At my home (The RV) I am stuck to a single circuit, so I want to maximize what I can pull off this free electricity; since an underclocked S7, and my PC running full-ham is enough draw to drop my line voltage from 110 to 102.2..... Any more draw, and Ill be dipping into a very uneasy place.... I almost melted my power cable when I added 2 S3's for half a day....
But I know it can handle the uncorked S7 and the PC 24/7 just fine.... But if I want to do something like run the microwave, something is getting shut off for a few min... lol
I think just biting the bullet and going only with the newer gen equipment will be the best option in the future. Once I upgrade the S7 here, Ill just move it to the warehouse in SF.
I have been eyeballing the S7LN's for a bit now. I just sold bolt of my last S3's, so S7's are the oldest tech I have working out of everything. My parents are going solar within the next few months (putting in a 5.8Kw system) so ill sit and make a deal with my father so I can put in a second meter, power point and distribution so i can set up some miners on a rack in their garage.... just pay them the power every month and half the profit to see if I can get my father into buying some new ASICS
He's a retired hardware engineer so I think I can get him on-board... (designed the first GPS for trimble, of which I still posses the first ever fully functional final-design prototype that has the military decryption built in [its a big deal to have the mil-spec decryption.... pinpoint accuracy with one device and no reference station], also designed the first ip phone for Cisco Systems, and the list goes on....)
if you have solar, the only miner you should have is S9 - biggest bang for the buck.
Any other miners will just take amps off your system, might as well give those amps to S9.