Someone informed me that cycling the miners can be more harmful than letting the run 24/7. But it would take a ton of solar and battery for me to do that.
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Yes the cost of batteries would make 24/7 solar completely uneconomic but IMO the way you have done it makes perfect sense - it will be interesting to see how much if at all the repeated heating and cooling of circuits shortens the miners lifespan. Surely having them working some of the time is far better than not at all, and using 100% solar means zero cost input. I also see you run your miners at lower than maximum allowed speeds so that may compensate for the switching off and on as surely thermal damage is greater near the limits of hashrate capacity.
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I hope so. I was unaware before this post that cycling them causes degradation. I do what I can. Maybe one day I will have the resources to expand my solar and battery setup and run them all the time. I have the land.
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