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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Direct DC Powering an Antminer ASIC With Solar / Alt Energy
by
PNW_Steve
on 01/01/2021, 16:06:24 UTC
Hey Longhorn,

Thanks for the invite!

You are doing pretty much what I was asking about.

I would love to hear the particulars on how you are controlling the miner "throttle".

Regarding batteries,  I just ordered some Lifepo4  for another project but I may rob some of them to try out on this project.  I have enough coming to assemble a 12V 1120A/H bank.

The ability to gauge solar production and battery state and throttling the miners based on available power.

I have some time to put it together.  Being at a Northern lattitude,  solar sucks in the Winter. Even worse,  we heat with electricity.  I am going to run my miners from grid power,  in the basement,  and heat my house with them until late Spring.  Then I will relocate into the garage and hook up the solar.