I'm overclocking my water heater... What a time to be alive.
Discussion
This is awesome. I would like to make something lie this but really small. I only have 2 small water heaters that hold 1 and 2 gallans. We use them when we need to shower or wash dishes. There has to be a simple way to heat that water with one of my miners. Heating a small space is nice but that is generally needed at night and we are all solar off grid. So this seems more useful. This has my wheels turning. thanks.
Is this a diy water heater/miner or did you purchase one that way?
This is a diy.
Does the miner supplement the elements or did you eliminate one or both elements?
The heat is coming completely from the miner.
How hot of water are you able to achieve? Refresh rate from cold to hot?
It got it up to 130f. The refresh rate is what I'm working on right now with the overclocking. It definitely takes longer than the heating elements.
If space isn’t an issue, you could use two tanks, using the miner tank as a preheater.
I actually have a second tank that I was planning on plumbing in series that way I would have 80gal of water and since it can get up to 130f (probably hotter if I want) I would have enough hot water in most instances and the slow recovery time would be fine. Ideally, I would just be hashing 24/7.
My thought would be to use the miner tank first as a pre heater feeding the standard electric tank. If the miner is efficient enough the second tank(w/elements) wouldn’t be doing anything but storing that water. But if the miner doesn’t keep up with usage, you wouldn’t know that at the tap.
Have you messed around with introducing the hot water from the heat exchanger towards the bottom of the tank, maybe the cold side of the water heater down the dip tube with a check valve on the house side? It seems to me it may be more efficient at heating the water in that tank vs putting it at the top via the t&p relief. Heat rises and the top of the tank is the first to get hot.
This hot water heater broke something in my mind about Bitcoin mining... It's offered a level up in my understanding of how powerful Bitcoin mining and putting Bitcoin miners to work can be for a pleb who spits in the face of kyc. I think I've finally figured out how to quantity the work my miners are doing in relation to my overall power consumption. I have to start writing articles about this shit.