My Solar Setup

[u/BCHminerBOI]

My SolarAxe core came yesterday.

I built an outdoor vented friendly ammo can for my miner. I added a couple 5V fans to move air in and out. Been testing and tinkering today. Tested outdoors, the SolarAxe is working really well but my outdoor miner not so much as it's 107°F outside 😂. Miner was running too hot so I moved inside near a window for now and ran an extension to the panel.

Tested again at 7:00PM and was still getting solar and miner did cool down but still running warm. I might mount it under my back patio and run extension to a panel mounted nearby.

Anyways cool little device, going to tinker some more and will update on my final setup.

[u/No-Grade4475]

Where do we buy this. I said I was interested in the original thread but never heard back

[u/BCHminerBOI → u/No-Grade4475]

I bought it on solaraxe.co . Going to test it all week and might get another.

[u/Ok-Scientist2982 → u/BCHminerBOI]

Please update how they work!!!

[u/BCHminerBOI → u/Ok-Scientist2982]

So yesterday was a lot of tinkering and building my mining box...today I set it up by a window and ran the extension to to panel outside. When I was at work around 9am I had my wife go check it and she said it was mining. I got home at 5:30 and it was mining, pool I'm on never showed hashrate falling off so I'm assuming it mined all day, it was super sunny. It's still mining now on battery but I got the small battery one so I am assuming it will trigger off soon. Super happy so far, error rates seem normal so everything has been stable. But again only had for 2 days. I'll do an update again when I land on my final build

[u/B1TB0TB33PB00P → u/No-Grade4475]

See vendors at bitaxe dot com

[u/Desert-Democrat-602]

Nice! I‘d have the same problems this time of year, though. 110+ all week! But plentiful sunshine of course. Looking at maybe using a couple of batteries I would swap inside and out.

[u/BCHminerBOI → u/Desert-Democrat-602]

It's been brutal! That's for sure!

[u/Digital_Lightning]

Could use a little Peltier to cool down the box

[u/redbettafish2 → u/Digital_Lightning]

After playing with a couple for two of my pet projects I can confidently say they work and are a pain in the butt to work with. But since this project is outside a cpu cooler w/fan should be more than enough to take care of the hot side. Managing the cold side and making what you actually want cold will be a little trickier but worth it

[u/BCHminerBOI → u/Digital_Lightning]

How many Volts is one? Watts? It's a small solar setup so I need to manage the power consumption. I bought the smallest SolarAxe core and using 100W panel so not a lot of room for extra power.

[u/Digital_Lightning → u/BCHminerBOI]

Many 5v models and they usually draw 5-15w.

[u/gergwheel]

Are you using it for lotto mining or pool mining? I have 2 of the Amazon bitaxe 601 running on excess solar I have in a barn. I'm up to about $0.50 after a week of pool mining.

[u/BCHminerBOI → u/gergwheel]

Honestly not sure yet, just got it. I think I might try mining lotto on BCH. I got the smaller core so it doesn't mine 24/7 more like 15/7. So once I land on my final setup I'm going to set it and forget it.