I quit alt mining

[GhostRider25]

that's why you have batteries, to store up the energy collected during the day to use later.  you can find batteries real cheap often free too,  a wire gets pinched or a cell dies and the whole thing gets warrantied, they chunk the old one, give the customer a new one, again, with a little know how, open it up, replace the bms, a new 48v 100 ah will run you maybe 75 dollars, or replace the bad cell, charge and balance and you again, are good to go.

my current setup, i got 24 kw of panels and 96 kw/hr of battery.  my 5 volcminers pull about 60 kw a day. i can go 2 rainy days before it dumps out for good. even on shitty days you get some power it's not totally dark.  with a little switch voo doo you can even pull power on a bright moonlit night.   

again, paying for this, no you wont break even, but if you can get a lot of the stuff for free / near free, it's an option.

check battery stores, they tend to get a ton of lith's they are happy to be rid of for free.  the la's recycle,  liths no longer and the ferro chems never did really for some reason.

Aaron

[FP91G]

This is a good option for household needs or when breakdowns won't damage expensive equipment.
If you buy ASICs for $3,000-$5,000 and install batteries of dubious quality into the network, then as an engineer, I'll be shocked. I've seen a lot of defective products from China. I have seen cases where such savings lead to fires or other serious damage. With a constant consumption of tens of kilowatts, any mistake can be very expensive.

[GhostRider25]

and, as an engineer, im assuming a junior one by the mindset.  you did not fully read or comprehend what was said.  just jumped to a conclusion, so typical with these impatient kids nowadays.

here ill spell it out for you, ill even use crayons if that helps.

check the battery, why did it fail? many times the bms goes bad, you replace it.  or a wire gets pinched, which eventually causes a low cell, fix-replace it.  occasionally a cell itself is bad, replace that cell.  The rest is fine.  put it together, test it and if it's good, use it.  They don't like to say they let a shitty battery out of the factory so will make up cute terms like oh it had 'infant mortality' etc, but basically, once in a while, a lemon gets by.    now obviously this is not going to be every battery you get, but once you've done this a few times, you can spot the good ones and the boat anchors real fast.  im getting 24v / 36v  48v 80 ah,  100 / 105 ah    200 ah batteries ..refurbishing them for maybe 100 dollars in time/effort and they are good.  been running some of them going on 5 years now, not a hitch.

if it's swollen, liquid dripping out, damaged, looks like it tried to start on fire, then no you probably don't want that one.
This is not for everyone, in fact id not recommend anyone do it if they don't have a fully functioning brain and a solid knowledge of battery maintenance.  Also, if you are working on hv packs, like out of cars, you'll kill yourself very easy when you come across a 400 volt rail the wrong way.

im wondering if there's a way to get hands on bad asic cards.  where someone burnt up maybe a hand full of chips w/o physically scorching the mb.  They'll replace a few chips for you, but if you need a hand full it's not worth the labor time, and you are better off just honking a new board.  For someone with time, some 2m / 3m experience refurb the board. it may not be at full 130 percent, but if you can get say 90 percent out of it, and instead of paying 3000 for it, you payd 300, then you did ok.

Sometimes just doing things to be able to say, look what i did and it works too, is payback enough.

aaron

[Aur(cipher)]

I totally agree with the sentiment that mining has become too industrial, but I don't think PoW is dead for home miners yet. The problem is that most new projects follow the same path of ASIC dominance too early.
I’ve been following (and developing) a project called Aureus (AUR) which is specifically aiming to keep PoW accessible and fair. It’s a sovereign SHA-256 chain, but because it's still in its early stages (around 38k blocks), it's actually possible for smaller miners to participate and secure the network without needing a massive warehouse in Siberia.
If we want to preserve the "real values of decentralization" that @Abiky mentioned, we need to support these types of grassroots PoW projects before they get swallowed by the whales. It’s not always about chasing the "gravy train," it's about building a network where home equipment still matters.