GPU Mining Grow Tent - Summer Setup

[@droknron]

If I were you I'd probably get a Y splitter with a valve so you can just flip it between outside or inside without changing the ducting and stuff. Could then easily change it based on how warm or cold it is each day.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Yes you’re right. I’ll look into that for next season. Then I’ll want to figure out a way to automate it based on temperature...

[@viakion2125]

@@RedFoxCrypto sounds like some Arduino work

[@gothixxx12]

This shows be the the standard for all miners. It keep things clean and cool. I'm from South Africa and it gets hot as hell here so it's really not worth taking risks. Tents lower the temperature substantially not only that but it's as close to a dust free environment as you can be without being in a medical lab ^^

[@elcamino6699]

Congrats to your 10K! Keep the quality content coming!

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Thanks dude! I still can’t believe I hit 10k. Insane! Happy mining.

[@rscalliwag07]

Great idea for low humidity areas. The problems i can see is that grow tents are designed to maintain an adjusted atmosphere so any atmospheric condition not controlled (humidity in this case) can become compounded quickly. A failed intake fan or clogged vent can mean rapid temp raising and a shut down of your rigs or worse. Great idea if you have the money to run a dehumidifier inside the tent or have redundant systems independently operating like fan intakes on separate power supplies, etc.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Yeah I have a dehumidifer running in my basement all year. It definitely helps.

[@ROLOGamingOfficial]

awesome!! Been looking for a way to keep my mining rig cool without making my whole office room super hot! great Idea!

[@quellcristfalconer9457]

I’m in SoCal where temperatures hit 80 degrees Fahrenheit last week so I got my grow tent up and running ready for official summer!

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Awesome! Good luck buddy! Thanks for watching and happy mining.

[@cc-.-]

Def a 3080 will memory throttling inside the grow tent. Congrats of 10K subs 👍🏻

[@StrugeLabs]

7 out of 28 of my cards are 3090s in my grow tent and all under 61c :)

[@lj5119]

I doubt he's speaking about memory temp... 61 is the gpu temp.

[@jagz888]

@@StrugeLabs surely not the GDDR6X memory though right?

[@Iridium239]

Idk your whole setup but it looks like you're sucking all of your conditioned air from your basement and sending it outside after it gets heated. You really need an air intake from outside. Otherwise you are using the air your AC unit cooled and sending it outside which means your house is under negative pressure and pulling in warm air from outside through all the little openings. Kind of like a bigger version of your grow tent, tentception. Basically its making your AC unit work extra hard to not only cool your house but also all the air it is sucking in because you're sending all the air it just cooled across your cards and back outside. That duct fan has a lot of air flow so i wouldnt be surprised if your electric bill skyrocketed during summer. If you use an intake from outside the air coming in will be like 70-80F most days depending on where you live, which is plenty low to keep the cards cool and in turn, reduce your electric bill.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Yeah I’ve thought about this. I’d need to put some filters in place to filter the outside air getting pulled in to prevent pollen and insects from getting into the tent. My basement is unfinished so it’s not technically a conditioned space. I have no AC vents opening into my basement. I’ve also thought about the idea of moving the whole setup into my unconditioned garage but then I need to figure out filtering out all the sawdust I create when working in there. Thanks for the comment buddy.

[@Iridium239]

@@RedFoxCrypto All the air its blowing out that vent has to come from somewhere. My first guess would be to check the door leading to the basement if you dont have vents down there and second would be small gaps in you ductwork. You could always light some incense and see where the smoke goes. Idk, just trying to help a guy out. I've got a bug screen over my vent and a cheap furnace filter from lowes covering the hole on the inside of my garage.

[@SavageBits]

Negatively pressuring a house could lead to dangerous CO back drafts with gas appliances. If the exhaust from a gas hot water heater is continuously sucked back into a house from negative air pressure,, deadly CO could build up inside the house with fatal consequences.

[@pinaycollectibles3074]

@@Iridium239 Quick question, I just received my grow tent and I want to pull intake air from outside. My question is where I live it's not only hot, but super humid. Is the humidity a concern when pulling in air from the outside into the grow tent? I don't want any condensation on the cards. I know the hot air coming off the cards is dry, but is that enough to offset the humidity coming in?

