SLIC stands for Single-phase, Liquid Immersion Cooling for Crypto and Blockchain. I stumbled upon this cool system called SLIC while diving into the whole "Coolant CPU" topic. It’s pretty fascinating how they’ve engineered this synthetic liquid to let miners run at lower temperatures, boost their efficiency, and save on the electricity bill!
But, it looks like this setup is tailored more for large mining farms rather than solo miners. The docs show some heavy-duty pumps that are responsible for circulating the synthetic coolant around all the submerged miners and whisking away the heat.
Of course, there's a catch. Getting this system up and running with your miners is no small feat. Plus, those heat sink tanks are massive and need to be spaced out to manage the fluid piping effectively.
Not sure how practical it is overall, but it seems like the pros and cons kind of balance out.
Key points:
The coolant has over 1,600 times the heat density of air. You can safely overclock your miner’s hashrate. No more noise from fans.
Honestly, the system looks pretty straightforward with those separate tanks. The properly wired channels and the absence of fans simplify things a lot. But it really depends on how much space you have and the number of miners, and it looks like this is geared more toward major projects.
The second image shows the holding tank and pumping setup, which definitely ups the scale of the project. It’s going to add quite a bit of value to the mining operation but I'm unsure about the maintenance costs.
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#2Mar 21, 2022, 03:47 PM
Do you have cost details? The part that I liked is that it has almost no moving parts but I am still not convinced that the cost of the whole system is much less than the cost of air cooling.
Personally, I think that making profits here is based on calculating space versus efficiency, meaning that you have a small space, cheap electricity, and noise is an influential factor, such as an industrial city or a closed area, but if space and noise are not a big problem for you, the initial costs (CAPEX) are sufficient to purchase several mining devices.
No moving parts, because that is a circulating system where pumping station is located outside your work area and does all the dirty job out there. Basically it's like a car engine cooling system where you have coolant tank, in-built pumping mechanism that keeps flushing the coolant throughout the engine periphery and thus carrying away the heat along with it. The SLIC mechanism improves the process on larger scale and in reality it's even easier since you get more "surface area". Ideally, the higher the surface area, the more is efficiency of cooling the entire system.
Nonetheless, you can already see how it is having multiple panels increasing the surface area even further. The magic also happens with the coolant which is capable of carrying most of the heat.
I am not sure about the cost neither have any clue. The quote is mostly based on your working area.