Re: What's your biggest headache while mining?

What's the most common issue you encounter when using Antminer？ Huh

One of the most common failures of ASICs is overheating of chips and their failure. Usually, the further the chip is from the front fan for blowing, the higher the temperature. And ASIC power supplies do not like voltage drops in the power grid.

Temperatures can be a real headache. They vary widely from place to place, sometimes hot, sometimes cold. But is too cold always better than too hot? High temperatures can be solved with a heat sink, but what about low temperatures?

Do you cool the equipment with nitrogen?

On the working equipment you will not have negative temperatures with air cooling. If the chip is dead, it will no longer heat up.

No, we don't use nitrogen to cool the system. We use water cooling plates. Not sure which works better.

if you can make a high quality custom water block with a quality radiator and a quality pump it is a good idea.

if you take a three slot s19 miner and pull 2 hash boards out then place two custom waterblocks on the single hash board. The hash board will stay cool assuming the pump is good enough to pull the water into a big enough radiator.

but doing all that is simply not cheap.

so usually compromises are done the waterblocks tend to be a bit smaller then they should be the waterpump is a bit lower quality then it should be the radiator is a bit under sized. and the chips get pushed hard.

or just air cool pul the center board out put a spacer in the center. <>. look at that shape to the left it will direct air to help cool the outer two boards.

it ends up that two machines turn into three.

so you buy
a shell
a controller
a psu.

about two hundred maybe three hundred bucks.

is it cheaper then your way cant tell you .

if you have 100 miners it is too much space.

if you have two miners it is worth fucking around with.