Easy Solar Crypto Mining With Bluetti Power Station

[@BradCagle]

Affiliate Links: Bluetti AC200L: amzn.to/3REhhj5 I used three of these solar panels in series: beenebrothers.com/product/tri... Looks like he's out of stock, but you can substitute with panels that have similar specs. ================ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE: This channel may earn an affiliate commission if you purchase products through links I provide. ================ CONTACT: [e-mail] Business/Collaboration only. Please do not contact me for for personal project help, or advice. ================ DISCLAIMER: These videos are documenting my own personal projects, and experiences. These projects, and activities can be dangerous. I am not a professional. You should always consult with a professional. This content is for entertainment purposes only. DO NOT try any of this at home, doing so will be at your own risk.

[@truecrimeterritory4453]

I check your channel every so often for crypto solar content. Keep up the good work.

[@BradCagle]

Thanks! Will do 🙂👍

[@SynthToshi]

Lets get an update brotha! love to see you expand on this subject.

[@ModernMiningHub]

Thanks for the video man this is the exact plug and play solution I would consider!

[@BradCagle]

You're welcome! And thanks for your video, it was what opened my eyes to the need for a plug-n-play solution. I'll keep searching for a way to do this for less.

[@ModernMiningHub]

@@BradCaglesounds good man appreciate it!!

[@4evermetalhead79]

@@BradCagle “do the same for less”, say no more, my interest is on redline. 😜 In all seriousness, yeah this is an expensive wayto do this. Hopefully it can be built cheaper and added bonus, be easily serviceable.

[@ahmadjibawi8535]

Awesome 👌 thank you for showing, i never thought solar will work for mining,

[@BradCagle]

You're welcome

[@justinalexander6248]

I was thinking about this for my asic, it pulls 500w. I pay about 0.14 cent a kwh

[@VamosViverFora]

Excellent video! Amazing how the battery can change it automatically. Nice.

[@rafalklepinski7372]

Got all excited and tried the link. AC200L is $2,499 here in Canada 🤣Someone at the mathemagics department got confused and used 1.92x as the exchange rate instead of actual 1.37x. Maybe Canadian edition comes with a 4090 GPU to get you started 🤣

[@BradCagle]

😬Oh man, that's over the top a bit haha!

[@rafalklepinski7372]

@@BradCagle Looked around and that's only the Amazon scalping price mercifully, everywhere else it's a bit more reasonable 🤣 Can you set it so it switches to AC when battery reaches 60 or 70% SOC and not just 19%? I wouldn't want to cycle the battery every day. Is there a mode where it just outright shuts down the load at a certain SOC? Could use the whole thing just as a cloud buffer and only run the miner when the sun generates enough juice to run the miner otherwise shuts to miner off. Mining profitability is so low it's barely worth it at any hydro rate so sun-only is a good option.

[@BradCagle]

@@rafalklepinski7372 Ahh, ok good haha. Yes you can set it to whatever % you want. As for it completely shutting down, I'm not sure. I need to test that. I think once the AC output shuts off it requires someone to turn it back on. I'll play around with it.

[@Hansen710]

i have a large house battery and it makes no sense using battery for mining in most cases even though i have it its better to use the battery for my own personal use when it comes to roi, the batterys makes it very hard in most cases running a new btc miner 12 hours on solar makes 3-4 times more profit then running it 24 hours on grid at 0.08.-0,1- cent running the last 12 hours is very expensive if you need a battery for that.. mining also wears down the batteries fast kaspa miners are the only ones i run on battery, they need to make as much as posible before the get to old solar panels are very cheap per watt, its hard to say the same about batteries

[@roybouwens]

Top! Greetz from Europe

[@gregoryerickson8233]

I've been doing this with my AC200L and my personal PC for a few months. The only issue I've seen is if the AC output is close to the 12A max grid input, it freaks out and turns off the grid. If I don't notice it will then run the battery dead. If I do notice, I have to do a full power cycle to get it to work right but with a load of about 500 watts mining with my 4090 and 7800X3D I usually have no issues. I only run a load that high if I'm mining and running the Midea air conditioner at the same time. Dallas summers are brutal. I might try a firmware update and maybe that fixes my issue.

[@BradCagle]

Nice, thanks for sharing your experience. Yes it's brutal here in north TX.

