Infrastructure Hydro Mining

[XRay1337]

Hey Guys,

what solution did you choose for the use of Hydro Miner? It's all about cooling the liquid, do you use radiators with air conditioning? If so, is it all in one room or do you take the warm air outside?

[goldkingcoiner]

Hey Guys,

what solution did you choose for the use of Hydro Miner? It's all about cooling the liquid, do you use radiators with air conditioning? If so, is it all in one room or do you take the warm air outside?

Maybe if you have a large body of water or something you could set up system to transfer the heat via conduction. That should cool down the system much faster than with radiators. The bonus is you get a heated pool/jacuzzi/barrel/whatever.   The same principle of heat transfer should work for any large enough body of water relative to your rig size. Not that I have any practical experience in hydro mining.

[XRay1337]

Maybe if you have a large body of water or something you could set up system to transfer the heat via conduction. That should cool down the system much faster than with radiators. The bonus is you get a heated pool/jacuzzi/barrel/whatever.   The same principle of heat transfer should work for any large enough body of water relative to your rig size. Not that I have any practical experience in hydro mining.

Okay, I see, do you mean a large tank with 100 liters cools down faster than a tank with 1 liter? Sure, it takes longer for the large tank to heat up, but doesn't it take longer to cool down?

[goldkingcoiner]

Maybe if you have a large body of water or something you could set up system to transfer the heat via conduction. That should cool down the system much faster than with radiators. The bonus is you get a heated pool/jacuzzi/barrel/whatever.   The same principle of heat transfer should work for any large enough body of water relative to your rig size. Not that I have any practical experience in hydro mining.

Okay, I see, do you mean a large tank with 100 liters cools down faster than a tank with 1 liter? Sure, it takes longer for the large tank to heat up, but doesn't it take longer to cool down?

Now that I think about it, a normal pool of about 8x4x1.5 meters might probably not have a high enough rate of heat dissipation to cool down more than 1-2 miners before it heats up faster than it can cool down. Scratch the idea, unless you have a lake or a river at your disposal  

[XRay1337]

a lake is a great idea

my biggest question is, should the warm air in an air-conditioned room be led outside (then you have negative pressure) or should you leave everything in a closed room and hope the air-conditioning system can handle it to cool down the warm air?

[goldkingcoiner]

a lake is a great idea

my biggest question is, should the warm air in an air-conditioned room be led outside (then you have negative pressure) or should you leave everything in a closed room and hope the air-conditioning system can handle it to cool down the warm air?

Depending on the set up, you could be confronted with humidity issues from condensation which could damage your miners. In a closed environment, I imagine the air conditioning system would have to work harder (higher electrical bill). Both sides seem to have their own cons.