Nice project , need to save our earth .
Green statistics so far for the project.
Topic: [11.2kW SOLAR/WIND/MAN] NastyMining Green Energy Project ☀️💨💪🔋 - page 12. (Read 73116 times)
Green statistics so far for the project. 
Nice project , need to save our earth .
... and mine BTC with no/less expenses 
Nice project , need to save our earth .
So those periscope-looking things are vents coming out of the roof?? I kept wondering wtf they were 
Yes, I believe the 2 you're looking at in the picture are for a bathroom vent and my clothes dryer.
My install was also a tad more since I paid to move 2 vents so the panels were contiguous.
The SunPower panels also handle albatross poop better than Hyundai panels.
Were the birds actually nesting under there?
The SunPower panels also handle albatross poop better than Hyundai panels.
Were the birds actually nesting under there?
I had to pay a little extra to have them vertically installed instead of horizontally (don't ask) to avoid having to relocate any vents.
There weren't any birds nesting, but it's a precaution they take out here to keep it from happening.
So those periscope-looking things are vents coming out of the roof?? I kept wondering wtf they were
My install was also a tad more since I paid to move 2 vents so the panels were contiguous.
The SunPower panels also handle albatross poop better than Hyundai panels.
Were the birds actually nesting under there?
The SunPower panels also handle albatross poop better than Hyundai panels.
Were the birds actually nesting under there?
I had to pay a little extra to have them vertically installed instead of horizontally (don't ask) to avoid having to relocate any vents.
There weren't any birds nesting, but it's a precaution they take out here to keep it from happening.
Got around to taking a picture of the "pigeon-proofing" today.
My install was also a tad more since I paid to move 2 vents so the panels were contiguous.
The SunPower panels also handle albatross poop better than Hyundai panels.
Were the birds actually nesting under there?
Got around to taking a picture of the "pigeon-proofing" today.
Ognasty,
your system is nearly identical to mine and also in northeast. Your production should be almost a mirror of this:
http://imgur.com/a/GS6y6
your system is nearly identical to mine and also in northeast. Your production should be almost a mirror of this:
http://imgur.com/a/GS6y6
11,455 Watt system.
I have 35 Sun Power panels 10 facing south and 25 east and west.
Bronx, NY
I do not recommend Solar for Mining, there is nothing free about the electricity after massive equipment investment.
I do recommend Solar for people who use to power their homes long term (15-25 years) especially when their power is >=0.15 cent per KWH.
I do recommend Solar for people who use to power their homes long term (15-25 years) especially when their power is >=0.15 cent per KWH.
There are so many positive reasons to go solar... I'd recommend it to anyone who will be living in their home for 8+ years that lives somewhere with a lot of sun and doesn't need financing. When you look at all the incentives, added resale value, tax breaks, and rebates, it's overwhelming how much positive there is in going solar.
For the average installation, the authors found that solar panels added a $20,194 premium to the sales price of the house based on repeat sales data.
New APS Rates and the Value of a “Grandfathered” Solar Home
Solar panel incentives, rebates & tax breaks
I love to see solar mining projects, this one looks more legit than most! When you say 9.5kW that means it can supply up to 9500w of power? I'm not sure but I believe with solar it's different, if it were 9.5kW you wouldn't get 9.5kW/hr. If so though, that's legit if it's all coming from solar.
9.5kw means in a perfect scenario it will generate 9500w per hour.
But at best it reaches 92-98% for 1-2 hours a day. Pretty much a bell curve from sunrise to sunset on sunny days.
US power runs on AC voltage, panels usually produce DC. You always lose ~15% in conversion. If you are off the grid and have a battery. You lose anything you generate in excess of the battery capacity (which degrades like your cell phone). Also, if you store on battery, you lose a further 15% storing and retrieving. For that reason I chose grid tied and get 1:1 production/usage of my excess power. I have net metering, so I use the local provider's grid as a free battery that defies the law of physics (no 15% loss), and costs nothing to maintain
Interesting, thank you! I love solar but 1-2 hours of uptime per day doesn't seem great. I guess it's free electricity though so you can't complain too much.
Uptime is direct sunlight hitting it. midday when sun is overhead is when you can get close to theoretical max. during winter with my 10.5KW system, I was getting 45-50kw on sunny days, now around 65-70kw, I expect upto 90KW on a sunny day in mid-summer. This is because closer to the summer solstice the sun is at the highest point in the sky and the days are longest. Closer to the winter solstice, the sun is at the lowest point in the sky and the days are the shortest.
Again 'bell curve', look at prior posts, there are charts reflecting the pattern of generation.
Antminer S9 eats 30-40KWH per day depending on hashrate and powersupply/voltage used. I couldn't run two S9s in the summer because 90KW a day is optimistic sunny day. Avg the days of the month and you will have partly cloudy, ominous, rainy days. Winter avg day was probably 22 KWH, Spring 35KWH a day, Summer maybe 45-50KWH
I do not recommend Solar for Mining, there is nothing free about the electricity after massive equipment investment.
I do recommend Solar for people who use to power their homes long term (15-25 years) especially when their power is >=0.15 cent per KWH.
