Three important considerations for personal mining

Three important considerations for personal mining

What factors need to be considered when mining at home? Personal mining and mining in mining farms mainly consider three points, the first is electricity, the second is noise, and the third is temperature and humidity and the site. This article will introduce them to you one by one.

1. Electricity

Bitcoin miners consume a lot of power and need to pay a hefty electricity bill. Residential electricity bills are more expensive, ranging from a few hundred dollars to one or two thousand dollars a month. This is also one of the essential things for miners to consider. Generally, there are tiered electricity prices in cities, and electricity fees are relatively expensive. Therefore, it is not suitable for professional miners like Bitcoin and Litecoin to run at home. Of course, for GPU miners with low power consumption, the electricity cost of mining at home is relatively small, and it is more convenient to accept, which makes it a good choice for miners.

Of course, rural household electricity use must do an excellent job transforming power facilities before mining. Generally, rural power conditions are relatively backward, and many places even use relatively thin wires. Therefore, if you add high-power mining equipment at home, you need to consider the endurance of the fuse and the aging of the wires. For example, if you used aluminum wire to transmit power before, you should replace it with copper wire as soon as possible. In the past, the cross-sectional area of the copper wire was small; try to replace it with a large cross-sectional area or pull another copper wire to reduce the load of a single wire. Prevent serious accidents caused by aging for a long time.

If you want to increase the scale of miners in rural homes, you need to consider the power problem in other ways. Generally speaking, solar power is more friendly at present. Generally, the power of a 100-square-meter solar panel is about ten kilowatts. Therefore, it can meet mining needs during the day. Still, the initial cost of the solar power supply may be relatively high, so it is necessary to calculate the return period before investing carefully.

2. Noise

Generally speaking, if the miners are placed at home, the first thing to consider is the noise level. When the miners are running, the noise is generally around 70 decibels, and sometimes it can reach around 80-90 decibels. This is relatively loud noise for families, and it is also easy to cause disturbance to the residents. Therefore, if the miners are placed at home, noise reduction treatment is generally required.

The noise of the miners mainly comes from the cooling fan. Due to the dense and large number of hash board chips, the miners emit heat during operation. Violent fans carry out the heat dissipation so that it will emit a large noise. For miners, this is unavoidable.

At present, Bitcoin miners are generally ASICized, so basically, as long as they mine Bitcoin, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of noise, which is not desirable. Therefore, most miners who mine at home will have the following options:

1) Select silent miner or GPU miner with less noise.

2) Transform the heat dissipation method, remove violent fans, and reduce noise.

3) Take measures to remove noise, such as installing sound insulation cotton, miner mute machines, etc.

For ordinary users, the most friendly way is to choose a quiet small miner or a GPU miner with low noise, so the most significant benefit is to reduce the noise from the miner itself, and it will not damage the structure of the miner so that it will attract the attention of the miners to a certain extent.

For the particular quiet small miners, it is generally small currency mining. This kind of miner is still relatively experienced by Goldshell. Since the number of chips in a single miner is relatively small, the heat dissipation is not very large. Generally speaking, a small fan can solve the heat dissipation problem, and some quiet small miners do not even have a fan, so this is also more suitable for placement at home. Of course, since the mined coins are small, the prices of all coins have relatively large fluctuations, so it isn't easy to estimate the return period.

There are also many other ways to transform the miners to other silent cooling methods. For example, the most common ones are water cooling and oil cooling. Bitmain has specially produced a water-cooled miner before. It cools the miners, thus reducing the fan noise. In addition, another cooling method is oil cooling; that is, the miners are immersed in the oil tank as a whole so that the miners can be cooled down immediately.

Sound insulation cotton is an extra measure for noise reduction in home mining. There are many small holes on the surface of the sound insulation cotton, which can absorb part of the noise and achieve the purpose of sound insulation, but the sound insulation effect is not very ideal. Therefore, it can only play the role of additional noise reduction.

Try to choose a separate small room for mining at home, which can minimize the impact of mining on life. Generally, the impact of mining on life is mainly the impact of noise. Therefore, it is recommended to set up a separate room or a small warehouse for mining. It is a good choice. Of course, if it is a silent miner, the impact may be negligible.

3. Temperature, humidity, and venue

Generally, miners need to run 24 hours a day, so temperature control is essential. However, if you use an air conditioner, it may cost more electricity. Therefore, most measures are to put the miner in the shade and then use a fan to blow air and open the window to dissipate heat in time (if there is a thunderstorm, it is also necessary to shelter from the rain in time). Generally, humidifiers and dehumidifiers can be used for temperature and humidity control. Of course, if the humidity is too high, miners should be kept away from kitchens, bathrooms, and other places as much as possible. For dusty places, regular dust removal should be carried out to prolong the service life of miners. In addition, the wiring harnesses of miners should be placed as neatly as possible so as not to be too cluttered to avoid electrical safety accidents.

Generally, home mining has relatively high requirements on miners and venues. In terms of operation and maintenance, it also needs to face many unexpected things, such as network disconnection and power outages. The frequency of occurrence in rural areas will be higher than that in cities. Therefore, for miners, if the number of miners is large or the power consumption is large, they also need to be seriously considered. Of course, the most important thing is safety.