[@Yodaandhislightsabre]

@@pinaycollectibles3074 I don't know. If I was doing it, I would do a test, try one card and see if it works without condensation build up, then test with another card, then another, etc. I might be inclined to use a conformal coating if condensation is a problem right off the bat. Or run a dehumidifier. Good luck!

[@Nelwyn]

I've been running my rigs in the garage with a 8" AC infinity fan which pulls in air from the outside through a garage window. but exhausting out with a reducer to 6" because that was just the size of the hole I had made. That way I don't mess with any of the air in the house. Gets over 100 degrees in even mild temps, but it's easy to just open the door to the house for free heat in the winter or open the garage door when I'm home to let it vent out naturally. I just recently got a grow tent and put 4 rigs in there and tried running the heat out, but it seems like there isn't enough air flow because it gets close to 120 degrees inside the tent on maybe a 80 degree day although the garage is cooler. I ended up removing the tent because it didn't seem like it was better, but I still have it. I didn't use ducts on the bottom like you did though, I just opened the bottom flaps. Do you think that would make a difference by ducting air higher up like that over the rigs? I'm not sure if I need a better way to get air in the tent more efficiently or I need to get the exhaust opening up to 8". It just seems like the rigs all run hotter in the tent which causes them to slow down a little.

[@dmoneyballa]

I only have a 9 card rig but am considering doing this next summer when I've made enough profits to justify it. thanks for the vid. good idea.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Thanks for watching dude!

[@MisterAbove]

haha I just purchased all my grow tent equipment last week. Thanks for sharing your setup!

[@alioop69]

I'm definitely going to have to set this up in my new place. 👍

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Sick dude. Thanks for watching.

[@NicDiChiara]

Congrats on 10k! Always great content

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Thanks Nic! I appreciate the support dude!

[@N1NJAKIDD]

Brilliant idea, but doesn't all that reflective material reflect all the heat back in? Might be more effective to blacken the inside

[@RedFoxCrypto]

I think it’s more for light. I garden too and it helps reflect the light back to the plants that are growing.

[@FireOptics1]

From a physics perspective, there isn't really a distinction between visible light and IR, its all along the same spectrum (and is all 'light') That said, you have more than enough circulation to make this a non-issue, any thing that is reflected is getting circulated out anyways

[@N1NJAKIDD]

@@FireOptics1 yes you are right, heat is just Infra-red. Those grow tents are designed to reflect as much light as possible back onto the plants, so heat gets reflected back onto the devices. You are right about extraction, it would just work more efficiently with some of the heat dissipating into the atmosphere

[@jonathanvalades88]

My grow tent isn’t creating negative air pressure. All openings are closed. We have a portable AC outside the tent venting in. Then an exhaust fan for the heat.. sorry may be a dumb question but it’s Friday! #SOS

[@ericashmore2706]

Looks like you cleaned off the squat rack, are you selling it to make room for new rigs and grow tents, since its pretty obvious you don't use it

[@RedFoxCrypto]

I squat 3090s, deadlift 3080s and bench 3070s.

[@sandybill1766]

Hey man I'm in a very high humidity area with salt air what would be the best way to setup rigs in a grow tent that lowers the chance of salty condensation forming on all the coolers?

[@tobiwonkanogy2975]

a dehumidifier and a strong air filter . keeping the shop dry and the salt out of the air

[@rscalliwag07]

Don't use this in a humid climate unless you don't mind an additional $70--100 a month in dehumidifier and a/c costs. I dedicated a room in the house with a window unit (not everyone has this i understand) because constant 80% humidity in my climate.

[@sandybill1766]

@@rscalliwag07 very similar issue I have I have dedicated an unused outdoor bathroom but I cannot have the door open of the humidity rises drastically in the room. I'm lost on what to do to help with getting cool air without ac.. Maybe a filtered tent?

[@rscalliwag07]

A lot is going to depend on the insulation of the outdoor room. Increasing insulation will decrease how hard climate control has to work, thus decreasing cost of operation. My climate is roughly 90f high ambient temps at 80-90% humidity, on a coast line with high salinity in the air. If this is similar at all to your climate you are going to need a/c to exchange hot air for cool air and a dehumidifier(depending on insulation). You can get window units that have dehumidification built in. I'd personally never put my miners outside of an air controlled building without a massive dehumidifier in my climate. If temps are less for you but still high humidity, you can get away with a dehumidifier only but depending on type you may have to modify the water tank to dump outside or be required to constantly empty it.

