Hi All,
I recently started a simple mining rig in my basement. I soon found out that my house became the best sauna in town. Apparently the basement became 30C (86F) and the hot air started traveling up heating the house. Since it's October I counted on cold weather outside bring cold air in through the basement window which didn't work because it was way too hot in the basement.
As a result, I put a box fan in front of the window to force cold air in. This greatly helped reduce the temperature in the basement and the miners. I have purchased more used Antminer S5s and 2 brand new Antminer S7s to add to my rig which will add more heat. I was hoping you guys can review my videos to see my set-up and maybe offer suggestions to try to improve airflow. Thank you in advance.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM6Q5RTpnxXVI-YK37fBi8AYou should dump the heat strait outside, you don't have the ventilation of a data center. Then have a box fan pulling cool air into the basement and then a fan pulling the heat out.
You can either put the miners's exhaust in a window physically or by using those vinyl tubes.
We really do not see to left side almost looks like a wall. So there might not be a easy way to do in air and exhaust.
People do the S5's upwards sometimes, I like mine laying flat as it's easy to blow air. Those box fans are not a ton of CFM's. If you point them all the same direction you could use something more like i do with
http://www.lowes.com/pd_416730-11292-SFDC2-600T_0__?Ntt=416730&UserSearch=416730&productId=4755305&rpp=32 (I have 2 of those pushing the hot air from rigs).
My area also has a exhust I upgraded the gable fan to this:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/QuietCool-Professional-3013-CFM-Power-Gable-Mount-Attic-Fan-AFG-PRO-3-0/206047381 it made a huge difference on moving exhust out.
Do you have another set of windows to the left? Or just the one to right?
