Pictures of your mining rigs!

[CYPER]

For anyone interested in building my Custom made wooden box/case
here are the dimensions:



Red: 4x Planks 48x3x3cm each
Green: 4x planks (legs) 35x3x3cm each
Blue: 4x Planks 19x3x3cm each
Yellow - 1x Plank 54x2x1.1cm = front metal plate of Video cards sit on it as seen here.
Orange (small black line was a mistake and is the same thing) - 2x planks each side to support the yellow plank above = 5.5x3x3cm. These are located exactly 21.5cm from the ground.
Long Black = you guessed it right = 19cm gap
Purple are the actual legs and they are part of the green planks. The idea is that there is a gap between the floor and the motherboard and PSU for ventilation. Putting the red and blue planks (the ones sitting closer to the ground) higher or lower will determine that gap.

Not seen in the picture is the 2nd support plank at the back of the construction where the back of the video ards sit as seen in this picture.
It is exactly the same as yellow above, but attached so that its longer side is vertical to the ground. It sits/starts exactly 14cm from the ground.

Basically you need one main plank with a total length of 4.5m and dimensions of 3x3cm or anything else you prefer
Also make sure where the big black line is to put some supporting plank for the motherboard or it will bend nasty. And another supporting plank for the PSU to the right.

The black thing on the video cards support plank is Neoprene Rubber Self-Adhesive Strip.

For people in the UK: Maplin has cheap standoffs that are good for anything. For example I've secured the PSU with them so it doesn't move/slide.

And one suggestion: pre-drill the holes and then put the screws, otherwise the screws will burst the wood if there are no previously created holes for them.
Also place your video cards support planks at whatever height you require.
And if you would like to put 5 cards then you would have to make the whole construction longer than 54cm as the PSU in the way of the last video card as seen here.

Any questions please ask.

[Kermee]

Half the rigs I'm running are in the garage...



Gotta love yellow 12/2 Romex...

Cheers,
Kermee

[Bengel]

Half the rigs I'm running are in the garage...

https://i.imgur.com/lKV5U.png

Gotta love yellow 12/2 Romex...

Cheers,
Kermee

Makes me sad to see a mess like that

[Kermee]

Makes me sad to see a mess like that

Trust me.... Me too. But it works for me for now. -- I did the heat/thermal calculations and I'd basically need 4 tons of AC in the garage to keep it at or around 68F.  So open-air/open-case for now.  Each card runs between 55C-70C depending on the ambient temperature outside.  Garage stays around 120F.

How are you running that without blowing fuses/breakers?

Is your garage specially wired?

I have 200A service/load center to my house.  I added six 20A breakers to the garage just to run that batch of rigs you see in the picture.  I have Kill-A-Watt meter on each rig to make sure I'm at or below 80% load on each 20A branch.

Cheers,
Kermee

[airdata]

Kermee : Great set up !!!  It's nice to have a clean datacenter setup... But I'm partial to the grass roots mobo on box cables all of the place set up. 

[mikeo]

@Kermee: That's 56 GPUs?

[dISh]

Half the rigs I'm running are in the garage...

https://i.imgur.com/lKV5U.png

Gotta love yellow 12/2 Romex...

Cheers,
Kermee

thats a plugNmine job luv it
no wasted effort in making things pretty just get it up&running with some air blowing over it

[johnyj]

Half the rigs I'm running are in the garage...



Gotta love yellow 12/2 Romex...

Cheers,
Kermee

I remember some alien-producing center in Crysis has similar structure

[airdata]

Kermee : What are the specs on those rigs? 

[Bengel]

Trust me.... Me too. But it works for me for now. -- I did the heat/thermal calculations and I'd basically need 4 tons of AC in the garage to keep it at or around 68F.  So open-air/open-case for now.  Each card runs between 55C-70C depending on the ambient temperature outside.  Garage stays around 120F.

How are you running that without blowing fuses/breakers?

Is your garage specially wired?

I have 200A service/load center to my house.  I added six 20A breakers to the garage just to run that batch of rigs you see in the picture.  I have Kill-A-Watt meter on each rig to make sure I'm at or below 80% load on each 20A branch.