[@rscalliwag07]

If buying a window unit/dehumidifier isn't a problem but cost of operation is, consider building or buying a solar generator. Something with just a few more kw/h then the unit draws.

[@Danjul89]

Can you make a video talking about why you chose Awesome miner instead of minerstat, hiveon, simplemining etc. Keep up the good work! :)

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Thanks Daniel. That's a great idea. I'll put one together soon.

[@jgreat4785]

What were the outside temps at the time? What was the ambient temperature in the room?

[@gamingwithsmokeydan]

Thinking of doing this on a smaller scale with just 4 cards, found a decent sized grow tent as limited on space in my bedroom (Which is where I can keep an eye on it plus out the way) Plan is to have a small rig with twin 140mm fans sat on a 5 fan laptop cooler all inside the grow tent, then can connect a vent pipe to feed out my window with mesh cover to help with less dust. Which is why I looked in to a tent so to keep the cards in good working order for a lot longer than in a open air rig because of dust and other small things that could get sucked in to the cards fans/heatsinks. Have a air blower to clear out dust build up in the tent as well as the case I will house all the main parts ie mobo, psu and a 1 gpu. Thanks for the idea and will let you know how it goes for temps for those thinking of doing the same.

[@SmoothCrafts]

Those temps are juction temperatures ?

[@maxklinemk]

I want to do this once I have no more amperage to use in the room I'm currently mining my 12 card rigs in. I plan on putting a sub panel in a storage room outside of my house. The problem is I live somewhere super hot so I'm concerned about getting cool air into the tent. Any thoughts?

[@GearSounds]

The only solution would be a small window unit AC with a thermostat I'm afraid. Wait thats actually a good idea I'm going to do that!

[@danborg7079]

Great video. I’m just about ready to pull the trigger on a grow tent. Could the negative air pressure not cause issues with the rest of the home ? I see many others take in air from the outside.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Thanks Dan. Yeah my basement isn’t conditioned, but if you put this in a conditioned space you’ll want to pull air from outside so as to not pull all you AC into the tent.

[@jagz888]

@@RedFoxCrypto What's the negative consequence of pulling all of the AC air into the tent? I thought that would be cooler?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

@@jagz888 The GPUs will be but the rest of your house won’t be.

[@jagz888]

@@RedFoxCrypto haha sure, are you thinking of getting a warehouse or you feel it doesnt negatively impact home life, your vlogs are helpful i think all noobs like myself struggle with noise and heat. Noise seems to be the main complaint in my household. thinking of doing noctuas would be great to forget they are there. have you tried doing this ? swapping all fans in the rig and cards with noctuas max quietness without losing too much hash?

[@thecanadianpunk-miner4life]

Ive been wanting to do this especially since i retired from growing and am just going full into mining but so far everything has been fine with my 4 rigs in the basement never hotter than 27 degrees Celsius upstairs if i build another rig ill have no choice! I have a question is it better to have extra space in tent or use smallest tent possible for out flow and such!

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Really great question. I think smallest tent that gives you room to expand and add extra fans if needed. Less air to move out I think. I almost went a much larger tent so I could work on the rigs inside it, but opted for a smaller one and I’m glad I did.

[@leol6406]

Great setup. Don't want to sound like negative nelly here but it looks like you are now creating negative pressure in your house. If you have a natural gas furnace and or hot water heater, the negative pressure will cause your chimneys to back flow into the house. Carbon monoxide from pilot lights or even the furnace coming on to heat the house at night will flood your basement causing a death zone. I hope this is something you have thought about and at least get a co detector down there so you will know if shit is going south.

[@leol6406]

Of course if you are running very high efficiency gas appliances, they usually don't have a chimney stack and also have air intake and exhaust so it's a sealed unit which i don't think would be affected by the negative pressure in the house. Still to be safe I would put up a couple of co detectors to be safe.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

These are all excellent points. I do have a high-efficiency furnace and high-efficiency tankless water heater in the basement. The ideal set up is to have that air intake come in from the outside and it’s something I may explore later, I need to figure out the right filters to use and make sure that they’re not blocking too much airflow coming in. Oh and I do have a CO2 and smoke alarm detector not far from the whole set up in the basement. Thanks for looking out brother stay safe and happy mining.

[@lauretiu]

i was looking for so long to how to do my setup. this is so efficient for heating in the winter. thank you so much. just 1 question: what rack you use to hold your mining rigs on top and what is the size of your tent! please see my comment!!!!!!!

