Lets Share Ideas of Ways to Manage Heat From Mining in a Home or Warehouse

[dmwardjr]

This photo is a reminder to give you an idea of what I'm putting together:



And a look from the other side:

[dmwardjr]

I drew this last summer when I was forced to cut off several rigs during the day in the summertime and back on in the evening.  I still have a ways to go yet.  However, one major thing I'm doing different.  On the far left you see a door for entrance into the mining closet.  That door will be moved closer to the French doors to allow a 48" wide rack to be placed there.  Also, the intake and exhaust fans in the windows will be doubled up.  Meaning, I will have two 30" intake fans and two 30" exhaust fans.  Maybe not till next summer.  Mainly for redundancy in case a fan goes down for whatever reason.  This way there is still another one going till the one that is down can be repaired or replaced.

https://i.imgur.com/GWxu9wq.jpg

[Canefire]

Nice work! I would love to have more rigs and I'm adding them slowly. I put my mining in a shed outside after the heat was so bad in my house. I did a write up of the project here if anyone is interested:
http://canefiremt.simplesite.com/
Scroll down to the shed write up, it's after the Octominer build.
Cheers,
CF

[dmwardjr]

Nice work! I would love to have more rigs and I'm adding them slowly. I put my mining in a shed outside after the heat was so bad in my house. I did a write up of the project here if anyone is interested:
http://canefiremt.simplesite.com/
Scroll down to the shed write up, it's after the Octominer build.
Cheers,
CF

Hi Canefire,

Thanks for dropping by and sharing!  Much appreciated.  I'm about to get some shuteye.  I did take a quick look at it.  However, it looks like it's worth reading instead of only looking at photos.  I'm going to read it tomorrow and make comments here either tomorrow or the next day.

Cheers and Happy Mining!

[Dagamus(NM)]

You inspired me to make my setup better. I am in the middle of building a house. My small mining room will get me by until I expand to a dedicated space for mining. I bought some flap vent mounted fans from the tpicorp company you listed earlier for your big exhaust fan. Wall studs prevent me from going with on 30 or 36” unit so had to get 4 12” units. Having some custom ducting made.

I will start taking pictures to document it.

[fittsy]

A little work we're doing at the mining farm.

External ventilation behind which will be two 20,000 cfm exhaust fans.



The peaked roof in this photo is because we're fitting two filtered 48" 20,000 cfm intake fans on this side.  This is to bring cool air into the "cool aisle".

[fittsy]

View from the cold aisle.

The shelving for the rigs is in the middle wall so the cool air goes into the intake fans on this side, and through the wall to the hot aisle.




This is the hot aisle. At the end will be a 20,000 cfm exhaust fan.  At 200 cfm per miner, that's 100 miners that can fit on this side and be cooled properly. 

[vapourminer]

Nice work! I would love to have more rigs and I'm adding them slowly. I put my mining in a shed outside after the heat was so bad in my house. I did a write up of the project here if anyone is interested:
http://canefiremt.simplesite.com/
Scroll down to the shed write up, it's after the Octominer build.
Cheers,
CF

pretty interesting read. thanks for posting link.

[dmwardjr]

Nice work! I would love to have more rigs and I'm adding them slowly. I put my mining in a shed outside after the heat was so bad in my house. I did a write up of the project here if anyone is interested:
http://canefiremt.simplesite.com/
Scroll down to the shed write up, it's after the Octominer build.
Cheers,
CF

Yes, I "love" all the time and effort you put into doing this right!  Great job, Bro!  I'm impressed... 

If you ever get to a point where you add even more rigs [Enough to make you re-think your air exchange] and forced to increase air flow, you might consider cutting up about a 2 feet wide strip of plywood from the floor going the full length of the shed and attach a steel grate in place of the plywood you just removed.  Of course the steel grate would rest on top of your floor joists.  Which would provide plenty of support as you walk and/or stand on the steel grate.

The advantages of the steel grate replacing some plywood on the floor is to allow fans inside the shed to pull cool fresh air during the summer UNDERNEATH the shed [Where it's cooler].  Only a thought if you find you need to increase air flow after adding even more rigs.

