This time of year, you'll hear a gentle hum of Bitcoin throughout the Ross household. You don't have to have a fancy case. Just plug it in and heat your house.
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That's kinda cool ! it will heat up your house during the winter for sure
What are you paying for electricity? So for me that makes just sense if I have excess solar energy (and of course for fun).
It doesn't cost me all that much more than my heat pump. I believe I pay 9.7 cents per kWh.
Hmmmm..... I've been considering installing a heatpump on my RV trailer for electrical efficiency reasons, but dangit, this makes me think that I could start off with one of these for heat this winter...
If you are already using electric space heaters to supplement specific rooms it's a roughly 1:1 exchange but with the added benefit of mining a bitcoin subsidy.
Depending how you do it. You could save electricity overall by lowering your whole-house thermostat and simply plugging the s9 into the specific rooms you want additional heat (like am office during the day and a bedroom at night). Cheaper overall than heating your entire home and rooms you aren't using all day and night.
Nice. I added this exhaust hose to mine, to move heat to different rooms 😅
I have an exhaust hooked up in my garage when I have them running out there.
Where do you vent to when it's in your garage? Just dump the heat outdoors? I'm assuming you're running in the summer?
Also how are you handling all the bugs and dust when u run in the garage? I plan on using a mesh filter over the fan later but not sure if there's a better less restrictive method
Hey Derek! Is that the S9? Mentioned before I’m looking to set something up for my dad, I’m curious, how much heat output do the older units provide? Is it enough to heat a large room? Supplement whole house?
I have an s9 that I am going to tie into the ducts in my house. They can put out some heat. It is a lot for one room. However, you can dial some down with Braiins or remove a board.
Yes, it is. I have 3 that heat my whole house. It's not cold enough for all of them yet.
Awesome, I love to hear that! Have you had any success with getting any rewards from them?
yeah, this is my third winter doing this.
If you connect to braiins pool you get a pro-rata piece of every block mined by braiins.
At 800 watts you usually get about 10-12 terrahash which is good for like ~1.2k-1.5k sats each time.
Beauty, thank you very much! Gonna get deeper in on this, 800 watts sounds very approachable. How often would you say payouts come? Not super duper concerned but curious, as an intent to this is to help my father stack some sats.
I think on average the pool mines 3 or 4 blocks a day. There are some days with no blocks and other days with a lot more but yeah avg around 3 or 4 I'd say.
I'm running an s9 at 800 watts (abt half power) in my master br walk in closet and it heats all of the closet bedroom and bathroom. Probably at least 500+ sqft
It it really all you need to do? I'm kinda interested in that.
Yep, I've got 3 running and they heat wonderfully. Nearly silent at 800 watts
Yes. An S9 will work on regular 120 volts. You will need to install custom firmware if it doesn't already have it, but that's easy. I underclock mine to 800 watts.
Do you not have an intake fan hooked up???
Not for indoors, no. In my garage when they're running at full 1420 watts I do.
Interesting. Is it cause of the noise? I find that upgrading the fans makes an insane improvement. The DBs stay the same w 1 or 2 fans no?
When running full power in the garage, I can hear the thing whining away in the kitchen with stock fans. The sound is entirely gone in the house with upgraded 140s and a new 60mm in the psu.
It just makes it quieter overall. What fans did you replace yours with? I looked at noctua fans but decided I didn't want to spend more money on these. They cost me $500 each 3 years ago. Now you can get 4 for that price 🤣
Ooof 500!
yeah I'll check the exact model but I went with th 140mm industrial version that's able to run up to 3k rpm so I have headroom if I run at full power. I figure they'll last longer if they spin at half speed normally. The industrial fans have 2k and 3k versions
This is the model I'm using
Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-3000 PWM, Heavy Duty Cooling Fan, 4-Pin, 3000 RPM (140mm, Black) for Desktop https://a.co/d/2oVBCIG
You'll need a 120 to 140mm adapter though. If you do plan on the upgrade, I can print some adapters and bring to nostrville for ya if you like... lmk!
Same goes for anyone else headed that way. Happy to print some extras for anyone that wants it.
Very cool. I want one. Or 3. I'll look into where to buy, etc.
Check kaboomracks on telegram. I think they have s9 with psu and all the cables for 125 each or just the miner+psu for 100
For all that want a tutorial. nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 has this one to make them quiet and portable.
There is something about the hum of a miner!
love when my house is heated by hash!
I have a wife so I had to have the pretty case 😂
As a noob what are the basic requirements for this?
Like what miner is pictured here?
Do I connect it to my node?
Where is best place to buy? UK if that helps.
Thanks
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