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Quick question, could a single 400 watt wind turbine and 2 batterys and a 6000w inverter power 3 s9 ant miners at 1350 watts per miner. I’m not too in-depth with electricity but trying my best to learn.

If the turbine is only 400W how does that suddenly become 1400W X3?

I think you would need 4 of these turbines per miner, but the inverter seems adequate. Forget the batteries.

If your inverter is a grid tie inverter, then you could supplement the missing power from the grid.

Thanks, How about a 5000 watt wind turbine to an inverter for the miners? I was wondering if the wind turbine could be straight lines to an outlet for power or do I need the inverter and batteries as I have seen other people’s setups? Thank you to every and anyone.

The purpose of the inverter is to convert DC into AC, which the usual PSU units expect (ironically the PSU converts it back into DC, but that's another story).

The batteries are meant to give you a buffer for then the turbine isn't giving much juice, but given the amount of power required, it becomes cost prohibitive. I think it would be better to just let them shutdown when there is no wind rather than messing with expensive batteries that need to be replaced every 3 years or so anyway.

By the way the same consideration applies to solar, and you can combine both.

So yeah, if you have that larger 5kW turbine, it probably works for 3 miners (remember the 20/80 rule) :)

You need a grid tie inverter if you plan to use the grid as "battery", if your setup is separate from the grid, a regular inverter is enough.

In principle you need about 200~250v 50/60hz AC for the PSUs, how you achieve that is left to you... You might need extra things for protection and stabilization, depending. And don't forget the ground.