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Quote from: pcbacon on June 12, 2016, 10:17:24 PM

I want to build an outside bitcoin mining box that will have a roof and vents for Antminer s7, but will condensation be a problem? what about in the winter will it be too cold for it? I live in Canada. In the summer would it be too hot? Rain won't be the issue I will come up with a pretty good box design. What if it shuts down for what ever reason will it be okay?

As long as the rigs are mining, i think its okay. But if snow get in there, not so much. If you shut it down, i dont think you should boot it at -40C, no. Typically the best is to dump the heat out. If it was a proper heated shed, then sure why not, you could use the miner's output to keep the shed at a ok tempt and just vent what you need to keep the temps to something like 10C.

Not really true I don't think on as long as they are mining it's ok. If water can get in corrosion is possible most keep far away from water for this reason. This is dated at this point but shows what water corrosion can do to a miner - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=521520.msg11018389#msg11018389 . So it can be running and still get corrosion.

A box outside that allows air in/out sounds like a way for water/snow/dust/other bad things to get in. Putting it outside just scares me. I don't see many "mining boxes" outside being weather proof.

Right, but i'm talking about a small shed "box", you can't leave electronic exposed to the outdoor in any case. They're going to get flooded and shorted long before corrosion sets in.

Again we don't know what OP is talking about on quality. I see it hard small scale box to make it allow good air flow and block all water/dust/outside badness. Evaporation or other things could cause corrosion as I showed a old SP20 that ran till corrosion got it (not mine). It was from being to close to window.

There is no guarantee that you would get a flood of water vs corrosion but I guess depends on build quality. But again if were talking about such a high quality miner box outside.... it does not make financial sense for 1 miner. I still would avoid outdoors I don't agree with your "As long as the rigs are mining, i think its okay." due to air outside getting into this small box chances are.

If you dont agree, then you're probably repeatedly mixing stuff. You may want to reread the topic and then how condensation happen, and then comment again? At no point have i said as small box with the miner inside was ok. I talked about a heated shed only. Something like this:
https://www.familyhomeplans.com/project_details.cfm?ProjectNumber=90030
But designed to pull the clean air from bellow and then dump the excess heat out with probably a big fan pushing air out would be nice.

As long as the miner is running, condensation should'nt happen. I already told you but i'll tell you again. I'm not saying to run this exposed to weather, he asked about "too cold" i say "its fine".

Just to be 100% clear, i was commenting about the temperature question;

Quote from: pcbacon on June 12, 2016, 10:17:24 PM

will condensation be a problem? what about in the winter will it be too cold for it? I live in Canada.

Being in Canada, i've done this for 2 winter already. Humidity is nearly capped out here (70-90% is very common) and there is no problem as long as no condensation happen. If someone got his miners wet when they were next to a window, it was probably due to rain or such hitting the miner.