Just bought an S9 to make my own space heater for the winter. Any one ever try this?
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Yeah, not the conversion to make it less noisy though. Mine is in an office basement and I don’t find it too noisy, especially under-clocked.
The biggest thing I do want to do is change out the smaller power supply fan, as that has an annoying higher pitch to it.
I watched nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 video on this earlier and doesn’t seem to be too hard to do. Seems pretty straight forward. I’ll have to under-clock it anyway bc I live somewhere where high power isn’t an option. Good to know I may not have to change all of the fans out.
Yeah, I mean when it first boots up, it pushes its fans really hard, so it sounds like and elephant, and when it recalibrates, like if you’re manually bringing down the power, it will push the fans hard for a couple seconds before quieting down.
If I had it in an apartment or upstairs living area I’d absolutely do the space heater fan conversion.
Ever thought about using a really good computer psu?
When I was mining I used modular corsair psu & jumpers.
Way quieter then any server type psu I’ve ever used.
I've done that. Chased efficiency with Titanium efficiency PC power supplies
Some of these power supplies are double or more the cost of an S9!
Interesting though… 🤔
no need for it to be a fancy one, just quiet, right?
the fancy ones will give you better sats/watt ratio tho, since they have 80%+ conversion efficiency.
but the PSU itself will emit its lower efficiency as heat also, just not as sats.
I always opt for quieter since I lived with my miners.
It was much easier to sleep
Never thought of that, but will check that out!
Yes, works well. Ran them as heaters for a long timr. S9 hardware is getting old though and starting to see lots of failures. Started switching over to S19's running a single board, with a water cooling plate, and PC radiators and pumps for cooling. Huge leap in efficiency and hashrate. If you can pick up a hashboard, control board, water block, and a Nakatomi Mining Loki board, you'd be all set.
