Block Erupter running 24/7 without cooling - fire risk?

[doublejoint]

I am running 7 BE's in a hub horizontally no extra cooling (just the stock heatsinks) for the past 4 months, no issues with hardware errors, and no fires

[gamefixer]

I epoxy'ed small VGA coolers to some of the BE's I have.

[CounterStrike]

Should be safe as they are only consuming 2.5 watt....

[Ecurb123]

so far I have never heard of block erupters catching fire.

[mobile]

I wish no harm or mal event on any man but please, if any of you manage to get your Block Erupter to catch fire. Make sure you get it on video and post the youtube link here. Your youtube ad revenue alone would probably make you enough fiat to purchase another one as Im sure it would go viral in the community.

[Blackswan122]

Should I by a USB fan for my single Erupter - or would this be overkill/not financially viable?

The usb fan will cost more than your usb miner will ever made in return   

Well I took this project on! If you connect a RaspPi (wifi connection) and just one erupter it consumes 6.8w... with and artic fan connected it rises to 8w.... so with fan $1.09 a week profit! Without a fan $1.17!...I only went for a week as the difficulty will kill it depending on BTC price ($930 at time of posting) Power was calculated on german price of $0.35c (US is $0.15c) Hope this helped you? I had an energy monitor plugged in. RaspPi is the best method of running them. A laptop consumes much more! Plus they are great fun to play with...have a look at my other posts.

[Blackswan122]

Should I by a USB fan for my single Erupter - or would this be overkill/not financially viable?

The usb fan will cost more than your usb miner will ever made in return   

Well I took this project on! If you connect a RaspPi (wifi connection) and just one erupter it consumes 6.8w... with and artic fan connected it rises to 8w.... so with fan $1.09 a week profit! Without a fan $1.17!...I only went for a week as the difficulty will kill it depending on BTC price ($930 at time of posting) Power was calculated on german price of $0.35c (US is $0.15c) Hope this helped you? I had an energy monitor plugged in. RaspPi is the best method of running them. A laptop consumes much more! Plus they are great fun to play with...have a look at my other posts.

A fan looks great though! Brings your miner to life... It is also quite silent. Looks very good under the blue LEDs of my USB hub....

[woodsandhillsplc]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

@Blackswan122 thanks for the experiment! So there is not a huge difference in money earned between the two prices. I think if I had it at home I would definitely go for a fan, but at work it is tricky.

I bought a little heatsink for a couple of quid. May make a small difference...

After reading everyone's replies I think we can be pretty sure there will be no fire - that is good to know