Advice for Setting Up Inherited Miners

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r4ven51Member
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#1May 14, 2026, 10:17 PM
What's up everyone, I've been into Bitcoin for a long time but I'm kinda new to mining. I just got a bunch of AntMiners that were barely used and found a cheap electricity source. Now I need some tips on how to set up around 60 miners. I'm worried about things like cooling, keeping the power steady (wiring, power supply, voltage), and how to get everything running efficiently 24/7. Anyone got suggestions on how to kick things off? I'm planning to build a mining room from scratch with concrete, so I'm flexible with ideas. I really want to make a solid plan to dodge any rookie mistakes. Appreciate any help you can give!
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darkguruHero Member
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#2May 14, 2026, 10:57 PM
For one thing, find a licensed electrician to determine and setup the needed power and wiring. Miners require a lot of power and setting up electrical service for more than a few of them is NOT a DIY project. Beyond that, you need airflow. LOTS of it. Airflow is generally setup with a 'cold' side where the miners suck in air and the hot side leading to the room exhaust pulling out the hot air and sending it outside. What would greatly help is if you say how many miners, where in the world they are located or at least typical outside air temps, and what kind they are as there are many different ones in the Ant family all with different power requirements...
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LuckyCoinLegendary
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#3May 15, 2026, 12:56 AM
Since you're just starting out and you probably have a Windows desktop lying around somewhere, you'll probably want to use easy to use management software such as AwesomeMiner (https://www.awesomeminer.com/) to track all those Antminers. It also happens to be free. Just make sure that power to whatever PC you use for the control panel doesn't suddenly cut off.
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hodler2019Legendary
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#4May 15, 2026, 01:14 AM
Well 60 s7  ant miners = who cares but 60 s19 = very nice lots of gear in-between. So first question is: what are the miners? next question is what country are you in? if you are in china you can't used them. If you are in USA I know sources for parts you will need. If you are looking for ways to setup up a room we would need some detail as to what you have. 60 x 3300 = 200kwatts of power  if s19's you need 250kwatts to be safe 60 x 2200 = 132kwatts of power if s17s you need 165kwatts to be safe 60 x 1300 = 78kwatts of power if s9's you need 98 kwatts to be safe
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LuckyCoinLegendary
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#5May 17, 2026, 06:04 AM
OP said he's using a T19 in the other thread: Each one uses 3150W of power. So 60 antminers uses 189KW, almost as much as the same number of S19. If OP really is using 60 T19's here then there's a big ROI potential here since he got the miners for gratis.
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stack51Hero Member
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#6May 17, 2026, 12:22 PM
That would be the least of his concerns, for now, setting up 60 gears that need close to 200kw isn't something easy by any means, and just for the record, AwesomeMiner is NOT free, you either pay for with hashrate by using their version of vnish firmware which has the "include license" option, or pay for each miner you want to monitor, the "free" version only allows you to monitor 1 miner.
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darkguruHero Member
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#7May 17, 2026, 02:55 PM
Mining software? ASIC-based Bitcoin miners are stand-alone devices that do not use 'mining software', they are not crapcoin miners based on using a PC and GPU's. The only software (such as AwesomeMiner) used is for monitoring. All you do is open the miner web GUI, enter pool & user information, save/apply and run them.
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