Health concerns Air quality in mining room

[Mautje]

I have a question about mining equipment. I have a small room with 11 GPU's hashing away, yes GPU's, so I'm mining altcoins, but the question I ask is a general one and so I feel it may find a place here in the BTC forum.

Small room, 11 GPU's hashing away. A small window is open, door to the rest of the building is open. However you guys must know the smell... the mining smell... the smell of hot 80 deg. Celcius PCB's air blowing over them.. THe thing is it's not just the smell, when I'm in that room for a few hours I actually feel my throat "not liking" it.. it's hard to explain but the air quality just feels unhealthy.

I must not be the only one who notices this!?!??!? I tried googeling this, but I think most people sitting behind a desktop computer won't experience this, as "a desktop" is a different experience from 11 GPU's..

Does anyone know what the air quility is like from the air blown from GPU's? Any studies.. results???

I'm a bit concerned and so I thought I'd ask it here......



PS. This is not a sarcastic post to make fun of the connnection between "mining coins" and real life mines where they mine metals, which have harsh conditions

[HairyMaclairy]

Can you build a case around the GPUs and use a large fan to create a one way air current venting out the window? Frankly I don't think it is particularly good for you.  

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15104785/

[Mautje]

Thank you, that is exactly the kind of study I was looking for, but was unable to find.

Formaldehyde? That stuff is really toxic!

Got to move this stuff out of my house.
Got to move out of this room.

[frankenmint]

Hmm... I think it effects different people in different ways.   This is where I'm comming in from:

I used to live in a tiny 1bedroom appartment and had going on 24x7: 

68 block erupters
A PC Host
a KNC Mercury
A bitfury Full Kit
An avalon batch 2
a 64 In Plasma TV
An xbox360
a running window A/C to make things bearable
and Two laptops in constant use.

This was a TINY room we were less than 2 feet away from the TV and mining setup.  I never noticed any sort of breathing or ventilation problems.  I Ran a small upright fan through behind the TV and sides which is where the exaust from the TV, the Xbox, the Standing avalon and my other stuff siting down was running by - so it had constant airflow to circulate things.  That hot air was always hitting the wall and bending to hit me directly in the face.

Also, while temporarily relocating, I lived at a relative's place that had shag carpeting - this carpeting triggered my breathing and asthma substantially to where I was dependant on an inhaler again and for a period of a couple days while living in my new residence.  However the breathing issues are now gone again.  So I would think that I should be suseptible to what you're talking about, but it hasn't factored in for my case yet.  Further perplexing is the fact that I now have zero circulation active on the equipment, although I have a larger space for them to operate now. 

If I can get my power situation better figured out, perhaps I could finally get my own 8gpu rig setup and will give you more feedback! (shameless plug for zoomhash.com those guys were awesome getting me setup)

[Mautje]

I'm thinking it might be 2 of my GPU's on which I replaced the thermal compound, I added plenty (too much) and so some of it must have been pushed off to the sides of the GPU, where it could vaporise (or in part) I guess.

Maybe I need to run the setup without those 2 cards and see how my air qualityis then

[bit.alex]

Yeah, the mining room smell and rooms with many computers in general always make me feel a little sick and uncomfortable. I would never live in such room.

[FlyForFun]

I have a question about mining equipment. I have a small room with 11 GPU's hashing away, yes GPU's, so I'm mining altcoins, but the question I ask is a general one and so I feel it may find a place here in the BTC forum.

Small room, 11 GPU's hashing away. A small window is open, door to the rest of the building is open. However you guys must know the smell... the mining smell... the smell of hot 80 deg. Celcius PCB's air blowing over them.. THe thing is it's not just the smell, when I'm in that room for a few hours I actually feel my throat "not liking" it.. it's hard to explain but the air quality just feels unhealthy.

I must not be the only one who notices this!?!??!? I tried googeling this, but I think most people sitting behind a desktop computer won't experience this, as "a desktop" is a different experience from 11 GPU's..

Does anyone know what the air quility is like from the air blown from GPU's? Any studies.. results???

I'm a bit concerned and so I thought I'd ask it here......



PS. This is not a sarcastic post to make fun of the connnection between "mining coins" and real life mines where they mine metals, which have harsh conditions

Its really unhealthy, I have migraines usually after about an hours in the mining room. I believe its hard metal smell..

[tom_o]

The sore throat is 'dry air'

The higher the temperature of air, the more water vapour it can hold. Therefore if you increase the temperature without increasing the amount of water vapour in the room the overall humidity goes down and things in the room, like your throat, start to dry.

[Flashman]

Yah, I'd say it was just dry air also.

Slight diversion... I swear I used to have less dust/pollen issues indoors when I was running CRTs instead of LCD/LED monitors ...