[@MHOAKEY]

Love the set up for ease of install! I'm still aiming to do your older set up you've demonstrated with the DC relay but this would be great too for less down time. Just curious, with this set up, can you set a cap for the charge % in the settings to prevent 100% SOC as often when possible?

[@yonaerasto2323]

Whats the average cost of the set up and based on your average profits when do you expect the return on your investment

[@SynthToshi]

Does it shut down the rig on switching from pv to ac after battery has be depleted?

[@gonjiskyfire6469]

Excellent video. I have a question. I know Bluetti EB3A max input: one solar panel is 200W and 120v AC/9A max. I am looking for bluetti without battery storage because charge cycles. Is there any alternative than bluetti or a different model? What is it called? Power Inverter?

[@rogerlikes]

great info, I hope my Anker supports a version of this someday

[@GregNTech]

Nice solar setup. I'm interested in getting into crypto mining. But know very little about it. Any suggestions?

[@BradCagle]

Thanks. As for getting into crypto mining, man It takes a lot of research, and it's risky. Also the profitability is very low to non-existent right now for most hardware that is in consumer reach. If you really want to play around, and learn you can grab a fairly recent GPU like a NVidia RTX3070 (there are newer ones available) and use something like nicehash.com. Nicehash has a profitability calculator so you can check if a GPU is any good for mining before you commit. Hope that helps! Oh, and be worry of scams, there are a lot of crypto scams.

[@richardduke6930]

I don't have the Bluetti , but i have a Licitti that you have done a post on . I am thinking of doing this with the Licitti , it may not do the automatic switching ? ? ?

[@fueledbytacos218]

How much money does the Mining rig make ?????????

[@ahmadjibawi8535]

Not much at this time unfortunately crypto mining is not profitable, to make some money the graphics cards will need to by at least RTX 3080s those GPUs pull so much power, i don't think solar will be able to keep up, also the cost is high.

[@Hansen710]

​@@ahmadjibawi8535 i its deffently better then paying for for power.. i live from mining from solar energy, but ofcourse my system is bigger and im running asics people mining from the grid gives alot of the money made away, using grid for mining makes no sense how will you compete with big companys that have free power if you are paying i can run a new btc miner 12 hours on solar and make 3-4 times more profit then if it is on the grid 24 hours at 0.1-0.08 cents solar is very cheap, where it becomes expensive is when you add batteries compared to buying a second miner, solar have a way better roi then most miners solar panels are around 0.1-0.13 cent per watt and they keep on giving

[@fullyelectric]

That’s very cool, do you know if the AC200MAX can do the same its like for $1k before discount 2kWh battery

[@BradCagle]

I don't know if the AC200MAX does the PV Priority. I think the MAX is the older version, and I think the PV Priority feature is pretty recent.

[@yuccafarmergaming1479]

I'm just learning about mining crypto, do you know what amount of crypto you're mining minus the expense of this setup? Also, what kind of mining rig are you running, GPU's and all that?

[@Moes_Prep_and_Tech]

Put your 4 panels in a 2s2p Configuration. (2 in series, 2 in Parallel) when that shade hits later on in the day half of your (non shadded) array will still get full power. whats the model number of the solar panels? What is the VOC and amps on the back of it?

[@BradCagle]

It may not do well in 2s2p. The IMP of the panels is 11.38A, and the max PV amps the power station input can handle is 15A. So in 2s2p it will need to allow over 22A to get the most out of it. This the pain with power stations, you have to run the voltage up as high as possible (while not going over) to fight the input current limits. The other worry is the PV adapter wire supplied by Bluetti looks a bit on the thin side (just checked 14awg, ok for 15amp) , so In the event something shorts internally, and those panels do pump out 22+ amps into that wire because of a short on the other side (short in the power station) might melt something. Thanks

[@Moes_Prep_and_Tech]

@@BradCagle I had a situation like you when I was using my AC200p, I could hook up the last panel to the charge enhancer and that would send AC power to the Unit, but these new Bluetti units don't use power bricks anymore. I upgraded to the AC300 and still had that same issue but then I discovered the Bluetti PV step down Module. It allows you to put up to 450volts (i believe, i have to check) into the AC300 and other compatible power stations. It steps down the voltage so you don't have to worry about over paneling. The AC300 combo is dirt these days compared to what I payed for mine

[@Moes_Prep_and_Tech]

The only other advice I could give you is to get 2 more of those same panels and put it in a 3s 3p string. have one facing south and the other west or east (whatever is better for you in your location) that way you'll get more coverage throught the day or if you face them all south you'll get those max 15 amps that the power station can accept.

