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Got my second and third  S7's yesterday  had to figure out where to put them.

So I spent my Sunday building this in my Gym Room - the beginnings of a MicroFarm

https://imgur.com/XXSliOQ

Lots of work still to be done on neatening up cabling

------> next Sunday ;)
Hmmmm how do I  embed the image?
https://m.imgur.com/XXSliOQ

Turn miner 180 so they blow @ you
For the pics there is an picture button...else bbcode is:

I tried to be neat with my S1 units then the s3 didn't fit the s1 spaces and it caused nothing but a headache.  When your all done the replacement for the s7 will be out and you will get to start all over.  I gave up being neat just toss them where ever they fit and get enough air.

What's the ambient temperature there? I see behind PSU's it's a window so it would be best to open it and let the air flow in the room for better circulation and cooling (in case your only cooling system is only the electric fan and miners own fan) but if ever you have a cold room due to aircon then not needed so it will have less dust over time. Most home gyms owners don't put aircon on their gym rooms and if your one of them then longevity of those S7's will shorten without proper cooling.

Regarding embedding of the image you posted, you can't since your still a Newbie rank but since Minerkev posted a wrong code, because it isn't just the IMG tag but also something else to the first and last of the link itself, here's the proper code for it:

They going to be alright all running from one socket?

House burning in 3, 2, 1...

Yeah man, maybe split them in 2-1 configuration per socket

Tried 3 miners on 1 socket, wasn't really safe :), it was hot af

Thanks for the Comments  --

So what you can't really see from the pictures ::

1) There is a window directly behind them, which is open - so Hot Air is expelled directly out the window -- with all three running all night at 700mhz the average blade Temp was around 59 and all day today 64 (with the doors closed) if I leave the door open this will probably improve

2) Whilst It looks like They are all running off one socket - One of the really untidy cables hanging from the roof is where I have pulled an extension from another socket, so I have two running off one socket ,, and another off another socket  - each with its own surge protector   It's 240v 16A plug 

All runs great  -- except today when our domestic worker plugged in the Iron, in another room and that plug point happened to be on the same circuit as the two miners -- so it tripped the breaker   ---  Solution - She must pick another room to iron in ;D   

One day when I want to get more miners I'll have to look at pulling another circuit from the db board --

as soon as I got my mini farm all perfect it stopped being profitable lol...


Hopefully your farm lasts longer than mine

Nice set up. Personally I'm glad you shelves are not made from wood and that they are not solid but like grate which is good for cooling.

I agree with comments about all running from one socket though. So maybe you should do something about it.

Hi, are you running your s7 with 220v or 110v PSU?

Regards.

Hi, it's 240v

I have one of those fan's your using (I believe it's lasko if I remember right).  I used it before I went bigger drum fan's.  But you picked a good fan.   

I really like fan's using old knobs you adjust speed.   A lot of the new ones with electric buttons if power is lost turn off and stay off till turned on.  But with good old knob if power is off and comes back on they come back on. 

This one is a Kenwood,, the brand is pretty popular in South Africa,,  and I think UK,, I have a whole bunch of them - they come in handy

Lucky we are just going into winter now, I will have to look into AC and pulling more circuits through from the dB when we get to summer if I want to add miners

What is that supposed to mean?

i checked the specification its take Power Consumption: 1293W ±10% and you have 3 s7 ? is it ur house can take that much electric ? and how you pay your house electric bill dude ??  :o :o :o

I think it will be better for the hot air to be drawn out of the room directly, rather than relying on natural air flow.

Normal UK plug has a max current of 13A. Therefore the max is 13 x 240 = 3120 W. You are drawing 3 x 1200 + fan (assumed 100W) =~ 4000W = dangerous of burning wire in the long run. Hope we still remember the fire incident in Thailand:

http://www.coindesk.com/gallery-fire-destroys-thai-bitcoin-mining-facility/

Clean and neat setup you have there.

It would be interesting to see other South African mini farms.

Now time will tell what the cost is to run those little monsters.

minimum for every apartment is 3kw, so 1300w is nothing you can even go higher, if your wachine machine is a class efficient

mine for example is not, it consume 2400w as a peak so i can only spare 900(3300 is the real maximum)

It's actually on two different circuits, there is a second cable coming in from top  so 2 on one circuit,, then the fan + 1 s7 plus small network switch on the other.

My energy meters arrived today, so I'll see how much each one is drawing.

Power to the house is not a problem, I have 3 phase, 60 amp per phase coming in

Im a miner who just started up in south africa about 3 months ago. only got 2 machines though ;D would be nice to see a group of south african miners here.
didn't know it was so popular locally

3KW is for one single power point from the main, which is limited by the thickness of the wire and also with all safety considerations.

The OP is connecting 3 x S7 to the same point, which is equivalent to almost 4KW. This is definitely not recommended.

Jeez can nobody read? There are only 2 connected to 1 point. The third is connected to a completely different circuit 

In SA a point is 16amp

moe7865  - -  glad to see some more Saffers here

in africa there are some place with cheap electricity it should not be so hard to know someone elsse that is mining already

you're lucky that you have a cheap electricty, it would be my dream to have it too, i would invest big in mining if that was the case, not bitcoin mining though...

First, they're a lot less big that I imagined them. I always represented the S7 as an ASIC with the shapes of a S4. Also, can you still do your gym in this piece ? Three pieces of such miners should produce an unsupportable noise.

Dang that's awesome, and it might pay off later too. Good luck and make sure you have fun while doing it.

Lol as is the case with most home-gyms I never use mine, I prefer to go to a public gym.  The noise is deafening, but luckily the garage seperates the room from the rest of the house.

My electricity cost is R1.64  so about $0.11 per kwh but Bitcoin can be sold at at least a 10% premium over the international price in SA,,  although this difference is dropping, a month ago there was a 15% premium

I doubt I will ever make lots of profit,, but it is fun

So funny the story of the public gym but so true :D ! Nice electricity rate that you have there. Isn't the heat a problem in South Africa ? Even if that's the country the most at the South of Africa (pretty logic name :D), it might be hot, no ?

Summer is very hot, but we are going into winter and it gets cool on the high veld , so we're good until summer , then I am going to have to rethink cooling

How is the mining coming along?