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Bestmanfornow:
Solution Fun City have three entrance and exist gates

Which three entrances? Just admit whoever designed the entrance and roads was poor. And you don't need a massive concrete structural gate for an amusement park unless you are just enriching the contractor.

The left side of the entrance to the stadium should have been converted to a road linking the site directly from Onwurah Street to it's parking lot. Then from Arthur Eze a second entrance.

You see the same lack of thinking with the ICC entrance which should be on its side road not directly on old Onitsha Enugu expressway.

A good design is ekwueme square and secretariat where you come off the expressway to a low traffic road that links to its entrance.

ANSMEDIA:
Ongoing construction of the imposing access roads and gate house to the Awka fun city.

The interior Fun City design is good but the venue suffers from poor traffic planning.

The entrance directly faces the expressway which will create a bottleneck that will cause congestion all the way back to Zara Stores. Moreover, it increases the journey for those coming from within the town who are forced to follow the expressway turn back at aroma before approaching the entrance .

Ikeja Mall, Polo Park Mall all make use of side access not frontal access and use two entrances opposite each other to reduce congestion and improve accessibility.

Solution City should open up an entrance from the back at Arthur Eze to improve accessibility not just for cars but even pedestrians.

Dam5reey1:
LFP Capacity after 3 years+


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL-Yt_O8E44

Nice.

Many have said the same thing and research shows that lifepo4 should be charged and discharged at 0.2-0.3C for longevity.

[quote author=ANSMEDIA post=131853267][/quote]Nice but he should build it in phases and relocate sections of government house instead of all at once.

Also one would think the contractor would construct the internal roads, drainage and provision for street lights of the complex first rather than last.

9jatriot:
Considering that those countries are not richer than us, I wonder how they really do it.

Most of those countries have a few decent cities with higher standards of living not lots of urban areas where people sell on the road, on their head, inside wheelbarrow. Cheap fuel created imaginary cities full of poor people in Nigeria. Many should be in the villages not doing the same business of selling garri in wheelbarrow in the city.

bleexInc:
Hello House; kindly assist.
I have an inverter setup with 2 Amaron quanta 200AH battery and 1.5kva luminous inverter that I have been using for about 18month now. I use nepa light to charge it.
It use to have backup light of about 6 - 10hours when I started using it. My major load is my 65inches TV and 3fans with bulbs.
Now, the setup get fully charge in less than 2hours and get drained in less than 2hours.
What could be the problem.

The problem with charging lead acid battery with nepa is that it never gets a full consistent charge. The intermittent supply ends up excessively cycling the battery and eventually killing it.

You may still be able recover it. Take it to a battery maintenance person who will try to trickle charge it.

temizeee:
. Thanks for the insight and reference to someone else experience tho….. but still doesn’t change the question if you ever use the Lifep04 battery technology before? What is your own personal experience with them? Let us hear and learn from you tell us about the grade A cells that you know or can recommend

Also let me inform you that the glorified lead acid/tubular has more fake brands currently in the market…like 220ah not even performing upto standard 50% DOD despite been new and all that.

My point is fake brand is always a common thing in the new technology world we are right now and it’s almost inevitable

Yes there's lots of fake brands in the market. I bought felicity lfp a few years ago and found out half of what the alaba boys are selling have fake capacities.

Tubular the same thing. What used to be rugged is now being downgraded and sold under lots of brand names. I bought the 220a inverlast from simba six years ago. Very rugged. What's in the market now doesn't feel anything like that version.

