Solar array starting to look good.

[generalt]

I have been talking with bitmaintech's Yoshi.

I may finally get compensation on my  batch 1  s-7.

If so I would set it up here.

Wow awesome!  Glad to hear that.

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[ShrykeZ]

Woah, looks a really cool setup, is this going to be entirely used for mining purposes?

[philipma1957]

Woah, looks a really cool setup, is this going to be entirely used for mining purposes?

no it is buysolar 's  place.  he has about 3 acres  his home his business (solar installs)

so the array runs his home his office and about 10 kwatts for the miners.

most of them belong to me and we have an arrangement which frees him from miner risk and me from power cost risk.

[philipma1957]

Wow awesome!  Glad to hear that.

So far nothing has happened since this post. It was not much so I thought it would happen.

Back to this post I was given 50 coupons from another forum member he asked to to give them away on the forum. So I now have multiple coupons the $100 ones I am looking to give them away.  1 or 2 to each one that asks me.

Even though I do not buy any gear from them the 100 dollar coupons are a good deal,if you want a miner.

So.
I have no problem giving them away.

[cavaliersrus]

hey phil im running my gekko science sticks right now on solar with 2 12v batterys

once in a while i have to hook them up to my home charger for the batterys

been kinda cloudy lately

running 4 sticks on at 293.75 mhz
my raspberry pi
and usb fan
all that on a powered hub thats connected to a 175 watt inverter so only one plug and low power

i thought about running the sticks at a lower speed till i get more panels to charge my battery's

[-droid-]

you using enphase inverters?

what kind of panels?

[philipma1957]

you using enphase inverters?

what kind of panels?

I can not answer you  as the array is buysolar's baby not mine.


shoot him a pm he may be able to help with more info.

[philipma1957]

Damn this looks dope, up and running now yea?

yeah we are up to 6 + ½ avalon 6s'  about 22th.

slowly adding more hash  We will add 2 more avalon 6's

I have been talking with some bitmaintech guys about a possible s-7 or 2 as kind of a joint venture.

They front us 2 s-7's  we split the coins.

So if we add the 2 avalon6's and the 2 s-7's  our current capacity will be maxed. At just about 37th which is not much anymore.



I am more of the mining end  and of course buysolar is the solar end .

[thedreamer]

Nice. That's waaay bigger than my solar setup. LOL..

ALthough I'm planning to add another 2 or 3 KW this year if I can on mounts that adjust the angle to the sun.
Have to test how well they work with 6 or 9 panel frames.

I know another guy that uses a home-made hydro generator and he gets about 2300watts constantly from that behind his house.
He said he can hook up another one or two to his stream and not add any flow restrictions. LOL. Not sure of the legalities on that one though.

Lucky SOB.

Nice!

[Cromvel]

So if we add the 2 avalon6's and the 2 s-7's  our current capacity will be maxed. At just about 37th which is not much anymore.

Are you planning to expand your solar installation? Do you happen to know how many square meters of buysolar's yard solar panels are covering now?
It's a very interesting project and I'm keen to know how it will develop. Nice work guys!  

[philipma1957]

Are you planning to expand your solar installation? Do you happen to know how many square meters of buysolar's yard solar panels are covering now?
It's a very interesting project and I'm keen to know how it will develop. Nice work guys!  

we hope to expand it.  but there is a false cap caused by the power company.

Buysolar sells back excess power in the day. Then buys the power back at night.  this means no batteries and quite a bit of savings on them.

When it is daytime  the power companies transformer allows buysolar to send 67kwatts of excess power.

The system right now can produce 135kwatts of power at peak sunlight  it uses  20kwatts or so

for mining and household since it is on his property and runs his home.

So 20 + 67 = 87kwatts   and the panels at peak are doing 135 kwatts.  This means an excess of 48kwatts at peak sunlight.   So we have no need to put in more panels until the power company upgrades  their trans former beyond the current 67kwatts.

Buysolar should be able to answer how many panels are used here .

I know he has them on the roof of his home. I did not photo that
I know he has them on his barn.
I know he has the two acre horse area .

It is a lot of panels. Cost is not cheap to do it. but the system has a long life time in front of it.
He does not need to use batteries which don't last.

[Amph]

is this system on grid? and not off grid right? batteries are a pain to deal with, you only need to change the counter, to a bidirentional one

[philipma1957]

is this system on grid? and not off grid right? batteries are a pain to deal with, you only need to change the counter, to a bidirentional one

That is what was done.   So in theory the array should be good to go for more then 20 years.

With next to nothing in future cost.

Battery solutions with more then 110kwatt at peak are costly and dangerous as quite a bit of energy is stored in them.

[Amph]

solar panel are not that good in the end if you end up with only 25% of the power because of the sun limitation, there must be another form of better energy like some forms of kinetic energy(not wind)

[WarrEagle]

solar panel are not that good in the end if you end up with only 25% of the power because of the sun limitation, there must be another form of better energy like some forms of kinetic energy(not wind)

The only sources of clean energy that I am aware of are solar, wind and hydro. All have their limitations, while someone in my area that live on the water and had a constant flow of hydro past their property could generate a significant amount of energy, if they were to own hydro generators that were designed to sit on the bottom of an waterway and generate energy when the tide was coming in or going out.

[OgNasty]

solar panel are not that good in the end if you end up with only 25% of the power because of the sun limitation, there must be another form of better energy like some forms of kinetic energy(not wind)

The only sources of clean energy that I am aware of are solar, wind and hydro. All have their limitations, while someone in my area that live on the water and had a constant flow of hydro past their property could generate a significant amount of energy, if they were to own hydro generators that were designed to sit on the bottom of an waterway and generate energy when the tide was coming in or going out.

I am jealous of those who have streams on their property.  A couple old car alternators and an inverter and you're good to go...

[philipma1957]

I am jealous of those who have streams on their property.  A couple old car alternators and an inverter and you're good to go...

yeah a nice water driven power source

http://www.sswm.info/content/hydropower-small-scale

[philipma1957]

I ordered a batch one s-9  I will review it and post info on it here.


We ordered a second one.

that would be 28th.


We may sell some avalon 6's cheap

we have  6 and ½ avalon 6-'s

    2 s-7's

and 2 sp20's

Buysolar and I may sell off all of the above and go for 4 s9's



note i sold 1 and ½  avalon 6's today.


so 5 avalon 6's
and 2 s-7's
and 2 sp20's
maybe an s-5 are left

[TheYankeesWin!]

Phil ,

I may want the older gear the sp20's and the s-5.  What would you want for them?

[philipma1957]

Phil ,

I may want the older gear the sp20's and the s-5.  What would you want for them?

Not sure how to price them , but I use 2200 watts to run the 3 of them.  They get 3800gh.

You need really cheap power to run them.

here is one for 172 with the shipping

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Spondoolies-SP20-Jackson-1500-1700-Gh-s-Bitcoin-Miner-SP20-/322011407866?

here is an s-5 for 135

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Used-Bitmain-Antminer-S5-Bitcoin-Miner-1155-GH-s-Bitcoin-mining-/182155449842?

so 172+ 172 + 135 = 479 on ebay.

And frankly  that is too high.

 Since an s-7 is 440 on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bitmain-Antminer-S7-4-73-TH-s-Bitcoin-Miner-BTC-NMC-/272260425770?

I would guess I would want 400 for the 3 pieces with free shipping.


Also  I guess the used s-7  would be  380  for the defective batch 1  that I have  bitched and moaned about.

and 420 for the amazing batch 2   s-7  which has been a good among s-7's.