Mining Bitcoin with Solar Panels and Batteries
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I decided to put one of my old Bitcoin miners back to work this winter, and thought I'd invite you to come along for the ride! The tiny home is completely off the grid and uses solar panels and batteries for power. Since it doesn't get much use in the winter, and since I have to use the wood burning stove to heat it up whenever I want to use it, I figured running a Bitcoin miner out here would be a win win, producing both heat and money that I would not otherwise have.
The Bitcoin miner is an Antminer S5. I purchased it used several years ago on ebay, and ran it enough to pay for my initial investment, which I think was a few hundred dollars.
The difficult rate changes (usually going up) with Bitcoin, but I currently estimate this Bitcoin miner should produce between $5 - $10 per month. It does about 1 TH.
#bitcoinmining #solarpower #offgrid
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thank you very much it is great to see the point of view of someone who is mining with solar actively. thank you!!
Great video and nice brief overview of the premise of bitcoin mining.
thanks! ive been looking into building a tinyhome, and thinking of ways to utilize solar to heat while potentially making profits is really cool
This is great! I love how you explained it and you seem like a cool dude. Subscribed! (Also I'm a fellow Idahoan, Moscow)
such an excellent demonstration and lesson...thank you.
@LetsDoCrypto
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
Great video! Thanks for sharing
Great video man 👍🏻
I was going to recommend this to heat my buddies cabin until you got to the catching the house on fire part. lol
Really cool video! I liked the simple and light way you presented everything and connected the miner in real time to show it's not really an overly complex thing. I am planning to setup a similar system with solar, batteries and connect some old S9 miners to it. I have started to look around in the web for technical information on where to start, but I thought you might have some tips on documentation, blogs, websites, that were useful for you to setup the solar power system? E.g. what panels should I get, how many batteries, what other equipment like the inverter, etc. Any help is appreciated. Thanks and great job!
I was skeptical if this setup would work then I heard you talk about burning the pace down and was like “hellz yeah”
This is amazing.
inspirational stuff
Would really hope to see if the solar panels are linked up to a portable battery like Goal Zero Yeti 500X
I like this. Green coin
Grate video
I just noticed you have the same solar controller.. it’s underrated
Does this mine through battry storage at night . What are the biggest batteries available? Are battries very expensive.
I've heard of this I see it everywhere but no clue on how to do this
Looks great, personally I think an l3+ is easier to get panels powering the machine
Are we going to get a update on this ? I wonder if it worked heating the tiny home and how much you made as it sounds like a WIN WIN
Is this about powering a bitcoin miner with solar panels or about the inns and outs of bitcoin mining????
Nice video im looking at having 20 s9i antminer run on a off grid system any advice
You've answered several questions I had, definitely subscribed! Keep going! I'm trying to figure out the setup needed to power an Antminer S9j Pro 2950kW. Do you have any suggestions on how to size the solar + battery plant? Thank you!!
@LetsDoCrypto
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. It looks like you would need a minimum of 3000 watts for solar panels (10 panels at 300 watts each, for example) in order to power the miner while the sun shines only. You would only need a small battery setup in this case, but when the sun goes away, the miner would power off... To keep mining 24/7, it depends where you are in the world and how much sun you get, but probably more like 9000 watts of solar panels and maybe 7000+ amp hours worth of batteries, so something like 45 batteries if using SLA batteries similar to mine... This would be a very expensive setup if it needed to run 24/7.
@nicolamonaca
2 жыл бұрын
@@LetsDoCrypto I'm in the south of Italy, where solar irradiance is very good indeed. I was planning to use LiFePO4 batterie to keep mining for at least 12 hrs when the sun is off. My main question is how to size both batteries and panels to keep batteries charge enough during day, for use at night, WHILE the miner is being powered from the panels during the day. Any ideas?
