the heat. But I don't think I can achieve the hotness (which is normally a good thing Smiley ).

lavalamp bulbs are 25W in the majority of lamps. If you used a 24/7 heat source and deposited most heat to the lava (rather than the sides of the metal base) it could be functional with 15-20W worth of mining power, possibly just some stick miners glued to the bottom part of the glass base

I am sad to report a Avalon Nano usb stick was not enough to make it work.  I was able to keep it in wax state (used bulb to warm it at first). 

But it would just stay in wax state in liquid form at bottom.  It was not producing enough heat to have it going up to top of lava lamp.   I guess I will have to look into more heat maybe tomorrow to see if that will do it.  I was running the Avalon Nano pretty hot for it.