Topic: Old gear collecting dust? (Read 2140 times)

It is not a scam ya twat! If you need some references, I am happy to provide them starting with the last R-box I purchased a few months ago from someone on this site - CanaryInTheMine can validate my postal address as central Victoria, Australia PLUS biodieselchris can validate the solar array as I have supplied GRCoin pics

That's exactly what I thought: He provides an Australian mailing address, but the Post Office knows that it's to be shipped to Iceland. Great scam! 

I am happy to BTC for P&H, I don't expect people to be out of pocket.

Maybe I should edit / add that to 1st comment

Would be good, if you offer to cover people's shipping costs.

Why would they send you free miners and pay for the expensive shiping costs.

Very good idea, if you find the people to support this. I know of a similar project, where a person is doing small scale "mining" on android phones. {So he is looking for people to donate old android phones for that purpose}

I reside in Australia and have a 1.5kW grid connect system plus another 400W off grid (for technical reasons to do with the power companies).

I am not begging for miners to make cash, as an Engineer I would prefer to see the equipment still hashing rather than collecting dust. As for re-purposing gear, I am always tearing down old PCs, rebuilding and giving them away to those in need or do free repairs to PCs & laptops. The intent of the rebuilds is not to produce world winning gaming machines on the cheap, most of the time they barely scrape together as a linux based media centre, but they do make decent home PC for those whom cannot afford a machine.

As for the mining revenue, I do not expect to make anything more than a handful of satoshi's when on a pool. It is more about using otherwise dead machines to assist with securing the networks or I could prop up a dying coin if asked too.

No 'donations' yet, not even a single USB miner

Let us know if you get a single donation. I really wonder if people are ready to do so.

Absolutely agree.

This is glorified begging behind a veil of renewable energy and environmental concern.

For all we know you live in Iceland and are selling them on ebay straight away.

You should consider giving 50% of any mining revenue back to the person who sent it to you, which would seem a fairer deal.

I would appreciate if you could share with us your estimation about your solar panel installation breaking point(you will earn what it costs to buy and install). I am from Czech Republic and when I was talking with a guy running his solar panels here he told me it was very long time if ever(assuming some needed repairs/batteryReplacements/etc).

Maybe you can consider buy second hand that is cheap enough!

Have you had any "donations" yet? Honestly, I think it's ridiculous to ask for free miners.  Even the gpus I had that were worthless for mining got a decent sum on ebay, presumably by people with free or cheaper electricity.  You should be offering a small sum for the miners OP.

Are you in the US?

Nevermind, I see that it's australia.

Anyone got some USB thumb drive miners they are prepared to donate to a renewable energy operation?

Higher rates for exporting solar, or any renewable energy, is no longer available in Australia. My 1.5kW solar panel systems returns $0.66kWh for exports, after house consumption - net not gross, however any new systems are only eligible for the wholesale export rate of $0.08kWh. Given elec costs retail of ~$0.30kWh, the govt wants people to size their solar for only their own means.

The bigger issue here is that once a solar panel array has paid for itself, because it is maintenance and fuel free the profit margin becomes huge compared to a coal / gas fired power plant. This effectively puts that plant out of business.

The elec companies in Australia have successfully lobbied to protect their old infrastructure by no longer paying premiums or even retail rates to exporters thereby increasing the payback period from ~5 years to ~12 years. most home owners struggled with the 5 year period due to the likelihood of relocation as a clause in solar panel installs for premium rates is that it is only for the originally installed property. If someone moves the solar panels to a new location, they loose the premiums and revert to wholesale.

So ion closing about the elec rates and permits, the higher rates are no longer available in Australia and if you want to connect to the grid then you do need special permits.

My expanding operation is a stand alone suite, not grid connected, so I do not need any special permits and all the power is consumed by the mining gear.

What you are doing is admirable, dont get me wrong, but isnt it more profitable to just sell excess electricity to distributer (power company)?
In my country there is a special rate for buying off solar generated electricity, and its highly profitable ATM.
There is an issue of some permits and licences that u need to aquire tho.

Wish I had the time and expertise to set something up like this myself. Maybe I could pull off a solar powered block erupter running on a raspberry pi though.

Good stuff. Wonder if anyone will send equipment?

If you have turned a miner off but would still prefer them to be active, then please cosnider my proposition.

When BTC ramped up in late 2011 ~ mid 2012, I converted a chunk of BTC to a 1.5kW solar panel system. This 'free' elec power is now used to power my house and a small rig setup consisting of an R-box (30GHs), a Jally (10GHs) and a pair of 6770s (~370kHs). Sure it doesn't make any serious money but it does help secure the network for 'free'.

I reside in regional Victoria, Australia, were we have an abundance of solar energy. I am a systems engineer (electrical background) whom hopes to tinker further to produce a hybrid power option (wind & solar).

If you have any unwanted miners, please consider sending them to me so they may mine on until they reach a natural death (I am happy to BTC for P&H, I don't expect people to be out of pocket.).

Msg me to discuss.

Regards,

Cranky

moderator note: moved to hardware because no transaction is being conducted (was in marketplace)