Topic: Mining in a country with power challenges. - page 2. (Read 928 times)

Those batteries look neat, but they cost an arm and a leg, but anyway, using any type of battery for mining operations is a terrible idea, you can run the math and it looks ugly, batteries are just so expensive, despite all the new tech in the batteries industry, in respect to how powerful computers are and how much power they need, batteries are still in the realm of" a few hundred years late", in fact, anything except for large hydro power stations will not make sense when it comes to mining.


There is really no guarantee that this will be the case, I rather mine with expensive but stable power than free and unstable power, places that have power outages usually have more issues to deal with like voltages spikes and drops, besides the constant off-on on the miner can be bad, miners LOVE to run in a passive state, most of the issues will happen during the power-on/off phase.

Also, OP needs to know exactly how long those outages last, is it a few seconds a day? half the day without power? I mean let's just assume it's 12 hours a day, that means your ROI time is 2x, and given that we all are in a race against difficulty, you may never ROI before the gear becomes completely worthless.

The issues I explained earlier can be solved, you can protect your gears from spikes and drops using some tools that are not very expensive, so the real question boils down
(How many hours in a day do the power outage last and how much do you pay per Kwh for when the power is back) without knowing these exact two answers, it's just a shot in the dark.

How long do the outages last and how much space do you have? There are many places now selling things like the Tesla powerwall. More for commercial / semi-commercial environments then for home use.

In the end they are really just BIG battery backups but they are using old lithium car batteries so for the power they produce the cost is less then going out and buying a massive Schneider Electric unit https://www.se.com/ww/en/product-range/22545656-galaxy-vl/?parent-subcategory-id=8030#overview

There are also solutions that just let you chain a large number of regular 12V car batteries together. Not as efficient and it takes up an insane amount of space but they do work.

All depends on where you are and how much you want to spend and how much space you have and how much time you want to spend maintaining it.

-Dave

Sorry I should have been more specific, the power outages are often, and when the power is on, it is typically around 220v but sometimes fluctuates and may fall below that.

A small scale hydro is not plausible to me, Wind? It is not windy around where I reside so it may be a futile effort to want to harness the power of the wind. I just considered the generators powered by PMS or diesel but that will not be economical. So the best options for me i guess according to my location is Solar, and Gas powered generators.

Thank you for spelling out the power requirements.

if free, then successful more than a miner in a country where the power cost is very expensive  

Anyway there are so many factors to look into like it has been suggested above, You might want to be a little more specific. You might also want to look at the cost of power backup solutions in your country, like Solar energy.

You have posed a very vague question. Outages how often? How good is the power when it is on?

If power outages are a very frequent thing then you need to get power that is not tied to your grid. eg solar, wind, small scale hydro etc.

If outages are common but not a regular thing then one has to ask how stable is the power when it is on? Miners MUST have a stable incoming voltage typically between 208-240VAC. Prolonged operation below or above that range will quickly kill the miners.

What is the possibility of becoming a successful miner or the chances of success for a miner in a country that still experiences power outages?

Please suggest any and all possible solutions to this challenge for a bitcoiner interested in giving mining a trial in a country that still experience power outages?