I love to see solar mining projects, this one looks more legit than most! When you say 9.5kW that means it can supply up to 9500w of power? I'm not sure but I believe with solar it's different, if it were 9.5kW you wouldn't get 9.5kW/hr. If so though, that's legit if it's all coming from solar.
9.5kw means in a perfect scenario it will generate 9500w per hour.
But at best it reaches 92-98% for 1-2 hours a day. Pretty much a bell curve from sunrise to sunset on sunny days.
US power runs on AC voltage, panels usually produce DC. You always lose ~15% in conversion. If you are off the grid and have a battery. You lose anything you generate in excess of the battery capacity (which degrades like your cell phone). Also, if you store on battery, you lose a further 15% storing and retrieving. For that reason I chose grid tied and get 1:1 production/usage of my excess power. I have net metering, so I use the local provider's grid as a free battery that defies the law of physics (no 15% loss), and costs nothing to maintain
Interesting, thank you! I love solar but 1-2 hours of uptime per day doesn't seem great. I guess it's free electricity though so you can't complain too much.
I love to see solar mining projects, this one looks more legit than most! When you say 9.5kW that means it can supply up to 9500w of power? I'm not sure but I believe with solar it's different, if it were 9.5kW you wouldn't get 9.5kW/hr. If so though, that's legit if it's all coming from solar.
9.5kw means in a perfect scenario it will generate 9500w per hour.
But at best it reaches 92-98% for 1-2 hours a day. Pretty much a bell curve from sunrise to sunset on sunny days.
US power runs on AC voltage, panels usually produce DC. You always lose ~15% in conversion. If you are off the grid and have a battery. You lose anything you generate in excess of the battery capacity (which degrades like your cell phone). Also, if you store on battery, you lose a further 15% storing and retrieving. For that reason I chose grid tied and get 1:1 production/usage of my excess power. I have net metering, so I use the local provider's grid as a free battery that defies the law of physics (no 15% loss), and costs nothing to purchase/maintain
I love to see solar mining projects, this one looks more legit than most! When you say 9.5kW that means it can supply up to 9500w of power? I'm not sure but I believe with solar it's different, if it were 9.5kW you wouldn't get 9.5kW/hr. If so though, that's legit if it's all coming from solar.
Can you send links to the wind turbine. Not sure if my neighbors would appreciate looking at one but, very curious.
I have not been able to find any manufacturer links online for the wind turbine. I haven't unboxed it yet though, so perhaps there is some information in the instructions that I will be able to link to online.
Any thought on helping with the efficiency (even a little) by utilizing Peltier modules to turn waste heat into power (ever if enough to power a fan). I know it woun't be much and possibly negative as far as cost vs savings for a long time. I have a few modules lying around to experiment with on other projects and could provide some data if needed.
I don't think that peltier modules would be very useful to this operation. I'll certainly check out any proven usefulness if it's ever demonstrated, but my personal thoughts are that they are probably only good for cooling USB sticks.
Any thought on helping with the efficiency (even a little) by utilizing Peltier modules to turn waste heat into power (ever if enough to power a fan). I know it woun't be much and possibly negative as far as cost vs savings for a long time. I have a few modules lying around to experiment with on other projects and could provide some data if needed.
A 1.2kW 48v wind turbine & grid tie have been purchased for this project courtesy of YoBit.net. Installation is currently predicted to occur early next month.
Can you send links to the wind turbine. Not sure if my neighbors would appreciate looking at one but, very curious.
A 1.2kW 48v wind turbine & grid tie have been purchased for this project courtesy of YoBit.net. Installation is currently predicted to occur early next month.
I wouldn't go near anywhere near anything IoT-related at the moment. At least not until IoT developers get their security act together: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/a-vigilante-is-putting-huge-amount-of-work-into-infecting-iot-devices/
Worst they could do is disable the wind turbine... Not a big concern. As far as a simple energy monitor with wifi, I was thinking more along the lines of something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Monitoring-Wireless-Household-Appliances/dp/B01M3MYIFS/
There is no way a plug can monitor production.
Sure there is. Any regular kill-a-watt meter will do it.
News to me.
My utility meter outside shows energy flowing out of the grid and energy flowing into the grid separately. But it is unaware of energy being consumed as it it being generated.
The SunPower meter knows because of configuration being middle man between solar panels, grid and relay panel.
I've used kill-a-watt's before to measure energy consumption, it just measures the flow passing between the outlet & the device(s).
I'll have to do some testing once I get a wind turbine up and running, but I am hoping that a typical smart outlet will be capable of tracking the energy production from an inverter. As shown in the previously linked video, it is easy to monitor using a kill-a-watt (and there are even wifi hacks available), but I want an out of the box wifi enabled monitoring solution with elegant built-in tracking software.
I've seen the xbee hack before using a rpi... Kill-a-watt makes a wifi model out of the box but it's not elegant and probably only works out of the box with its own display/receiver and likely has minimal tracking, I doubt it is anything you could pull the data from remotely if that is what your trying to do? I believe placing the device after the inverter should effectively monitor "production" in the sense that it is monitoring the energy coming out of the inverter
TED 5000C and eMonitor are some others you might want to look at
and "The Owl" might be another manufacturer to look at.
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