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Hey guys and gals,

I have been in Bitcoin almost since the beginning but now I am relatively new in mining. I just inherited bunch of barely used AntMiners and figured out an affordable source of electricity. Now I would need some help about how to setup about 60 miners, my concerns are cooling, keeping the electric stable (wiring, power supply, voltage), setting up the rigs to be efficient to manage and up and running 24/7, etc. Could someone give me ideas how to get started. I am planning to build the mining room with concrete, from the scratch, so I have no limitations at this point about what can be done. I want to make a really good plan to avoid any beginners' mistakes.

Thank you for all your advises in advance!

For one thing, find a licensed electrician to determine and setup the needed power and wiring. Miners require a lot of power and setting up electrical service for more than a few of them is NOT a DIY project.

Beyond that, you need airflow. LOTS of it. Airflow is generally setup with a 'cold' side where the miners suck in air and the hot side leading to the room exhaust pulling out the hot air and sending it outside. What would greatly help is if you say how many miners, where in the world they are located or at least typical outside air temps, and what kind they are as there are many different ones in the Ant family all with different power requirements...

Since you're just starting out and you probably have a Windows desktop lying around somewhere, you'll probably want to use easy to use management software such as AwesomeMiner (https://www.awesomeminer.com/) to track all those Antminers. It also happens to be free.

Just make sure that power to whatever PC you use for the control panel doesn't suddenly cut off.

Well 60 s7  ant miners = who cares

but 60 s19 = very nice

lots of gear in-between.

So first question is:

what are the miners?

next question is what country are you in?

if you are in china you can't used them.

If you are in USA I know sources for parts you will need.

If you are looking for ways to setup up a room we would need some detail as to what you have.

60 x 3300 = 200kwatts of power  if s19's you need 250kwatts to be safe

60 x 2200 = 132kwatts of power if s17s you need 165kwatts to be safe

60 x 1300 = 78kwatts of power if s9's you need 98 kwatts to be safe

OP said he's using a T19 in the other thread:


Each one uses 3150W of power. So 60 antminers uses 189KW, almost as much as the same number of S19. If OP really is using 60 T19's here then there's a big ROI potential here since he got the miners for gratis.

That would be the least of his concerns, for now, setting up 60 gears that need close to 200kw isn't something easy by any means, and just for the record, AwesomeMiner is NOT free, you either pay for with hashrate by using their version of vnish firmware which has the "include license" option, or pay for each miner you want to monitor, the "free" version only allows you to monitor 1 miner.

Mining software?
ASIC-based Bitcoin miners are stand-alone devices that do not use 'mining software', they are not crapcoin miners based on using a PC and GPU's. The only software (such as AwesomeMiner) used is for monitoring. All you do is open the miner web GUI, enter pool & user information, save/apply and run them.