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i would like to hear your thoughts
What happened to your initial plan to sell the excess power to the Electricity Company?
There was a consensus in your year-old thread that it's more profitable than using it for mining.
Link to old thread:
MINING WITH SOLAR POWER | WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN MY CASE?Why don't you just buy a battery and run it 24/7,
That would be expensive.
With batteries, he would need enough capacity to run his miners for 16 hours per night.
Lets consider his original plan of building a theoretical small 500W rig; to run that for 16 hours, he would need 8000Wh which would require 7pcs 100Ah 12v Batteries. (
4pcs 100Ah 24v...)
And since batteries must not be drained below their safe capacity (
depending on the formulation), he'll be needing more than that to be efficient.
Cheap LeadAcid/Gel batteries will degrade faster than his miner so his options are those expensive LiFePO4 batteries.
And if OP's using a "
grid-tied system" which uses the grid as battery, it would require to swap some hardware to convert from grid-tied to off-grid.
Or isolate some solar panels to use off-grid but that would still require another set of hardware for off-grid system, plus the batteries.