Anyone using solar panels for mining?

I'm looking into how a mining rig could operate on solar power. If anyone here has experience with a solar-powered mining setup, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm thinking about getting some solar panels so I can mine without the electricity cost.

Mining requires 24/7 power availability to be profitable. Just solar panels don't provide that. You need either energy storage to accompany that or take from grid at times your panels don't supply power. Building electricity storage solution at present is very costly and will not be profitable for you. Relying on grid and using 100% supplied by panels when they produce is your best option right now.

Thank you for your advise and I know that these will I face but want to know that if anyone have tried it with their mining rigs or not. I first want to know from the experience of other that how is it running in the time when it is sunlight and the solar panels are working. I want to know that how much is it possible.

Actually, he already answers what you need if you talking about how long the miner will run with solar panels it depends on your solar panel how much can produced and battery if how much can store. If you want a diagram and how to calculate a mining setup with solar I suggest you check this PDF file below - https://www.sit.ac.nz/Portals/0/upload/documents/sitjar/2021/SITJAR_-_Naveed_3.pdf Take note this is an off-grid setup Also check this thread to get some idea for on-grid setup https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5337081.0

Thanks for sharing the links it helped me. I was meant to meet a person who have personal real life experience it make us more confident as there is always a difference in the theory and practical work in any field.

We know that for Bitcoin mining need uninterrupted electricity. Otherwise Bitcoin mining not possible. It consumes a lot of electricity. So now many people Looking for alternatives. So now solar panels could be alternative i think. But it also need high voltage power. I think in future solar panel will be more popular for Bitcoin mining.

We know that the solar panel is recharged when there is intense sunlight, what if for example the rainy season comes and there is not much sunlight, can its recharging be carried out even if there is not much sunlight that happens to the solar panel. Maybe the solar panel is okay to use for Bitcoin mining if you are in the UAE, but if you are in other countries it seems that it will not be an effective way to make your Bitcoin mining profitable. Because we know it needs to be running 24/7.

That’s entirely correct. To answer @OP yes there are many players in the mining industry who are running their miners on the solar panels. The success and failure is different story since that depends on region in which they have the set up. As stated in the above quote a reference country such as UAE might have higher side of sunlight considering they are geographically positioned at correct sun sight. For example, if someone from Germany think about this project then they would take twice the timeline of ROI as compared to a desserted place where sunshine is intense and also available most of the time. Solar panels can provide stable electricity since they store it beforehand and thus power supply unit can smaintoan steady supply. The only problem is “how long it will last”. It’s not about whether you can do it or not, but it’s about Return on Investment that you need to decide. It will take more and more time if you reside in a region like Germany or UK and it will be lot less in region like let us say  Norway where you can get sunlight for as long as 76 days straight.

It is possible to generate electricity by harnessing the sun's light and run Bitcoin mining with that electricity, but it is not that easy to generate electricity by installing solar panels as easily as we plan to install solar panels. According to those who do Bitcoin mining, in case of high voltage electricity required for Bitcoin mining, solar panels should be installed in a place where maximum electricity production is possible. Before constructing the solar panel you must observe the place where you want to install the solar panel. By observing the number of hours of sunlight in a day, how intense the sun is, how likely it is to rain in the area, if you think that your location is the best place to install solar panels, you can take such a plan. People who have mined Bitcoin with solar power will probably give you such a suggestion.

Having solar energy as a back-up option for the cheap electricity? Yes, but running only on solar energy? Probably too costly and unsustainable. Think about the number of solar panels and batteries one has to buy for the farm to run day and night or during bad weather without interruptions or without the batteries getting completely drained, not forgetting the periodic maintenance and replacement costs. To hell with the "environmental impact"

I have 280+115+45 = 440kwatts of solar They produce about 2.2 megawatts a day. 2200kwatts A s19 uses 80 kwatts so 2200/80 = 27 s19's can be run 24/7/365 No batteries No batteries No batteries We are all grid tied. The commercial grid acts like our battery. So if we burn 80 kwatts an hour when sun is up and we produce 440 kwatts with solar. We back feed 440-80= 360 kwatts to the grid once it is dark we get those kwatts back. No mining with solar will work as none grid style ie batteries suck they break too fast and cost too much. I only knew one solar guy all battery mining and he has access to endless recycled golf cart batteries at about 10% of normal cost. So to repeat  grid tied may work batteries will not work that is the general rule of thumb for solar mining.

