hey everyone and welcome back to a mining chamber video in this video i want to give
you a tour in my mining garage so you can get ideas to implement it in your large or
small scale mining operation i will cover everything from the parts that i have
to electricity setup as well as the airflow so let's get started right after our good old intro
the gpu mining garage the cozy home for every miner so first let's start with what i have
going on here in terms of rigs shelves and all that fun stuff i currently have five mining rigs
running in my garage first is my baby radiant seven 6 of them and then there is an assortment
of nvidia 3000 series gpus and on the right side there's an assortment of old amd and video cards
both are built on a triple a wave 12 gpu frame which they sent me a couple of so if you guys want
these frames feel free to check out their websites they are one of my favorite frames to use for gpu
mining and then on the right shelf there's two rigs in the mine boxes from mineshop.eu
contest the owner of the shop sent me three of them for the garage which was also super
nice from him and all i can say these mine boxes are truly my favorite cases so the first one in
the shelf is empty i have cards on the way to fill it up and then the second one is filled up
with six rtx 3080s and two rtx 360 ti's and then the last one is filled up with the 850 700 xts
i flipped the fans on these cases so that they push air in one direction which i will explain
more in the airflow section of the video so i have these five rigs sitting on shelves that i
bought off of verona depot which is the home depot version of canada you can find these shelves in
almost any office supply store get ones that fit your farm size and then you're set as for internet
connection i'm using the nighthawk satellite which connects to an ethernet switch and then
that ethernet switch is giving ethernet to all the mining rigs that i have in the garage you can also
use the powerline adapter to get the ethernet when your modem is somewhere further away in the house
just make sure you don't twist the ethernet cables while you're managing them like i'm doing here
all of my rigs are connected to this pdu from nerd gears which red panda mining gave me in one of our
collab videos i will talk more about the pdu and how it's connected later on in the video and then
i have the beautiful box wall where i keep all my extra parts as well as the boxes for my hardware
so now that covers the parts regarding to the mining rigs now let's go ahead and talk about the
airflow so for the airflow i had to think a lot about it and figure out what's the most efficient
way to keep my mining rigs cool and in the summer not have to worry about all the heat that they
generate so the way that worked best for me for cooling the rigs is by opening up the garage holes
on the top so i have two garage doors and then both of these garage doors i'm using one for
intake and then one for outtake so the one for intake is the one that's behind the rigs and
those will bring in cold air for the mining rigs so i just took off the little screens and then i
put on a dust filter on it and then from there i can just bring in cold air and clearing out
all the dust through the dust filters as well and then on the opposite side of the garage the other
windows they're just open without any dust filters although it's preferably to add dust
filters to them but for now i have them without it so they're just going to be pushing air out
and then the air will be just coming in like a circle so it will look something similar to what
i'm showing you on the screen and then i have all the mining rigs pushing the hot air towards the
other side of the garage so that's why i had to flip all the fans on the mine boxes because these
fans generally push air towards where the fans are but i flip them so that the air is pushed out
towards the opposite side of the fan so running it like this i've been able to keep some really
good temperatures even though some of my gpu fans are starting to break down so you can see
here the temperature in the garage and right now it's kind of chilly outside so it's probably why
but in the summer it won't be that bad either but we will see when the time comes and then for fans
i have a couple of fans set up around the garage two of them are pushing the air from the mining
rigs towards the other corner of the garage where the air goes out and then one fan is pushing that
hot air directly up top to that corner and then as for the electricity setup i won't go too deep into
this but i'll just give you guys a rough idea of what i'm doing so first off the fuse box is
in the garage so it makes everything easier if i want to expand more outlets or anything like that
so the first thing i did is i figured out how much amps i have in this house in general so in this
panel i have a total of 100 amps and that means i'm pretty limited to how much gpus i can run
or how much mining rigs in general i can run here so initially i wanted to do 330 amp plugs
and these 30 amp plugs are basically just really strong power plugs that can run multiple of mining
rigs not just one and then that plug you would connect into with a power distributing unit or
known as a pdu and then from the pdu you connect all the mining rigs that you can on that outlet
so these plugs are generally 220 volts 30 amp which means if you want to know how much power
you can run on these you just multiply 30 by 220 and then you only use 80 of their results so now
back to the fuse box i'm only able to do 130 amps since i have 100 amp total in the house now in
general whenever it comes to electricity you only want to use 80 no matter what it is so now since i
have 100 amp for the house that means i only have 80 amps and i'm only going to use 80 amps or less
now that includes the oven the laundry the dryers and all that fun stuff so i need to
be careful with my wattage and not draw too much power which will cause the breaker to trip
and then unfortunately when it comes to the breakout panel that i have which is
federal pioneer it is known for not tripping properly and it might catch on fire if you use
too much power on that panel so if you have the same one then please be careful and if you're
not experienced with any electricity stuff please contact an electrician this work is
very serious and you might hurt yourself trying to mess around with the fuse box
and if you get shocked by the fuse box then you are in for a really bad time so please be careful
now in this video i'm not going to be talking in depth about how to set up a 30 amp plug or
anything like that but now you should know what you need if you want to run a garage mining farm
or if you're trying to install one of these 30 amps 240 volt plugs and then plug into them a
pdu i will leave the links for everything in the descriptions below including the plug as well as
the pdu so you can know for the future what are they called and how much are they going for now
one thing i want to set up in the future for this electricity setup is this new awesome meter box 30
amp plug now this 30 amp plug was sent to me by a great guy that has a kickstarter on this project
and he wanted me to try it out and see how it goes and so far first impressions on the product
it looks great although i didn't have time to set it up i am waiting until i upgrade my panel
before i set up anything else right now so what this plug does it's basically going to give you
a live reading of how much power you're drawing from this outlet so like that you know exactly
how much power you're using for mining and then you can calculate your expenses based on that it
also comes with the cable that connects directly to the outlet instead of using a pdu you'll be
using these different cables that come out of this box which plugs directly into your power supply
so you have a total of four cables that would plug into any power supply the way you set it
up is exactly like setting up a 30 amp 240 volt outlet so you just have to wire it up properly
from the inside and then it's good to go if you want to buy one of these meter boxes i will leave
the link for the kickstarter in the descriptions below it's still in a kickstarter phase so i would
really appreciate it if you guys go support the project if you can make use of the meter box now
that wraps up the electricity setup so that's the entire mining garage for you and if you guys are
curious of how it sounds like inside then here's a little clip of the audio inside the garage
that is it for the garage so for the future on this garage i want to be upgrading the panel
to a 400 amp panel instead of 100 amp and then get rid of this federal pioneer and get a better brand
that's more safe and reliable and then i will also be adding more fans for airflow eventually when i
be adding more gpus because it will be getting really hot inside of the garage now that being
said i hope you guys learned something new from this video or just got a new idea to implement
in your garage or in your mining setup and if you have any feedback or suggestions of what
i should be doing in my garage please let me know in the comments below so that is it for the video
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