Yesterday we had the first major outage of electricity at my sisters place (local outage, couple hundred households were affected). Coincidentally we already ordered 30KWh emergency backup batteries for our locations, not yet installed. We expect a lot more outages in the future. With 30KWh we can run quite a while, but when will we have them full? We are planning to deplete them with mining… a minimum level for emergencies is required I would expect… if we look at our consumption we can push it under 2kwh per day easily and we have sufficient solar even for winter to generate a couple kWh per day. So a depletion below 5kwh is maybe not wise… curious what Nostr thinks about this…
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The numbers make sense.
Only mine when solr production exceeds your usage. This avoids dipping into your reserves.
Use automatin to stop mining if the battery drops near 5kWh, keeping your emergency buffer intact.
Winter solar can be unpredictable especially there. You can always a scale back mining or run it only during peak sunlight to stay balanced obv.
If there is enough similar solar setups next to you, you could create your own grid so you can mine more and supply each other.
Not sure where you are located but where I'm solar and battery's will be automatically switch off when there is a power outage on the main grid. So in my case solar and battery is not a backup during a power outage.
We’ve contracted a special switch where this German brand battery and direct dc solar transformer can be used as a backup. The additional switch that’s built I quite an extensive installation but we get this emergency power feature… looking forward to it!