Good morning, #nostriches!

For those that are newer follows of mine, you might not know that I live in an RV trailer and that I built my own solar power system for the trailer. (It's functional, but not "finished.") With the cooler weather in my part of the world, I've started up using my S9 to generate heat and hash in place of using my electric fireplace. Surprisingly, the S9 seems to heat up the trailer better than the electric fireplace at a lower wattage. This is super useful!

In order to run the miner, I've got it powered through the solar power system. My system is not fancy. I built it on a budget and I really need another, larger battery pack in addition to the 5 kWh pack that I've got currently. However, it works very well, and last night I finally configured the system to work exactly as I want it to, in that the system will run off the battery until it reaches the low-voltage setpoint (49V on the nominal "48V" 16S battery pack) and then it uses utility power to start charging the battery and run the loads on the system. (I can also configure it to start remote-start capable generator if I had one, and eventually, I will.) Then, as sun comes up and hits the panels, that power is used to charge the batteries and the loads. It took some fiddling with the settings to get it to work as I wish, but now it works and I'm super stoked!

I love talking about building off-grid systems, so if you've got questions, let me know! 😁

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