Fire hazard and bitcoin mining at home

[rostbiffen]

Hi,
Yesterday my friend caled me and said that one of our mining equipment was on fire, while they sleep.
he woke up and then had to air out the apartment for 3 hours

Now when i think about it its crazy that people have high voltage equipment, that is getting realy hot, AT HOME?

From now i will have the equipment in a server room.


Are you guys think about the fire hazard with mining equipment?

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[rostbiffen]

Sorry for posting in group buys, please move to mining.

[twib2]

Hi,
Yesterday my friend caled me and said that one of our mining equipment was on fire, while they sleep.
he woke up and then had to air out the apartment for 3 hours

Now when i think about it its crazy that people have high voltage equipment, that is getting realy hot, AT HOME?

From now i will have the equipment in a server room.

Are you guys think about the fire hazard with mining equipment?

Preventative maintenance and monitoring.  Right wires for the right current, check to be sure, and regularly monitor.

But "high voltage?"  Not so much. 

[CanaryInTheMine]

A smoke/fire alarm isn't that expensive.  They are lucky fire didn't spread while they slept.

[lithod02]

make me kind of worry about all my machines and miners running 24/7 om ups and getting hot now

[knedle]

Just to clarify, those aren't high voltage. You can call them high wattage, or amperage.

[Opsamk]

Pictures?

[jamesc760]

another reason for going cloud mining... Nothing is worth losing your loved ones...

[Xer0]

yeah, had a fire alarm lying around and put it in cellar at the first day

still searching for a automatic halon extinguisher but hard to get these

[up2urheadlights]

Ha interestingly I put all my mining equipment in my fire place.  I live in an apartment with not a lot of space so it was a no brainer.  If it catches fire hopefully it'll just be self contained and doesn't travel down the ethernet/power cords and catch anything else on fire.  I do have a smoke alarm and extinguisher near by, but I still get slightly worried if I take a trip out of town.

I am less worried though about the asics than I was with GPUs, I was always afraid a fan would fail and the thing would go up.

[pdawg]

I think more than likely gear will smoke out as opposed to turning into a ball of fire. 

[junglecat]

Hi,
Yesterday my friend caled me and said that one of our mining equipment was on fire, while they sleep.
he woke up and then had to air out the apartment for 3 hours

Now when i think about it its crazy that people have high voltage equipment, that is getting realy hot, AT HOME?

From now i will have the equipment in a server room.


Are you guys think about the fire hazard with mining equipment?

Any potential hazard is the responsibility of the owner (you).

I have about 20,000 watts at my home and sleep safe every night. Each of the outlets is GFCI and 20 amps. I have fire suppression systems on the ceiling and walls that won't damage electronics. Everything is on racks on a concrete floor with 10,000 CFM of air constantly circulating. I use 18 AWG power cables to each PSU(850 to 1300 watts each). Everything runs cool from the breakers to the outlets to the PSU's.

If any of the units were to short then the expensive PSU's would be the first to trip, if that fails the GFCI would trip next, if that fails the breaker may trip so as a last resort the fire suppression system would kick in and gain control of the situation once the breaker finally trips or the problem is contained. Meanwhile I'm being texted to death from the Smoke Detection System attached to the 5,000 CFM outtake fan. Because of the amount of air volume there would be no smoke buildup to damage the remaining equipment.

I had some Gridseed (both G-blade and 5-chip) units that shorted but my first line of defense (expensive PSU's) saved the day. All of the gridseed (bad) went into the garbage and the rest of the Gridseed was sold as I've concluded they are poorly manufactured and at great risk of shorting. So it's up to you to make sure you don't put yourself or others lives in danger when mining.

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What I (solely) run now:
Rockminer T1's.
Bitmain AntMiner S3+'s.
Innosilicon A2 Terminator's.
Various GPU rigs.

[junglecat]

I think more than likely gear will smoke out as opposed to turning into a ball of fire. 

One of my gridseed units "smoked out" (see above post) but one of the g-blades actually caught on fire internally. Don't assume safety, be sure.

[Stargazer]

Usually electronic equipment doesn't burn. The pcbs are non flammable so the most vulnerable parts are the cables and plastic pcie plugs.
Just make sure there are no carpets underneath

[Cryptlexity]

My biggest worry about my rigs is the heat coming from the cables. They got pretty warm after a day. Oh, and the fact that we were pulling about 6-9 amps from the wall on almost all circuits. 

[Lethn]

I think part of the problem is people put tons of very hot equipment together on top of flammable equipment and when you don't have any open air all that heat has nowhere to go so naturally you're going to end up starting a fire.

[moiraine]

Just keep an extinguisher handy and use heavy gauge cables, I'm not sure about asics but I have 2 850w gpu rigs that've been going strong for 2 years now without issue

[Cryptozillah]

It was just pure luck that my house did not burn down when some psu cables caught fire. I felt the smell of burned plastic and rushed in the room and saw big open flames.. Like fifteen minutes later and my whole family had already been in bed.

I moved the miners out of my house the other day.

Theese days i dont mine at all. To much hazzle, heat, noise and about zero profit.

[LiteCoinGuy]

very expensive.

[Cryptozillah]

very expensive.

I have several mounted in my home. Yeah you might get out but the house will probably still burn to the ground.
Neighbours etc can be harmed/killed by some fool mining like crazy in a small appartment.

I suggest people really thinking about it for a bit before setting up rigs in homes. The rig itself will mine 24/7 but you will not be there 24/7.