mnafta
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January 15, 2018, 10:46:38 PM |
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Thanks for this amazing post. Great work Crazydane! It looks like a really fun and rewarding project.
I really would love to try something like this on a smaller scale for a personal project, and I have some ideas about doing something like this for a community project as well.
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Kapz786
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January 15, 2018, 11:04:37 PM |
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Very nice. I'm in Western Australia so we get sun for most of the year. I max out my inverter during the day but of course get no use out if it at night.
Will get great when battery storage comes down in price in a few years.
If you are generating an excess amount of energy because of extra solar panels, with a net metering setup with your local electricity provider, you could use the excess electricity generated in the morning at night. Usually tho they buy your electricity at a reduced price from what they sell it at but if you have a large solar array then you should also be able to offset electricity expenses at night time. Where I am unfortunately we only have 1 energy provider and they basically have a monopoly on the service. We get paid 0.07 cents a KW for unused surplus energy that goes back in the grid but that's all. "Perth may be one of the most isolated cities on the planet (it’s closer to Singapore than Sydney, and closer to Jakarta than Australia’s capital, Canberra), but it’s also one of the sunniest. In fact, it’s officially the sunniest capital city in the world, with an average of eight hours of sun per day, year-round. " Unfortunately that means the energy provider likes to keep profits up and with the plunging price of solar electricity there is little incentive offered have you thought about adding other forms of renewable energy? like wind turbines? there some really good ones these days, also what about power storage all the extra panels only do soo much good, you produce enough that energy storage should be something you might wanna look at, ive been looking to do solar and wind myself but am limited by the size of my property. Washington state has some great solar incentives like getting paid more if you get certain things that are made in the state like the solar panels and inverter I definitely don't have enough space for turbines. I don't know if you know much about POWR ledger? It's a great blockchain project it would really benefit someone like me if introduced to my area as I could basically "sell" my surplus solar for credits that I could then maybe use at night when I am not generating anything. haha lol not the ones your thinking of, not those HUGE ones that you see along the road, theres really good residential ones now that are small and nice looking, couple that I looked at did 3 phase AC, small enough for a property like yours you could have multiple which would give you some power generation at night Ah that makes more sense  I wasn't aware of a smaller version personally I haven't seen them this way as pretty much everyone just sticks with solar but its a great idea as it would generate a good amount of power in winter while the solar is hardly getting used. I definitely need it to suit 3 phase power due to the draw I am getting from the pool, air conditioning etc. |
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January 16, 2018, 03:16:50 PM |
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wow big money
this thread should be a sticky
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Michael20
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January 16, 2018, 03:34:14 PM |
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Why mini inverter, and not a big one? Should be cheaper  |
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crazydane (OP)
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January 16, 2018, 04:37:51 PM |
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Why mini inverter, and not a big one? Should be cheaper I like micro-inverters because they allow me to track individual panel performance. Also, if a panel is shaded for part of the day, it won't drag the rest of the string it is part of down. But yes, cost is higher, but you avoid dealing with high voltage DC and the now mandatory rapid shutdown those requires, making the cost closer to equal. |
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crazydane (OP)
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January 16, 2018, 04:44:01 PM |
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See the two lp tanks I assume they are filled time to time.
Can you build a blast/fire wall?
Yes, they are topped off about twice a year. Interesting idea about building a blast/fire wall. Will definitely look into that if I don't end up just removing them. Reason I might just get rid of them is that I plan to move all my mining rigs down to the shop come spring, and plan build a dedicated mining room within the shop that will have hot and cold isles and vent to the outside. The inlet will be very close to where those propane tanks are. While some rigs will go back up to the house next winter, enough will stay behind to keep the shop building frost fee. Damn those are expensive right now! |
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Tidsdilatation
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January 16, 2018, 04:49:17 PM |
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Holy shit im impressed man! Where in the world is this? Could one make reference to your nickname here on the forum? Denmark? If it is, you are one great neighbour! With the solar hours in the north i have my doubts but you prolly have done ur homework.
