Anybody got a solar powered mining rig yet? The ZTEX FPGA rig, at <10W, with a ~1W embedded linux box as a controller and a cell phone as network access sounds doable on a 30-50W solar panel with a good battery.
Being that I've been homeless by choice for several years now, that seems like about the only way I'll be able to mine out of a backpack.
Thoughts?
-Mo
I always thought that this would work well.
I didn't think much about FPGA mining at first though. Mainly because the profit of FPGA mining will go down.
I think an Atom N450 (which is my most dedicated rig) consumes less than 40 watts when it is undervolted and CPU mining at full speed. I was able to undervolt the vid to 20 (was previously at 36, and 19 is just too unstable), so it also produces less heat.
Since CPU mining is very slow, I can only get about 1 LTC per day or about 2 bitcoin shares (yes, it is that bad) per day. When doing LTC mining on pooler's cpuminer 2.2, I get 2.39 - 2.43 khash/s. When I tried a Bitcoin CPU miner, I got like 400 khash/s. When using mtrlt's reaper v12, I got about 3.5 khash/s. When using mtrlt's reaper v13 beta 4, I got 5.3 khash/s. But SolidCoin mining is too unprofitable to even think about.