My Solar Power Plan For Mining Bitcoin at Home

[@MelB11111]

You’re going to accomplish your dream! You’re unstoppable. Go Vosk go!

[@redskin6146]

Thanks for sharing the data. Very magnanimous of you

[@ChristopherGeneva]

It’s crazy that a system like that can only power the house + 1 Rig 🤯

[@defi4everyone276]

Remember You will only have sun to power your Home/ devices 6 to 8 hours a day. Its all about battery storage after that

[@ThomasDiy]

The biggest issue with running mining rigs on solar power is dealing with DC power from the panels. When you use micro-inverters to convert DC power to AC power, there’s about a 40% efficiency loss. The solution is to use DC power supplies for your mining rigs. The problem is that DC power supplies are difficult to find on the market. While some have been manufactured in the past, they are not very common. What we need is for a manufacturer like EVGA to build a 1200-watt DC power supply. This would allow you to bypass the need for inverters entirely, providing direct DC power from the panels to the mining rigs.

[@austinjones9926]

A lot of server power supplies will take 240vdc instead of the normal 240vac

[@arguswil]

I work for a mining company that does the exact same thing. Gail Tech . We have 15 solar sites and will continue to build more.

[@dlmac]

9:10 Don't forget to add that 66k value if you bought Bitcoin instead. So, 66k in Bitcoin over 10 years is probably 300k+

[@Jarda_B]

"I am getting into Energy Production game" Voskcoin Powerplant lets gooooo 🚀🚀 I think you should DIY solar setup on the FARM if you are not planing to be grid tied.

[@deluxrobot3017]

If you really want the system to last without maintenance headaches, I recommend the Enphase IQ8 (IP6 rated with 25 year warranty) inverters and REC panels (a blend of the specs from two of your quotes). You do not want to be troubleshooting string inverters, and you definitely don't want low quality PV panels delaminating on you.

[@motivation.hour.9]

Try solar miner KZbin channel. This guy , based of India. Is essentially running his rigs of solar energy

[@snoflite5234]

Am at 75kw of ground mount solar. I have a full electric house, heat, everything, 2 ev cars, and I mine bitcoin with excess solar, and it heats my shop in the winter. I have over 350kwh of battery storage also. Big system, but I am fully off grid, no utility at all.

[@relaxingsoundsandmeditatio559]

I have 18 solar panels on the roof on my home. I'll get between 23 - 40 kilowat from them a day. Our house is using only 3 kllowat a day🎉. Tom, Perth Western Australia 🇦🇺.

[@troywhite6039]

so 20-37 kw is going to waste??

[@relaxingsoundsandmeditatio559]

@troywhite6039 Actually, no. We just sell the excess electricity back to the grid that we don't use.

[@DaveBoxBG]

Why do you want to use 430w pannels when there are 700w pannels now?

[@t.d.5804]

700W panels are much bigger and require different mounting hardware. A 700W module is 73,50€ today here in the EU, dirt cheap

[@DaveBoxBG]

@@t.d.5804 Slightly bigger. For my roof I would have needed more of the small ones and have less overall power with more money spent...

[@Hansen710]

the question is why dont he use bifacial panels and get the same as a 700w panel on the same surface as a 500W they are not more expensive per w. also when it comes to agrisolar, it is giving more options to give a crop light and to your rack take up as little space as posible vertical is also option that makes much more sense with bifacial for example

[@troywhite6039]

Geothermal is 24/7 power, not just 4-7 weather permitted power. 3-5 times the free energy over solar alone. No need to share any profits with the electric company at all. The excess heat from the minors can also be added in to the geothermal heat that powers the system too boot.

[@Ahomesteadersdream]

Ummm geothermal is not electricity…

[@sgtfluffy7466]

Why are you not doing the REC460 watt solar panels and iq8x solar inverters? Better bang for your buck and you can essentially deploy the same amount of panels and generate more wattage

[@Davorge]

if you had a solar setup from the start how much more money would you have saved / profited?

[@Cryptodude69]

Hey bro I bought crypto on bitget wallet but I don’t how to connect my wallet to an exchange with seed phrase look it’s like this one (image you tuition loan endless kit north item dice during home filter)

[@DwayneJohnson-o4w]

How much square footage would the panel system take?