Cheers,
Kermee

Well the good news is when winter rolls around you can heat your house!

The amount of hardware is impressive... It's like nerd porn.

[mike85123]

Gotta love yellow 12/2 Romex...

I only had to add 3 dedicated circuits in the basement for my setup. It does pay to be an amateur electrician, hiring one would have been expensive!

[Detritus]

I only had to add 3 dedicated circuits in the basement for my setup. It does pay to be an amateur electrician, hiring one would have been expensive!

Amen to that. The only way I could run my rigs without running it circuit overloads everywhere was to switch them over to 240v. I'm in an appartment, so my options are limited, but I was able to plugin to the 40AMP 240V outlet for my electric stove, and now all my power problems are over.

[kiwiasian]

[Kermee]

Kermee : Great set up !!!  It's nice to have a clean datacenter setup... But I'm partial to the grass roots mobo on box cables all of the place set up. 

Thank you.  I'm planning on 'carving' out a contained room in the garage to house all the rigs after a bit and probably install gable vents to get outside airflow going... I don't think installing a 4 ton A/C unit would be the most effective.  But once I'm able to get a room carved out, I can definitely get the rigs all 'properly' setup.

@Kermee: That's 56 GPUs?

There's twelve 4x5830 rigs and two 3x6970 rigs in this picture.  So 54 GPU's.  You're close!  But you have the right # if all the rigs were 4x.

thats a plugNmine job luv it
no wasted effort in making things pretty just get it up&running with some air blowing over it

Thank you. Yeah, first priority was just to get the miners up and running... No matter how 'ugly' it looks... But there is a bit of 'rhyme & reason' on how I did setup the rigs and PSU's.

I remember some alien-producing center in Crysis has similar structure

LOL! I've been found out where I stole the idea from!

Kermee : What are the specs on those rigs? 

Stated above, they're mostly 4x5830 and 3x6970's. Not all of them are mine though. Several of the rigs I'm running for a friend of mine.  Sans the cards, they are:

* MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard
* AMD Sempron 140 CPU
* Single-stick of 2GB DDR3
* El-Cheapo 8GB Flash Drive
* Ubuntu 11.04 Headless using this guide with a few tweaks of my own (e.g. Watchdog for failed GPU or lockup).

Well the good news is when winter rolls around you can heat your house!

The amount of hardware is impressive... It's like nerd porn.

Tell me about it... I think with the garage door *CLOSED* it hits 140F ambient.  I didn't test it long enough to see if it went over 140F... No worries about winter for sure!

Amen to that. The only way I could run my rigs without running it circuit overloads everywhere was to switch them over to 240v. I'm in an appartment, so my options are limited, but I was able to plugin to the 40AMP 240V outlet for my electric stove, and now all my power problems are over.

That's GENIUS.  All my heating, stoves, water-heater, etc. are NG (including my clothes dryer) so I didn't have any existing 240V 3-pole breakers in my load center.  But tapping into a 40A 240V breaker is genius for sure.

I only had to add 3 dedicated circuits in the basement for my setup. It does pay to be an amateur electrician, hiring one would have been expensive!

Aye.  Electricians aren't cheap, but as long as you know what you're doing...   Once I get a room for the rigs carved out in the garage, I'm going to reroute and properly do the electrical in electrical PVC, etc. so it's all to code.

Cheers,
Kermee

[digger]

4*5850

[Detritus]

...was to switch them over to 240v. I'm in an appartment, so my options are limited, but I was able to plugin to the 40AMP 240V outlet for my electric stove...

Where do you find a 240v adapter for the PSUs?

Or did you stay at 120v and use something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Jard-Magnetics-10048PC-Fully-Isolated-Transformer/dp/B003AT7CJ0

Nope. The corsair AX1200 I use automatically switches to 240v, and about %4 more efficient at the higher voltage (their stats, I don't have a 240v amp meter)

http://www.horticulturesource.com/hydrofarm-240-volt-8-ballast-power-cord-p6174/?osCsid=87326d44bee99fdc1dd1801cd8383fc3

The same store sells a quality made three socket 240v extension cord too..

