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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Is an intake fan necessary for a mining room, or just plenty of exhaust?
by
miner417
on 19/05/2017, 18:25:57 UTC
best is to blow the air OUT of the room, no need to pump in fresh air.
Sorry but thats not true , fresh air must be pumped to cool down the machines , it's a simple rule if there is exhaust there must be intake to fill the hot air pumped out with cool fresh air.

Shouldn't the pressure created from the exhaust, if it's enough, create the suction needed to bring the fresh air in?

yes



vent  >>>>>>>>  gear >>>>>> exhaust fan >>>>>>

can work  but many details are needed.

4 rigs   could be 6 nvidia 1080 ti cards per rig  or close to 4500 watts

the no fan vent could be too small.

the  fanned exhaust vent needs to be strong

we have two of these


http://www.homedepot.com/p/Master-Flow-1600-CFM-Power-Gable-Mount-Attic-Fan-EGV6/205924917

in the solar array  we have 9kwatts of mixed gear




It's currently like this, Exhaust is the in top left of the room. The center of the room is the 4 rigs, mix of rx 470, rx 480, 24 cards total, about 4KW. In the bottom right of the room is the intake vent.

The room is small. 3.5x4.5x8. I know currently the exhaust isn't up to snuff for what I have, I'm looking at probably a 500ish CFM exhaust, or is that lowballing it?  Currently I'm just using a couple small leftover furnace fans to exhaust, and that's probably the biggest issue.

yeah way low on exhaust.  my gear is 9kwatts and the two exhaust are  1600+1600 = 3200  which is 5-7 x what you have  .

an we are 2-2.3 x the power    so you need 1000 to 1600 cfm exhaust  not 500 cfm.

how big in you intake vent ?   a 4inch dryer hole? way too small

Shouldn't exhaust have more to deal with the actual cubic feet more than amount of power being used?

Also do you think the heat shield stuff you're using is worth it? Does it seem to be helping?

And final question I think, you have fans that you say are push, are those directed at the cards themselves to blow cooler air directly over them?