[@squirrelmasters]

how long does that battery last at night without the AC i am looking to do something similar but not using one of those solar generators

[@BradCagle]

probably 3-4 hours. The calculation is pretty simple, if you need to run 450w for 12 hours then you need a battery that is 450w x 12 = 5.4Kwh. You probably would want to add a fudge factor of maybe +25% for overhead.

[@squirrelmasters]

@@BradCagle 1.2kwh is 100ah so i would need 12 100ah batteries to run for 12 hrs or 6 200ah

[@BradCagle]

@@squirrelmasters Pretty much, 12.8v 100ah = 1280wh. Keep in mind the voltage matters, for example a 24v 100ah battery = 2560wh. Now if you had 12x 100ah 12.8v batteries like you said, this would give you a total capacity of 15,360wh. You also might want to consider a higher voltage system. Wire size, and charge controllers get expensive with large 12v systems.

[@squirrelmasters]

@@BradCagle my rig uses about 1000w and i do know that about the charge controllers i am just doing research at the moment and basing power usuage for runnin kawpow with polaris cards for a good buffer

[@BradCagle]

@@squirrelmasters Right on. Sounds like a fun project!

[@PappaLitto]

You would gain a decent amount of wattage by cleaning the panels

[@MW-cs8zd]

What kinda gpus you running? They kinda look like EVGA GTX 1070 minis

[@BradCagle]

Basically yes, they are like 1070's. These are P104's mining specific cards. They were originally locked down to 4GB, but a bios floating around unlocks them to full 8GB. I picked them up dirt cheap, like $30 a piece. Thanks

[@stevedutcher3875]

Brad, would mine doing a video on building a mining rig for someone that knows absolutely nothing about it? I have a lot of extra solar generation that I’m not using, would like to know how much does it cost to build a rig?

[@BradCagle]

Pretty good idea. Let me see if I can come up with something. Thanks

[@4evermetalhead79]

I’d run my monero CPU miners all day long on this. Really have to get me solar game complete to get something going.

[@NerdThingsAndMore]

That's cool

[@BradCagle]

Thanks!

[@Drey-Hobbies]

This is what I wish I had and could afford during the crypto bull market ETH mining.

[@BradCagle]

Yes, that would have been great, ETH mining was so good. I would love to see GPU mining return to those levels. Thanks!

[@TaylorHaubrich]

Are you from TN? My cousins husband last name is Cagle.

[@BradCagle]

I'm from TX

[@jebadaiah1228]

how much you make off that small miner?

[@BradCagle]

At the moment it produces around $0.80 per day. That's if electricity costs are 0. Since it's on solar for about half the day, maybe it's producing $0.40 in actuality. Now that can change pretty rapidly, it could go up, or down dramatically. Thanks

[@4evermetalhead79]

@@BradCaglewhat coin are you mining now mate?

[@adriftatlas]

I wonder if you could find a more useful use of that rig. Like rendering cool AI stuff or something?

[@BradCagle]

@@4evermetalhead79 Dynex, and sometimes cortex

[@BradCagle]

@@adriftatlas Yes, you could run AI models on it. Interestingly the cryptos I mine right now are AI on blockchain, so compute jobs can be run on these blockchains, and it can use my GPU to power that job.

[@Crypto_Junkyard_Miner]

Bro just gave up the starter kit 👍🏿

[@ahmed_sim_gaming]

❤👍

[@YordansGamingNetwork]

Its an investment

[@classicriders8172]

Yes, good setup but GPU mining no longer profitable. Even with solar you will never make up the GPU and solar setup cost.

[@BradCagle]

Yeah this is more for people that already have a mining rig, and want to keep mining. Also if you ever considered buying a power station, and solar panels for emergency backup, well you could be putting it to use everyday instead of it collecting dust doing nothing waiting for a power outage.Thanks