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hello all. Soon I will use this thread to document my mining as well as provide tips and tricks and technically support for others looking to mine using asics.
October 19, 2017
ASICS finally hooked up after electrical was finished. Pulling 1000w at the plugs. Heat may have been an issue, so percussions were taken in such a small space. Box fans usually do the trick to help filter out with air circulation and is a good addition if you have correct placement. Hard foil tubing was also added to the exhaust fans, traveling upwards to a high speed intake vent that filters to the attics.
Tip: make sure that if you are using a set up similar to a data center, using the "isle" method, that you have any box/shop fans blowing the hot air away from the miners, and cold A/C fans flowing into the room, preferably from below. exhaust tubing like mine allows for data center like cooling without the space. We will also be adding a stand alone AC unit, which will run about $400, but will diffidently help produce some cooling.
Miners running at an average of 90-95% effienecy hash wise, which is near the perfect 98% (100% is basically unobtainable, since you will always lose hash at some point).
100% of this 5-8% percentage is hash lost due to stale blocks, but this is most likely not caused by my hardware or software, and probably just network latency.
Tip: if you are mining with an ASIC and your hashing pool says you are below 80%, you may have hardware issues. If hardware checks out, make sure the software you are using is up to date. If this doesn't work, it may because your hardware is just not up to par, and should look to mine a coin that will help bring this to at least 85-87%
October 21st, 2017
Miners holding 91-98%, again, stale shares do to pool latency, which is constantly being worked out on their end. Dynamically mining between coins like bridgecoin, GameCoin, and BitConnectCoin.
Averaging within my estimated hashing power.
Not much more to say so I'll end this here.
Tip: if you live up north, try to use your ASIC or other mining rigs to hear your home that way you can make back a little money on your electricity bill by cutting back on heating your home. Temperatures for exhaust can exceed 87-93*, depending on your location and size of the room. This works great up north and colder places over seas.
October 23rd 2017
I decided to change the cooling/exhaust system. Instead of 2 , 5inch wide tubes running for the exhaust of the miners and dumping into a high velocity intake vent, we decided to remove to cover to the intake vent, and slightly move the tubings, positioning them to run the hot exhaust air directly into the attic. Why? Well because the intake vent, although very nice and helpful, has an hole that exits into the attic that seemed to small for the amount of hot air flowing from the tubes to it. This caused the vent to get filled with hot air and not able to dump that hot air into the attic quick enough due to the small size of the hole leading from the intake vent to the attic. Instead, we have the cover removed, pulling air directly from the room, instead of the ASIC exhaust tubing. This allows the hot air of the exhaust to go straight to the attic, and frees up the intake vent to vent out any hot air.
This dropped the room temperature room about 83*F to 73*F.. this is a BIG help to the health of my ASICS and network hashing power.
tip: If you live up north and decide to dump exhaust in the attic, this will deffidently help insulate your home, and may be worth a small cut to the attic... however, I am set up in a commercial building, thus cutting through the ceiling is no problem since the ceiling is made of acoustical ceilings, which are easy to remove and cut.
October 19, 2017
ASICS finally hooked up after electrical was finished. Pulling 1000w at the plugs. Heat may have been an issue, so percussions were taken in such a small space. Box fans usually do the trick to help filter out with air circulation and is a good addition if you have correct placement. Hard foil tubing was also added to the exhaust fans, traveling upwards to a high speed intake vent that filters to the attics.
Tip: make sure that if you are using a set up similar to a data center, using the "isle" method, that you have any box/shop fans blowing the hot air away from the miners, and cold A/C fans flowing into the room, preferably from below. exhaust tubing like mine allows for data center like cooling without the space. We will also be adding a stand alone AC unit, which will run about $400, but will diffidently help produce some cooling.
Miners running at an average of 90-95% effienecy hash wise, which is near the perfect 98% (100% is basically unobtainable, since you will always lose hash at some point).
100% of this 5-8% percentage is hash lost due to stale blocks, but this is most likely not caused by my hardware or software, and probably just network latency.
Tip: if you are mining with an ASIC and your hashing pool says you are below 80%, you may have hardware issues. If hardware checks out, make sure the software you are using is up to date. If this doesn't work, it may because your hardware is just not up to par, and should look to mine a coin that will help bring this to at least 85-87%
October 21st, 2017
Miners holding 91-98%, again, stale shares do to pool latency, which is constantly being worked out on their end. Dynamically mining between coins like bridgecoin, GameCoin, and BitConnectCoin.
Averaging within my estimated hashing power.
Not much more to say so I'll end this here.
Tip: if you live up north, try to use your ASIC or other mining rigs to hear your home that way you can make back a little money on your electricity bill by cutting back on heating your home. Temperatures for exhaust can exceed 87-93*, depending on your location and size of the room. This works great up north and colder places over seas.
October 23rd 2017
I decided to change the cooling/exhaust system. Instead of 2 , 5inch wide tubes running for the exhaust of the miners and dumping into a high velocity intake vent, we decided to remove to cover to the intake vent, and slightly move the tubings, positioning them to run the hot exhaust air directly into the attic. Why? Well because the intake vent, although very nice and helpful, has an hole that exits into the attic that seemed to small for the amount of hot air flowing from the tubes to it. This caused the vent to get filled with hot air and not able to dump that hot air into the attic quick enough due to the small size of the hole leading from the intake vent to the attic. Instead, we have the cover removed, pulling air directly from the room, instead of the ASIC exhaust tubing. This allows the hot air of the exhaust to go straight to the attic, and frees up the intake vent to vent out any hot air.
This dropped the room temperature room about 83*F to 73*F.. this is a BIG help to the health of my ASICS and network hashing power.
tip: If you live up north and decide to dump exhaust in the attic, this will deffidently help insulate your home, and may be worth a small cut to the attic... however, I am set up in a commercial building, thus cutting through the ceiling is no problem since the ceiling is made of acoustical ceilings, which are easy to remove and cut.
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