Should I restart Antminer S5s?

[sandy56]

Until now I have selling my Antminer S5s.

Should I consider restarting them?

Electric here is 14 cents per kW.

EDIT - Happened to thing of this handy calculator

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/btc?HashingPower=1&HashingUnit=TH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=500&CostPerkWh=0.14

It does not look promising.

[tubexc]

 I'm waiting for a working Antminer S5 hashing board because one of them stopped working.
 I run it in times when electricity is cheaper (at night and at weekends ).
 You just have to see what your electricity contract is (single rate, bi-hour ...), at least that's what happens here in Portugal 

[killerjoegreece]

The s5 is way underpowered for todays standards my friend. The only reason I would fire up such a miner is if I had free electicity or a solar panel array.

[sandy56]

The s5 is way underpowered for todays standards my friend. The only reason I would fire up such a miner is if I had free electicity or a solar panel array.

I agree from what I am calculating. Even if my electric was free, as I see it, just the wear and tear on the power supply would eat up what little profit they would produce.

Thanks all for the replies.

[sidehack]

See if you can fetch a cheap S7 and undervolt it to 4TH/1KW. Burns twice the power of an S5 for four times the hashrate and probably less noise.

Course I don't know that you can find a cheap S7 anymore, a year ago they were going for about $300 but things are crazy now.