Please keep us updated with any changes, additions, new hardware, etc... in the future.

Thanks again for sharing, Canefire!

David

[Canefire]

Hey thanks for the feedback! I did think about doing the intake on the floor but couldn't get my head around the filtering issues if I put it there. I liked the shade idea a lot though, and I have now built a "trellis" on the exterior of the intake wall two feet away. I planted some fast growing vines (honeysuckle) which will in theory grow very fast and shade the entire sunny wall after a few months. Not sure about this but I liked the "living wall" concept.
http://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx44/shooter154/Mining/Shed%20Shade%20wall_zps0iwpekud.jpg

[dmwardjr]

Another fan frame constructed and put in place with 12 x 20 inch box fans running in it.  I still need to do a couple of miner things in regards to actually physically attaching it with L-Brackets.  Other than that and better wire management for the fans, it's time to make another one...

[dmwardjr]

Hey thanks for the feedback! I did think about doing the intake on the floor but couldn't get my head around the filtering issues if I put it there. I liked the shade idea a lot though, and I have now built a "trellis" on the exterior of the intake wall two feet away. I planted some fast growing vines (honeysuckle) which will in theory grow very fast and shade the entire sunny wall after a few months. Not sure about this but I liked the "living wall" concept.

Yeah, I can see what you mean in regards to trying to filter the floor.  That would certainly involve using your imagination with some custom work.

Sure, those honeysuckles should do the trick to cool down the wall that faces the sun majority of the day.  Good idea.  

I would love to have all of mine in a shed in the back yard as well.  Maybe some day.  I was trying to keep cost down by building it in the basement in my house.  If I had a shed in the back yard, it would require a decent size shed for all my rigs and require me to cut down several trees.  I have 26 trees in the back yard I want to cut down some day.

If I built a shed, I would want enough for 800 amps of hardware because I would eventually wish I had more space I'm sure.  That would be about a 16' x 32' two story shed.  I would want the 2nd story for storage.  Here's an idea of what I mean by a 16'x32' shed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q-KTueiQ98&t=14s

[dmwardjr]

You inspired me to make my setup better. I am in the middle of building a house. My small mining room will get me by until I expand to a dedicated space for mining. I bought some flap vent mounted fans from the tpicorp company you listed earlier for your big exhaust fan. Wall studs prevent me from going with on 30 or 36” unit so had to get 4 12” units. Having some custom ducting made.

I will start taking pictures to document it.

Cool... Happy to hear that, Dagamus.  Sounds like you have a plan.  Keep us updated with photos and comments on the photos if you will please.  We all can get ideas from one another.  No?

[dmwardjr]

A little work we're doing at the mining farm.

External ventilation behind which will be two 20,000 cfm exhaust fans.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/uf6Ifur.jpg[/img

The peaked roof in this photo is because we're fitting two filtered 48" 20,000 cfm intake fans on this side.  This is to bring cool air into the "cool aisle".

[img]https://i.imgur.com/xZQghrK.jpg[/img

View from the cold aisle.

The shelving for the rigs is in the middle wall so the cool air goes into the intake fans on this side, and through the wall to the hot aisle.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/Ge06CLm.jpg[/img


This is the hot aisle. At the end will be a 20,000 cfm exhaust fan.  At 200 cfm per miner, that's 100 miners that can fit on this side and be cooled properly.  

[img]https://i.imgur.com/dFYnF8e.jpg[/img

Thanks for sharing, fittsy.  This is looking awesome man!  Certainly is...  Please keep us updated with your project.  Always like seeing what other people come up with when using their imagination.  It's truly inspiring and can generate other ideas to those who see them.

One question:  It looks like the intake and exhaust will be right next to one another with those galvanized steel exterior wall vents.  Do you have any concern with the intake sucking heat from the exhaust as it comes out?  It may still work fine.  I was only wondering...

