Quote from: Amph on October 23, 2015, 06:35:08 AM

Quote from: enhu on October 22, 2015, 03:03:06 PM

Complicated but certainly a profitable set up.
Using the sun to mine Bitcoin is quite a great idea. It should work in the long run as the electricity is FREE. It takes a lot of skills to do that. I wonder how much you'd spend for such set up.

electricity is free but there are still cost to maintain panel batter and everything else, what if you're pannel get screwed by a storm or bad weather, you need to reinvest again, not convenient at all

the same for the battery which is not cheap, nothing is free in this world unless you find money on the street...

Solar panels are tested against storms, snow, hail and similar. So unless you are talking about a tornado, they should be fine outside.

Quote from: RichBC on October 26, 2015, 07:54:45 AM

Quote from: eternalgloom on October 26, 2015, 06:30:37 AM

Cool but looks like a pretty small set-up, I wonder if he actually generates enough power to keep them running at night.

On a really good day in the UK that 500W Solar setup will generate about 4KWh of power. The S3 consumes 360W, so that's about 11 Hours running, so no overnight. On a bad Day they will generate no power at all. On average he will be able to run the miner for about 3 Hours a Day.

As I said above the whole setup, Number of panels, Inverter size, Battery Bank size is all out of proportion for what it can achieve.

Rich

If you check the video again you will see that the whole setup is connected to the mains as well, hence if the battery runs low, it automatically switches to draw power from the grid. So even though the Sun may only provide x hours of operation, the miner will not stop suddenly. For a proof of concept project this is perfectly acceptable, it is cheaper than sizing up the whole system just to run a few more hours.