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I have quite a bit of miners at home and its a light show, while i would rather be simply in the dark. Is there some kind of paint or such that i could use to cover the leds? It would be nice if it would be something easy to get online, like on ebay.

Electric Tape work very poorly (it doesn't stick)

Would silicon based goo work? It could be advantageous if its removable, just in case.

You should ask this wuestion in the Mining board.

Do you really want to never see the lights? That seems silly. Just get sone black poster board snd cut out pieces that will fit over the LEDs, that way it block the lights but doesnt impair the function of the machine.

It wasn't directly related to mining so i wasn't sure where to post.

I absolutely don't want to see their flash. With a layer of electric tape, i can see if the led is flashing when directly looking at it since a smidgen of light make it through, which is ideal. So a thin layer of whatever i could put on it should do.

Its just there's components around the led and that block the tape from properly covering it. I'd just need something non conductive.

If you ever had a Antminer S1, then maybe you would feel my pain. That bunch of S1 would give someone an epilepsy attack. Its like a crazy rave show.

You can manually disconnect the LED cables from inside the miner it would also save you some power.
The Antminer S1 won't be profitable for long so it might be a good time to sell it.

They're going to be fine for the next 8 months, especially since its going to be cold/cool for all that time, and then the halving. But thats going off topic.

I think i'll suffer the 75mWatt waste and just cover them. I don't want to actually modify any sort of circuitry. There has something simple and inexpensive i can slap over..

It depends on the miner.  Some will be really simple to block others are spread around a little more or have LEDs closer to fans.

I would suggest using what you have free, and at hand that wont damage miner.   I use electrical tape for many things but its not going to be good long term holding on a hot miner.    I would either use some material that does not show though.  Maybe as cheap as cardboard you could cut it in the perfect design and use electrical tape around the edge. 

You will have to replace tape every so often but it gives you a chance to clean that stickyness.  So not really a bad thing just clean each time you replace it.  It should last a while.

That sound like a lot of trouble for 28 led :S.

At this point i would had just spreaded canned paint on them if it was non conductive. So i need something a bit more one time that i can just spread over and not have to spend a ton of time and tape to maintain.

threes  layers of tape first one needs to be oversized black electrical tape. second one needs to be aluminum duct tape. third one any color electrical tape

the light will not pass but make sure the black tape prevents the aluminum tape from touching power and shorting.

no paint will work that well.

http://www.amazon.com/3M-COMPANY-6132-BA-100-Electrical-4-Inches/dp/B00004WCCL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445227742&sr=8-1&keywords=3m+black+electrical+tape


http://www.amazon.com/3M-Foil-Tape-3381-Silver/dp/B00A7I5L86/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1445227812&sr=8-2&keywords=aluminum+tape


good luck

Thanks for the idea.

The problem i have with tape is that it does not cover properly the led because of capacitors and such very close to the LED that gets in the way of the tape holding down.

And after time, the tape unstick with the air blowing against it.

better electrical tape
adhesive tape
duct tape
liquid electric tape from 3m
nail polish?
etc

nail polish would be my next experiment, but I'm pretty happy with three wraps of red 'vinyl?' electrical tape.
The red lets you see all the flashes but blocks the annoying blue. I don't bother but you could zip tie the thing to keep the tape from lifting.

I had a similar situation back in the days and the first thing I did was to paint the LED's that were disturbing to the eyes with liquid eraser and after that a black pentel pen or marker on top of it to do the magic of hiding the white color in the view and pretty much worked on all of them with no problem but make sure that there won't be any licking from the liquid eraser

Thats a pretty good idea of a "paint" to paint over it, hmm. Any thoughts on silicon used for isolation? I figured that would be non conductive. It would be easier to do it while the miner is on, so something definitively not water based might work better?

I tried sharpie, the ink doesn't seem to really cover the led, i'm not sure how to explain it. I used a thin point permanent marker and the only place i could see black was around it, not over. So i'm guessing it need to be more tar-y in consistence, but also non conductive.

I had not thought of liquid paper or whatever its called. I'd be inclined to try it, but i would probably have to let it dry while offline. And electric tape do block a fair bit, it just never seem to want to cover the led fully, so its still a lightshow over here.

Those S1 are a bit obnoxious. The single red, toned, always on red light on the S5 boards are pretty nice in comparison.

S3's were fine. They have more than 3 leds thats are pretty flashy but the problems one are the Green stroboscopic ones and they have 3 of those each. I have quite a bit.

Its really hard to find people who buy/sell ASIC locally, i got one person in 3 months contact me about my local ads on kijiji. A swap from S1 to S3 would be pretty good atm. I think i would sell my Falcons and my S1's if i had a local buyer.

They are all too old to be worth shipping.

Thanks :) ... hmm I supposed silicon use for isolation is good due to the ability of it not to get any heat or electricity but haven't tried it though but probably will work too...But mostly what I see on using for similar parts are actually those one that are thermal and conductive with fast curing time but the miner should be switched of if using these... as long as the water based solution has a very fast curing time, that should do the trick :)

Okay thanks i'll keep that in mind.

The easiest to use would be the glue gun, you can even use it while the miner is on, but the opacity of the glue is too low, however combined with electric tape that might work out too. If you stick a bit of electric tape while the glue is cooling down, it might actually hold in place for a change.

I think i'll have to try that, just wondering if it would be easily removable if need be.