Solar electric is a huge win for profitable crypto mining!

[@thmanj]

Looks great but these are definitely not bifacial panels

[@thegreenpickel]

Man, $0.15/kWh, I wish I had that here in California. Here off peak is $0.38/kWh from 12AM-3PM, peak at $0.60/kWh from 4PM-9PM, 3-4PM & 9PM to midnight is $0.44/kWh. After watching the video, nice setup. I'd recommend adding a solar surge protector since that nice array is a lightning rod out in the open field. These are designed for DC and will clamp around 115,000 amps instantly.

[@nfoguides]

I lived in Cali when i was in the Navy years ago. So glad i didn't have to pay electric then... and now! Even at 15cent per kWh my electric bill was running an average of $350 a month. and i have replaced everything i could in the house to get better efficiency. All windows, All Doors, New heating and AC, new hot water heater, new pressure tanks, new washer and dryer. Nothing was lowing the bill. But my Solar array has! Thanks for the recommendation, being that i did this as a first time DIY project, there is so much i didn't and don't know :) I did make sure that the panel combiner box has a proper copper grounding rod... I will look into your recommendation! thanks

[@OFFGRID_Trucker]

Those aren't bi-facials. The decal doesn't say it and you need to know what you have. You can see through them, blurry though. 52x390 (NOT 335's) is 20, 280Kw; realistically you will get about 75% of that often. So.. what gauge wire is the PV going to the house. I do some nicehash CPU\GPU mining and 3 mini box miners almost 24\7. But putting them all on Solar is my goal. I am offgrid\unplugged but do have 30a shore power. Only use it for my 9k mini split and 2 mini doges. They make good heaters too.

[@nfoguides]

I dont remember the guage, but i know its oversized. because the guage i needed wasnt in stock and i needed it on that day. so i went up a size. its aluminum wire. each one about the thickness of my pinky. and a separate copper ground wire thats not as thick. i will have to see if i can figure out the exact guage for you.

[@OFFGRID_Trucker]

@@nfoguides always use copper stranded when possible. Don't do it for me.

[@nfoguides]

I appreciate that. i waited to the last minute before i had a contractor coming out to tie in the electrical. So when i went to get wire.... i dint have all the choices. but i agree 100% for any future stuff i put in!

[@tjmooney4181]

Bifacial panels look the same on front and back to allow gains from the rear

[@nfoguides]

Thank you for the correction. i was confusiong that term with the aspect that each panel had 2 halves. so if the part of the panel was covered, the other half could still work.

[@basspig]

With micro inverters how do you store the electricity when the sun is not shining or do you only do crypto mining when it's sunny out?

[@nfoguides]

@@basspig battery storage is still to pricey for me. So I am just sending my electric to the grid which the electric company gives me credit (negative $ balance on my bill). I overproduce what I need during sunlight hours. So at night I pull electric from the grid. Now I average all of this over 365 days. And find without crypto mining my house uses a average of 65kwh a day. My electric bill for the past year and 7 months has been $0 when averaged across all the days actiallu I still end up negative balance. So it's the negative balance that I alit myself to crypto mine with. If I go past that allotment and cause a above $0 electric bill. My mining efforts have to pay the bill. Or my wife will beat me up

[@basspig]

@@nfoguides I spent $25K on my system and I have 42kWh of LFP battery capacity and am totally off the grid. If you can afford that fancy ground mount, you probably can afford to add some battery capacity. Though it may not be practical with micro inverters.

[@nfoguides]

I am not ruling out batteries. But when i bought the system i have i was lucky and we paid cash for everything. We didn't want a loan to have to pay off. So we just opted to forego the batteries for now. How many panels is your system.

[@basspig]

@@nfoguides Batteries have come way down in price. I originally paid $11K for 43kWh of LFP with 3 BMS units and cabinet. Now I can get 15kWh in a DiY box for $1800, shipped. It's much more affordable now.

[@fullyelectric]

Definitely NOT bifacial panels, hope you did not pay for that type of panel, also for string inverters you can always run many of them in parallel so no need to worry about replacing the inverter if you add more panels than it can support, anyways very nice setup, even tho micro inverter setup is more expensive.

[@ModernMiningHub]

Wow this is an insane setup man!! Looks so massive from a distance!

[@nfoguides]

And it is! When we ordered the kit we were clueless how big it actually would be. It's 82feet long by about 10 foot between front and back post rows. Back side top of panels is about 12 feet high . And I have enough land here to put in 2 more rows if I was a complete nerd

[@eddluireg]

great video

[@diesel8466]

Thats a nice setup, i have a 10kw setup that i unfortunately had an installer do, and it was expensive. Wish i had alot more information before i had mine done. I can attest to cloudy days in Michigan, i live near lansing and we do get some sunny days but also alot of rain and clouds. Looking forward to you finishing the all computer room, im thinking of getting a shed setup in the next couple years and always looking for ideas.

[@nfoguides]

Dont know what you paid. but we were getting quotes of around 40K+ for 10k systems. where i got double the system for same costs. just needed to do some sweat equity! I cant wait to finish my all thing computers Man Cave! Good luck on a Man Shed!

[@birdzbeeztreez4248]

This is so cooL!!!We miss you streaming Splinterlands!!!

[@nfoguides]

yeah i miss the Splinderlands community as well

[@user-ei3ml8jo1s]

So let’s do some math. $174 check from power company at $0.11 per kWh means you net exported 1,582 kWh of power for the whole year. Divide 1,582 by 365 days gives an average daily export of 4.33 kWh. Not sure you thought this through with respect to ROI. You state that you consume 65.33 kWh per day which is huge energy consumption for a single family home. Any cloudy days and you are going to be sucking in huge power from the grid. DIY = expensive education in this case. Sorry dude.

[@nfoguides]

My electric bill was a average of $350-$400 a month. with this solar array and 1 new all electric vehicle, my average electric bill has been -$80. meaning i have had NO electric bill now in 1 year and 7 months. the system cost 44k but i got 13k back in taxes. so this system cost me $31k, with a average electric bill of $350, i will save $31k in 7.4 years. So i have the system for a Full ROI in less then 8 years. In michigan. I was lucky and paid cash for the system so i have no loan on it. So in my math.... i like the ROI... if i had to pay a vendor to install this. the price surely would have doubled.

[@user-ei3ml8jo1s]

@@nfoguides what is your yearly production ratio (kWh/kW) for the solar array? ~1,500?

[@nfoguides]

80 panels ay 390 w, i think the system in total was a 21kw

[@nfoguides]

in 2023 it produced : 23,829,204 watts

[@user-ei3ml8jo1s]

@@nfoguides 80*390=31.2kW

[@probuildjohnsonify]

Throw those micro inverters in the trash

[@nfoguides]

I am a solar first time DIY person. Why would you say to throw them in the trash? I personally liked the idea of each panel doing its own thing so i didnt have to worry about buying 1 very large inverter and having that inverter eventually die on me.

[@probuildjohnsonify]

@nfoguides I've heard they are problematic. But what do I know? My solar system doesn't even have an inverter. You'll find that most of the stuff in your home actually using dc current anyways, except for large appliances. I don't use a inverter for my miner, nor a traditional psu

[@user-ei3ml8jo1s]

@@nfoguides microinverters are a waste of money on ground mounts. No shading to worry about. AC coupling the solar makes ESS less efficient should you ever add batteries.

[@nfoguides]

Thanks for your insight!

[@anonymous-dd3gr]

Micro inverter safe more than string inverter