Hi VoskCoin,
I purchased my first basic miners from eBay today.
(CK-Box, HS-Box, & Mini-Doge Pro Box)
I have a couple of kiddos in the house and I want to know is there a standard safety list I need to check the miners for before turning them on?
This could be in regards to performance as well as safety.
Thanks everyone!
Personally, I had 9 S9’s running out of my apartment, ran from both Dryer and Stove 220V. Not recommended!
This is just my personal view of running miners out of a Home, apartment, garage, or business. I would recommend doing your own research and seek professional help regarding the power supply.
First you really need to pick what algorithm you want to mine with a ASIC.
If you go small miners you could purchase a PDU (Power Distribution Unit) the linked is just for example. You might be able to run something safely!
If you go one or two big ones, you will need to find a way to run them safety on 220V!. Most of the larger miners will ONLY run on 220V.
If you can run off 220V not 120V, you can reduce the Amp and Watt usage (which also reduces the load on the cheap wiring inside some of these walls these days).
To run any kind of ASIC miner, you will need to think about how you are going to get that heat out of the room/garage you are using the miner in.
Personally, I designed and printed 3D Printed ducting that attaches to the miner fans and enables you to connect a 5/6/7/8" ducting to the miner, then you have a vent in your window. This way the heat is blown out the window away from your miner. The cooler you can keep the room the Safer it is, but it’s also beneficial to the equipment as well.
Now if you attach the Flexible ducting you can find at Home Depot or Lowes. The kind that has the insulation around it. you use this to connect to the miner and the window. The higher the R rating on the ducting the higher reduction you will also see in sound proofing. I’ve seen miners <80 decibel.
You would be wise to keep the miner on something that’s static resistant. Not Carpet!
This is just my opinion, if possible, try to run everything networked by wire, there is always a small lag when it comes to Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi networks came be affected by so many things these days, The fans on the miners can interfere with the signals.
As for what miner. That is something that you must research! different miners can mine different algorithm - coins.
With mining you will also need to understand and choice a mining pool to use. Then you will need to choose if you want to mine Solo or in a pool. I used https://www.viabtc.com they cover most of the coins out there and pay is fair. Website is easy to use and well presented. you will also need to decide how you’re going to exchange your mined coins for cash. Personally, I use https://ftx.com if you store coins there, they will also pay you interest on them! They have a debit card that’s linked to your account for easy access and the fees aren’t that bad considering how much and how long it normally takes. Mining pool V Solo – when you mine with a pool any coins mined are shared with the pool. But you can get paid daily if needed. Mining Solo mean you would only ever get anything when you mine a coin. Which the difficulty changes all the time and there is no guarantee you would ever get paid anything. Of course, you could be very lucky and mine coins all the time, there is nothing you can do to increase your chance other than increasing mining output.
You will also need to decide where you are going to store your mining income. Be it a software wallet or a hardware wallet. With a hardware wallet I would only recommend buying from the manufacture direct. no middlemen like eBay or amazon. https://trezor.io/ is who I use but again there are others out there. But consider how much money you are going to be storing and what you’re willing to spend to protect it. By far a hardware wallet is the safest! Weakest link is always the operator.
This again is something you will have to make a decision on.
*Each coin has its own pros/cons.
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Good for you, welcome aboard Mattie. Assuming your purchases are in working order and you have the power supplies and connectors needed to fire up.
I do not have advice about checking used miners. Hopefully another member chimes in with first hand advice.
I’m just jumping to the other parts. Mining pools and exchanges. I assume since you made this purchase you are proficient in crypto trading??? Things like Transfers, crypto addresses, trading pairs for the token/coins you plan to mine. A general understanding of how you will turn it into cash in hand???
I kind of don’t want to recommend “go here” . You are already cutting in line by starting with ASIC mining, meaning had you started with GPU I would feel better about saying “go here” and you would know how to deal with it. You can find plenty of mining pool recommendations on Vosktalk (no shortage). Just make sure you have your wallet and exchange game up to par. So when you start mining you are sure you will receive your mined tokens/coins.
When you get miners in hand, feel free to message me here or a personal message. I’ll take what ever time is needed to help however I can. I’d set you up on the mining pools I currently use, so the info is fresh and relevant.
For pre-study info, check other post here for info about CK/HS box and Mini doge. To see where and what they mine. For instance, I have LTC miners (same algorithm as mini doge “Scrypt algorithm”) , on a couple of my miners I don’t mine LTC at all, none mine doge. I’m currently mining FireAnts and doing MergedMining (fireants is some fringe B.S. I’m taking a risk on , HODL style). I say all that because in the end you probably want F2pool with some merged mining with BTC or ETH payouts. F2pool is awesome and all but if you can’t explain how/why they pay you out, you would learn more on a smaller pool. f2pool or nicehash are like Amazon, you buy any product but miss the info about where it was made and how, you just know the company is so big they have leverage and a vested financial interest to serve you (and at what cost to you ??? who knows, they’re to big to even ask).
Glad you joined in, look forward to chatting in the near future.
Cheers Mate.
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