Quote from: klondike_bar on September 29, 2015, 11:13:37 AM

Quote from: hawkfish007 on September 28, 2015, 09:19:54 PM

I will chime in since I just installed a 7.65 kW system mostly to offset my electric bill from mining, however, it is completely a grid-tie system. I paid $.65/watt including shipping (bought from a wholesaler on eBay), $2800 for 2 inverters, installation was $1.10/watt (1 inverter would have worked if I went with SolarEdge w/optimizers). I had to take a break from mining when my Edison bill hit $900 last November for running about 8 TH. Not entirely sure if this system will help in ROI for running S7s, on the other hand, Edison buys back extra power @ ~~$0.9/kW~~ $0.09/kW..

so you spent around $15,000 for 7.65kW and no battery packs?

IIUC, that means you should get ~7kw*12h = 84kwh/day (~$8), and it will take roughly 2000 days, or 6-7yrs, to pay back the system cost assuming no surprises

as i understand, thats not too bad since solar insallations are typically advertised as around 10yrs to break even, at which point you might need to install $4000 of new panels to keep running another 10+yrs

That was one of the reason for going solar also, the system will generate enough power to cover my daily household usage and some excess. Hoping that it would allow me to run some gears at zero or very low electricity cost, now if Bitmain only shipped my Batch 1 S7 orders. Planning to post some pictures once I get the miners

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