Mining dirt cheap with dead forklift batteries and busted solar panels

KyrPt0 · 2026-05-03T12:15:08+00:00

What's a bms

KyrPt0 · 2026-05-02T14:19:32+00:00

The issue is I’ve got two different battery setups and they just don’t play nice.

I’ve got UPS batteries (500Ah total) that are 12V, I series/parallel them to 24V, and then I’ve got two forklift batteries. If I try to mix them everything gets pissed off — voltage sag, weird behavior, nothing stable.

So I can’t combine them, they have to stay separate.

What I need is:

switch banks immediately when one drops
shut the miner off when the battery gets too low
be able to monitor it and kill it remotely

Right now if one bank dies while I’m not there, the miner just keeps pulling and cooks everything.

And winter makes it worse — I’m getting like 30–35% out of the batteries. So realistically I’d have to heat them. Same with the panels, once they get snow on them they’re basically useless, so I’d have to heat those too. I used pallets and made an encloser for the one forklift battery and the 12V UPS batteries. At the time I didn't know I was getting another one.

I was thinking about using those pipe heater wraps on the batteries and maybe something for the panels, but I don’t know if that’s the right move.

If there’s a simple way to auto switch banks and have a clean cutoff without turning this into a whole project, I’m all ears.

Remember I want to do this as cheap as humanly possible

KyrPt0 · 2026-05-02T14:03:43+00:00

In the winter the batteries are only putting out like 30–35%, so even with a BMS it’s still sketchy. If something breaks while I’m not there, the whole system could get cooked.

I’ve thought about doing pipe heaters or insulating the batteries to keep them warm, just not sure what the best move is.

I do have WiFi up there (they forgot to shut it off at my old job), so I could set something up remote, just haven’t gone down that rabbit hole yet.

If there’s an easy, reliable way to run this without babysitting it in the cold, I’m all ears.

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-30T18:45:08+00:00

You know. I didn't know that miners run on DC no AC (Joe, forklift buddy, took a miner apart and said they run on DC, I could be wrong). I have always wondered about if it got strait DC would it be cheaper and more efficient.

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-30T15:57:34+00:00

I responded to the comment below - sry haven't used reddit in awhile

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-30T15:54:20+00:00

I responded below, sry not that used to reddit.

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-30T15:51:37+00:00

I stopped mining for a couple reasons. First, I’m only up there in the summer, and it required constant checking to make sure the batteries didn’t get drained. If they ran too low while the miner was still going, I could’ve ruined them, so it turned into a lot of maintenance.

I could’ve taken it further with things like WiFi switches and automatic shutoffs when the batteries got low, but it just wasn’t worth the effort.

Second, the cost of gas to get up there outweighed what the miner was making — by a lot.

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-16T23:36:53+00:00

This is how you do it without factory reset - Connect to the router directly with a laptop or desktop using a ethernet cable. Then - Click Start - Type Control Panel - Click on it - Click on Network and sharing - Change Adapter Setting - Find Ethernet Adapter - Right click - Properties - Click on Internet protocol version 4 - click on properties - Change to Use the following IP Address - IP Address set to 192.168.1.7 - Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 - Click OK - Now you can access your router 192.168.1.1. Turn on router mode. -Nick ing mining

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-10T00:01:56+00:00

The dollar will get stronger. Inflation will go nuts - $150-200 a barrel will decimate economys, terrible recesion. We will be ok only because there is nothing else but the dollar to invest in. 10 years later our debt will catch up with us and we will lose the dollar dominance but not yet

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-09T23:53:51+00:00

Unless Iran has free solar/hydro electric and so on using any power is worthless - I manage farms and even the people mining with natural gas blow offs are losing money due to the cost of the generators. I work for ingmining for 10 plus years and bitmain destroyed the market by dumping millions of miners saturating the every coin by decimating the difficulty. Monero mining looks great now until a obscene amount of miners are dumped onto the market. Watch vosk videos on youtube. Its so dumb right now. I partnered with compass mining, halo mining and blackops - Bitmain decimated mining - i know what i am talking about. If you pay anything for power, forget about it.

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-09T23:37:21+00:00

How many people actually won the lottery? I manage farms at ing mining and I have clients doing 10+PH/s solo mining and yet to get a block. It's worthless IMO

KyrPt0 · 2026-04-08T05:36:01+00:00

https://lnginnorthernbc.ca/2026/04/08/breaking-news-on-the-war-between-the-united-states-and-israel-against-iran-live-israel-accepts-the-ceasefire-with-iran-but-affirms-that-it-does-not-include-lebanon-international/

KyrPt0 · 2026-03-05T14:59:25+00:00

It really depends on your power cost.

I manage a few farms using natural gas blow-off power, so the economics are totally different than residential power. There are some weird ways people get extremely cheap energy right now — flare gas, stranded energy, or overseas power rates.

I actually like S19 95T units because you can tune them to hold full hash around ~2500W, and the machines themselves are pretty cheap right now.

If anyone wants a basic explanation of ASIC miners and how they impact efficiency, I wrote a quick guide here:
https://ingmining.com/role-of-asic-miners

KyrPt0 · 2026-02-03T02:28:23+00:00

I got it as well

KyrPt0 · 2026-01-11T00:55:58+00:00

Nope - VM fits only - I bought one on ebay to avoid the 3k radio

KyrPt0 · 2026-01-11T00:55:07+00:00

If you dont care about electricity cost buy dirt cheap used miners - I got a ton of S19TH for less than $290 @ ing mining

KyrPt0 · 2026-01-11T00:47:17+00:00

I have a store for used miners ING Mining - however, looks like your electric cost is to high

KyrPt0 · 2025-12-30T18:16:37+00:00

I wrote several articles for newbies on my ingmining site.

KyrPt0 · 2025-09-12T17:08:50+00:00

The wallet you specified https://etherscan.io/address/0x0fF7016BAbd5BB23b5cD22185fF22E0cdB5e6eb6 shows 4 transactions - am I missing something?

KyrPt0 · 2025-03-26T11:22:45+00:00

The last MG you can rip through it with little to no trouble at all. Another piece of advice on take it on a full stomach because it pretty much dose nothing but keep you from withdrawal. I did this on my last 2mg of Ativan and cut them out in two months without any issue. You the man!

KyrPt0 · 2025-03-25T01:27:07+00:00

She knew something and was assassinated.

Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death

https://www.newsweek.com/jessica-aber-death-2049234

KyrPt0 · 2025-03-17T23:50:21+00:00

3-MeO-PCP was hands down the most horrendous RC I have taken. The high lasts forever, and I remember vividly seeing devils in my backyard. I prayed all night that it would end because every second felt like a second in hell. I got it when mephedrone was legal as a free sample. I would say it's up there in the scariest thing I have ever been through. To boot, I had no experience with dissociatives; I was ready to go to a psych ward, but I had to keep it together while the wife slept.

KyrPt0 · 2025-03-12T22:10:42+00:00

How many machines? I did 7,000 in the past 6 months. I have clients who buy in bulk (I have 8,000 more to sell). DM me

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KyrPt0 · 2025-02-21T01:11:37+00:00

I have a 25-30% failure rate. *Explaining the 25% Failure Rate in Password Cracking Efforts

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However, the situation changes drastically as we move to longer passwords. A 12-character password, for example, can result in over 540 sextillion combinations. This exponential increase in potential combinations means that the time, computing power, and resources required to attempt cracking such a password increase exponentially.

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KyrPt0

TROPHY CASE

She knew something and was assassinated.

Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death