Homelab Cooling Tips: Solar Screens, Massive Insulation and more! (Top 10 Ways to reduce heat)

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Ultimate guide to maximizing efficiency in your #homelab setup! We effectively lower the temperatures in my mini garage datacenter saving watts, ensuring optimal performance and savings $$$.
I hands on tackle Solar Screens and Insulation and we eval component selection and upgrades to machines we take on the biggest impacts that will add heat, eat watts, and cost money.
If you are a homelab eco-conscious homelabber or just want to save some money, this is a topic that you need to be paying attention to. Let’s optimize our homelab together!
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0:00 Homelab Optimization
1:05 Identify Heat Issues
2:09 How To Build Solar Screens
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13:13 Thermal Imager Insulation Inspection
16:24 Garage Door Gaps Sealed
18:57 Reduce Homelab AC Electrostatic
20:18 Low Wattage Homelab Servers
24:33 Virtulization for your Homelab
25:40 Homelab Power Usage Monitoring
27:05 Upgrade Your Homelab Gear
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@electronicparadiseonline2103 11 месяцев назад

Nice video!!!. I love the solar screen idea.

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

It also hides the giant pink foam board really well which is nice. It would be even more ghetto looking then foil w/o the screen

@johannesedelbacher8837 11 месяцев назад

Btw you did your video studio super well. I like it very much. I also like your great efforts to support the Chia community with great value hardware and knowledge. Keep up your great work!

@tjb_altf4 11 месяцев назад

Great content, love seeing the evolution of your homelab!

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Thanks and much more to come as I upgrade these systems

@limsandy 11 месяцев назад

@@DigitalSpaceport I herd sum parts of Texas mezered > 110 F. Get well soon and drink lots of water. 🙏

@its1one 11 месяцев назад

Great video. I've have yet to see anyone in crypto make a video like this or close to something like it. Fantastic job. Your definitely helping people think outside the box. One thing that we did that helped was installing a couple large solar exhaust fans/vents with a thermostat on our roof. Also we added a static attic vent on each side of the attic to get that cross breeze exchange. Just getting the air exchanging in our attic reduced our electric bill by about $80 a month on average. Our homes interior temperature dropped considerably as well. There were state rebates that covered most of the cost and I think the federal rebate was $30. Which is better than nothing. Looking forward to more videos and upgrades. Keep up the great work.

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Yeah I am not your typical crypto youtuber I think. Im glad you enjoyed it, there is more in the works on the technical side of things for production as well.

@recaidomarvintv 11 месяцев назад

OMG overkill home lab... but its amazing bro i love it...

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Glad you like it I do also

@jameskrolak 11 месяцев назад

How well did it work when you used that metal foil stuff to enclose your racks last year? And what did you use? I've just gotten ahold of a LOT of drives for use in Chia farming and I'm trying to figure out how best to control the heat generation in my utility room where all the gear is located. I'm thinking that enclosing the hot aisle and then installing an exhaust fan in the drop ceiling to blow the heat outside is best. But I'm not sure what to use to seal off the hot aisle.

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

It did work, but it was not super efficient as those portable AC units are not great. Especially the single hose ones. The material was this stuff. You need to build a frame and all that to staple it up to. geni.us/Radiant_Barrier_Foil I would also suggest that you do not try to vent air out unless you account for how air comes in. It will come in. I tried attic venting and it created tremendous dust intake into the garage. The air in central tx is dirty, hot and humid also over summer time so its not good to use for intake. Using a window AC and just cooling the heat load in the garage after proper insulating has been the best move.

@johannesedelbacher8837 11 месяцев назад

Yeah it is not needed for now as my HDDs are not going above 55°C but I have ordered some AC as my guess is that it will draw around the same amount of Watt as the fans of the Servers/JBODs are taking right now. So it won't make an environmental impact but it will make my HDDs last longer, so it will have an impact somehow.

@gustavocadena5089 11 месяцев назад

Can you post a link to the ups 25:45 I think a fan is going out in mine

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Its an EATON 9PX 10KVA unit which I use and is for sure overkill for most setups (and hardwired 50 amps 220) but here is one from the same lineup that you might check into. geni.us/EATON-9PX-2KVA Eaton UPS is about as expensive as they come however and you can get a 2KVA unit from Cyberpower for 1/5 the cost which is not bad at all.

@martijnschoenmakers1635 11 месяцев назад

Cool video! Why dont you put some solar panels on the roof.. it helps to reduce getting the sun's heat into to your roof panels.. the airgap between panel and roof really works.. And it makes reduces costs on airco .. well it worked for me atleast ..

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Im trying to get a sponsor for the channel for all the solar I want to do. Trying to flex youtuber benefits on this one if I can.

@BobDrenth 11 месяцев назад

@@DigitalSpaceport That's the way!

@Bear-form 11 месяцев назад

35 kw just for the airco ... My house including rack uses 12 kw a day.