[@SungDW]

Hello what is that software you're using to see alll the temp and all ur GPU? at 6:15

[@RedFoxCrypto]

It’s called Awesome Miner.

[@QRnBR]

In later comments they talk about he use awesome miner

[@windsofhealth]

Will this help for ASIC miners?

[@markm75]

Whats the fail safe if the inline fan dies and the tent heats up? I'd worry about frying cards. Hopefully some sort of alert ability

[@RedFoxCrypto]

You can set your mining software to stop mining if the GPUs hit a certain temperature.

[@Maz__king]

Honestly with all your rigs let go the tents and make that back room dedicated!!

[@pjwill1077]

100 F seems hot for gpu's isn't it?

[@Axelh2000]

How is your avrage earnings per month on the rigs? and what coins do you mainly mine? Congratz to 10k also man!!🌚

[@AdamJee923]

One question though from a beginner to a veteran 🪖🎖️ When you get your brand new cards do you open them up and change the stock thermal paste and pads to get the best thermals? I ask because even though I have a very cool strix 1060 6GB oc which doesn't need it, my new addition palit 2060 super dual 8GB needs to be on a 60 - 75% fan curve atm and it's still cold here in the UK but summer will be warmer so Im looking ahead as always and wondered if it would be a good idea to invest some money now to save rasing my fan curve in summer ( my girlfriends new question already is 'is your pc set higher today' 🤣 ) and possible thermal throttling.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Yo dude never do it with new cards except the Gigabyte 3080 which has issues out of the box with thermals. There were some 5700s like that as well.

[@AdamJee923]

@@RedFoxCrypto Okay thanks man keep up the good work 🪖🎖️👌

[@explorethewonder]

thank you for sharing!

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Thank you for watching!

[@divinfLLC]

This reminds me of my old mining setup! Nice work! What fan are you using to pull the air through the tent?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Vivosun 8-inch amzn.to/3bhHtLS

[@ryang5561]

Would you not want to have a inlet from outside going in the tent? You have the room in the window.

[@RedFoxCrypto]

I’ve thought about it for this year. I’d need a filter as well so I’m not pulling in pollen, insects, etc which may reduce airflow.

[@creationsdvd]

There is any noise reduction when the tent is closed?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Not much. I wouldn’t use it with just that in mind.

[@Le_Sourpuss]

Wow that thing sucks man! It sucks a lot of air 😂

[@vac59]

100f 😬 maybe I should let the temperature bubble more before I turn on the AC . I get worried at 90f

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Dude I know! It still makes me uneasy but the cards are running cool. I imagine the inside of a PC case gets the same temperature. Seeing those triple digits though makes me sweat. Literally.

[@vac59]

@@RedFoxCrypto ya left the AC off and just Fan on the workshop window unit. It reached 91f but the 3070 cards were still at 55c with 120mm fans blowing accross. Getting a Ac Infinity AIRLIFT T10 exhaust fan soon so hopefully I can get into late May or June with no AC.

[@bunkymunky]

Do you have alerts setup for inline fan failure O.o

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Nope. I’ve thought about this, but living life on the edge right now. I can set up temperature notifications via Awesome Miner so if GPU temp hits a certain level it’ll send me push notifications and I know something is up. Come to think of it. I should probably do that..

[@MrMburrough]

Does it reduce noise?

[@MrBobbyw121]

Did you make an LLC or are you hobby mining?

[@metagon849]

Hi Don't see what your room temperature is. Do you know what it was

[@DM-mu4et]

How much u take home Daily in USD?

[@weepz]

I wonder how much cooler they would be if you had a portable AC unit cooling the intake air. As surely the ambient air will get warmer in peak summer. Unless it stays pretty cool down there. 🥶🥵🥶🥵

[@AAronB2834]

Probably not much and would use a ton of electric. It is better to have a huge supply of warm air than a small supply of cool air.

[@AdamJee923]

This is great man 👍 looking forward to a similar dream when me and my girlfriend get our house one day in the future 🙂

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Sounds great dude! Thanks for watching!

[@AdamJee923]

@@RedFoxCrypto 😎👍 you know

[@airsoft_noobtulch8933]

hi need help whats a good board for 3 3060rtx oc not Ti cards ? 16x8 x3 for 3 cards? thank you

[@jaassil]

2:48 lazy EVGA card with only one fan on!!!

