For air-cooled Bitcoin mines

Spend less power cooling the same hashrate.

Basin automatically adjusts your exhaust fans through the VFDs already on site. It looks for the fan speed that uses the least total power at the same hashrate, with live monitoring, alerts, and remote control for your team.

Try it free on one pod and see your own number. Runs locally on your own hardware, using the fan drives, metering, and miner telemetry already on site. No miner firmware changes.

Cooling overview · illustrative values
Zone A Zone B Zone C Zone D 46 Hz 54 Hz 38 Hz 46 Hz inlet 31.2° inlet 33.8° inlet 28.9° inlet 31.4°
Outdoor 27.5°C Fleet 1,984 hashing Hottest board 71°C Control local, automatic

What Basin does.

Basin adjusts the exhaust fans automatically, gives your team remote control, and flags cooling problems.

Automatic fan optimization

Basin maps how your site responds to fan speed and uses that measured history to adapt to changing conditions, within the site’s operating limits.

Site power mapIllustrative
Lower fan speedHigher →
Lower powerSelected setting
Fan settings informed by your site’s operating history.

Monitoring and remote control

See fan speed, temperatures, miner-fan effort, and power by zone, with operating history. Set a manual fan-speed override remotely and return to automatic control when ready.

Zone A controlDemo only
46 Hz

Basin adjusts the fans. Select manual override to try the controls.

Cooling and equipment alerts

Receive alerts for high temperatures, drive faults, and stale telemetry. Find the affected equipment and review its recent behavior from the same interface.

AlertsIllustrative
Zone D temperature above limitReview airflow and miner temperatures.
Drive 7 fault reportedReview drive status and recent commands.
Zone and equipment context helps the team investigate.

More airflow can use less power.

More exhaust uses fan power, but can reduce miner-fan effort and cool the chips. Cooler chips can draw less power at the same settings because silicon leakage falls.

Basin measures the combined response to find the better fan setting.

Increase exhaust airflow

Exhaust power rises

The facility fans do more work.

Miner power can fall

Miner fans work less.
Cooler chips lose less power to leakage.

If miner power falls more than exhaust power rises,
increasing airflow lowers total site power.

Basin checks that tradeoff while keeping temperatures and equipment within site limits.

Your policy vs. Basin, measured on your site.

During the trial, one pod alternates between the fan control you run today and Basin. The report compares them under similar conditions and shows every interval. Export the underlying data as CSV to check the math.

1

What are we comparing against?

The headline reference is your own control policy, measured live on the same pod.

Your current fan control
Fixed or scheduled speeds, or temperature-feedback (PID) control, run the way you run it today.
Modeled references Supporting detail
Fixed-speed references, labeled as calculated.
2

How much less power did Basin use?

Intervals are matched on similar weather, miner load, and hashrate using miner and exhaust power readings. Calculated inputs are labeled.

Your policy3,402 kW
With Basin3,391 kW
Less power11 kW

Illustrative example: over one hour, that is 11 kWh saved—the first row below.

If Basin uses more power, the report counts negative savings. If conditions cannot be matched, the interval is marked unverified. Each report is labeled with the season it ran in, and subscribed sites get the comparison rerun in the hottest and coldest months.

Savings report · interval detail Illustrative rows
Example: your current policy as the reference, matched one-hour intervals.
HourOutdoorBasin speedYour policy kWBasin kWSaved kWh
Tue 13:0026.9°C46 Hz3,4023,391+11
Tue 14:0027.5°C46 Hz3,4103,401+9
Tue 15:0028.8°C50 Hz3,4163,420−4
Tue 16:0029.4°C52 Hz—3,428Unverified
The report includes the calculations; the CSV lets you check each interval. Illustrative values, not measured Basin results.

Start with a free trial.

One pod, on your own hardware, installed remotely, for 2–4 weeks. There is no charge for the trial.

1

Request and agree terms

Send a trial request. We check your equipment and agree the price and a decision date in writing before anything is installed.

2

Install remotely

We install and configure Basin remotely on a PC at your site, then walk through the setup with your team on a short video call.

3

Compare and decide

Your current fan control and Basin take turns on the same pod. At the end you get a one-page report comparing the two, and you tell us by the agreed date whether to continue.

What you need

Fan drives
VFDs on the exhaust fans, networked directly or through a PLC.
Miners
Any model, reachable from the site network.
Power metering Optional
Networked PDUs or power meters, any brand. With metering, Basin also counts the power cooler chips save. Without it, Basin optimizes on fan power alone.
Controller PC
Intel N100 or better, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, on the site network.
Internet
Outbound internet access from the site network.
Your team
Someone at the site for a short video call during setup.