Can you run it straight off the batteries for efficiency? I'm assuming it's 12v equivalent that your using to power the Inverter then the power supply and back to 12 ish volts for the antminer? I've got some antminers and it would be good to see if they would run off a car battery for power cuts etc max voltage 14.6v. any ideas??
Interesting how much solar panels you got + what WP per panel
This is what i do with the solarpannels on my Camper ;)
its been like 8 months, how much would you say you've able to get out of it so far?
What is bitcoin? Where are your other courses you mentioned?
Loved the video. From the concept to the explanation to the filming execution. I came here looking for somebody attempting to power ASICs directly from batteries. My thinking is that if you have a battery that is close to 12V you could improve efficiency by skipping the inverter (DC to AC) and the power supply (AC to 12V DC). This wouldn't work for your setup because you have 48V (and your objective is to produce heat, not to mine profitably) but do you think it's worth the effort?
@LetsDoCrypto
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Oscar. I'm interested in doing this too. Directly to the 12v battery could work, but they also make DC to DC power supplies that take a range of DC input from like 11v - 13v and then output a steady 12v as well as 3.3v and 5v just like a computer psu. I'm pretty sure I can make this work with GPU miners, and probably the ASICs too. amzn.to/3AKtlVF
@oscarcer
3 жыл бұрын
@@LetsDoCrypto thanks for the tip. In principle that's what is required! Although this one in particular may be a little down on power for the requirement
@almaguapa-sailboatliveaboa440
2 жыл бұрын
He can have 12v since the setup of 48v is thru 4 batteries of 12v. And yes u can power directly computers as long as they accept 11-13v range. Some computers accept a specific voltage with little range. Batteries range in 11-13v depending on charge state and phase.
Why are you converting the DC current into AC current just to turn it back into DC current???
Great video, it is better to set up a fire extinguisher rather than set up a camera and ski there in the midle of the night. Congrats from Athens Greece Europe
This is pretty interesting! I would be curious to know how well it "heats" up the space. Also I loved the overhead drone video. Which drone do you use?
@LetsDoCrypto
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! The drone is a DJI Mavic Pro. The miner heats pretty well, it really is comparable to an electric heater, but louder. I how 2 more heating the shed that's behind me in the video thumbnail, and they have been the only source of heat for it all winter, and keep it warm enough for me to work in a tee shirt most days.
Why not run straight from the batteries so you don't lose anything converting it back to AC?
pro move giving utility to the heat which is usually the worst for miners specially on a solar grid
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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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How long do you think it'll take before you have enough leverage to charge your next town to not only store the electricity but sell it back look what happened in California with the overloads of too much electricity it blew out the substations
hold up, is this guy really about to ski down to his miner setup?
How many panels and batteries you need for s19 140t?
@Adrien_Trading
10 ай бұрын
hy I'm asking myself the same question :)))
@Adrien_Trading
10 ай бұрын
This is what I find for the moment (btw I plan to buy the sale antminer as you) I guess at leas 20 solar panel and 45 batteries if you whant a 24/7 and just running during sun light 10 solar and 23 batteries/22
I could drive a solar powered potato in those conditions...
Five dollars a month. Whats the use?
@philipwells7149
3 жыл бұрын
why not? And that $5 may end up being $50 when BTC goes up
Ethan Hawke is in to solar mining. Cool.
Hey lets do crypto ! nice too meet you, where is located this project ? regards!
@garyabc
3 жыл бұрын
At around 1:20 in the video he says he's in Idaho.
Why invest on a small solar system when you can makes a lot of money mining digital ccy ?.... just put more panels, batteries to run 24/7
its not even hooked up to the internet 😂😂
@LetsDoCrypto
2 жыл бұрын
Guess again, 4:53
Stupid question, why change 48v dc into 120v ac , to then change it again in 12v and 5v dc. Wouldn't it be more efficient to go straight from 48v to the rig with some other convertor ?
@mikolcreates
3 жыл бұрын
powering the house somes first
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Gift this to me please