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Title: Should I restart Antminer S5s? Post by: sandy56 on June 06, 2017, 03:42:19 PM Until now I have selling my Antminer S5s.
Should I consider restarting them? Electric here is 14 cents per kW. EDIT - Happened to thing of this handy calculator https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/btc?HashingPower=1&HashingUnit=TH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=500&CostPerkWh=0.14 It does not look promising. Title: Re: Should I restart Antminer S5s? Post by: tubexc on June 06, 2017, 08:06:38 PM I'm waiting for a working Antminer S5 hashing board because one of them stopped working.
I run it in times when electricity is cheaper (at night and at weekends ). You just have to see what your electricity contract is (single rate, bi-hour ...), at least that's what happens here in Portugal ;D Title: Re: Should I restart Antminer S5s? Post by: killerjoegreece on June 06, 2017, 08:08:50 PM The s5 is way underpowered for todays standards my friend. The only reason I would fire up such a miner is if I had free electicity or a solar panel array.
Title: Re: Should I restart Antminer S5s? Post by: sandy56 on June 07, 2017, 04:45:05 AM The s5 is way underpowered for todays standards my friend. The only reason I would fire up such a miner is if I had free electicity or a solar panel array. I agree from what I am calculating. Even if my electric was free, as I see it, just the wear and tear on the power supply would eat up what little profit they would produce. Thanks all for the replies. Title: Re: Should I restart Antminer S5s? Post by: sidehack on June 10, 2017, 01:17:07 PM See if you can fetch a cheap S7 and undervolt it to 4TH/1KW. Burns twice the power of an S5 for four times the hashrate and probably less noise.
Course I don't know that you can find a cheap S7 anymore, a year ago they were going for about $300 but things are crazy now. |