My "mini" mining farms , set up + wiring

nicely done! I can see how the wall might be beneficial in a large area - my area is not that large so I vent my miners directly outside - they are placed about a foot away from the inside wall with a 6" dryer vent pushing the air outside - I have dehumidfier to help with humidity and a fan pushing about 2500 cfm (used to use an ac unit but found it could not keep up with needed airflow as I added more miners. Also the fan seems to cost less to operate as well.

I do not feel comftable revealing how much profit do i make, although i would if it had any benefits to the members, but i know it is useless simply because

1- the power cost that i have is nothing like yours.
2- the maintenance fees.
3- the strategy i follow to use the mining generated profit which some of it goes back to more hashing power

i can make a longer list of how irrelevant these information are, people have different electricity rates, different everything adding to this the nature of the crypto market , profits will vary drastically from month to another. you simply need to make your calculations based on your own factor, as of how much I or anybody else make from mining is really of no use to you at all.

use these mining calculators, they are fairly accurate.

www.whattomine.com
www.coinwarz.com

set the required parameters,get your results with a click.

if you have any specific question i'll be happy to answer it.

Quote from: sharminp on February 21, 2019, 07:36:24 AM

Currently, the mining firm is costing a lot more expensive in your firm, and now how profitable it is? You can estimate how many coins you make every day
If your mini-firm is still running, what do you think should I look at if I want to make a mini mining farm like you?

you should look for a cheap power source, generally speaking anything above 6 cents per kwh is bad.

think of mining as a group of people who buy airplane tickets at different prices ( sourcing miners) , then they all go to the top of a hill where there is a lot of money on ground, and then they all need to walk towards the cliff while collecting money from the ground, the walking speed is the electricity rate, the more you pay for power, the faster you have to walk to the cliff, and once you fall, you might not have collected the ticket price ( the miner cost) if you walked too fast.

Quote from: bitfocus on February 24, 2019, 01:07:03 PM

looks nice! is it making good profit? (I don't want to know the margin like stupid guys, just yes or no will be great).

Yes

Wonderful setup. Hope you are up and running on all your miners now. Did you end up adding another exhaust fan? and also would be great to see your panel box with 3 phase connection if possible.

I added a few photos for my other mini farm, as well as a bit of wiring and set-up information.

Quote from: safer-sale on March 24, 2019, 10:10:07 AM

Very very solid setup my friend. How do you make same if you are stupid in electricity ?

you need to have basic knowledge about electricity, there is no control z in electricity, one mistake can cause you your life or put something on fire. unless you have basic knowledge about wiring you should hire someone, you can use my set up as a guide to show to the electrician, but by all means do not attempt this yourself.

Hey mikeywith,

Are you planning one day to make a wire perfectionism ? Something like that. This will definitely cause some orgasmic feelings on this forum part Cheesy

I would have something like for a client " paid job" , i do some dope network wiring when i am going to get paid Roll Eyes

.. but when i do something for myself i always focus on getting it to work and don't really give much weight to how it looks.

It looks like a great setup; How are you venting the PSU's? I am doing something similar but not isolating the Hot side because fo the PSU's, simply relying on the air flow.

Quote from: mikeywith on January 06, 2019, 09:49:55 AM

Swamp coolers are rather expensive here, they will be a perfect solution but honestly i am not looking for perfection, i am trying to keep the cost as low possible, it's also that most likely that mining asics will be outdated before going bad, so i see no need in providing the perfect cooling method for those soon to become paper weight, i always try to roi asap, because you may never know what could happen next week.

hello , but the swamp coolers make it very very humid , dont u think that it will shorten the server life ?
i want to build a farm and it is possible for me to use swamp coolers and it is not humid in my region but again Im afraid that moisture will harm my servers

Quote from: john139 on March 26, 2019, 08:10:14 PM

moisture is bad for almost everything , but with swamp coolers you save on power , also you mentioned that it's not humid in your region, then swamp coolers should work great for you, but then you need to watch the level of humidity.

i am not an expert in this field, most of my past experience is trial and error, i hope someone who has more experience will provide you with a better answer, tho i doubt that the information you provided will be enough for a perfect advice.

just one question bumped into my mind ,about your miners you have separated cold and hot room , some how your miners are still in the hot room their body will get hot , what about putting them in the cold side and just let the blower fan blow out the hot air to hot room in this case the miners wouldn't be cooler ?

This is how i do it anyway, look closely at the pics.

I still don't see how you are venting the PSU's

Quote from: ZimbaCardi on March 27, 2019, 05:40:38 PM

I still don't see how you are venting the PSU's

I don't , they don't produce enough heat for me to worry about. as long as the heat that comes from the miners is taken care of, psus should not be on the list of problems.

Quote from: mikeywith on March 28, 2019, 12:48:18 AM

I don't , they don't produce enough heat for me to worry about. as long as the heat that comes from the miners is taken care of, psus should not be on the list of problems.

I have seen many people simply let the exhaust of the PSU go inside the miner, that extra warm even helps lower humidity a little.

True, a bit of heat is good , another reason is the that apw's wires are not long and flexible enough to allow you to easily eliminate the heat comes from psu, it is doable , but not easy at all.

Mikey, I've been meaning to ask. Did you ever go all in on Mining gear and expand the farm with that cheap power deal? Or did you go the other route and amass coins?

Trying to catch up with a few people who were thinking along the same lines to see who decided on what.

Quote from: Steamtyme on May 06, 2019, 05:23:49 AM

Mikey, I've been meaning to ask. Did you ever go all in on Mining gear and expand the farm with that cheap power deal? Or did you go the other route and amass coins?

sorry bud i just saw this, if you mentioned my full username i would have been notified by piggy's bot Grin

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okay what i did was actually reduce both risk and reward , i had to pay a lot more per miner (of course this includes other expenses )since the numbers i had in mind required a certain amount of gears, so i went in with like 40% instead of 100% , ROI got extended by about 1.2 months based on the initial plan, but with the price rising i am still aiming for about 3 months ( or just a bit more )

i can't say i regret not going all in, , because the btc hodling increased too (dollar wise) , to be honest i am too lazy to do some the math that would suggest if my decision was the best or not , but i am happy with the fact that for once i could resist the temptation of going balls deep into mining.