@johannesedelbacher8837 11 месяцев назад

You have some GPUs running aren't you? I am on 7kW at home and I am feeling bad about it. My company setup is also at around 30kW. I haven't had to use AC by now as I was lucky with the weather in Europe by now.

@Bear-form 11 месяцев назад

@@johannesedelbacher8837 3 servers. 1 miner. 4 RX Vega's. The plant I work at produces 230 MW. It's rainy in the Netherlands and I want to install my garden solar farm I designed. I will have the ability to run off grid with my enphase system and home battery when it goes live. The only thing my power company will switch off is themselves due to the Enphase Q relais.

@johannesedelbacher8837 11 месяцев назад

@@Bear-form Maybe I should host your hardware, but I guess you pay less for the 35kW than I would do for your setup.

@Bear-form 11 месяцев назад

@@johannesedelbacher8837 Read again my friend. I use 12kw. The content creator his airco uses 35 kw. Which is 3 times my entire house. I must admit when the GPU's kick on it adds another 1000 watts easily. Mine will soon be 0 because I installed 2 enphase 1 phase batteries with a solar farm of 4 x 470wh panels. I pay 0,34 euro per kw. And get back 0,07 I supply to the net. I rather compensate the 0,34 ofc and supply to the net after dark if I want.

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Yeah but with all these tweaks, the window AC is now hitting just 25 kw a day so thats a great improvement for a 2 ton unit. Also its around 40c or greater here all summer long so active cooling is a must.

@hongtanke 11 месяцев назад

Ummmmm, 1) mini split will use way less electricity, 2) whatever you're doing to your attic is going to cause moisture problems. You need exhaust fans if it's that hot. No need to do all that weird barrier stuff. Fan with moisture sensor will also keep it dry during high humidity.

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

I do have an end attic fan and ridge vents but the mini split is not something I want to do just yet as they are much more expensive then a window AC and I now have that down to using 25 kw a day. The attic isnt humid its just very hot and the radiant barrier does keep it cooler on the underside for sure. It dropped the temps around 10 degrees when I installed just that before insulation was done in the garage.

@Fiberton 11 месяцев назад

YOu can literally collapse the heat in your attic by having a metal roof with foam laid on top of your home. My Mother did it and her home is way cheaper to heat and cool. Stays cooler way longer.

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Yeah we have been looking at a metal roof so we can do rainwater collection thats drinkable also, but we need a hail storm lol.

@johannesedelbacher8837 11 месяцев назад

Bro you can't tell us that your setup is not six figures, alone your home Depot expenses are above 20-30k. I like it anyways and I just don't want to accept that I have overpaid for my Chia farm that much 😢

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

I am for sure doing a "how much did it cost" video soon. No way this is 100K unless I really have not been paying attention.

@dekaker9933 11 месяцев назад

Bro I love thermodynamics!!! Do you have an attic exhaust fan or cut out inside the attic above the garage? If so use it to exhaust all your air. Instead of the hot air coming out your racks and recirculating back into the room let it use thermodynamics to let that hot air rise into the attic and exhaust it out the attic exhaust over the garage. Of course this is all coming from what i can see from your vids but if that ac unit is pulling in outside air you can use that positive pressure and the help of the attic fan to move all that hot air out.

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

Oh cool! So the roof lines have ridge vents cut and there is large end soffits on the edge that moves a decent amount of air. I did try forcing air up into the attic in the past, but it pulled in outside air like crazy. That wouldnt be bad if I was not in central texas, but the air here is always filled with pollens and its really humid. I have looked for ways to evac the heat but I cant figure out a way that does not involve bringing in outside air to balance that? Any ideas on that? The AC is not pulling in outside air at all its cooling the heat load inside the garage, and it can keep it bone chilling 68 if I hit 5KW a day, or 3KW for around 75. I think a mini split is in the future for me, but the window AC was very cheap temporary thing. It looks awful from the curb however lol.

@dekaker9933 11 месяцев назад

@DigitalSpaceport I had a feeling that window unit wasnt pulling in fresh air only circulating it. Ill have to sit on this on for a little this morning and ill get back to you if I can think of something. I do have an idea that I have always wanted to try but its a bit "experimental" so ill hold off on telling you until its my last resort lol Also what direction does your garage door face? North, South, east, west?

@DigitalSpaceport 11 месяцев назад

@@dekaker9933 garage door is dead on north. It gets little/no sun

@dekaker9933 11 месяцев назад

If it were me I would put some bushes on the side of the house where the window and ac unit are some that would grow tall and add some kind of natural shade. Stopping that sun from touching your house/wall and window would do wonders. I would look into getting an attic fan for the spot above your garage door, exhausting just the attic air alone will lower the overall temp in your entire house thats attached to that attic. Youll be surprised at the temp differences just buy adding an attic exhaust fan.