[@alexnauta]

Sounds like it is time for a SourceFul miner coupled to your inverters! :-D

[@danielcurtis1454]

Dont forget WIND POWER and Hydo power. If yiu have a stream. Every 100w helps you make $$$

[@rudolphwest4887]

I was told by an OG miner that the typical solar panels were inefficient and yesterdays technology. He told me there were a specific type of solar panel that were not on the consumer market that would 10x the amount of energy and it had to do with the engineering and spectific elements used ti capture that sunlight and absorb that sunlight at a groundbreaking sensitivity where he can run his 5WM mining farm with smaller solar panels taking up less space and utilizing sone sort of energy storage technology that did not require a room full of standard solar batteries that could blow up city blocks if a fire were to happen. Does anyone know about this technology or the different types of grades of solosr panels and energy storage? I got his name and number but lost it.

[@danielcurtis1454]

TESLA!!! No better tech! Friend! Love the videos. So always go with TESLA!!!! THEY guarantee the lowest price and have the best warranty. I also recommend getting 2 power walls. We spent $30k. It was panels on the roof. I am in CA and our price per kw is .38 cents! Our bill was 580 a month. We did an 11kw system and 2 Powerball plus. Now I pay $0 in power. The batteries charge up by 12 noon daily. We go all night on the batteries with about 30% left over. I also make about $800 a year giving back the power with the VPP system. I plan on mining at the house. Using my extra power, also an Anker F2600 solar generator along with the 1000w of portable solar panels we have for camping. Dual purpose stuff. I love it! What day you?

[@mayeganfriends6678]

I would appreciate advice, sir. Is it advisable to start mining right now with 1 bitmain antminer? I'm in Nairobi. I'm one of your biggest sub

[@eddiediederich7244]

Legit question. What about the bitcoin difficulty? You cannot simply take $11 a day and multiply that by 365 days. And def cant multiply that by 10 years. The difficulty will increase and that miner will become less and less profitable. Then always have the most profitable miner plugged into the solar array? How are you paying for that 15K miner every other year when newer and better miners come to life. I dont get it.

[@antonionevesdasilva8032]

what about no solar power during the night?

[@chewydhewy2068]

can I buy a ks0 ultra from you?

[@g0019c]

With that solar system you just told us about how many more miners can you add before you reach capacity?? 😮

[@mfinite689]

I dunno man. Once you've mined enough coin to break even on the cost of panels and miners, isn't it time to spend money on newer more powerful miners so you can keep generating coin in the arms race that is coin mining? I don't see where running on older outdated hardware seems like a viable solution over 5, 10, 20 years. You're always going to be shelling out money on newer more powerful equipment so you're never breaking even on your mining efforts.

[@JohnGoodman-fq6sk]

Not to mention repairs, maintenance and upgrades to the solar system over the 25 year warranty period. If you want maximum solar collection efficiency, you will be replacing panels as they will eventually degrade.

[@danielcurtis1454]

Look into VPP systems. Virtual power plants. Yiu may be able to save money by purchasing power from someone's excess? Just like using someones computer power to mine for you? Hmmm...

[@mostylz7618]

Well, what about batteries? Could be difficult without them to run the miners 24h a day... They're expensive, but still worth the money.

[@t.d.5804]

Does not make sense to cycle the batteries that much, reduce the miners to best eff at night. Best option currenty is a HV hybrid inverter and a BEV battery (Tesla/BYD/Nissan). Can plug it in without modification with a $15 CAN Adapter. HV has less loss than LV (48V). 2 60-80kWh batteries per inverter are possible

[@MadlifeTrading]

Have you looked into Bifacial Panels? There also becomes an issue of dust mitigation. There is a product that is 100% eco friendly that makes Bifacial Panels insanely efficient as well as solves dust problems. Used by a few commercial scale solar farms. Let me know if you're interested

[@jakobfindlay4136]

Your average consumption is bang on North American average monthly electricity consumption

[@jakobfindlay4136]

Your forgetting to take losses into account with your setup afaik micro inverters are something like 70% efficient so you'll actually need alot more solar then you think, can minimize losses by staying DC but that will include additional costs of it's own

[@Hansen710]

he is converting to much from 12 to 220v if he wanted to store plenty on batteries to be off grid a large waste would take place if this system was calculated correct to keep up with his winter consumption but he thinks he produces and uses the same all trough the year more or less and the winter production not will be many times lower then the summer production if he had shades optimizers on 12v would do the same as micro inverters but we are talking ground mounts without shade

[@thoth111]

I ran the numbers on this 10 years ago - my math added up to ~$250k for a solar mining farm - at that time it seemed like a waste of my coins - now I wish I had done it ....

