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181  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Antminer D3 overheating AFTER cleaning the hashboard and removing the dust on: March 11, 2018, 06:03:55 AM
Yes that WD-40 product will work perfectly.  You really arent cleaning the PCB.  You are cleaning the heatsinks off.  The dust and dirt on the heatsinks acts as a blanket insulating the heatsink.  The heatsinks whole job in life is to dissipate heat from the chips on the card to the surrounding air.  Insulate the heatsink with dirt and you just lowered its ability to do its job.  I would get your equipment on a regular scheduled maintenance shutdown and clean BEFORE it ever gets this bad again.  Maybe every 6 months? Maybe 4?
182  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: GPU Mining with 30 1080Ti Cards (Need some advice) on: March 11, 2018, 05:59:33 AM
Exactly.  The sentiment of i was making $75 a day two months ago but now im only making $45 a day now so im going to sell everything is just plain stupid.  Sell it all for a loss or slight "profit", keeping in mind that slight profit could be made every month just continuing to mine with the kept equipment.  Sell it all....Great Business Decision turned into a Stupid Life Lesson.
183  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: XFX Radeon RX470 4GB for $280 on: March 11, 2018, 04:24:29 AM
Id offer $200 each and see if he really needs the $$.
184  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Questions about 550V Electricity Panel - 100$ Question on: March 11, 2018, 04:19:30 AM
Cdn standard is 575V (3phase) 45kVA @ 208/120 (~125 Amps)

V x A x 1.73 = W
208 x 125 x 1.73 = 44980w or 44kW
44kW @ 80% = 35kW usable

22 Miners @ 1500w = 33000w x24hrs x 31days = 23760000 or 23760kWh

Electric Bill
$12.33
First 15,090 of 23,760 (kWh) @ 9.78¢/kWh = $1475.80
Remaining  8670 (kWh) @ 6.88¢/kWh = $596.50

Roughly $2085.00 Cdn month

Mined BTC ~ 0.68 month

Chase



Looks pretty accurate to me.  These newbies always seem to not know the 80% derating.  FYI for all newbies.  YOU CANT RUN YOUR EQUIPMENT AT 100% Duty Cycle on Wiring and transformers rated for 80% Duty Cyle.

550v 3 phase? WTF!
185  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Antminer D3 overheating AFTER cleaning the hashboard and removing the dust on: March 10, 2018, 09:58:34 PM
Holy Cow!  After looking at the pic you were way over due for cleaning that D3!  You are lucky it didnt fry itself!
186  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: GPU Mining with 30 1080Ti Cards (Need some advice) on: March 10, 2018, 04:56:32 AM
Telling the OP to sell the GPU's now has got to be the dumbest idea ive ever heard.  The "market" appears to be down BECAUSE Btc price is down and the OP gets paid in Btc on Nicehash.  You still are mining around or just under the normal rate that you have been (difficulty levels not withstanding) but your payments are worth less because Btc is down to just over 9k.  When Btc goes up....So does the dollar value of your Btc that you have been paid by nicehash.

Keep mining with ALL the cards and just wait out the dip....It will go up and when it does...CASHOLA.
187  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Surge protectors recommendation for bedroom rig on: March 09, 2018, 05:49:12 AM
I'll try to simplify what other posters have mentioned:

1. You cannot simply upgrade your breaker because you are limited by the capacity of your electrical wires.
2. To upgrade, you will need both a new breaker and new wires.
3. An electrician can do this for you safely. Do not try to DIY if you don't know what you're doing.
Are you Pete or Repeat?
188  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: VGA card Can’t run with riser card on: March 09, 2018, 05:47:37 AM
Bet you have your riser plugged into a sata wiring harness coming from your power supplies SATA feed to the hard drive, cd rom, etc.  There is not enough power on that SATA cable.  If you have a modular power supply then plug your sata daisy chain cable into a 6 pin PERIPHERAL socket NOT a SATA socket.  If you dont have a modular power supply then hook it up to SATA power cable from the power supply that is not being used for anything if available.  Its not detecting because there isnt enough power to the riser.
189  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Mining , still worth it? on: March 09, 2018, 05:42:31 AM
You all know whats going on here right now, right?  They know the crypto events coming in the middle of March.  Follow me here.  They also know that the price is going to shoot up by the end of the month.  So they ran prices down so they can buy more coin for their added additional money so when it runs back up toward the end of the month, they cash out with huge profits.  Just like the stock market.  Shorting the hell outta it.
190  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: What fan speed is better? on: March 09, 2018, 05:38:41 AM
A fan is $10-$15 to replace.  Let that GPU burn up and see how much it costs to replace then!  No reason a GPU should be ran at 76C or above unless you live in the Jungles of Vietnam.
Mining is illegal in vietnam xD
And  i really love vietnamiees food <3 ;3

Nothing is illegal until you get caught, and who on earth is going to find you in the jungle? 
191  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Surge protectors recommendation for bedroom rig on: March 09, 2018, 05:34:40 AM
And FYI, trying to plug them into different outlets in the same room will usually not help. Bedrooms are usually wired with a single 15A line.

Long extension cords are also a bad idea.