isangjohnson:
I'm always happy when I see people going extra mile to proof their points. It's very wrong to argue and make claims without proof. Thanks for this information.
Going back to the OP, my observation is still what I've been saying. It's very WRONG to entirely depends on what sellers are telling you including myself.
Do a thorough research/investigation before you put in your hard earned cash into it.
1. He said that batched and matched grade A Lf280K cells were sold to him in March 2022.
Did he forward the manufacturer test reports to EV for verification?. The answer is No.
2. Did he physically examine the cells?. He didn't say it.
3. After the top balancing and equalisation, did he observe the self discharge of the cells?. He didn't tell us.
Though the temperature of his region is closer to ours and he occasionally charged and discharged at 0.27C with the temperature of 38°C (not even up to 0.5C), that's not enough reason for 20% degradation under 2 years of use.
Though the charging and discharging with respect to temperature are some of the reasons for cells degradation/bulging but I'm very certain that in the case of the OP, he may have gotten low quality grade B cells without knowing.
Just as you've rightly said, seeing a cell with 8000 cycle life, carrying out capacity test to see above the rated capacity does not really mean that the cell would give up to 4 years.
Capacity can give you fake sense of quality. Self discharge is a BIGGER ISSUE. This is that when cells are resting.

Bigbrovar is on this forum and can answer for himself. But from my research:

1) There is evidence that the lifecycle of lifepo4 is greatly shortened the higher the average state of charge due to graphite reactivity with the electrolyte.

2) lifepo4 degrades irrespective of usage over time.

3) Lfp may say to charge up to 0.5C but truly it works best charging at 0.2C - 0.30C.

4) Each cell should not be overcharged and it's recommended 3.4v for bulk and 3.37v for float.

Iinnov8:
You have indicted Felicity as being average. You have also condemned Powmr. Have you really used LiFePO4 lithium batteries before? Which one do you recommend as being Grade A?

Powmr has proven itself to be a reliable brand - from its old and best-selling HHJ charge controller to its new M60 controller and its recent array of hybrid inverters. Most of the reviews on their products are positive

Also, I have had one of our contributors here do a capacity test on the Powmr LifePo4 cells (which are actually Rept cells as pointed out by someone up there) and it performed more than its rated capacity. The video has been posted here.

The insides of the Powmr battery has also been opened to show the cells and the QR code scanned. The video has also been posted here

We have also concluded a 1C (1200w+) discharge test on the battery while showing the individual cells maintaining the same voltage as they approached the lower knees of the discharge curve (close to 100% DoD), and the video will be posted shortly. According to experts here, that is the litmus test to know Grade A cells. See video excerpt attached

Do you have such test results and videos for your tubular battery?

If you want to know the difference between grade A and grade B cells, cycle them over several years and then check for capacity. Don't go on what is stated by a manufacturer. Lead acid is known technology. Lifepo4 is new technology with lots of unknowns.

One of the members here discovered 20% capacity loss of his supposedly grade A eve cells after just two years of usage or less than 800 cycles:

https://diysolarforum.com/threads/20-capacity-loss-and-bulging-after-2-5-years-of-use.88604/

Again I take the 6,000 cycle promise with a grain of salt and look at the warranties given which are often 5-10 years or max 4,000 cycles.

Iinnov8:
Correction: Most Grade A LiFePO4 lithium batteries give 6,000 cycles at 80% DoD. Then 3,000 cycles at much lesser DoD, which amounts to over 8 years of daily cycling while losing little or none of its capacity. See data sheet of Powmr 100a 12.8v battery

Tubular batteries will hardly take that kind of abuse and that's a major difference between both technologies

Most lifepo4 batteries in the Nigerian market are not grade A and those that are are very expensive. Powmr has a history of fudging numbers and poor quality. I take their 6,000 cycles with a grain of salt.

As for lifepo4 it's a superior and more flexible technology for lots of applications. But basic stuff lead acid is perfectly ok.

I use both and this was the second set of luminous batteries I bought. The inverlast battery I used for 5 years and it was still as strong as ever. Luminous is a great rugged brand and testament to this is the fact that schneider bought them out.

Peterlove11:
Make it cheaper.....its not financially advisable in 2024 to buy used tubular batteries 2x 12 220ah (5280wh) for over 500k when you can get Lithium Phosphate 5kwh with more Discharge cycles for around 1m.

If you have a small budget it's best to go for lead acid which serves it's own purpose.

For example, Luminous Voltcharge tubular battery is rated at 1,600 cycles at 80% depth of discharge. That's roughly 4.3 years lifespan and works out to 9.7 naira per kWh if you cycle it once a day.

