With all the excess power I plan on producing with my upcoming changes to my solar array, I needed something to make use of all that solar power. Running two of these will use close to 7000w. So depending on how much power my solar panels produce I should be able to run two or more from what I can tell based on napkin math.
Setting them up I run them for about an hour to make sure they work well, but they are very loud and a kit is made for them to get them a little more quiet using larger fans. They make special kits for them that remove the very loud stock fans. And use a grow tent fan inline to cool them instead.
Running the miners for an hour they work well without issue. So its time to take them apart.
These fans are powerful but its as loud as a server running at full speed. Not something you want to be in the same room with.
I think many put these in rooms not near where people live. So sound is not much of an issue, but I plan on having these in my house, so I want to quiet them down a bit.
We can see them hashing and getting warm, wanted to make sure there were no issues before I took them apart. As I would have no idea if it was a defect or something I did. So now I know they work, a bit loud but works fine.
With the fan shroud installed and an 8 inch grow tent fan cooling it all it should drop the sound quite a bit.
I have to take off the top part of the miner to get to the fan wires. By disconnecting them, the miner will not work as it would quickly overheat if the fans broke. So as a saftey feature it shuts in that case. And since I am using a single powerful fan some tweaking will be needed to get it working.
A fan spoofer is what I needed, this micro computer tells the miner the fans are there even when they are not. And allows me to run a single powerful fan with shrouds to make it all work and keep the miner happy.
I got the old wires out and the spoofer installed and all wired in.
Putting it back together and installing the shrouds is next. We can see how a fan attaches to the shroud kit.
Next is to built out my 33kw solar array to power these, but for now they will just sit inactive. I calculated if I was to run these on the grid I would barely make more than a dollar a day. But running 100% on solar should be closer to around $25 a day. Not a lot, but I can always add more miners later if I have excess power.
All done! Filters on the front to keep dust out, and exhaust pipes on the back to let air out.. they get quite warm.