Then one price per miner.

Nothing you pay depends on measured savings. The trial shows you the result; you decide whether it is worth it.

SETUP · ONE TIME, IF YOU CONTINUE
$3 per miner

Charged only when you continue after the trial.

  • Remote installation and commissioning
  • Drive, metering, and miner integration
  • Setup walkthrough with your team by video call
  • Fallback and recovery testing

Runs on your own PC (Intel N100 or better, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD). Any on-site field work is quoted separately.

SUBSCRIPTION · MONTHLY
$0.20 per miner per month

Billed on the average number of miners online that month. $250 minimum per site.

  • Automatic cooling optimization and map updates
  • Monitoring, history, alerts, and remote override
  • Cloud backups, reports, and data export
  • Software updates and remote Basin support

The first 12 months are required, then month to month.

Example: 3,000 miners online: $9,000 setup + about $600/month, before taxes.

After 12 paid months, Basin keeps running if you stop. The controller continues on your site’s last map with its safety limits and local dashboard. New map updates, remote access, alerts, backups, software updates, and support stop. You can resubscribe at any time, for example after adding miners.

Agreed before the trial starts

The price and a decision date are set in writing up front. If you don’t continue, we restore your original drive settings and the controller stops. Either way you get the one-page report: your policy vs. Basin on that pod, labeled with the season it ran in. We’ll also ask up front whether we may share the results.

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Aidden Toops

Aidden Toops

Founder, Toops Industrial Controls

I spent four years running air-cooled mines: thousands of miners, VFDs, curtailment, firmware testing, and the cooling problems that only show up in production. Basin is the control layer I wanted on those sites and could not buy. I run the trials and commissioning myself, and work directly with your team to get the controls and measurements right for your operation.

Common questions.

We already run a temperature controller. What does Basin add?

A temperature controller responds to its temperature target. Basin evaluates how exhaust speed affects total power at the same hashrate. During the trial, your controller and Basin take turns on the same pod, so you can see the difference on your own site.

How much will my site save?

We evaluate the opportunity on your equipment rather than publish a universal savings figure. Fan capacity, miner fleet, weather, and existing controls all matter. The free trial measures your own number on one pod before you pay anything. Results include the reference used and the conditions covered; we do not claim a comparison when the data is insufficient.

Is the price tied to our savings?

No. You pay the published setup and monthly price regardless of measured savings. The trial is how you decide whether Basin is worth it for your site.

Are savings compared with our existing controls?

Yes, that is the main result of the trial. Basin and your existing control policy alternate on the same pod, readings are allowed to settle, and similar conditions are compared. Fixed-speed references are included as supporting detail.

Our fans already run at maximum. Is Basin useful?

If maximum airflow is necessary throughout the operating range, there may be little room for fan-speed optimization. If it is needed only during the hottest periods, other hours may offer useful adjustment. The trial shows the difference on your site before you pay; if there is little to gain, you simply don’t continue.

What hardware do I need?

A small PC on the site network: Intel N100 or better, 4 GB RAM, and a 100 GB SSD. We provide the installer, and the hardware stays yours. Your drives need to be reachable over the network, directly or through a PLC. Power meters are optional but let Basin find larger savings.

What happens when the controller or network fails?

Internet loss affects remote access while the local loop can continue. Controller or local communications loss invokes the behavior configured in your drives and controls. We document and test that behavior during commissioning, including the steps for manual operation and recovery.

Who fixes a failed drive or controller?

Your qualified local technician handles physical work using the site handover information. We provide remote Basin configuration support. Replacement hardware, a preconfigured spare, or a field visit can be quoted separately. The subscription does not include staffed 24/7 monitoring or emergency dispatch.

What happens if we stop?

After the trial, or if you cancel within the first 12 months, we restore your original drive settings and the controller stops. After 12 paid months, the controller keeps running your site’s last map locally, with its safety limits and local dashboard; map updates, remote access, alerts, backups, software updates, and support end. Either way, stopping never switches the fans off, and you keep your hardware, documentation, and exported data.

Does Basin change miner firmware or replace fleet management?

Miner access is read-only. Basin controls exhaust fan speed and monitors the signals relevant to cooling. Your existing tools continue to handle pools, firmware, miner tuning, and fleet operations.

Request a free trial.

An email is enough to start. Aidden will follow up to check your equipment, then agree the price and a decision date with you before the trial starts.

Trials run remotely on one pod for 2–4 weeks, at no charge.

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