Average lifepo4 batteries like felicity have 3,000 cycles at 80% depth of discharge and cost around 1.3m for a 5kwh battery. It works out to 10.8 naira per kwh if you also cycle it once per day.

So you can see that cost per kilowatt hour wise there is little difference. Performance wise lifepo4 main advantage over tubular are it's tolerance for high current charging, it's lightweight and relatively low maintenance requirements.

200a luminous voltcharge tubular battery for sale (two pieces). Bought newly in January and used for just 3 weeks for diaspora visitor.

Selling at 300k each. If interested comment to this post with your WhatsApp no.

Chikeluba25:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EK0B_k-j0?si=uflfhGHAnI3Tv1Yu
Please let's make this go viral for rapid response/ further damage preventive action from federal government. How can a yet to be commissioned project (Under construction) be collapsing like this.

Tribal sentiment apart: Umahi is a big disappointment. Even Barrister Fashola (former minister of work) who is not an engineer did far better than this. Fashola timely delivered quality work on the other lane of this road... But Engineer Umahi keeps playing politics with his work. Using cooked up stories of disagreement with contractors as excuse for his lack of capacity.
Judging from the video, u will agree with me that the already completed lane by Fashola looks more solid than the one Engr. Umahi is handling.

Let's call the attention of Federal government, MTN (who are funding the project Under tax credit fund) to this disaster.

It has nothing to do with Umahi. Some soils are inherently unstable and highly prone to erosion and only discovered late. The ore-sagamu stretch is like this and after patching multiple times over the years it was RCC who solved the problem by excavating almost 3 metres deep and putting in boulders to stabilize the road.

The Federal Ministry of Works needs to conduct detailed soil mapping so that roads are built with a little more intelligence.

viccy12:
How many of these do we have ?

Nice idea but not everyone can be a trader. The best source of employment for the poor is farming with the govt encouraging production by buying wholesale from farmers at set prices with quality metrics and selling through commodity marketing boards to processors or directly through outlets. This will reduce rural to urban migration and encourage development to be spread out.

ANSMEDIA:
Update on the ongoing construction biggest and most modern government house complex in the region


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJa4aBxRhaM?si=MuQyqGgXGPW5Wi_i

Lovely. However why did they not do it section by section by completing some buildings and relocating govt units there than trying to do all at once? What is the timeline for completion?

cjrane:
One reason that I advocated for the scrapping of state ministry of works was because they neither patched the roads, streets or even small gutters. Every small repair on any street or gutter had to be a big contract to construction companies and at huge cost to the state . So the question about what the hundreds of salaried workers in the state ministry of works did was always a recurring anti-corruption question.

The state ministry of works will watch a tiny pothole develop and will not patch it until the entire road collapses and the state is compelled to award a total reconstruction to a construction company! So what is their work if they cannot even patch a very small pothole?

I’m so glad to see the state ministry of works patching something. No matter how small. At least it justifies the huge salaries budgeted every year for workers emoluments in the state ministry of works.

Very true but I blame the governor's. They politicize the ministry of works since it is responsible for the bulk of capital spending. They push projects through without feasibility, environmental assessment and proper design. They focus on short quick wins instead of long term large scale integrated infrastructure that outlasts them.

Ministry of works that for last three years cannot fix the high traffic city road that leads to their ministry but are celebrating building low traffic street roads in anawbia.

Incompetence has serious consequences.

hammer567:
NEXT GOV AFTER SOLUDO MUST CONTINUE THE ROAD PROJECT, WE NEED TO TAKE BUILDING ROAD VERY SERIOUSLY.


PEOPLE ARE KNOCKING SOLUDO FOR DOING THE NEEDFUL.


I COUNT SOLUDO EFFORT AS 8 YEARS, THE NEXT GOVERNOR AFTER HIM MUST BUILD EVEN MORE ROAD AND THE GOVERNOR AFTER THAT TOO.


GOOD TECHNOLOGY ROAD THAT LAST 20 TO 50 YEARS. CEMENT, CONCREATE, IRON AND STEEL ROAD.