[@t.d.5804]

Panels are 7.5-9.5 $cents per Watt today here in the EU, so dirt cheap, best time to install solar is now

[@danielcurtis1454]

15MWH. Real world TESLA 11kw system with 2 powerwall 2+. Hope it helps. Cost $30k. On roof system im CA.

[@thebuckeyedan]

Don't try to run everything from solar. Just run one miner from solar. Install a battery just big enough to keep that one miner running at night, cloudy days and other adverse weather conditions. Fine tune that single miner on it's own so you never run out of energy by adding batteries and panels. Once you have that one miner running without pause on that system you will know. It's 100% scalable provided the weather cooperates. Use the heat from that single miner to warm the garage or something. It could be plumbed into the house duct work and supplement your furnace etc. It could also be liquid plumbed into your hot water heater to help maintain it's temperature. If you want to drop a solar farm into the lawn and expect it to run everything, your ROI will be stupid. Do one and scale. The bi-product is heat and bitcoins, so scale that too. Now you are talking a few thousand dollars instead of 10's of thousands of dollars. It won't matter much what the market is doing. The hardware will still have value and you can easily offset the cost of electricity overall by rerouting it and the heat into the house until all the components reach end of life.

[@Hansen710]

if you run the numbers on 24 hours battery it makes very little sense compared to 12 hours for example batteries will get cheaper then they are now to make the most roi you would need to not fight the weather and make a system that is working with it running 3 miners in the summer makes more sense then backing 1 up with batteries for 20k + a btc miner that runs 12 hours on solar still makes 2-4x of what he is making running them on the grid 24 hours now and in many countrys there is a limit on how many batteries you can install in your house for safety reasons you would need to add the cost of a building for the batteries (heated if cold winters) i would not place so many batteries in my house and place my family in it specially not when pulling large amounts of power from them you can get outside battery with heat like tesla for example but then we are talking more like 40 k and they also consume power on heat when vosk is calculating he is looking at how much he uses in a year he dont know he will produce something like 1/6 in the winter as he produces in the summer getting batteries to store in the winter with as system that does not produce what he thinks makes no sense he will still have much more to use in the summer and then he would need 6 times more batteries to store it in the summer better to just use it when it comes more or less he is making some rookie mistakes so his math makes little sense the system he is designing now will struggle to keep up with just the house in the winter. and when you add a miner it all falls through the floor he uses 24000kw/h in a year that is something like a 150kw system in the winter days if he wants to keep up with that

[@AlDumbrava]

50x430W = 21.5kW 21.5kW / 3.5kW = 6.14 (asics) $11 / 24h = $0.45/h 6 * $0.45/h * 8h (hours of sunlight) = $22/day 45000 / 22 = 2045 days = 5.6 years This doesn't include the cost of the asics (~21k) With asics we have 66k / 22 = 3000 days = 8.2 years

[@AlDumbrava]

Whats crazy is you only need about 10m x 10m area for 50 panels.

[@GrafvMC]

These isntalls are way too high. Company install should be around $1-$1.5 per watt and DIY below 50cents per watt

[@snoflite5234]

DIY is not under 50 cents. Panels them selves are $.25 to $.50 per watt, ground mount is the same in price, and we haven't even mentioned wire, inverters, ect.

[@walterkey7634]

I didn’t see or hear anything about federal tax credits. They should be at least 30%. In my area they are 50%. With those incentives it makes it harder to not go solar.

[@jagjohn2000]

You are not factoring all the incentives. As long as it’s not your primary residence, you can get the 50% USDA GRANT and a 30% tax credit. Also see if your installer can get 550+ watt modules like we install. Less panels, less hardware, less micros (if you use them but I wouldn’t at 300 feet). Makes a $66,000 system $13,800. Do your math on that price and see where you come out. Depending on where in VA, we might be able to beat that price.

[@sgtfluffy7466]

I'm in central PA. I have been actively working on doing a solar system on my home which I don't plan to stay in very long but was looking to do 40 of the REC 460 panels and 40 IQ8X inverters. With about 80 ft of trenching from my barn to my home where my electrical panel is. Before the 30% federal tax rebate was coming out to about $47K

[@cpti8736]

Solar is so outdated, the next thing is Micro Nuclear Reactor 😅

[@Texas_Radical]

the sun dont shine after dark. you need to look at batteries and that price. thats where your money is. for just a 5kw system to run a small cabin you need $10k in batteries. im not talking out my ass, i live it, offgrid. but the problem for that size system your going to have a metric shit ton in batteries alone. and youll need to use some of that heat for your battery room, they dont charge when they are below freezing.

