Hey guys, new to mining (aside for some investigation I did using my GPU). I picked up 12 S5s to continue my preliminary investigations into BTC. Before we get caught up on the economics, the game here is to collect first hand data and go from there down the track. 12 miners because that's the dollar amount I was willing to risk on this exercise, and will hopefully give me sufficient data. If it's of any interest my current kw/h goes for about US$0.10. I'd like to keep them on site at this stage, which basically means I have what should really be a comms cabinet to work with.
I calculated and vented for 10 air changes per minute (unobstructed). This is nowhere near enough, I can run 6 PSUs and 2 miners mining staying within acceptable temps (30c inside w/24c ambients). Setup is 2 miners and 1 PSU per rack, the chimney effect kicks the goolies out of the top 6 if I power them all up. I'm interested in solutions but some info on the heat I'm trying to remove would be useful.
I can relatively easily jack up the airflow, but I'm not convinced anything short of a wall of fans is going to do job. I'm familiar with water cooling and could potentially run a loop through the neighboring room and from there vent to outside, but I'm not sure how much rad I'm looking at. I could run through a water chiller, but I suspect they PC types although overkill for overclocking may be too small for this job. Finally there's the aircon route, but I don't know the BTU's I'm looking for, and I suspect it'll kill the margins anyway.
My current intake is passive, I'd have a crack at firing air in from that and possibly something else firing upwards, just don't think it's gonna cut it. So what do we do here guys?? Got 10 S5s sitting on the floor looking very sorry for themselves
I calculated and vented for 10 air changes per minute (unobstructed). This is nowhere near enough, I can run 6 PSUs and 2 miners mining staying within acceptable temps (30c inside w/24c ambients). Setup is 2 miners and 1 PSU per rack, the chimney effect kicks the goolies out of the top 6 if I power them all up. I'm interested in solutions but some info on the heat I'm trying to remove would be useful.
I can relatively easily jack up the airflow, but I'm not convinced anything short of a wall of fans is going to do job. I'm familiar with water cooling and could potentially run a loop through the neighboring room and from there vent to outside, but I'm not sure how much rad I'm looking at. I could run through a water chiller, but I suspect they PC types although overkill for overclocking may be too small for this job. Finally there's the aircon route, but I don't know the BTU's I'm looking for, and I suspect it'll kill the margins anyway.
My current intake is passive, I'd have a crack at firing air in from that and possibly something else firing upwards, just don't think it's gonna cut it. So what do we do here guys?? Got 10 S5s sitting on the floor looking very sorry for themselves
You have 2 options if your lucky you can look into evaporation cooling. It is cheaper then regular ac.
If your not lucky you are like me and evaporation cooling does not work because of your humidity. If this you use lots of CFM of fan's. Were talking about a lot of cfm intake and exhust for 12 S5's.
Your cheapest option is find a hosting center for them.