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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: My residential Solar + Mining farm
by
NiHaoMike
on 30/11/2017, 06:47:34 UTC
What's coming down from his panels aren't 12V, they're likely strings somewhere in the 150-300V range.  Even individually, larger panels like this individually are above 25V themselves.  Not to mention the solar power isn't constant enough; you'd be varying input voltage constantly.  You need the inverter to smooth it out and make it a clean and stable power.
Hack some cheap server PSUs to perform MPPT, then parallel the output with unmodified server PSUs to get a constant voltage. Hack the load share to give preference to the solar PSUs, with the normal PSUs supplying the remainder. It will take a lot of electronics knowledge to do it.