Thanks! Working on it, I have to do battery videos to get the most exposure from the TH-cam algorithm, this is why you see everyone doing the battery teardown, and reviews. Stay tuned, got lots of interesting things coming up!
I guess for 12v battery system, 12vdc to dc voltage stabilizer is not required right? unless you go 24v battery or higher. Thank you very much for sharing this valuable knowledge.
Right, and technically this kind of 12v battery is designed to be charged up to 14.6v, but I limit the charge to 13.8v It still fully charges, and is in a safer range for the 12v equipment.
EPEver Tracer7810BP, that's just what I had laying around, the Trancer AN series will work fine too. I have a video coming up with a much larger system.
@@punkdane I've had it at 13.6v with a gtx1060, and now a rtx2070 no problems. I also tried an antminer asic at that voltage, all good. Now of course YMMV
Hey buddy, I’ve got a small 48v setup wasting power going dc - ac - dc with the solar mining rig. I bought a 360 watt 48v - 12v dc to dc converter and a 300 watt pico board. So far I’m only able to power the mono and one rx 560 gpu off the pico board at 105 watts. I’d like to add my 1660 super onto the 12v 360w converter, but every time I hook it up I get a malfunction error in hive os. I can see the card, but it won’t mine. Any suggestions?
I have done it with a antminer D3 (just to test), and it does work fine. But there is a scalability problem if staying with a 12v system. Requires large gauge wiring, and a lot of high amperage charge controllers, etc.. I have a better solution where I use 48v batteries, charge controllers, etc.. Then I built a 48vdc to 12vdc converter that is 800w, and 96% efficient. It has 10 PCIe power connectors just like your typical antminer PSU. Can also parallel them for more power.
I tried the same method but used laptop with mstata to PCI-E riser. My GPU fan run at full speed and then once I start the laptop, the GPU fan gets slow and either don't show on hiveos or it shows malfunction on hiveos screen. Did u encounter something similar while doing this project?
Never had that problem. I would suspect your PCIe riser, or the msata slot. Sometimes those slots don't actually have PCIe on them. I've had boards that only pass SATA, or USB through on those slots. Have you tried booting to windows?
@@BradCagle Thanks for quick reply. Windows not yet tested. Right now I bought a pico power supply for a desktop mobo. Will power both a PCie cable and pico with 12v load output from solar charge controller. Will be using buck convertor to keep the voltage steady. How many volts will be ideal to run a single GPU? If this proof of concept work, will setup a mining rig
@@Shin2 "how many volts will be ideal", Or are you asking about Watts? Depends on the GPU, and what you're mining. I adjust the miner settings clocks/power level to be around 100w. At that I find 400-500w solar of panels per GPU, also if you're mining through the night you'll need 1.25kw of battery per gpu.
@@BradCagle Im asking volts. I dont want to directly connect my rig with battery as it outputs somewhere around 13.5 volts. Im using step down converter to 12volt constant. If providing above 13volts to the rig is fine or i should keep it around 12volts. On your video i saw it provides around 13.4 volts. Will gpu able to handle such high volt above 13?
I can't believe you don't have more subscribers. Really enjoying the channel 👍
Thanks! Working on it, I have to do battery videos to get the most exposure from the TH-cam algorithm, this is why you see everyone doing the battery teardown, and reviews. Stay tuned, got lots of interesting things coming up!
Thanks for the content Brad!
keep this up!
will do
Nice job man. Looking to do something similar so enjoy your vdos.
Keep up with these videos! Can't wait for part 3!
Yup, coming up is a larger system!
So Underrated Channel!!!
Aw shucks! Thanks :)
I guess for 12v battery system, 12vdc to dc voltage stabilizer is not required right? unless you go 24v battery or higher. Thank you very much for sharing this valuable knowledge.
Right, and technically this kind of 12v battery is designed to be charged up to 14.6v, but I limit the charge to 13.8v It still fully charges, and is in a safer range for the 12v equipment.
you have those karem abdul jabar glasses kickin
LMAO :)
Please use a bms, it is very important, if the cells drift away from each other and the fullest pack get over charged
Whats charge controller are tou using? Pretty interesting project, hoping to post more of these kind of video...
EPEver Tracer7810BP, that's just what I had laying around, the Trancer AN series will work fine too. I have a video coming up with a much larger system.
@@BradCagle can the gpu handle above 12volts from the battery? I want to try your method on powering mining rig via solar and direct from batt.
@@punkdane I've had it at 13.6v with a gtx1060, and now a rtx2070 no problems. I also tried an antminer asic at that voltage, all good. Now of course YMMV
Hey buddy, I’ve got a small 48v setup wasting power going dc - ac - dc with the solar mining rig. I bought a 360 watt 48v - 12v dc to dc converter and a 300 watt pico board. So far I’m only able to power the mono and one rx 560 gpu off the pico board at 105 watts. I’d like to add my 1660 super onto the 12v 360w converter, but every time I hook it up I get a malfunction error in hive os. I can see the card, but it won’t mine. Any suggestions?
Do you think this process of eliminating the inverter could scale with asics?
I have done it with a antminer D3 (just to test), and it does work fine. But there is a scalability problem if staying with a 12v system. Requires large gauge wiring, and a lot of high amperage charge controllers, etc.. I have a better solution where I use 48v batteries, charge controllers, etc.. Then I built a 48vdc to 12vdc converter that is 800w, and 96% efficient. It has 10 PCIe power connectors just like your typical antminer PSU. Can also parallel them for more power.
@@BradCagle Interesting, let's see that on another video
@@HiddenAmericans I show my 48 to 12v mining PSU in this video th-cam.com/video/4pfi5F0j5aA/w-d-xo.html
I tried the same method but used laptop with mstata to PCI-E riser. My GPU fan run at full speed and then once I start the laptop, the GPU fan gets slow and either don't show on hiveos or it shows malfunction on hiveos screen. Did u encounter something similar while doing this project?
Never had that problem. I would suspect your PCIe riser, or the msata slot. Sometimes those slots don't actually have PCIe on them. I've had boards that only pass SATA, or USB through on those slots. Have you tried booting to windows?
@@BradCagle Thanks for quick reply. Windows not yet tested. Right now I bought a pico power supply for a desktop mobo. Will power both a PCie cable and pico with 12v load output from solar charge controller. Will be using buck convertor to keep the voltage steady. How many volts will be ideal to run a single GPU? If this proof of concept work, will setup a mining rig
@@Shin2 "how many volts will be ideal", Or are you asking about Watts? Depends on the GPU, and what you're mining. I adjust the miner settings clocks/power level to be around 100w. At that I find 400-500w solar of panels per GPU, also if you're mining through the night you'll need 1.25kw of battery per gpu.
@@BradCagle Im asking volts. I dont want to directly connect my rig with battery as it outputs somewhere around 13.5 volts. Im using step down converter to 12volt constant. If providing above 13volts to the rig is fine or i should keep it around 12volts. On your video i saw it provides around 13.4 volts. Will gpu able to handle such high volt above 13?
@@Shin2 I run mine at max 13.6v. I just set my charge controller to max at that voltage. I've had no problems, YMMV.
How much in crypto do you mine off solar in a month?