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crazydane (OP)
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January 16, 2018, 04:57:43 PM |
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I'm from Denmark originally, but reside in the U.S. in central Virginia these days. Those are the Blue Ridge Mountains you can see in some of the pics. We don't have mountains like that in Denmark. The tallest "mountain" if you can even call it that, is 561 feet.  |
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January 16, 2018, 06:12:07 PM |
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I'm from Denmark originally, but reside in the U.S. in central Virginia these days. Those are the Blue Ridge Mountains you can see in some of the pics. We don't have mountains like that in Denmark. The tallest "mountain" if you can even call it that, is 561 feet. To be fair the tallest mountain in the appalachians is Mount Mitchell at nearly 6700 feet. Still not that tall but it not some little hill lol. |
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VoskCoin
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January 18, 2018, 04:11:06 PM |
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ah so cool to see  working on the video as I type this! |
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VoskCoin
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January 18, 2018, 09:54:49 PM |
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I had the awesome opportunity and truly pleasure to tour CrazyDane's mining farm and have him talk about his setup -- for those interested check it out here!  https://youtu.be/V2fhHdeN_5E |
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bisba
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January 18, 2018, 10:28:45 PM |
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this is an amazing work.... congrats mate... no words...................
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January 18, 2018, 10:44:58 PM |
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And from all these solar panels you use 12 hours / day, at night what do you do?
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January 18, 2018, 10:59:32 PM |
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Thanks for putting the video together Vosk! It was a lot of fun. @ x299 My system is grid tied. So I draw power from it at night and anytime during the day when I consume more than I use. On sunny days, I push quite a bit back onto the grid, despite what my miners consume. The solar gateways allow me to track the production from each array. Here's a snapshot from around noon on the 15th: Roof array:  24 panel ground array:  48 panel ground array:  So how much sun there is on a given day has, as you would expect, a huge impact on the power being produced. Also, I still got a couple of inverters to test on the 48 panel array as only 43 of 48 are reporting as seen above. |
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January 19, 2018, 04:37:30 AM |
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See the two lp tanks I assume they are filled time to time.
Can you build a blast/fire wall?
Yes, they are topped off about twice a year. Interesting idea about building a blast/fire wall. Will definitely look into that if I don't end up just removing them. Reason I might just get rid of them is that I plan to move all my mining rigs down to the shop come spring, and plan build a dedicated mining room within the shop that will have hot and cold isles and vent to the outside. The inlet will be very close to where those propane tanks are. While some rigs will go back up to the house next winter, enough will stay behind to keep the shop building frost fee. Damn those are expensive right now! It arrived do you want it? At oem not rip off price. if you do shoot me a pm. You got me into water blocks this style is a little too hard for me. I do have a lot of msu sea hawk with corsair coolers factory prebuilt and a lot of evga hybrid's but old school wb's are not for me. |
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January 19, 2018, 04:58:23 AM |
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Don't know if you'd be too keen on telling everyone here, but would you be able to give me a rough estimate on the ROI that you're expecting here? Maybe even with an amount of money that you're pulling down on a weekly basis on pure profit?
I don't think you included it in your post, if you did I am sorry! -- Trying to see if mining is for me as I do have access to a good amount of free power.
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January 19, 2018, 09:21:27 AM |
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Hi, I watched your video on the VoskCoin Youtube channel. Really impressive stuff. Wishing u all the best. Cheers. |
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Kapz786
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January 19, 2018, 09:30:15 AM |
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ah so cool to see working on the video as I type this! Great video VoskCoin was nice to see how the solar setup complemented his pretty extensive mining rigs. That what you call a nice hobby set up |
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January 19, 2018, 10:56:31 AM
Last edit: January 20, 2018, 06:00:11 AM by TheHas |
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I had the awesome opportunity and truly pleasure to tour CrazyDane's mining farm and have him talk about his setup -- for those interested check it out here! https://youtu.be/V2fhHdeN_5EAwesome video vosk! Like your work on this, plus on building mining rigs and talking about zencash and other topics. Keep the videos coming! |
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