Immersion Cooling For Crypto Mining

[JanvN]

Anyone know of someone in SA who is a specialist in building immersion cooling solutions for ASIC miners?

 

[acidrain]

The system itself, in principle, is not complex. You have a tank, pumping in your coolant from the bottom. Hot liquid overflows at the top into a second containment. The hot liquid is pumped through a heat exchanger and back into the system. The size of your heat exchanger will depend on the amount of BTU the system generates.

The biggest issue you'll find is getting hold of bitcool. I explored this a while back and there were no suppliers of the bitcool liquid and I could not find an identical alternative.

You can use transformer oil, but that is messy af.

 

[JanvN]

I get the system, process, parts - got all of that sorted. Found off the shelf solutions that you can import and just hook up the electrical aspects, however, the freight costs are INSANE.

I am hoping to find someone locally who can do a DIY solution for me.

Was hoping to find someone here who has done a DIY solution before. The equipment going into the solution is WAY to expensive to cock it up

 

[leon.davibe]

I get the system, process, parts - got all of that sorted. Found off the shelf solutions that you can import and just hook up the electrical aspects, however, the freight costs are INSANE.

I am hoping to find someone locally who can do a DIY solution for me.

Was hoping to find someone here who has done a DIY solution before. The equipment going into the solution is WAY to expensive to cock it up

I suppose you have the asics already
ie too late to buy an item designed for liquid cooling

How regularly do you have to change the liquid?
As it picks up ionizing particles

 

[leon.davibe]

Or if you could build water blocks to mount on the hash boards You could lose the submersion aspect and still have water cooling


Edit :i suppose that is what the antminer hydro models do

 

[acidrain]

I get the system, process, parts - got all of that sorted. Found off the shelf solutions that you can import and just hook up the electrical aspects, however, the freight costs are INSANE.

I am hoping to find someone locally who can do a DIY solution for me.

Was hoping to find someone here who has done a DIY solution before. The equipment going into the solution is WAY to expensive to cock it up

yes, freighting is hella expensive.

I think your best place would be bitmart. They are really the only people actively still doing mining but I didn't see any immersion cooling in their videos that pop up.

 

[leon.davibe]

yes, freighting is hella expensive.

I think your best place would be bitmart. They are really the only people actively still doing mining but I didn't see any immersion cooling in their videos that pop up.

If you are registered as an importer i would buy from bitmain direct they add a premium

 

[acidrain]

If you are registered as an importer i would buy from bitmain direct they add a premium

You can't get the coolant from them. The coolant comes from engineering fluids.

On a side, I was getting direct from them but I am long since out of the mining game. Maintenance was getting too much.

 

[leon.davibe]

You can't get the coolant from them. The coolant comes from engineering fluids.

On a side, I was getting direct from them but I am long since out of the mining game. Maintenance was getting too much.

Yea me too

Assumed they would sell liquids as they sell hydro machines lately

 

[leon.davibe]

yes, freighting is hella expensive.

I think your best place would be bitmart. They are really the only people actively still doing mining but I didn't see any immersion cooling in their videos that pop up.

Yea the problem is the quantities
On smaller orders they always want to do airfreight

 

[NWTS]

We are going to move our current setup over to immersion.
I started the research path.
I found that you need any non conducting liquid(Dielectric Immersion Cooling Fluid)
A Radiator or heat exhanger (found it at the aircon guys.
And the couplers are universal in the engineering world(quick release fittings)
And the final part a big tank to fit the machines in.