Re: The Official LighteningAsic/GridSeed 5 Chip Setup Guide by UnicornHasher
Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)
Ok, just finished cutting and taping the wires on the fans for all 10 miners.
Before: ~110watts
After: ~83watts
I don't have a decibel meter, but WOW its so quiet by comparison! Hopefully these will keep chugging along...
I guess this means I kiss my 30 day warranty goodbye!
wow, these little suckers are really efficient scrypt miners... 8 - 2.7watts = 5.3 watts / 350khs lol super efficient
Yeah, I'm guessing I could squeeze out a bit more if these were connected to higher quality PSU (i.e. 80+ platinum)....also one of the silver PSU's fan always stays on...while the other has a thermal sensor and only turns on when needed. The 2nd one I bought later from Amazon so it's not the exact same as the ones supplied by the seller. I had to get the 2nd one because one of the 2 original PSU's burned out on Day 3 that I got them.
Yo WB,
looks like you're having fun today.
I decided to put a fan back on one of my pods and stick it in the middle of the other 4 close in so they all get cooled by the center fan. Works like a charm! With no fan they cook at 102*F....with the one fan, they are all running at around 80* F....nice and cool...But I doubt 102* is a big deal either. I don't mind the one fan running. Can hardly hear it.
How many pods are you running, WB?
Maybe now, you can power all of them off of one power supply. Those LED sign psu's are around 360W, right?
I just ordered another pod. Should be here mid-week....Gonna run 6 now. And as I can afford it, I'll keep adding them as I go.
I'm trying ScryptGuild.com multi pool. Was on Litecoinpool.org but SG is supposed to pay 30% to 40% more per day than just mining straight LTC. SG mines LTC, Doge plus many others....it ads up quick! I want maximum profit per hash out of these things. $$$
Wolfey2014
The ambient in the room is keeping mine cool...I don't know how to measure the temps...does it show up on cgminer somewhere?
I'm running 10 miners w/out fans over night to see how they hold up.
Yeah, the PSUs are 360watts, 12v, 6amps.
I've been using magepool.com for the same reason...however mining straight LTC isn't too bad these days either. Incidentally let me know how your miners deal with higher difficulty coins...from what I've been reading folks have been theorizing that these don't like higher difficulties...that's part of the reason I'm running them on magepool.com as TheMage stated his pool isn't mining higher diff coins.
I'm using an infrared thermometer gun to monitor temps.
Your math is a tad off there mate, 360W @ 12V,,, actually 13.8V to 14.2V is around 25 Amps,without being exact.
You've got plenty of power in that single psu to cover 10+ miners easily!
Wolfey2014