VoskCoin Solar Mining Farm Build Masterplan

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My dream is to activate a real-life money cheat code with paid-off solar panels and paid-off Bitcoin and other crypto mining rigs – VoskCoins Solar Mining Farm Build-out Masterplan…

VoskCoin Solar Mining Farm

I have been dreaming of this for many years, but due to life and other choices, it has taken me longer to arrive at my destination. However, it’s time to get serious about solar, so I am going to illustrate my masterplan here in this thread and compile a mass amount of research, data, and, best of all, input from our incredible VoskCoin subscriber community!

Hey, I am Drew Vosk, and I operate the VoskCoin YouTube channel and VoskCoin mining farm.

Solar-powered mining farm plan

I’ll lay out my plan more concisely here as it forms.

VoskCoin residential solar system

Most people know me as VoskCoin the miner, but I am also just a Doge Dad, and I want to power my home with solar, which I still work out of, and to have some battery backup options during power outages. My goal with the residential solar system install is to, learn as much as I can, do it right the first time, hire someone or a company to do it so I can focus on the rest of my business as well as plan the more serious commercial solar install which I plan to be much more involved with, and to just get energized sooner than later.
Here are my residential solar systems and quotes 2024 pricing

Community feedback and notes

Several people (Especially you Augustine!) recommended the Ford Lightning as an alternative to Tesla Powerwalls and other battery backup solutions, Tesla is lagging on using their vehicles as whole-home battery backups probably because they sell other solutions… But a Ford Lightning is comparable to 10x Tesla Powerwall 3s and you can drive them lol. I have a pretty stable grid at home all things considered, but we do have several power outages a year and I would like to be functional during those times from a residential point of view.

I need to scrap together all of the incredible info and quotes Todd has sent me, but it’s been very helpful.

Enphase microinverters have a sunlight backup option that none of the potential installers explained to me, wasn’t obvious in my initial research, and a surprisingly powerful feature that seems underpromoted – thank you CroweGaming for leaving this comment on this VoskCoin solar video

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This thread is a work in progress, many updates to come!

[Rick_Layton]

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Hi Drew,

I actually joined this forum because of the solar and mining combination. I have a system that was designed to run my office, charge an EV or PHEV daily and supply power for a section of my house. I built the solar system myself as part of the business I sold specifically handled high voltage repair on both EV and PHEV vehicles. I am a newbie to mining and have extra electricity as I sold the business. My system produces around 40 kw hours a day ans has LIFEPO4 batteries providing a 32 kw hour storage. This system was built and installed for under $11,000 which is a huge savings over what you have been priced.

I run string inverters in what is known as a grid assisted solar system which is one of 3 different basic types of solar systems. If you haven’t seen the videos on YouTube by Will Prowse, I would recommend taking the time to watch at least the basic videos to get started.
I chose the grid assist type of system as I could do it a little at time and start seeing immediate bill reduction which I used to help pay for the system. This system generates around 1.25 megawatts a month saving me roughly $250 per month. My electricity usage was easily exceeding 3.5 megawatt hours a month during August in the 100 degree plus days.

I chose to go grid assist as I am outside of any jurisdiction requiring inspections and a net metering arrangement here had several requirements including engineering drawings, a monthly meter fee and last but not least an insurance policy against grid damage for a guarter of a million dollars. I also found that the electricity rate I sell to the grid at was different than the rate I paid and when all the accounting was done meant for every 4 kw hours I sold them would buy only 1 kwh delivered to me.

I would be happy to answer some questions to help you decide how to proceed as i have lots of minig guestions I need answers to being a newbie. Given your race cars I see in the videos, I am very sure that you have the skill set to install a system and save yourself a bunch of money.

My first question to you would be what type of permitting is required for a solar system in your area?

[eat5hams]

Hi! First time poster here as well. I originally found your channel because I was interested in doing some solar combined with Bitcoin mining.

I farm up in Alberta, Canada and we recently just installed enough solar to offset all of our annual electrical usage under a net zero micro generating agreement. So I just put in 450KwAC (616kWDC) of solar this summer. It’s split across 4 sites and I’ve got 2 of them commissioned and am just about to flip the last 2 on. It’s been a fun journey.

I was lucky to find a great supplier who makes a rack that can be adjusted 4 times a year (or 2 of I’m lazy) fairly easily. That easy it is at an ideal angle most of the time. I’m far enough north that this should make a fairly significant bump I’m production. Maybe up to 18% more compared to a fixed angle installation, but time will tell. I’m going to leave one inverters with of panels fixed to compare.

So I’m using all big string inverters and they sure make the wiring very simple. We installed the screw piles, assembled the racks, and hung the glass and pulled all the DC wires ourselves. I hired an electrician for the AC connections as well as the testing and final crimping and plugging of the DC wires. Each of my racks puts out a lot of volts and watts with 16 panels on each rack all connected in series. 600ish volts was a little scary to consider so I let them do the final connections.

Having said that, everything is very simply and I highly recommend doing as much as you can yourself!

I’m loving solar so much that I want to build more. But I can’t at the moment because I’ve built as much as I can under net zero (I can’t generate more than my average consumption)…

Soooo… I’ve got this crazy idea to build a mining farm so I have more consumption, so I can build more solar… Free electricity seems to make mining make, and that’s probably reason enough, but in order to make the economics make sense I’ve got a few more things that are interesting:

1. I’m considering running miners only when hourly power rate is below whatever threshold I determine. I would run them at night basically when power is cheap, and then shut them off and sell solar energy to the grid in the day when power is expensive.

2. We actually have a interesting thing up here called solar club where big corporations are willing to pay insanely high electricity rates for energy that was generated by renewables. So basically under this system I can sell power at $0.30 a kilowatt hour. Just make solar extremely profitable and it’s only going to be around for the next 3 years for sure and then it may go away after that. This makes the whole project profitable even if I didn’t make any money off Bitcoin. I just need to use it as a load to generate usage so that I can generate the same amount of power and pump it back into the grid.

Sorry that was really long-winded. I don’t know if you offer any kind of consulting, but I would be very interested in chatting with you about this project. I haven’t yet decided how big I’m going to go but I’ll start out with at least a 150 kW AC site or 2…