Quote from: Sector7G on June 28, 2014, 01:06:42 AM

I was thinking about a solar set-up a few days ago. I'm glad someone else is also looking into this.

I was wondering about what happens after the sun goes down. My idea was to lay the solar panels on my back patio. I have flood lights that turn on/off at dusk & dawn. I was wondering if I put the panels in a place where they'd be lit up by the flood lights, if that would allow enough power to flow into the battery overnight to keep it from running dry. And the flood lights are 15 watt LEDs. I guess it sounds too good to be true... using a 15 watt LED, solar panel, inverter, etc., to power an 850 watt PSU & Antminers.

Sector7G that will not work that way much. Conservation or energy is still valid.
These solar panel are very less in efficiency for convert photons to electrical energy.
Normally a solar panels efficiency is at 20%, means it will convert 20% of what you give.
Now, with 15 Watts LED you will get less than 3Watts from Solar panel. (15*.2=0.30Watts).
Even if we consider getting 3 watts you need 284 such LED lights in practical case you need more.
Do you think its viable to run such a system?

The possible two options and the best among it is to running on grid power during non solar time.
The second option is to have a lot of batteries to backup for 12 to 15 hours to run 850Watts load during the night.
That will be a mess and need a big investment and not worth the money for mining.