This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service
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Thank you for being (upfront!) willing to help! It is basically entirely a solo venture. I will have outside startup capital, but no help in making things happen. I do plan on hiring someone to babysit the miners; I don't want to live there, so the plan is to have someone local who can show up and do needed maintenance without me having to fly back each time. And thank you for the luck; my flight may be delayed another week (we'll see) due to last-minute contract wrangling with the investors. I think that's the most frustrating part for me.
It's not asking a lot at all; asking a lot is asking an internet stranger to look over my calculations! Here's my sketched-out P&ID; forgive me if it's not to scale and if I don't have a ruler with me. I hope it gets the idea across. If you have strong feelings about having a proper one, suggest a program to do so and I can make one up. This seems to me to be a useful skill to gain, anyways; my preparation consists of a sketch similar to the one I just made, along with a series of numerical calculations and markings.
Well, I'm not averse to downsizing the cooling. It's just such a small part of the overall cost that it seems to me to be okay to overbuild, especially since there is a potentially-unknown amount of extra heat being added. More specifically, the cooling system as is will cost about 3% of the overall startup cost (the miners are by far the most expensive part). That number includes generous margin of error; my actual predicted cost is 2348.75 (plus shipping), which is rather under 3% and anyways rounds up on some small parts. When I say that there could be additional heat being added... Well, I'd love to overclock the miners. Exactly how much I can do that by will be directly proportional to my ability to cool them. And cooling itself is generally going to be very easy; I mean, no worrying about chillers or anything, just dumping the heat outside.
With that said, adding provisions to connect additional piping in the future is a good idea. And, again, I'm not against downsizing the cooling... I just think that doing so would save me relatively little (0.5% of the project cost? limited upside) and have uncertain downside (potential lack of cooling).
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