[@totalbullion5882]

It's custom :)

[@juansebastiananayamartinez9799]

200 a day that's like 2gh, congrats bro, how long have you been mining?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Thanks Juan! Been mining 3+ years now.

[@DrTungNguyenVN]

Which Mining OS are you using?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Windows with Awesome Miner and Hive OS on my AMD rig.

[@slickrick2012]

How many cards did you fit in that tent?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

I’ve got 28 in there right now.

[@Daniele858585]

you must not check that temperature on 30 series cards, the junction temp is the one to check

[@Synophic]

what OS are you running for your rigs?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Windows on everything except my mixed AMD/NVIDIA rig uses Hive OS. Monitor and control all the Windows rigs with Awesome Miner.

[@Synophic]

@@RedFoxCrypto ahh awesome miner. Yes I have heard its good for multi GPU monitoring!

[@brandonhendrix2395]

Are you concerned with pumping "bought" air outside? The volume you pump outside has to come in somewhere.....

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Yeah I mean ideal would be to have it come from outside, but then I'd need to deal with filters to keep outside dust, pollen, insects from getting inside the tent. I think filters would reduce airflow as well so I'd need to adjust for that. Taking in the cool basement air worked well last year.

[@slcslowcycling]

I also use grow tent , but still not successful Now I have a question about each rig need some blowing or suction fan or not?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

I have all exhaust, no intake fans. Just passive intake which has worked the best.

[@jameslandhauser646]

hey im 19 years old trying to get a mining rig going but dont know if its even worth in the state of how much gpus are costing right now. I currently own a rx 5700 xt but looking for other gpus to get. I also just want to hear it from a few of you guys but is it worth going in to btc mining if im getting 1 setup with 5-6 gpus?

[@shadowrealm7858]

Is that core temp or memory temp??

[@lauretiu]

and second please make a video of your awesome miner how you have everything set up and how to use it for different algorithms or how to set all 3080 in a group 2070 1070ti and so and so forth. i can probably find on KZbin but i would like to "give you my view" instead of someone else. thank you

[@guardian_ttv8855]

i have the same tent 3060ti/ 3070's no issues but i cant close the tent with my 3080's they need a fan right on them rofl

[@RedFoxCrypto]

Haha those dang 3080s. Thanks for watching dude.

[@guardian_ttv8855]

@@RedFoxCrypto ya im tempted to trade my 3080's in for some 3060ti's they arent picky with heat. my one msi has 2 vivosun fans right on it lol

[@mike6889]

What is the ambient temp in your basement?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

At that time, probably around 75F. Hovers around 80-82F now.

[@mike6889]

@@RedFoxCrypto Nice. I'm considering setting up a grow tent in my garage. I don't have a basement. Texas summers are brutal though. Not sure just an exhaust fan would cut it. Have any recommendations for this type of scenario?

[@driessen16]

Put a panty over the inlets and you’ll have a lot less dust in there or even use a filter and a motor to blow air in

[@jaalvarado1317]

Hello, my memory is hitting around 92 degrees on my 6700xt I wanted to know I’d this is considered safe?

[@RedFoxCrypto]

My 5700s run around there and have for a year now. The community seems to agree that 90 and below is where you want to be, but I think you are okay with 92. I'd adjust your fan speed up to 80% if it isn't there already and see if that brings down the temps just a bit.

[@jaalvarado1317]

My fan Speed is running at 60% right now so I’ll definitely do that and see if it helps any. Thank you!

[@LuK01974]

Have think to use a Y pipe with two manual closing pipe, mutch simple , summer open winter closed and revers

[@RedHaloManiac95]

In the other video he said grow tent and I thought it was like a scientific thing called Growten effect. Nope he means a grow tent 😂

[@RedFoxCrypto]

😂

[@Doozy95]

What's your normal rejection %?

[@richardmaroun2117]

You should have ZERO rejected shares ever. 1% stale shares is ok, anything over that, you need to investigate, as it’s unnusual

[@Doozy95]

@@richardmaroun2117 well my over stability ratio is around 30,000 accepted shares with 6 rejections. So I think I'm good.

[@Fajita.tamale]

Are we the same person??

[@fabianastua]

😎👍

[@tobiwonkanogy2975]

Looks like a stoner did some thinking . ;)