If it does end up becoming an issue as you add more and more rigs, you may end up having to build some kind of exterior wall that's tall enough to act as a divider between the intake and exhaust vents to reduce the heat.  But again, that's only IF it ends up becoming an issue.  That was my plan if my intake and exhaust (on the same wall) were too close together.  My intake and exhaust are 20 feet apart from one another and end up working fine without building a divider wall outside to separate them better.  it may end up working fine with no issues.

Please do not think I'm being overly critical of your design and work.  I like what you have going on there and look forward to seeing more updates in the future.  I'm simply asking legitimate questions to see if you thought about it and find out if you had a plan B if it ended up becoming an issue?

[fittsy]

Thanks for sharing, fittsy.  This is looking awesome man!  Certainly is...  Please keep us updated with your project.  Always like seeing what other people come up with when using their imagination.  It's truly inspiring and can generate other ideas to those who see them.

One question:  It looks like the intake and exhaust will be right next to one another with those galvanized steel exterior wall vents.  Do you have any concern with the intake sucking heat from the exhaust as it comes out?  It may still work fine.  I was only wondering...

If it does end up becoming an issue as you add more and more rigs, you may end up having to build some kind of exterior wall that's tall enough to act as a divider between the intake and exhaust vents to reduce the heat.  But again, that's only IF it ends up becoming an issue.  That was my plan if my intake and exhaust (on the same wall) were too close together.  My intake and exhaust are 20 feet apart from one another and end up working fine without building a divider wall outside to separate them better.  it may end up working fine with no issues.

Please do not think I'm being overly critical of your design and work.  I like what you have going on there and look forward to seeing more updates in the future.  I'm simply asking legitimate questions to see if you thought about it and find out if you had a plan B if it ended up becoming an issue?

Yeah, that is a bit confusing as I didn't post a photo of the other side of the building.  I don't think I have that photo on this computer.

The intake vent is a different side.  It's got a peaked roof to fit two 48" 20,000 cfm filtered fans side by side.  One is on the north side of the building and one south.  We get breezes from the south so we put the intake vents on the south side and exhaust on the north side.  The photo you're referencing will have two exhaust vents side by side, not intake.

[dmwardjr]

Yeah, that is a bit confusing as I didn't post a photo of the other side of the building.  I don't think I have that photo on this computer.

The intake vent is a different side.  It's got a peaked roof to fit two 48" 20,000 cfm filtered fans side by side.  One is on the north side of the building and one south.  We get breezes from the south so we put the intake vents on the south side and exhaust on the north side.  The photo you're referencing will have two exhaust vents side by side, not intake.

Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

Sounds like a plan.

Please keep us updated... 

[dmwardjr]

Got another Fan Frame made.  I still need to mount a 2"x4" on each side of the rack vertically in order to fasten the fan frame to the rack to secure it.  Also need to get more 6 port extension cords as well to plug the fans into power.

[robbietobby]

I love this, how crazy ideas work and in fact its not really crazy or stupid, its like a form of resourcefulness or gracefulness in batlling heat during mining. I love how he does this. And typically can help ideas to other on how to manage difficulties as such.

[dmwardjr]

I love this, how crazy ideas work and in fact its not really crazy or stupid, its like a form of resourcefulness or gracefulness in batlling heat during mining. I love how he does this. And typically can help ideas to other on how to manage difficulties as such.

Thanks!

Much appreciated!

I wish the other thread on "Miner Photo Porn" was not deleted.  I had over 500 posts in that topic alone with close to 100 photos of previous mining rooms that started out small and got larger over time.  I've experimented a LOT with best possible way for heat management since 2014.  Even tried air conditioning.  Of course, that did not work either.  The amount of money one would have to invest to have enough air-conditioning to cool down this number of rigs would be very expensive.  I have 38 rigs in total.  I have several in my office that will be placed in this new mining room remodel.  I'm just looking forward to completing this so I can move on to other things.

[hella1]

This one rack will be left alone because it is already placed where it will remain and already has a 12 box fan frame built and attached on the back of it:

https://i.imgur.com/gAwSXiC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LxIan0i.jpg

OMG. This is awesome