My home has a 30 year old electric forced air furnace, a small wood stove and a fireplace.

I cut the power consumption in half by switching to an ecobee smart thermostat.

I tuned up the fireplace fans and replaced the gaskets, much better now.

I added a 8” inline fan to the HVAC to circulate the air across the 3 floors this past summer - this allowed a modest AC to cool the whole house. ( harmonized a 4-5C temp difference)

Hobby mining has been great for passive heat ( 3 nanos and a gpu rig) on the lower level.

The Avalon Q is maintaining 24C in the 3900 sqft house for the last 48hrs on eco. Granted it’s a mild 12-15 C outside today.

I’ll add a 20A circuit and use some 3d printed shrouds to pipe the heat into the HVAC with the 8” fan boosting it.

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Thanks for the info! We have a forced hot air system (propane) that no longer functions- I have been dreaming about hooking up some miners to use the old ductwork but don’t quite have the expertise to put all the pieces together.

Does the forced air part still work?

Yup. This supliments it.

Nice! Really makes a lot of sense when you have an electric furnace.

There once was a time when I heated my 1400sqft home with 3 antminer s5 in the winter with no need to use the furnace (nat gas)… they were a little loud and it was hot in the summertime lol…

Yeah exactly! The blower still works and ductwork is all functional. Just doesn’t put out heat anymore. So seems like it would be relatively trivial to install some miners to take advantage of the existing infrastructure, would just need some electricity upgrades.

Yes!

The miner will go between this 8” fan and the ductwork I’ve installed.

Filter -> Fan -> shroud -> Miner -> shroud -> Duct ~> HVAC.

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/37bad70d7fa7626651f75836bdf9f750d0328c7255ab99673bf36f3d49b6d8f8/d33de068608eef909b342c486b4a6b796af0c8d634cf8da1fb4e651feb52edff.webp

Awesome! 🙌