Solar mining only make sense if you are going to use both grid and the sun, you start mining in the morning once the sun is up and in the night you turn to grid, this will make your spending on electricity become lower, this is the solution I recommend for some guys in other part of the cities in my country that claimed that the electricity bill is too high for them. What I hated the most about using solar panel to run miners is the backup, batteries become weaker as you enjoy the journey, but alas this won't last very long, even if you have the best brand of batteries I give you the few months, 6- 8 months max, the batteries won't be strong anymore, it's like their life span will be short.. The only way to go about this is use sun only to mine and use grid to complete the 24hours cycle.

I have that. Not sure about cost of electricity in your country but I have 25 machines and 1 machine brings approximately 6$ per day net

solar mining is good with saving cost in the end. for first cost maybe in my country around $1600 usd/kWP for first time installation after that you no need bigger cost. The solution mining cost bigger only cause electricity. so far yeah you better using solar base mining system where it's cost per month later is cheap. better you look up to store valid for solar panel. Like trusted company. cause i have got the broken solar panel in online store shop. so better be carefull before you buy.

Mining with solar can only be considered in countries with abundant sunlight like Africa. This doesn't mean that you can mine only with Solar energy because it will only serve you in the daytime bit at night it will be impossible. Mining is 24hrs,so the best way to use solar is to use it with grid but only solar wouldn't work. Mining with Solar is very expensive because the batteries don't last due to the power these mining equipment consumes.

The solar power needed for mining bitcoins depends on a few things, like how big the mining setup is, how good the mining tools are, and how sunny the place is. But here is something for you, just one machine for mining bitcoins might use anywhere from 500 watts to 1.5 kilowatts of power.

1st thing to make clear: Other than USB stickminers or small pods like those from Sidehack, BTC miners draw a LOT of power - not just "500w to 1.5kw". For the past few years bump that high end to an average of around 3.2kw with some of the largest (over 200THs) pulling over 5kw. About batteries: This is an excellent guide to the different types and how to take proper care of them: https://deepcyclebatterystore.com/how-to-maintain-batteries/  Key take away from that guide is that you MUST charge them properly and you should NEVER discharge the storage batteries below 50% of their capacity on a regular basis...

you should delete this as it is not very accurate.

As for how much power a good BTC basic needs at least 1800 watts for a 2 board s19 pro will do about 63th. a three board s19 pro 110 th can do 2500 watts and about 98th So lets say you have the s19 pro and under clock. 2.5 x 24 = 60 kwatts. a day you need 35x400 watt panels grid tied. they will do 14000 watts for an average of 5 hours. 70000 watts or 70kwatts.   you use just under 3 for 5-6 hours back feed 11 to the grid for those 5 hours giving you 55kwatts for night time. the grid swaps it back and forth for you. so a home with  35 panels you need to spend around 28k to install it. It will allow for 1 s19 for free till it breaks. then replace it with an s-21 run it for free til it breaks. the setup is battery free. battery free is the key grid tied is the key. or get batteries at a 75% discount from a source I do not have.

There is an excellent video on this from this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9AlFJX6mOs&t=310s , that walks through solar set ups and how to optimize them and his experience with them. I thought it was very interesting. If you want meaningful mining then that might be a good place to start. I know this post is really old but just for people who might seeing this when I am writing this there are some fun opensource projects that use tiny single chip asic miners that are meant for things like solar mining such as the Bitaxe Project.