My small farm build, with pics

[StigHelmer]

Looks great! Thanks for sharing. I also mount my motherboards on boxes

I'm working on a custom rig frame now (similar to other ones out there with stylistic touches) which I will sell if my prototypes look worth it.

Can you elaborate on what your electrician friend did, or what it would cost? that is the piece that I am most debating, right now I have rigs on various circuits but I want to move to a dedicated location and route power there. In the middle of this I am learning about how to become an electrician.

Also can you tell us what the embarrassing mistake you made that fried one of your cards was, in the interest of not making it ourselves?

Thanks. And I can't believe I have been so obsessed with crypto and just found this forum, it's excellent.

[McKaig]

Looks great! Thanks for sharing. I also mount my motherboards on boxes

I'm working on a custom rig frame now (similar to other ones out there with stylistic touches) which I will sell if my prototypes look worth it.

Can you elaborate on what your electrician friend did, or what it would cost? that is the piece that I am most debating, right now I have rigs on various circuits but I want to move to a dedicated location and route power there. In the middle of this I am learning about how to become an electrician.

Also can you tell us what the embarrassing mistake you made that fried one of your cards was, in the interest of not making it ourselves?

Thanks. And I can't believe I have been so obsessed with crypto and just found this forum, it's excellent.

My electrician buddy wired 2 seperate 240v circuits (The ones with red wire in the pics).  He came by, told me what I needed to buy, and I went out to my local electrical supply store and bought it.

I bought 2 x 240v receptables, 10ft 20amp cable, 2 x 20amp breakers, and some 240v computer power cords, to fit the receptacles.  Along with a few other odds and ends, my bill was around $60 USD.

My friend spent 1 hour the first day, to talk me through what we needed to do, capacity, etc, and 1 hour the following day installing it.  I paid him $30 USD per hour for helping me out.

For the embarrassing mistake, I plugged in PCI-e adapter into a PCI slot on the motherboard backwards.  It slides in like butter, there was no resistance.  I turned it on, smelled smoke, cut the power... bye bye mobo.  I knew the correct way to plug them in, but it was at the end of a very long night trying to troubleshoot my rig's issues, I had my headphones on blasting music because that room is now very loud with all the fans, and poof, made the mistake.  I did almost exactly what this guy did:  https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/6ja5i7/burnt_riser_pcie_slot_help_would_be_greatly/

[StigHelmer]

Thank you very much. Man I wish I had an electrician friend...

Amazing how we make mistakes when we are tired. Every time I did something like to a car I was working on, I was tired and not thinking right and it wouldn't have happened in the morning. No worries mate! Small price to pay in the long run. 

Sorry if everyone else knows this, but is 240v the way to go for the ANT miners? I see it commonly for ETH and BTC. I am mining Zcash right now and wondering if I should run on 240v. Thanks again, and like others said, great job on getting your son involved. I bought my daughter a commemorative Bitcoin little coin as she is only 4 but I'm excited to share my obsession with her as the years go on.

[McKaig]

Thank you very much. Man I wish I had an electrician friend...

Amazing how we make mistakes when we are tired. Every time I did something like to a car I was working on, I was tired and not thinking right and it wouldn't have happened in the morning. No worries mate! Small price to pay in the long run.  

Sorry if everyone else knows this, but is 240v the way to go for the ANT miners? I see it commonly for ETH and BTC. I am mining Zcash right now and wondering if I should run on 240v. Thanks again, and like others said, great job on getting your son involved. I bought my daughter a commemorative Bitcoin little coin as she is only 4 but I'm excited to share my obsession with her as the years go on.

From what I understand, the equipment runs more efficiently at 240v.  The other benefit, is you can run more machines on a circuit.  My S9's pull around 6amps, so I can put 2 safely on a 20amp circuit.  At 120v, they run double the amperage at around 12amps, so you can only get one on a 20amp circuit.  The danger is that most computer power cords are only rated for 10amps, and the receptacles are wiring might only be rated for 15amps.  I had an S9 plugged into 120v for a bit, but the power cord was running hot.  Can't have that happening at home.   Also, since it's a 24/7 load, you don't want to be above 80% of your capacity, to be safe.

There are quite a few threads which go into good technical detail about this stuff.

[McKaig]

Hey I was looking into getting a Asrock BTC+ and I saw u said you had it and got rid of it. Whats wrong with it?

I fried it by mistake.  Then they were sold out when I bought a replacement.

[McKaig]

Amazing, how much money is spent?

For what's already installed, about $18,000 USD.  Total once the rest of the equipment arrives will be close to $40k.  Everything came from crypto gains, and reselling some units.

[StigHelmer]

I know the question was directed at me - but I purchased ethOS which is similar to the link you posted. I honestly haven't even taken it out of the bag because I have been using nvOC EWF CUDA miner on all my machines. The last build was giving me a few issues and it doesn't seem to like 2 year old Gigabyte boards (or the ones I give it) much. IF you aren't linux-phobic it is great.

I have always want to learn Linux since I was a teenager but didn't have the work ethic or patience, but crypto is giving me a whole new motivation