I highly recommend trying to lower the power usage, even if it means lower hash rates. You can also get higher efficiency power supplies which will decrease the overall heat generated and power used.

The best thing to do is to hire a professional electrician to put in 30A at 240V (or 208V if you have 3 phase). Higher voltages are slightly more efficient. A 30A 240V breaker can provide ~5700W (derated to 80%) safely. This is usually enough for 2-4 rigs, depending on their power usage.

All totally depends on who wired the house or even added on later.  My living room alone has one wall on a 20a breaker, the opposite on another 20a breaker and the smallest wall has its own 20a breaker.  Even most of my lighting is on their own 15a breaker....some are paired.  If the house was built by a contractor and on the cheap budget then the whole room is probably on one breaker.

As many have said here.......To the OP........DO NOT CHANGE THE BREAKER TO HIGHER RATED BREAKER!   And here is why.........

A circuit breakers two jobs in life is to PROTECT THE WIRING THAT IS HOOKED UP TO IT and protect a person from getting electrocuted because of a short to ground in an item that is plugged into its power circuit which ultimately also PROTECTS THE WIRING.  The wiring in the wall is a certain gauge (size) and the breaker is sized by that.  A 20a breaker protects 12ga wire.  A 15a breaker protects 14ga wire. If you stick a 20a breaker on 14ga wire, you are allowing 5 more amps of current to flow through a wire thats only rated for 15a.  The wire gets hot, the insulation of the wire gets soft and breaks down and when the wire starts glowing it will ignite the inside of the walls on fire. DO NOT DO THIS.  All this applies to fuses too.  Never stick a higher rated fuse in place of what it is suppose to be.  A fuse pops and a breaker trips FOR A REASON.
192  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Windows 10 v1709 always 1 less GPU (n-1) on: March 05, 2018, 09:52:05 AM
I have two rigs, one with 8 cards and the other has 10 and im running win 10 pro updated to 1709 with absolutely no problem. First I would remove all drivers and install the crimson blockchain driver from AMD website.  How do you know windows is the culprit? Id suspect the motherboard bios OR your power supply wiring to the risers.  How many gpu risers do you have on one sata cable train? Is your sata cable plugged into the sata outlet of your power supply or the peripheral outlet (assuming you have modular power supply).  Id put no more than 3 maybe 4 depending on what cards are used on a sata train cable.
193  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Surge protectors recommendation for bedroom rig on: March 05, 2018, 09:41:17 AM
Hi my bedroom has 15 amp breaker switch and my rig does 13.2 amp with 2 psu. Can someone recommend what surfe protectors to use so I split the load to 2 protectors on same outlet. I see most have like 5 to 7 amp max outage. What happens if you go over max - it trips or just on incoming spikes? How should I support my rig

Last guy is absolutely right.  Your residential electrical equipment is NOT rated for 100% duty cycle.  Meaning you have to derate everything to 80%.  A home 15a branch circuit is only good for 12a of continous duty and a mining rig would fall under that category.  Your wiring in the walls all the way to the circuit breaker for the outlet you are using is getting quite warm. Your outlet is getting quite warm too and can fail. There is a good chance eventually it will catch your walls on fire.

Surge protection is rated in joules NOT amps.  The amp rating you are seeing is the rating for the surge protector within the power strip and its power cord. You would burn it up if it didnt have its own circuit breaker built in.  Breakers tripping arent good for mining since the rig is then down.  You need to figure out if there are any outlets in your room that are on a different branch circuit breaker and plug on of your power supplies in that one BUT you should also figure out what all you have plugged in to each circuit too.  You could have many outlets on the same breaker and even your lights on one of them.  You could also just have one breaker feeding every outlet in your room and the lights so you could very well be up against the max when the lights and other things are turned on while your rig is running.
194  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: renting a warehouse how to test the electric output like a pro on: March 05, 2018, 09:27:47 AM
It would be a 4:1 stepdown going from 480 to 120v.   The current would end up being 4 times higher on the 120 side vs the 480 side though not including losses.  Price one....they aint cheap at all.  How big of area do you need?  How much land do you already own? Theres peace of mind having better security at your own place instead of having to worry about someone breaking into your warehouse across town. The gas back and forth will to the warehouse will more than enough pay for a couple German Shepherds to roam your own land around your own building.  There are options.  Prefab outbuildings, sheds, garages and even custom builds along with DIY. FYI Bring in a prefab shed and they put it where you want it, there are many places that will build to your spec and most places dont charge you property tax on the sq footage since its not considered a permanent structure like a garage. Sit the shed on cinder blocks, crushed rock or even on its own skids.  I have enough room to to put many of those on my house lot before Id have to start getting into my woods and start clearing.  The startup costs for a prefab shed, its own electrical (internal and the power feed) and ventilation/air conditioning are quite attractive.

