@phil
Who does the panel cleaning maintenance ? its an often overlooked part of having solar.
the array that buysolar owns and I mine on with him is mostly on the ground 400 of the 500 panels are ground based.
and the array is grid tied. So the grid transformer takes in x and the array does 1.5x so a grimy panel does not mean much.
We can also wipe down 400 of the 500 with ease.
Now this project uses 7 or 8 panels with a ground mount so if you have the gear in a spot that gets grimy it is easy to wipe down to clean.
The idea behind this it to make a 1000-1500watt power source for a miner off grid that will run 5 full hours a day.
POP (pay one price) up front for decades of power.
right now companies are giving away gear or close to it. s9i's are under 700 with shipping and $100 dollar coupon.
I have 12 L3+ and 2 s9I coming
We want to set up an L3+ test doghouse and a s9i test doghouse and see how it goes.
We are in a power price is king stage of the game.
If you had cheap power you would not give a shit that a piece of gear does not earn a lot.
Power is cheap enough that it profits.
In december 2017 we were in a gear is hard to get part of the game power cost did not mean much of anything.
and l3+ was 5% on power cost and 95% in your pocket if you had 8 cent power
it now earns 2.20 a day and costs 1.34 to run at 8 cent that is 60% for power and 40% in your pocket
but if you have 8 cent power it makes 86 cents a day
if you have 4 cent power it makes 2.20 - .67 = 1.53 a day
but all the 20 cent miners power is 3.36 so it loses a buck a day
all the 15 cent miners power is 2.52 so it loses 32 cents a day
all the 13 cent miners power is 2.18 so it turns a 2 cent profit.