My ASIC soundproof enclosure

[SolHarvester]

Hey guys.
I don't know if you remember me with my problems with my S9 K/SE.
Yeah, I know it's not really a miner really worth having, but this was a learning experience. I'm okay with all the trouble I went through to know what it really takes to have an ASIC miner in the house.

So I want to share with anyone interested in building an enclosure inside the house and my process. It took a lot of trial-and-error, revisions and tweaks to get it to where I'm satisfied. There was a time I almost abandoned the entire project and cut my losses.

The past few months I have been making improvements to my enclosure since my first attempt a year ago, finally making an effective soundproofing enclosure.

Last year, my first attempt, if I remember correctly, the sound dampening was about -15dB, which was really impressive with only using one layer of plywood, acoustical foam, cardboard and polyethylene foam.
It kinda worked, but you can still hear the whining of the fans especially when it got hot. One design the unit overheated cause of poor airflow. A lot was left to be desired.

I had some help on design with looking up soundproof boxes.
Problems I kept running in to was space, noise and airflow.

Designs that typically take -20dB off,  take up a lot of space and not pretty to look at. Not ideal if you have other people living with you.
For my tight space, I barely had enough room to add much material. Not the most optimal situation. The reason I chose this small space, is cause I wanted a place that was out of sight out of mind.

I didn't want a big, ugly box with ducts and cords in the middle of some room. So I built an in wall enclosure in the laundry room. There was a tall cabinet that had a lot of unused headspace.
I cut a large panel to be the hatch opening.
The heat exhausts to the inside of the house, cause I heard that heating your house with a miner sounded like a novel idea. Though unfortunately, with my set up, it really doesn't put out that much heat. Cause I only power one hashboard. That's all I can afford with my really high kw/h rate.

Regardless, with the S9 K/SE with a noise rating of 85dB. I measured 89dB with my SPL meter next to the fans.
With my current design, I'm really impressed with the effectiveness of the soundproofing. Even with the fans at 100% I can barely hear the whining of the machine even standing next to the enclosure walls.
Standing next to the exhaust vent in the house all I hear is the air rushing out with the inline fans at full power. And not getting complaints of noise.

Here is a diagram of a layout that is the current one I'm using now. I didn't provide any dimensions,  I'm leaving that up for interpretation, but the design should work all the same.


Here are actual photos of what it looks like

[philipma1957]

Hey guys.
I don't know if you remember me with my problems with my S9 K/SE.
Yeah, I know it's not really a miner really worth having, but this was a learning experience. I'm okay with all the trouble I went through to know what it really takes to have an ASIC miner in the house.

So I want to share with anyone interested in building an enclosure inside the house and my process. It took a lot of trial-and-error, revisions and tweaks to get it to where I'm satisfied. There was a time I almost abandoned the entire project and cut my losses.

The past few months I have been making improvements to my enclosure since my first attempt a year ago, finally making an effective soundproofing enclosure.

Last year, my first attempt, if I remember correctly, the sound dampening was about -15dB, which was really impressive with only using one layer of plywood, acoustical foam, cardboard and polyethylene foam.
It kinda worked, but you can still hear the whining of the fans especially when it got hot. One design the unit overheated cause of poor airflow. A lot was left to be desired.

I had some help on design with looking up soundproof boxes.
Problems I kept running in to was space, noise and airflow.

Designs that typically take -20dB off,  take up a lot of space and not pretty to look at. Not ideal if you have other people living with you.
For my tight space, I barely had enough room to add much material. Not the most optimal situation. The reason I chose this small space, is cause I wanted a place that was out of sight out of mind.

I didn't want a big, ugly box with ducts and cords in the middle of some room. So I built an in wall enclosure in the laundry room. There was a tall cabinet that had a lot of unused headspace.
I cut a large panel to be the hatch opening.
The heat exhausts to the inside of the house, cause I heard that heating your house with a miner sounded like a novel idea. Though unfortunately, with my set up, it really doesn't put out that much heat. Cause I only power one hashboard. That's all I can afford with my really high kw/h rate.

Regardless, with the S9 K/SE with a noise rating of 85dB. I measured 89dB with my SPL meter next to the fans.
With my current design, I'm really impressed with the effectiveness of the soundproofing. Even with the fans at 100% I can barely hear the whining of the machine even standing next to the enclosure walls.
Standing next to the exhaust vent in the house all I hear is the air rushing out with the inline fans at full power. And not getting complaints of noise.

Here is a diagram of a layout that is the current one I'm using now. I didn't provide any dimensions,  I'm leaving that up for interpretation, but the design should work all the same.


Here are actual photos of what it looks like

I remember this design.

you should put an m10 in there. I think I got one laying around are you usa based?

[SolHarvester]

Hrm. Maybe. I looked it up and would cost only a little bit more to run and double my hash rate. Also more efficient @0.065j/Gh. The S9 SE is 0.08j/Gh. You piqued my interest.
Interesting that it's more efficient yet the M10 chips are 1nm larger than the S9.

[philipma1957]

Hrm. Maybe. I looked it up and would cost only a little bit more to run and double my hash rate. Also more efficient @0.065j/Gh. The S9 SE is 0.08j/Gh. You piqued my interest.
Interesting that it's more efficient yet the M10 chips are 1nm larger than the S9.

if you run it on low it does 22th at 1200 watts all 3 boards.

[SolHarvester]

if you run it on low it does 22th at 1200 watts all 3 boards.

That would be perfect, cause with my S9, 1200W was my original target power consumption I designed my enclosure for.

So what are you asking for it? You got me looking around for other ASICs that are about the same size but I could get more hashing power out of with around the same power consumption. Though my budget now is pretty small. I grabbed an S9 cause I could get one for super cheap and had an okay hashrate.

[philipma1957]

if you run it on low it does 22th at 1200 watts all 3 boards.

That would be perfect, cause with my S9, 1200W was my original target power consumption I designed my enclosure for.

So what are you asking for it? You got me looking around for other ASICs that are about the same size but I could get more hashing power out of with around the same power consumption. Though my budget now is pretty small. I grabbed an S9 cause I could get one for super cheap and had an okay hashrate.

are you usa based?

do you have 240 volt power?

[SolHarvester]

are you usa based?
do you have 240 volt power?

Yes and yes.
I installed a sub panel just for my S9, feeding off a 30AMP supply to a 15AMP 220V breaker. I did consider using a PSU that can use 120v, but I was told that trying to power an S9 with household power is not ideal and could damage the unit. I also just wanted a separate circuit just for my miner.

[philipma1957]

are you usa based?
do you have 240 volt power?

Yes and yes.
I installed a sub panel just for my S9, feeding off a 30AMP supply to a 15AMP 220V breaker. I did consider using a PSU that can use 120v, but I was told that trying to power an S9 with household power is not ideal and could damage the unit. I also just wanted a separate circuit just for my miner.

shoot me a pm . I will sell it cheap.