Quote from: notabeliever on June 23, 2015, 02:55:32 PM

Quote from: NoahWL1 on June 01, 2015, 11:13:11 PM

I'm working on setting up a cheap solar-powered Bitcoin miner. It's going to run one of my three U2's I have collecting dust by pairing a solar-charged 4000mAh battery bank, a USB solar panel charger to charge the battery bank along with its built-in panel, and a Raspberry Pi or TL-MR3020 router with OpenWRT to control the U2. I'll add more solar panels so I can have a powered USB hub and the other U2s run later. It definitely won't generate a lot of Bitcoins, but hey! No more power costs of leaving my PC on 24/7! It'll also be a fun little project.

Did you start yet? I have 2 nanofurys and I want to do the same. My thought was to use a panel from harbor freight tools 15 watt panel which more could be added later. Some people do say to not waist your time on these panels and just by one bigger one similar to Solarcities yet won't invest until it works. I also liked Teslas battery maybe a small time electrician would install it one day.

My other solar project was a solor powered flood light with the little solar panel clipped to the rain gutter using the plastic Christmas light clips. This system can be used for the 15watt panel too. Might try the corner of the house first.

Not sure where to start first. Probably panels first and attached to the corner siding or temp post at the corner of the house. first step would be to make sure I get 6 hours of charging time.

My battery was going to be the charged battery jumpers. Those are good for plugging led flood lights if you have to work on the car or power goes out for awhile. One small problem is it stopped taking a charge so we will see if solar power can trickle charge it. Funny probably used it once to jumpstart an actual car battery.

List of things to buy.
Centech 5-in-1 Portable Power Pack with Jump Start (battery and power converter builtin)
Thunderbolt 15 watt solar panel kit

Yep, I haven't done a lot of work on it since cause I've been pretty busy with some other stuff, but here's the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1077811.msg11510674#msg11510674. It's basically finished, just needs a few more optimizations. I'll finish it eventually, but like I said I'm pretty busy. The skies have been pretty cloudy lately anyways, so I'm not in a rush.