Topic: New 10 KW Solar Mining Project (Read 480 times)

I too much prefer ground mounted arrays and it makes it a lot easier to maintain (snow removal, washing, replacing micro inverters if you have those).

A buddy of mine stopped by the other day with his drone toy, so I had him take an areal picture of my arrays:



So the 1st array is mounted on top of my shop building because it was there already and doesn't have to steep of a pitch, and is metal.  It is not exactly South, but pretty close.  All the ground mounted arrays are pointed due south.  The array in front doubles as an equipment storage shed.

Here's a chart of my solar production so far this month relative to the power consumed by my rigs and the rest of the household:



The power company sends me a report each Monday showing the daily kWh was delivered from the Grid, what I returned to the Grid, and what the net of that was.

Per the table above, my net through the 12th of this month, was that I produced 922 kWh of excess solar energy that was returned to the grid that will show up on my account as a bank of kWh.

The rest of my household currently consume about the same amount of power as my miners.  Come summer when the A/C will be running constantly, household consumption will go up, but so will solar production since the days are longer and the sun is higher in the sky.  So it evens out.

My mining rigs only consume about 86 kWh daily on average.  These guys:



My plan is to keep snagging up RTX 3000 series GPUs until my total household consumption matches what I produce from my solar arrays.

As long as the panel is not obstructed by anything ground mounting just as effective.  The 20ft difference in height doesnt matter to the panel as long as eithe ris unobstructed. 

See large solar farms where all panels are ground mounted.

People in densly populated areas have to roof mount because of the obstruction of the next dwelling.  But here i believe our user has plenty of room. 

The problems from roof mounting are additional weight on roof.  Most roofs in the USA are going to be asphalt shingles which means anything mounting to them diminishes the shingles life expectency.  Plus you have to make sure the homes structure can handle the weight and windload.  Ground mounting is much easier if you have the space.  It also makes cleaning and any maintenance much easier and safer...especially if roof pitch is steep and/or two story home. 

Now they are not generating much right now in the garage...terrible mounting location op....🤣🤣🤣

You don't have a roof? Solar panels are more effective on the roof top than mount grounds I believe, anyways you can build them yourself with woods and nails, if you aren't that good then hire a qualified person and explain what you plan to do, it's easy when you get a professional by yourside

Phase one complete, 10kw of solar panels arrived today.
Now the fun starts, mounting these things...
What's a good low cost DIY ground mount?

https://imgur.com/a/6iyz3N7

Solar mining only really works if you have the solar work during the day and use grid power at night or use net metering. Lithium ion batteries are expensive, inverters are expensive, lead acid batteries are expensive. The easiest all in one solution would probably be a Tesla Powerwall and getting enough of those to keep a farm online at night would be pretty expensive

The cost of setting up solar mining is way too high for someone who isn't in for long term mining business, I have a old man in my country that lives out of mining farm, he has the money to build huge solar setup and till date he is still mining, he is an inspiration to me, looking forward to build mine

Anything looks good if you ignore cost.

That's a crazy good deal! I hope you have a long term contract because I see rate hikes in the near future, especially here in TX. My supplier only pays wholesale, not worth the trouble to go through the interconnect hoops.

How has your solar barn worked out for you? I like that idea and thinking of doing something like that. Would you do it again if you had to do it over?

You are the one that's not getting it, solar is efficiency enough just like grid power depending on how you build them, mining with solar panel is generating money from the sun, there is nothing better than this, reason why many stay away is the cost of setting it up

As an engineer I used to design back up power solutions that ensured 100% uptime for my offices and remote locations. 100% solar/off grid with 24x7x365 reliability is entirely within reason with proper design & operational controls.

Your spot on with your figures, I have my L3++ antminers tuned to 488watts for 392MH/s for a total of 4880 watts. So should be good with 10KW

Imagine not paying a penny for electricity and just mining with green energy non stop, this makes more perfect sense even when there is no more bull season, what makes bear season a bad experience for miners is the cost of electricity bill but with solar every penny counts

Hmm you are the only person that thinks about long term mining on here, others believe the bullrun is already over and you are saying for the next 1year? How sure are you that we won't go deep like in 2019 again? For the past two days now my gtx1660 super are now earning 2.3$ per gpu when it was 3.5$ to 4$ per gpu

solar mining mostly benefit when bear/winter hit crypto mining and ups as backup when shadow from the cloud hit solar which is you need big battery, dont expect to much for earning full power solar 5-6hrs/day, and you need the most efficient rig on the current hardware, from solar to inverter to psu you loss 15-20% of power,

we're on bullrun for next 1 year, and 0.1kwh still doable until 2year forward and most likely we wont see big dip like 2019 again, i'm mining at 0.11kwh,  only 1 year turn off at some middle 2019 and 2020

Man, Your math is lost in time...   

Without grid power? That's going to cost a lot mate, 4000watts every hour for 24 hrs is 96,000watts, we are talking about 98x 360watts panel here which I'm sure will need battery bank of 15x 200ah batteries connected in 24v, I don't know how much these costs in dollars as I'm not from dollar spending country so do the math yourself, oh and you will need 7200 to 10,000 KVA inverter

Yep.  With a net metering agreement, I pull from the grid @$.12 and if I produce more than I consume, I push the excess back into the grid at the same rate.

My current setup uses around 4000 watts. I am curious to know how expensive is to setup solar panels that could provide 24h running rigs.

Hi crazydane! am I seeing this right, are you selling your power back to the grid @ $.12 KWh?

A grid tie in with full credit solves all issues, I'm jealous.