Solar To Crypto
What is solar to crypto?
hi all so i present to you solar to crypto company no.10883054
this has been 4 years in the making from when i started mining the ever increasing costs of electric and bouncing volatility of markets makes mining very hit and miss
so i have been able to develop a working solar miner and have been testing for the last few months (that only occupies a small space of my window sill)
ive also had very successful tests regarding graphics cards and mining the cryptonote algo at miner-gate
why am i here
i currently am awaiting a meeting with the Essex innovation centre to apply for funding
i am limited to how long i can run the gpus graphics cards due to my current solar set up im looking for funding to grow these systems and prove 24hrs solar mining
i can prove 24/7 mining with my current set up and thinking a time laps video would best prove my claims im making
im currently growing a team of people and hopefully investors for this project as this really could be the future of mining
we have slack and Facebook and are accepting invites from people curious about the project
https://www.facebook.com/solarto.crypto.5
https://join.slack.com/t/solartocrypto/shared_invite/MjE4OTk4ODMzNzEyLTE1MDE0NDA1NjAtZDg0MWY5YjY1ZA
https://www.gofundme.com/solartocrypto-limited thank you to my first donation of 100 gbp please contact solar to crypto and will sort out your voucher
i have just turned my focus on to my public stage of this project as people have given me the confidence to push forward with my idea aim for the success it deserves
below is the essex innovation video i have submitted here (http://essex1630.co.uk/) but im not overly happy with the video so will be making a better one
for more info please contact me at facebook
please note the gmail site is temporary till i can move over to a paid hosting many thanks for viewing this
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SOLAR POWER ?
why have i chosen solar power? well we can always rely on the sun to come up and go down at night
advances in solar tech have made cells cheaper and a lot more efficient to what they were a few years ago
apart from manufacturing there is no damage to the environment generating energy from these solar cells
one problem i have found was solar panels are still quite expensive so i deiced to run a small experiment on making a 25w solar panel
the cells i brought from eBay for around 15gbp with shipping
and i also wanted to test something called bare conductive (https://www.bareconductive.com/) I'm not very good with soldering and this offered me an alternative to test
(a little about bare conductive this is coped from there website above)
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so making a solar panel i found some really good guides online before trying this and i fully suggest you do your homework as it seems easy but connecting the cells can be confusing
Please note this is a very low budget expreiment as wasnt done with flux cable ect
i wanted to see if i could make a solar panel and wanted to see how cheap it was possible for so it is not the best and wont be winning an award any time soon haha
i was nearly finished so i took the panel out side to get some test results and to be honest the cells i had brought were quite disappointing the didn't produce nearly half what it said they would and the voltage varied greatly between the cells with the 8 cells i broke i should of got around 21V from the cell i was getting around 14v
but this could have been my wiring or the fact i hadn't used flux cable i did mention this was a cheap experiment
the solar cells arrived intact these are beyond the word fragile i broke about 8 making my first panel so be very very careful
so i started using the bare conductive applying spots on the back of the panel cells applying a wire and waiting for it to dry dry time was impressive at about 3-5 minutes before it had set enough to move the cell
threw research into solar i found i had to connect the panels in reverse to all my knowledge of wiring its + to + and - to - but for the cell i had to connect them + to - to increase the total voltage the panel would make remember i said fragile the chip on the cell was caused flipping it over so make sure your extra careful as i mentioned above
the was panel starting to take shape the board i designed before hand but i made my cables a tad too long so it didn't fit
the near end result
well apart from the disappointing voltage i really enjoyed doing this project
i need to add a blocking diode to this now to stop charge going back to the battery
and make a case for the panel to sit in
but if i do say so my self for a first solar panel making project i am more then happy with how it looks the research before hand was greatly necessary and with out it this project would have failed being if i hadn't gone + to - in the wiring of the cells the voltage would have stayed the same wiring like this makes the voltage increase working towards the target mark of 25V
many thanks for reading this part of the project
Another project the miner desk
so ive been a crypto miner now for the last four years and one thing i have found ive ended up doing is hoarding spare parts and having boxes in storage etc
so i wanted to make better use of some of the space i had available to my self and one of them was a desk with a divide so i decided to add a few little upgrades to make the desk unique and something special for my self
with a set of pound-land battery lights and a resistor i was able to convert them over to USB power so at night my desk gets a funky blue glow
A bit more glue to hold the power button and reset and this project was finished
please note this is not a coca-cola advertisement i just drink way too much of it when getting creative
so i love my music so speakers where important to the desk i salvaged 2 pc speakers from an age forgotten and glued them in place (hence the dvd drives holding them up in this pic)
the power unit is for a diffrent project but i will explain later
so this is my main PC the case had seen better days from moving so i deiced to remove the case total and keep the base to hold the motherboard and other components
(getting the PC to hold took some effort and a lot of glue i ended up removing the motherboard from the back plate and attached it separately making it greatly more difficult to reattach the motherboard i must admit but it held perfectly)
as i mentioned in a previous picture about the second power unit i set up a line of grid-seed blades under the desk to be powered by a 800w power unit with solar cooling
the speakers were wired onto an aux cable and plugged into the PC this was ok but the volume was not great so will be swapping out for something better
