Barezzi:
@davodyguy,
I can relate... My neighbour is a rich dude who runs his diesel gen for almost 24hrs daily.
There's this deep hum that irritates. I might consider arranging boys to make his gen disappear

I have equally tried to convert him, but he loves diesel too much . How do you convert someone who owns several diesel tank farms?

davodyguy:
Bug kudos to you, cos you started going Green and clean as far back as 8 years ago.

Some of us only started recently and we hope many more Nigerians embrace the clean energy.

I'm having issues with some of my neighbors now. Ask me why? They have a very terrible noisy generator. I've preached Inverter and solar, these fools claimed no money, but one of them recently bought a car worth 1.2million just to prove a point, cos they can't stand the fact that my wife uses SUV, hence the wife too needed to show off. That's how terrible mentalities of people are.

They run this gen whenever there's no mains power supply for almost 12hours in a 24 hours day, with the noise disturbing the neighborhood. In July, 2017 their 1kva Tiger generator caught fire, but luckily for us, it happened around 8:30pm. I used two of my cars' fire extinguishers to help them prevent disaster.

Thinking buying PMS to fuel gen daily is a sign of being rich is a stupid as a butterfly trying to fly as high as a bird.

I'm sorry I have to express myself to this extent, but that's how Nigerians are.

May God help us

Oshomo12:


My brother, we have a lot of educated mumus in Nigeria, most of them with one degree or the other. Kindly explain to me why is solar expensive to them and they still on the average own at least 2 solid cars( some 3).
I see them all around, some of my neighbors come to me that they heard "that they can power their freezers/use solar for as low as 150k"
My reply is, you can even power ur all house free of charge! No need to even pay one naira.

durumibaka:
pls can someone help me, i want to knw weither Chinese made modifier sine wave inverter of 2000watts can power a small size refrigerator of 100watts, LED TV of 60watts, satellite receiver of 25watts, radio of 120watts.

Monlo:



Dont mind my english which is on purpose "i cant fit shouting" hahahahahahah

That line" I might consider arranging boys to make his gen disappear" got my ribs cracking lolz.Funny u

durumibaka:
pls can someone help me, i want to knw weither Chinese made modifier sine wave inverter of 2000watts can power a small size refrigerator of 100watts, LED TV of 60watts, satellite receiver of 25watts, radio of 120watts.

chris81964:
For some who have turned solar into a business. I have started to tell my story. How I started AWPS Renewable Energy LTD. I do periodic YouTube videos that I post to my personal page. I hope it is instructive and it teaches you to avoid some of the mistakes I made. Visit my blog and click on the embedded video link. Please share ideas on things that you did to make your business a success.
https://thengwacorner..com/

sinistrian:


This is awesome, Chris!

GeorgeD1:
all,
its been more than a year now since I started using my solar water heater.
in the next couple of days I will be doing a review of the journey so far.
a few surprises and a lot of flaks too. it has been anything but a dull
experience.

DMerciful:
I do not know this exulted brand however you did not mention what charge controller you are using. Mustpower idle power consumption is appreciable and this increases with the kva so be mindful of that. your panels is enuf to charge ur batteries and at least augment the inverter gap.....you might need to check if the panels are facing the right angle

nonoski:

Charge controller is Outback Flex Max 80
Please is there any other brand of inverter u can recommend 5kva with good charge charging amps (30A and above) and charging current 56+v.

Thanks

saint2ace:


Try icellpower inverters, they get the job done. Charging current for the 5.5kva should be around 75A

foonshur:
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GeorgeD1:
all,
its been more than a year now since I started using my solar water heater.
in the next couple of days I will be doing a review of the journey so far.
a few surprises and a lot of flaks too. it has been anything but a dull
experience.

foonshur:
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pranil:

teamsynergy:


did u by any chance put the solar direct on a heavy load or inverter I did it one time and it damaged the diode on d solar module. had to replace the diode. or perhaps the polarity was reversed. not sure bout that though.

foonshur:

I want to believe its due to lightning strike or solar flare cos its been on the same system for about a year now. just discovered the CC senses voltage but no current at all. there are 45 panels on the CC and about 10 with this problem.. my question is could this be the reason the CC not sensing no current at all?

durumibaka:
pls can someone help me, i want to knw weither Chinese made modifier sine wave inverter of 2000watts can power a small size refrigerator of 100watts, LED TV of 60watts, satellite receiver of 25watts, radio of 120watts.

efuro:


10 out of 45 PVs is alarming. You must have gotten a premium CC to have handled the hasle of such failure within the strings. I know from my Diy experience that where you have 1 or two of such burnt out PV in a string and across parallel, you are bound to have current drop and your CC will be in a perpetual state of struggle to do it's job.
Yes you often register no current as you rightly observed. It is gradually becoming a common experience nowadays with cheap PVs abound in Nigerian market space where our 'SON' is dead.

This is my experience. other diy enthusiastic on the forum can add their rich experiences too

durumibaka:

earthrealm:
so haier thermocool have also introduced inverter ac, but it is so expensive...1hp is 189k, unlike lg 129k..... i wonder whats so special in theirs?

https://www.coolworld.com.ng/home-appliances/air-conditioners/haier-thermocool-inverter-air-conditioner-1hp-genpal-whitehsu-09nrg1