Solar array starting to look good.

[Finksy]

We ran into issues on the big mine basically the only gear you can mine with is the s9.  The problem with the s9 is it breaks down too

much.  So we don't want to host.  Sad that I finally got a good power deal  and the current gear has reliability issues.

Hang in their Phil, don't lose faith just yet! I feel like we are close to seeing some competition hitting the market so we can break our dependence on Bitmain and their crappy QA/QC and warranty service...

[philipma1957]

Good idea dude. I like green power. What is all of them price ??

this was built in New Jersey  by a professional  reseller/installer of solar panels.


buysolar is the forum member that built this on his land in NJ .

there are many state credits for a grid tied system in NJ

in other usa states  that is not true.

So I am not the guy to give pricing info.

you can pm buysolar and ask for details.

[JaredKaragen]

The problem with the s9 is it breaks down too much.

This is why I focus on GPU rigs now.    Spend ~$2200 on a 4 card 1070 rig, and even just running lyra2v2 you can probably be ~20-25usd/day per rig.  @150W/card... it looks better and better the more you compare to an asic.  Especially when you know in a year youll be able to easily sell each card for $100-140 given how resale of GPU has been these past few years.

I returned my final hosted asic about a month ago.  Even though the power was free, it just wasn't worth the bitmain heartache, and the power could be more efficiently used on other devices.

[philipma1957]

This is why I focus on GPU rigs now.    Spend ~$2200 on a 4 card 1070 rig, and even just running lyra2v2 you can probably be ~20-25usd/day per rig.  @150W/card... it looks better and better the more you compare to an asic.  Especially when you know in a year youll be able to easily sell each card for $100-140 given how resale of GPU has been these past few years.

I returned my final hosted asic about a month ago.  Even though the power was free, it just wasn't worth the bitmain heartache, and the power could be more efficiently used on other devices.

yeah  I moved one 92mh four rx 470 rig to the array

I plan to move another this week.
I am hoping to go to 360mh at the array which is about 10 amps at 240 volts.

this would have me running 29 amps of 57 amps available.

I don't mind having a mix of the two coins.

[thedreamer]

Same here, I moved to GPU only mining away from ASICS, Still have some S7's but they're just my lottery tickets running for free. 

[JaredKaragen]

yeah  I moved one 92mh four rx 470 rig to the array

I plan to move another this week.
I am hoping to go to 360mh at the array which is about 10 amps at 240 volts.

this would have me running 29 amps of 57 amps available.

I don't mind having a mix of the two coins.

So what algos do you mainly run with your rigs (nvidia and ati I would assume different algos for algo efficiency differences between them?)

I am guessing Lyra2 or LBRY, and ETH correct?  Do you pool mine with exchange or solo mine?

Personally, if i'm mining lyra2 and profits are just lacking for over day, ill switch my rigs over to X11evo for a day and switch back after.  Seems to keep profitability to a nice even amount.

I'd probably do some ETH mining myself, but I don't like maintaining wallets and typically mine to a thin wallet based off a cellphone and xfer to coinbase or my hardware wallet for storage till use.... and since there are basically none for ETH.... and I can't just mine to my coinbase wallet... it's kind-of a drawback for me to start on ETH myself. (most of my regular net connections are cellular, so the traffic from wallets and blockchains are not feasible for me to keep online).

[philipma1957]

So what algos do you mainly run with your rigs (nvidia and ati I would assume different algos for algo efficiency differences between them?)

I am guessing Lyra2 or LBRY, and ETH correct?  Do you pool mine with exchange or solo mine?

Personally, if i'm mining lyra2 and profits are just lacking for over day, ill switch my rigs over to X11evo for a day and switch back after.  Seems to keep profitability to a nice even amount.

I'd probably do some ETH mining myself, but I don't like maintaining wallets and typically mine to a thin wallet based off a cellphone and xfer to coinbase or my hardware wallet for storage till use.... and since there are basically none for ETH.... and I can't just mine to my coinbase wallet... it's kind-of a drawback for me to start on ETH myself. (most of my regular net connections are cellular, so the traffic from wallets and blockchains are not feasible for me to keep online).

I mine Eth coin with  ethpool.org use claymore miner don't over clock keep it simple for stability.

The solar array is 3 miles from my home.  When gear crashes  I have daylight access to the site.
So stable gear is very important to me.

I never thought I would say that mining eth coin with gpu's  is more stable then mining btc with asics.

when the array had 10 avalon 6's and 1 s7 it was pretty much prefect 30  40 day periods of time with no issues.

Not the case with the s9.

[JaredKaragen]

The solar array is 3 miles from my home.  When gear crashes  I have daylight access to the site.
So stable gear is very important to me.

Yeah amen to that.

Even my windows 10 mining machines have rock solid uptimes, and usually only go down due to power failures or a windows update/reboot, but I have a startup file in them to auto-launch the miner apps upon boot.

On my home machine I have 2 video cards mining at 90-100% intensity, and can still play 3d games and such while its mining.  I'll only lose ~2-5% hashrate while gaming.  But it's still pretty solid.   The only time I need to be at a rig is to update the miner app or script (if I don't have a VPN to the site).

GPU rigs are set and forget as long as you keep up on their temp and airflow maintenance now and then.  Since it's winter time, I am going to be probably getting more friends wanting to heat their house and earn a little funds on the side.  The GPU rigs (like a gtx 9 series rig)with no active cooling (past a few low speed CPU fans for airflow across the machine) are actually pretty quiet.  The fans never really go over ~40-68%.... and temps hover between 55-75c.

