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Topic: altcoin mining using powerwall from tesla, worth it? (Read 162 times)

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Solar power and mining are not a good match. Mining is a 24/7 operation but solar power
is only available less than half the time. Using batteries just increases cost.

 

if you use source from solar during day and use stored energy during night, i am contemplating there might be considerable saving in energy fee. Obviously it can not be solar alone. It has been solar integrated with utility grid so that when solar energy runs out utility power is used.

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Solar power and mining are not a good match. Mining is a 24/7 operation but solar power
is only available less than half the time. Using batteries just increases cost.

 
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the bigger problem is how long will it take to fill that power wall, since if you run the rigs of solar during the day you need a hugle solar array say 30kwh so 15k will power the rig and 15k will charge the power wall something like that.  All this to run 1 rig.  Solar imo is only good to cover your cooling costs , say u have some high efficiency split air units you can power off solar and the power wall at night
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Has anyone done it or is there a better, cheaper alternative?

https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/tesla-powerwall-2-game-changer-in-home-energy-storage-14-kwh-inverter-5500/#:~:text=Operating%20Temperature%20Range%3A%20–20°,%3A%20122%20kg%20(269%20lbs)

I chose powerwall 2 since tesla is popular however pricing adn spec were hard to find with tesla and other vendor's storage product.

in a fictional scenario with 1 miner + 5 1080 gtx each running at 120W (180W max) the total power consumed is 600W + ~100W (for board and cpu).
total of 700W. In one day, it can consume 16800W or 16.8KWh of energy.

The max unit storage of Powerwall 2 is 14Kwh. It appears one full powerwall can barely power 1 miner with 5 1080gtx. Obviously it does not take into account that solar panel during day will or could or partially supply power directly to miner, reducing 24 hrs.

I think your confusing K/w hours. The total powerwall can handle is 14Kw (total) single GTX1080 rig your talking about only uses 600w, that means you can multiple of those rigs. 600w isnt in one hour, that's overall.

14,000w/600w = 23~ theoretical rigs.

NO, 14kh = 14000wh is 600w * 24h. Remember what is 1WATT is following def:

The watt-hour (Wh) is a unit of energy equivalent to a single watt (1 Watt) of electricity expended for duration of one hour (1 hour).

You are also confusing watt/kilowatt (w/kw) with watthour (Wh/kWh) Look carefully.
So with that your equation can be re-interpreted as

14000khw/600w = 23h (meaning power wall can operate 1 rig for 23 hours or can operate 23 rigs for 1 hour) but i doubt later is possible because overcurrent limit implied by following in the spec:

Power: 5 kW continuous, 7 kW peak
Assuming 600w per rig, it should not safely run more than ~10 rigs at a time: 5kW / 600w = 5000/600 = ~9 OR ~10
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Has anyone done it or is there a better, cheaper alternative?

https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/tesla-powerwall-2-game-changer-in-home-energy-storage-14-kwh-inverter-5500/#:~:text=Operating%20Temperature%20Range%3A%20–20°,%3A%20122%20kg%20(269%20lbs)

I chose powerwall 2 since tesla is popular however pricing adn spec were hard to find with tesla and other vendor's storage product.

in a fictional scenario with 1 miner + 5 1080 gtx each running at 120W (180W max) the total power consumed is 600W + ~100W (for board and cpu).
total of 700W. In one day, it can consume 16800W or 16.8KWh of energy.

The max unit storage of Powerwall 2 is 14Kwh. It appears one full powerwall can barely power 1 miner with 5 1080gtx. Obviously it does not take into account that solar panel during day will or could or partially supply power directly to miner, reducing 24 hrs.

I think your confusing K/w hours. The total powerwall can handle is 14Kw (total) single GTX1080 rig your talking about only uses 600w, that means you can multiple of those rigs. 600w isnt in one hour, that's overall.

14,000w/600w = 23~ theoretical rigs.
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Activity: 394
Merit: 101
Has anyone done it or is there a better, cheaper alternative?

https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/tesla-powerwall-2-game-changer-in-home-energy-storage-14-kwh-inverter-5500/#:~:text=Operating%20Temperature%20Range%3A%20–20°,%3A%20122%20kg%20(269%20lbs)

I chose powerwall 2 since tesla is popular however pricing adn spec were hard to find with tesla and other vendor's storage product.

in a fictitional scenario with 1 miner + 5 1080 gtx each running at 120W (180W max) the total power consumed is 600W + ~100W (for board and cpu).
total of 700W. In one day, it can consume 16800W or 16.8KWh of energy.

The max unit storage of Powerwall 2 is 14Kwh. It appears one full powerwall can barely power 1 miner with 5 1080gtx. Obviously it does not take into account that solar panel during day will or could or partially supply power directly to miner, reducing 24 hrs.
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