How many Gpu's are you talking about here that need to be put to work? What kind are they?
195  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: renting a warehouse how to test the electric output like a pro on: March 05, 2018, 05:59:17 AM
At least two articles on the internet says 3-phase is in general more efficient, of course there are lot of technicals but I am just covering the high level stuff can not read all of 'em but at least one of the article says it is expensive to convert 3-phase to a single phase. Now I am looking what really expensive means, is it just one time cost of step down transformer in which case i can shoulder or is it lowered efficiency in power throughout the usage, oh god there are so many things to consider, in the end, I hope lord will be watching me lol.  Cheesy

https://blog.tripplite.com/single-phase-vs-three-phase-power-explained/

3 phase is more efficient....on 3 phase equipment. With a 3 phase building you will end up with a substantial amount of available power because there are 3 legs of power coming in instead of just 2 like in a home.  ANYTIME you step down or up power you end up with less efficiency...that loss is in the form of heat at the transformer. This is why no power supply is 100% efficient.  208 3 phase is what you want over a 480 3 phase power input.  208 3 phase has 120v to ground from each leg OR 208v across any two legs.  480 3 phase is 277v from each of 3 legs to ground or 480v across any 2 legs.  You wouldnt need a stepdown transformer for a 208v 3 phase building. You would be good to go just know that you CANNOT use anything that an electrical motor rated for 240vac (marked 220/230/240) in that building that has 208 3 phase.  They will burn up in very short order.  Now your power supplies will be fat dumb and happy in a 208 3 phase building.  You can run each power feed off of one leg to ground OR you could run them off of 2 phases which would yield 208v.

That is what i thought. The eddy current and all sorts of stuff happening in the transformer, used to study while I was doing EE but that was more than 10 years ago, so does not click much. I am looking at 480 to 240 or 480 to 120 transformer, and if efficiency is not too low I may get one, this is added expense, and who knows transformer will not blow up after constant use, another risk element to put into.
If you have to get a warehouse with 480v 3 phase and are buying 480 to 240 step down transformers you (A) Better have some serious cashola ready and (B) Better hope Bitcoin goes to $100k soon or you will never recoup your investment unless your rigs/farm is already paid for itself.  Id hate to see what a 480v 3 phase power bill looks like!  I know 208 3 phase aint pretty for one of the radar station I take of (power distribution and backup emergency power). 3 phase is more efficient when you dont have to step it down (this is where 208 3 phase comes in handy) but the up front costs along with monthly whether or not you use it can be high.  Me personally if I ever surpass my homes 200a supply then I will just put a shed or small garage on my 5 acres that is dedicated just for that and have another service entrance brought in to that building.
196  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: 1 out of 7 cards turn up as "microsoft basic adapter" after driver update. on: March 05, 2018, 03:59:36 AM
Yep the Crimson driver was only meant for RX5xx series cards and above. Not R series.
197  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: ASrock H110 Pro BTC+ with 13 gpu, which cpu is enough? on: March 05, 2018, 03:57:26 AM
Im running 2 rigs with the Asus B250 Mining Expert.  One with the G3920 and the other G3930.  They were both running fine on 4gb ram PC2133 but I went ahead a stuck another 4GB ram in the other slot of each board for a total of 8Gb per motherboard.  I use 120gb ssd for each rig.  Currently have 10 Nvidia Gpu's on rig 2.  7 amd and 2 Nvidia on the Rig 1.  Win 10 pro updated to 1709.  Bios ver 1001.  Currently running nicehash.
198  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: (5) 1050ti rig question on: March 04, 2018, 08:19:23 PM
Overclock settings are +100 core, +500 memory, 75watts, fan 65%

I'm mining on smOS on ewbf0.3.4b miner

After 10 hours my zcash balance is 0.00384zec

Seen others saying they're getting $2 to $3 per card per day

I have to agree....$2-$3 per 1050ti is just not realistic.  Thats more of a 1080 daily earnings amount.  I have 10 1050ti's myself and they run around .70-.90 daily, lately being towards the low side of that.  My 1080s earn $2-$3 a day each.  Im on win 10 pro and use nicehash currently.
199  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: ASUS B250 Mining Expert MB - 19 Cards! on: March 04, 2018, 08:03:52 PM
I am using a 16GB kingston USB3.0 stick with Hive OS on it and it works great.
The 3 molexes on the MB are not connected, I have powered risers (2 per cable coming from the PSU).

Risers are something fishy, sometimes have to switch either cables or power them from another PSU until everything runs fine.
If they have an issue with power the MB shows multiple slots in red, its just figuring out which one to change PSU then and everything is green again.

Which version riser are you using? I use strictly 006c ver and oddly have never even gotten a bad one, yet.  I strictly use 120gb ssd, they are $48. I run win 10 Pro, updated to 1709 and Asus bios ver 1001.  The 3 molexes are NOT connected on my m/b.  I have two sticks of 4gb memory pc2133.  Intel G3920 Cpu on Rig1 m/b and G3930 Cpu on Rig2.
200  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: ASUS B250 Mining Expert MB - 19 Cards! on: March 04, 2018, 06:53:30 AM
Can I run for example 13 card Rx 570 and 6  gtx 1060 will it work
No.  When running all 19 slots on the motherboard 6 HAVE TO BE P106-100 which is the dedicated minor card (Essentially a factory manufactured 1060 made to mine only with no video outputs).  It has to post as a 106 card or you WILL NOT be able to use 19 cards total.
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