This is simply just for fun. I’m asking what, if anything’s happened to you good or bad in the land of Crypto
So I will start. Today I checked my 8 card Rtx 3060 ti FE ETH rig only to find it was offline on Hiveos. Grrrr, so it appeared half the cards were not spinning fans. I have a B250 expert motherboard powered by two Parallel miner psu’s (their b250 kit which is awesome). After a bit of head scratching and removing all the four cards one by one from the left psu, it appears I have a dead psu. No volts displayed on the red display and the GPU’S dead as dodo’s. Only a yellow LED is lit.
Luckily I just about have capacity on the one psu rated at 1200w, but I really don’t wish to run all 8 for a prolonged period so I’ve emailed Parallel Miners to see what the state of play is with warranties.
So that’s been my day so far. Bit of a nause to loose part of the days mining, but there you go! All part of the fun.
i have a helium miner thats offline and its in another state and the place its at is boomers who dont know tech. so i cant fix it until i go back up there- its been 3 months already. also a gpu rig that is at my parents house is ofline and i need to go there and wont be able to do it until sunday. and lasttt, 1 of the rigs at my place wont stay stable and load average explodes for no reason so i may have to either get a new cpu or i dont know lol.
Just as an experiment I removed all but 1 gpu from my computer. It is currently running without problems. Why would windows care about multiple gpus? Is Microsoft anti mining?
What about if you check the motherboard bios is up to date and that you’re using current drivers then add one more gpu to see if it recognises an additional one? Also what version of windows are you on. Maybe you could Google the motherboard model to see if others have had common issues like this.
So my gpu rig is switched off until I can start to mine something profitable. I did have fun cleaning it with my compressor set midway in the last of the English sunshine.
The L7 is now repaired by a replacement input fan and I’m looking into using it as a heat source this winter to warm most of my property. I’ve noticed I’m getting less rewards now on the l7. Down from .5 Litecoin to .4 a day.
Both sets of box miners are just humming away. Although the 2 ck box’s go offline occasionally.
I have a spare laptop that’s quite a reasonable spec so I have benchmarked it to see if it will run a flux node since the dive in mining. I’ve been looking at this for sometime and thought about purchasing a pre-setup ho box to run a cumulus node, but the Flux Node Store never bother replying to my emails to inform me if the supply to the UK, grrrr. I looked into getting one off eBay and setting it up myself but didn’t see the point in paying for a box and having to set it up when I could just utilise an existing laptop. So I have ordered full fibre broadband to my property, due to be installed 28th Sept as the node requires 25 or more megabit upload to the net and my current is only 14 mb upload. And finally I installed Ubuntu server on the device and setup the network connection. I really like the idea of running a node and it will accumulate 7.5% rewards which is cool. There’s a lot of more installation and setup to be done on it including acquiring 1000 flux, so I’m trying to time this when my Litecoin has increased in price.
All in all, I’m doing it for fun and I really like the whole ethos of supporting the blockchain.
Sounds really cool mate and I like the idea of heating your home with your L7. My mrs has put her seedlings for her veggie patch in front of my L7 air duct with a grow light here in the Australian spring time and they are pumping, growing really well. Do you have any concerns about the possibility of the UK rationing electricity? I just hear that in the media but can’t tell fact from fiction especially as I don’t live there. Cheers
Hi sorry for the late reply. I do have worries they might restrict the supply. I’m on a fixed contract until next June paying £0.18 kWh so I am making profit . But after that I’m probably going to be screwed.
That’s a great idea to use the heat for her plants. Although I know you guys are now approaching summer and this 40-50c temps. How will you manage with the heat? We only had a couple of weeks that verged on near 40 and it caused me chaos.
I bought a K1+ for 1K and have it hosted for .09 with Adam Moyers(I highly recommend hosting with him if you cannot do it yourself) I am paying $4.78 daily for electricity. I was making 5 KDA daily now it is down to 4.6. Price of the miner(1K) + 1yr electric($1800) is $2800 so I must make $2800 in 1 year to break even and have a free miner. To me it was a risk worth taking. I hope I make 1-2K KDA in a year and the price goes to $5+ dollars a KDA (5K to 10K). I believe I will make money but time will tell.
I want to buy a bitmain BTC miner or a CKB miner but I cannot find one that makes sense. When I do I will pull the trigger and host with Adam.
By the time summer rolls around all my miners will be in a container with the heat air ducted out and I’ll be running a air conditioning unit inside the container to keep everything cool. Im praying it will all work well!
Eliminate the air conditioner just use proper airflow the ac won’t help at all just cost more in electric to run just separate hot air from your asic build a wall keep asic on cool side and exhaust hot air to other side of wall I’ve had no problem that way in my shed and live in desert where this summer hit 118f and 132 in the hot side all while my asic were running under there heat tolerance
This is something I’m seriously considering if/when I get priced out in the UK due to the ridiculous lecky costs. The gov came up with some phoney price cap scheme that’s actually not a price cap. I really love mining and would hate to have to just give in on it. I’ve always been in it for the long term and will keep at it as long as I possibly can.
I’ve purchased the 1000 flux to start my Cumulus node and had fibre to the property installed with a 500Mbps connection as I needed more than 25Mbps upload and it cost me less than my current setup.
I’m pretty much hodl my gains as I am looking at the long term pic overall.
So I setup my flux node at the end of last week with assistance from the crew at the flux discord channel who I can’t rate enough.,I’ve become totally immersed in mining and love because no part of it.
So this is the story with the flux node. I had a spare laptop and checked the cpu see if spec with benchmark routine on Ubuntu. It passed nicely and I knew the the men and sdd size were fine. After loading up the correct version of Ubuntu (first attempt l used the wrong version) and then setting up docker and the flux node software which is all part of the flux toolbox menu, the flux benchmark failed due to its read/write speed.
So I purchased one of these mini computers that come with a massive spec and went through the install for a third time using the little box. This time it all went fine snd I’m keen to see how the payments look on my Cumulus node. For this level node I staked 1000 flux which I can remove anytime.
