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November 23, 2015, 09:51:59 AM
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 Which miners generates most heat as heat source to heat home or small garage?
I'm thinking about using miner (scrypt or bitcoin) to heat up closed space in my garage. which one generates most heat tho? or maybye some modification to increase heat output? what do you guys think?
titans  are great but loud and expensive and faulty often
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November 23, 2015, 10:02:41 AM
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The heat output of a miner is essentially equivilent to it's power input.

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November 23, 2015, 11:03:47 AM
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Which miners generates most heat as heat source to heat home or small garage?
I'm thinking about using miner (scrypt or bitcoin) to heat up closed space in my garage. which one generates most heat tho? or maybye some modification to increase heat output? what do you guys think?
titans  are great but loud and expensive and faulty often

If Titans are too loud for you, then you have  very few choices. KNC Jupiter or something water cooled. Water cooled S5 for example or Antminer C1
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November 23, 2015, 01:33:44 PM
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Which miners generates most heat as heat source to heat home or small garage?
I'm thinking about using miner (scrypt or bitcoin) to heat up closed space in my garage. which one generates most heat tho? or maybye some modification to increase heat output? what do you guys think?
titans  are great but loud and expensive and faulty often

Well why not get 5 s-3's  they are cheap and will use about 1750 to 2000 watts .  they are also quiet.

or get 2 avalon 6's  they will use 2000 watts and they are quiet.


the 5  s-3's will cost you  about  500-600 usd  and do about 2200gh burning 1800 watts

the 2 avalon 6's will cost you about 2800 usd and do about 6800gh  burning 2000 watts.


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November 23, 2015, 02:14:57 PM
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Which miners generates most heat as heat source to heat home or small garage?
I'm thinking about using miner (scrypt or bitcoin) to heat up closed space in my garage. which one generates most heat tho? or maybye some modification to increase heat output? what do you guys think?
titans  are great but loud and expensive and faulty often

Well why not get 5 s-3's  they are cheap and will use about 1750 to 2000 watts .  they are also quiet.

or get 2 avalon 6's  they will use 2000 watts and they are quiet.


the 5  s-3's will cost you  about  500-600 usd  and do about 2200gh burning 1800 watts

the 2 avalon 6's will cost you about 2800 usd and do about 6800gh  burning 2000 watts.





With the Diff going through the roof right now I'd just pick up a few S3 units or something similar and cheap. You might end up regretting buying an expensive miner like a S7 or Avalon 6 if we hit a few more 10%+ jumps like it looks like we are going to do. I'd wait this generation out for a while because I think the new gear is being oversold and when the new batches of each come online its going to get a lot worse.
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November 23, 2015, 02:18:24 PM
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Avalon 6 or antminer s7  you cant riro on them (unless im Missing something).  I was actually thinking about s3 and replacing fans for something more quiet. Or maybye silverfish for scrypt 22+-  at 240 wat which is break even
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November 23, 2015, 02:35:41 PM
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Sorry for crappy pic. I had an old S1 laying around and I decided to try and make a space heater out of it. It works exceptionally well! By itself it will keep my small cabin around 60 degrees with outdoor temps in the high 20's. Its overclocked to 393Mhz and is pulling 445W from the wall. If mining performance is trivial for you, S1's can be had for dirt cheap and put out a decent amount of heat.

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November 23, 2015, 02:37:38 PM
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Avalon 6 or antminer s7  you cant riro on them (unless im Missing something).  I was actually thinking about s3 and replacing fans for something more quiet. Or maybye silverfish for scrypt 22+-  at 240 wat which is break even

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November 23, 2015, 03:40:18 PM
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Yeah I would suggest the S3 or S3+.  Great reliable miners.

If you are located in the US, I have a C1 for sale.  Its basically a water cooled S3 so its even quieter.  Last winter I ran it in my living room as a heater and my wife didn't complain about it.
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November 23, 2015, 03:57:19 PM
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If you do not care about profit get some S1's very quiet and use similar power to an S3. If you want to make some profit while staying warm get some S3's.

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November 23, 2015, 05:38:57 PM
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thanks for input:) shame i missed on s7 batch 7 (which seems best )
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November 27, 2015, 06:01:53 AM
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By far the hottest miner I ever used is the Alcheminer - they increase the ambient temp by 30f without breaking a sweat.  They also are super stable hashers if you use the latest firmware that a forum member made - it works like a champ.  I actually liked them quite a bit, but the heat was way too much for me...
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November 28, 2015, 03:27:04 PM
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S1's make great little space heaters. You might want to replace the fan to keep the noise down though.

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November 28, 2015, 05:16:22 PM
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By far the hottest miner I ever used is the Alcheminer - they increase the ambient temp by 30f without breaking a sweat.  They also are super stable hashers if you use the latest firmware that a forum member made - it works like a champ.  I actually liked them quite a bit, but the heat was way too much for me...
Alchminer is veeeeeeeeeeery difficult to buy which is shame:(
Trying to get S5 cheap:) will replace fans and should be nice heater
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November 29, 2015, 12:28:59 AM
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 Those old Zeus rigs used to generate a lot of heat. Those Volcano miners were drawing much over 1000W and some companies even used their boards to fit more chips in one case.

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November 29, 2015, 01:49:46 AM
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Good old 2.1Th Dragon miner generates heat more than enough. Downside is that it has about 15 fans, all spinning full speed and noise is like jumbo-jet. And you can't lower fan-speed, I've tried.
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November 29, 2015, 03:28:16 AM
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Over past week I have been using a Avalon 6.  It is actually pretty good as far as heat compared to sound.   

I have used it for a week and been happy with it in a room.  It might end up putting it in miner are as it weather warmed up a little last night.  And get it again once it's colder again.
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January 21, 2016, 04:47:58 PM
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Yeah I would suggest the S3 or S3+.  Great reliable miners.

If you are located in the US, I have a C1 for sale.  Its basically a water cooled S3 so its even quieter.  Last winter I ran it in my living room as a heater and my wife didn't complain about it.
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s3 even overclocked doesnt generate that much heat:( even s5. shame.
So far only KNC titan was nice heater. anyone tried butterfly monarch? I heard they generate a lot of heat
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January 21, 2016, 05:21:05 PM
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Yeah I would suggest the S3 or S3+.  Great reliable miners.

If you are located in the US, I have a C1 for sale.  Its basically a water cooled S3 so its even quieter.  Last winter I ran it in my living room as a heater and my wife didn't complain about it.
     https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1202317.0
s3 even overclocked doesnt generate that much heat:( even s5. shame.
So far only KNC titan was nice heater. anyone tried butterfly monarch? I heard they generate a lot of heat

The thing that matters is how much watt the miner consumes.
All the electricity that are pushed through the miners, are converted into heat, as a bi-product.
The only exception is the electricity that drives the fans, which are turned into mechanical energy (moving the fan around).



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January 21, 2016, 11:41:55 PM
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If you wanted to try and obtain a Spondoolies SP50, that would probably be the current "King of the Hill" in terms of heat production. You can obviously generate the equivalent amount of heat using numerous smaller miners. Right now the power consumption that miner remains unclear, though it's probably several kilowatts. Let us know if you ever find one one. It's generally shrouded in NDA's.

While I didn't take Thermodynamics in school decades ago, I am 99% sure that every single watt that comes out of the wall ultimately ends up as heat in one way or another. Even the spinning fans produce heat of their own, as well as moving air.

Maybe you really had something different in mind for your question.
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