[airdata]

http://www.horticulturesource.com/hydrofarm-240-volt-8-ballast-power-cord-p6174/?osCsid=87326d44bee99fdc1dd1801cd8383fc3

The same store sells a quality made three socket 240v extension cord too..

Oh, Nice... That could solve some power problems I have without getting an electrician out to map my power out for me.  Had our electric oven replaced with gas a couple years ago but they may have pulled the socket out

[shotgun]

...was to switch them over to 240v. I'm in an appartment, so my options are limited, but I was able to plugin to the 40AMP 240V outlet for my electric stove...

Where do you find a 240v adapter for the PSUs?

Or did you stay at 120v and use something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Jard-Magnetics-10048PC-Fully-Isolated-Transformer/dp/B003AT7CJ0

Nope. The corsair AX1200 I use automatically switches to 240v, and about %4 more efficient at the higher voltage (their stats, I don't have a 240v amp meter)

http://www.horticulturesource.com/hydrofarm-240-volt-8-ballast-power-cord-p6174/?osCsid=87326d44bee99fdc1dd1801cd8383fc3

The same store sells a quality made three socket 240v extension cord too..

I wouldn't recommend mixing 120v style cords in a 240v power environment. In general, datacenters run C14 power cords for 240v systems: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812115051&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Cables-_-Hewlett-Packard-_-12115051

I know from experience, acrid electrical smoke and burnt electronics, that when you expect an outlet to be 120v because of the connector and you plug a 120v switched device into a 240v plug you're just kinda screwed. Best to have the 120v as C13 and 240v as C14. Makes life easier. The power distribution on my rack all runs C14 for this reason.

[Swishercutter]

...was to switch them over to 240v. I'm in an appartment, so my options are limited, but I was able to plugin to the 40AMP 240V outlet for my electric stove...

Where do you find a 240v adapter for the PSUs?

Or did you stay at 120v and use something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Jard-Magnetics-10048PC-Fully-Isolated-Transformer/dp/B003AT7CJ0

Nope. The corsair AX1200 I use automatically switches to 240v, and about %4 more efficient at the higher voltage (their stats, I don't have a 240v amp meter)

http://www.horticulturesource.com/hydrofarm-240-volt-8-ballast-power-cord-p6174/?osCsid=87326d44bee99fdc1dd1801cd8383fc3

The same store sells a quality made three socket 240v extension cord too..

I wouldn't recommend mixing 120v style cords in a 240v power environment. In general, datacenters run C14 power cords for 240v systems: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812115051&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Cables-_-Hewlett-Packard-_-12115051

I know from experience, acrid electrical smoke and burnt electronics, that when you expect an outlet to be 120v because of the connector and you plug a 120v switched device into a 240v plug you're just kinda screwed. Best to have the 120v as C13 and 240v as C14. Makes life easier. The power distribution on my rack all runs C14 for this reason.

I used the 240v plug that is commonly used on air conditioners (in the US) then just cut the ends from my psu plugs and attached the new plug ends...there can be no mix up that way.  But since I was running new wire/plugs/subpanel I had the choice to use any plug style I wanted.

edit: I am using NEMA 6-20 ends on mine.

[Detritus]

I know from experience, acrid electrical smoke and burnt electronics, that when you expect an outlet to be 120v because of the connector and you plug a 120v switched device into a 240v plug you're just kinda screwed. Best to have the 120v as C13 and 240v as C14. Makes life easier. The power distribution on my rack all runs C14 for this reason.

Their really isn't anything I can do about the fact that all the commonly available PSU's terminate in a C13 socket. All the better brands auto switch to 240v, and they all come with C13 sockets, not C14.

The male plug ends are NEMA 6-15 which is physically impossible to plug a stand NEMA 5-15 120V cord into, so it's not possible to accidentally plug something else into the 240v outlet. The only possibility for mistake is if you unplugged the C13 end of the cord from the mining rig and plugged it into another  device which can't handle 240v. Which isn't going to happen.

Basicily if it's good end for Corsair, and it's good enough for the Underwriters Laboratory it's good enough for me.