[@VoskCoin]

I’m just going to grid tie my system

[@jaredtillman6247]

I think cost per kw hour would benefit you to build your own off grid system. I can build a 10kw system with a hybrid inverter and 14 kwh battery for under 10k. If you qualify for the tax credit it's under 7k. Send me a message. 80k is crazy

[@Sparkzzy]

could you not just take the 40k, or 66k or whatever the total ends up being and buy bitcoin? if the assumption is that its going to go up , that 0.5 BTC is going to have a much better return than the solar panels. my question would be when would the mining rig surpass 0.5 bitcoin (or 0.5 bitcoin minus whatever power you cost you save over the next 20-25 years (the useful life of the panels). Also keep in mind the price of solar goes down over time, and that trend will likely continue (excluding the next 5 years), why don't you wait a cycle or 2 and do it then. Buy the 0.4-0.5 bitcoin, wait for it to run up to 250-500k, then liquidate 0.1 bitcoin to to do the solar 5-9 years. You'd have a fuck ton of money, and be liberated from the utility companies.

[@VoskCoin]

This is a common response from orange pilled btc maxi but there’s a lot of benefits to me on this, power an electric car, not pay taxed money into res elec bill, tax write off on install, something to do with/ stay busy with. Just buying btc and doing nothing is too boring for me, it’s why I mine it

[@GoGreenSolar]

Bitcoin and solar make a perfect pair! We assist DIYers in sourcing solar kits and offer support for permits and utility interconnection. Many of our customers work with one of our trusted contractors, saving tens of thousands compared to traditional turn-key providers. We’d love to collaborate with you-and yes, we accept Bitcoin!

[@WattsMiner]

If you need help bro... im available 😅

[@saviannno]

Life is dynamic. You’ve failed to acknowledge the panels will burn out after 20 years (buy to replace current panels) and your machines’ efficiency has diminishing returns as hash-rate grows. This means in practice, you’ll need to increase your machines compute power (buy new machines) as well as add energy production (buy more panels) to power those newly innovated machines to stay relevant and profitable with the times. The big mining players will also convert over into total solar and you’ll lose your competitive advantage against them. Mining is a zero sum game unless you have large amounts of capital to take advantage of a wedge in the short term (

[@ChessSocialism]

If your energy is free, no one has a competitive advantage against you.

[@shredz4816]

The energy is not free, it’s pre paid, if it costs him $45k to produce 29MW each year for 25 years then his electric rate will be 6.2c, to lock in a price like that for 25 years when accounting for inflation and how power prices are bound to keep increasing isn’t too bad

[@DB-qz7se]

@@shredz4816 exactly, and thats what most people do not comprehend, or calculate, thus it is just not cost effective, not anymore. period!

[@shredz4816]

Here’s a funny story. Here in south aus, solar is cheap, it’s 1.3c usd per kw over 25 years. But it’s caused us to have the highest power prices in the world. The grid is so unstable between wind/solar holding 66% of our grid, they shut down the coal plants so we only have natural gas to use when we need power. The power companies want the ability to shut off solar as they want. At first I couldn’t understand the US solar pricing but now i understand it’s jacked up to keep the grid stable long term

[@JohnGoodman-fq6sk]

Exactly. Factor in having to buy replacement miners at least seven times in that 25 year warranty period. When you add up all costs to build out, maintain, repair, and replace solar equipment along with miner replacement, you have mealy shifted paying the energy company to paying the costs of infrastructure over 25 years. I found this out when doing a deep dive into home solar. Even with government tax rebates, monthly payments on the solar system essentially equaled my current monthly electric bill and by the end of 25 years, I would likely have to replace all the panels and inverters. Sure, electricity costs will very likely increase over time but I really couldn’t see a positive ROI on home solar. Also, in my area, the energy provider has the last word on how many panels you can hang on your roof even if your HOA allows it.

[@ToddDesiato]

It's a no-brainer. Every crank physics guy wants to to buy a free energy machine, and solar power is just that.

[@narithshan]

It’s not worth. Bitcoin mining is not profitable no more.