New Section - What to do with extra solar energy

[CMDRZOD]

I would like to post about some equipment a friend and I are developing. We have a raspberry pi controlling bitcoin miners. It alters their frequency, and by proxy watt input by monitoring battery voltage. This way we can balance extra solar energy to batteries and burn the rest up using bitcoin miners, and make a few bucks while doing it.

My question is, where should I post this in the forum? Maybe we should have a section titled: "What to do with extra solar energy" or something similar. Thoughts?

 

[WorldwideDave]

Good question. Post link here once you figure that out. Interested in your project.

 

[Crowz]

I would like to post about some equipment a friend and I are developing. We have a raspberry pi controlling bitcoin miners. It alters their frequency, and by proxy watt input by monitoring battery voltage. This way we can balance extra solar energy to batteries and burn the rest up using bitcoin miners, and make a few bucks while doing it.

My question is, where should I post this in the forum? Maybe we should have a section titled: "What to do with extra solar energy" or something similar. Thoughts?

I imagine a good bit of the ones on here doing bitcoin do this already. I know I have been doing that for years now.

I use home assistant to control my miners. Simple python scripts for frequency changes and zigbee switches for on/off.

 

[WorldwideDave]

I use home assistant to control my miners. Simple python scripts for frequency changes and zigbee switches for on/off.

The level of geek in that sentence alone would give most people pause.

 

[Crowz]

Its actually pretty simple. I'm almost done building the 2nd home assistant setup for my other house and when I get done I'm going to do a howto that covers from start to finish setting up a basic home setup with detailed addon sections covering making it more elaborate.