[thedreamer]

Yeah amen to that.

Even my windows 10 mining machines have rock solid uptimes, and usually only go down due to power failures or a windows update/reboot, but I have a startup file in them to auto-launch the miner apps upon boot.

On my home machine I have 2 video cards mining at 90-100% intensity, and can still play 3d games and such while its mining.  I'll only lose ~2-5% hashrate while gaming.  But it's still pretty solid.   The only time I need to be at a rig is to update the miner app or script (if I don't have a VPN to the site).

GPU rigs are set and forget as long as you keep up on their temp and airflow maintenance now and then.  Since it's winter time, I am going to be probably getting more friends wanting to heat their house and earn a little funds on the side.  The GPU rigs (like a gtx 9 series rig)with no active cooling (past a few low speed CPU fans for airflow across the machine) are actually pretty quiet.  The fans never really go over ~40-68%.... and temps hover between 55-75c.

Actually what I've noticed is that you are able to do that on CUDA GPU's because they don't utilize 100% of the GPU fully, (I know it says on the stats, but its incorrect) thus the much lower performance in mining (eth+related and pascalcoin at least from my tests).
With a 10xx series cards I can play games and watch movies with almost no lag or slow downs. With AMD GPU's you have 2x the performance but it uses all of the GPU, so leaves almost nothing for movies and games simultaneously.

But anyways, back to the Solar thaang..

I'm moving to a new place soon and have to redo all my solar setup now as it's staying at my old house. Ugh... Time to setup a small Solar Farm myself I guess..

[philipma1957]

This has been laying dormat for a bit.

Spring is here so the array gets more sun and will be  redesigned a bit.

Right now we have

½ r4
1 s9
1 2 card pc amd rx 480 8gb

in the barn/office  part of the array

in buysolar's home most of the gear is in his basement as it heats his home.

in my garage I have:

 6 amd gpus  all rx 480 8gb

7 nvidia 1080ti's
1 nvidia 1080
2 nvidia 1070's
1 nvidia 1060

Most of the gpus will be moved to the array as my home will get too hot in  the summer.

I have had a very bad case of spring allergies this year and have not done much with the array redesign.

Buysolar has told me he has added a second fan for pulling air  out.

Keep looking here and a lot of photos will be coming.

[philipma1957]

so inspiring...
im also interested in PV panels.
there are more sunlight in tropical area.
trying to find about selling electricity.

Laws and rules are important.

NJ,USA helps solar array people with good laws and rules.

Many USA states do not do this.

[philipma1957]

Well we lower gear in it over the winter. and raise gear in it over the summer.

We will be adding a lot of gpus for sure As I have 12.2 amps worth of gpus running in my garage.

I can not run them June 1 to Oct 1  So we will be moving them for sure.

LightingAsic may be selling 8 card mobo board as bare bones  just an inbedded  cpu and 8 slots a board.

If this happens setup in the array will be easy.

I leave everything in the garage except the gpus and psu's

Set the cards up in the eight slot mob's attach a psu and off we go.

[goen]

philipma1957,

if i want to use PV panels as grid tie, no batteries, to power up my rigs,
what kind of controller do i need?
any example?
i believe it's a grid tie inverter but im not very sure.
need an expert suggestion...


regards,

[OgNasty]

philipma1957,

if i want to use PV panels as grid tie, no batteries, to power up my rigs,
what kind of controller do i need?
any example?
i believe it's a grid tie inverter but im not very sure.
need an expert suggestion...


regards,

Your panels are most likely putting out DC, so you'll need to convert it to AC in order to add the electricity to your grid.  You can buy a simple grid-tie capable of turning DC into plug-in AC, but will need to make sure to match the output voltage (and maximum wattage) of your panel setup with the inverter and the output voltage of your inverter to your home.

Here's the first thing that popped up on Amazon that would do the job, but you should search around and make sure to match your voltage/wattage needed for your setup and possibly find a more expensive option.  
https://www.amazon.com/SolarEpic-Inverter-Stackable-22-60V-Output/dp/B01A93QUH4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493748854&sr=8-1&keywords=dc+grid+tie

[nuanicaj]

This is my 35 Panel  Sun Power System in Bronx NY.  10 Facing South, and 25 facing East and West.

[philipma1957]

Nice to see you have one works 24.9 kwatts  is about 1 avalon 721

I am rearranging  the array for the summer.

it now has 2 small gpu rigs
and 4 s-9's
we added a second rack and second fan  and made a wind tunnel

tomorrow we add

3 avalon 721's
1 s-7

⅓ s-9

and another gpu rig

[TheYankeesWin!]

Do you Finish today?

[philipma1957]

We did do more
two exhaust fans



added a bigger deck put in 3 avalon 721's



far  away shot.  the deck/loft  is 32 inches bigger.

[TheYankeesWin!]

Nice  any links for the exhaust fans?

[philipma1957]

yeah they are 10 year warranty from home depot

1600 cu ft. 

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Master-Flow-1600-CFM-Power-Gable-Mount-Attic-Fan-EGV6/205924917


 and we are making a  wind tunnel/sound proof/ heat channel  with this

https://www.amazon.com/Car-Insulation-Deadener-Automotive-Lightweight/dp/B016QUSKPE/ref=sr_1_109?


lastly  I have these on order

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HSLI4FG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?

to tidy wires.


if it is to  hot  maybe 2 of these  to blow air  at the   gear

http://www.airkinglimited.com/page/industrial-floor-fans.html