WE NEED AT LEAST 20 YEARS SERIOUS MAJOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION ACROSS ANAMBRA STATE, ESPECIALLY IN THE KEY CITIES.

Widening amawbia to ekwulobia is good initiative. Anambra is not a mega city but highly urbanized and requires good transpiration connectivity.

I hope the current govt also establishes a joint rail initiative with Abia , Imo and Enugu to construct a rail line from Enugu - Awka - Onitsha - Owerri - Aba - Port Harcourt.

nnadychuks:
Please and please:
Avoid solar generators at all cost. I mean a solar component that has both inverter and controller affixed in one board is total rubbish.

Why I’m saying this…

My qasa solar generator just explode on its own. It let off smoke 💨 and then boom 💥
Thank God the incident happened while I was at home, otherwise “Na only God know”

Now I’m looking to purchase an inverter+ controller (1500w -2400) if anyone has these items, used or new please quote me

I have luminous hybrid inverter 1.5kva with 40a pwm charge controller. Barely used and only 150k. Send me dm or drop your digits.

ChimaAdeoye:
This is a wonderful initiative to address the issue of street trading and help petty traders secure a decent venue without the burden of rent, which often forces them to trade on the streets. It would be fantastic if ACTDA could organize all street traders in Awka into a formal group and help them acquire land along key roads to build these Solution Arenas in various parts of the city.

In other cities like Onitsha, Nnewi, Ekwulobia, and Aguleri, the state government should allow ACTDA to work with the local governments to organize street traders and build similar Solution Arenas in those cities. If we can eliminate street trading and shanties, our cities will start to look modern and livable, as promised by Soludo.

You cannot eliminate street trading by offering arenas. Nigeria has an infinite supply of traders ready to sell on the road if you let them. Street traders after all are looking for location, location, location. The more traffic the better.

Unregulated trading destroys profits and destroys investment. The UK has high streets where in high traffic locations you find sophisticated shops and high rents. In Nigeria, show me a sophisticated shoe shop. You can't because it's sold in barrows. Show me a sophisticated grocery store. You can't because it's sold on primitive tables in markets.

Until Nigeria understands the concert of regulated competition there will be low scale businesses that don't grow beyond two or three man shops. Small scale equals low innovation, low investment.

Solution is very simple. Get RCC to put up 3 feet tall concrete crash barriers at the median for up to 50m on each side of the junction then people will be forced to use the footbridge.

ACTDA should first relocate all those bus parks away from unizik junction. They create traffic and touts.

ebufa:
That last sentence in your post "finish work" for me, I could not put it better myself! I was born into a trading family based in Lagos.........I knew when Igbo traders moved to Alaba international and when they moved to Aspamda...........Those 2 markets somewhat sanitized Isale Eko or Lagos island markets......the salutary effects also impacted Iddo bus terminus and Otto markets...............Onitsha needs a dedicated Town Development Authority....the way Otti established one for Aba. Way too many passenger and goods laden heavy commercial vehicles come into the center of onitsha! It just gives the town a near siege mentality........with all the bedlam that follows such traffic.

The second Niger bridge has opened up a complete new axis that soludo can exploit......why not locate a modern bus terminal in that axis like Enugu has designed for the chaotic holy ghost area?
I hear the same planet design coy that did Oshodi terminal is also doing the Enugu one!

We can mandate all luxury buses ,commuter buses ,trailers and semis to offload in the new terminals, we can co locate goods warehouses and storage units in that axis too! Way too many containers are offloaded inside onitsha markets............I dunno, town planning experts in the house can contribute.......I tire sef!

Exactly. You wonder what kind of people inhabit the Transport and Works ministries and really both functions should be combined. You dont build a road wide enough only for passenger vehicles and then allow Trailers on them. Proper urban planning should not allow large Markets inside inner cities. They should be pushed to wide boulevards and regulated heavily. Cities should have a retail and service inner core, a residential ring and an outer core of industries and warehousing. Dense cities over 50,0000 should have proper public transport with 15-20 seater buses running scheduled routes not tricycles and 5 seater shuttle buses. Anambra cities require city-wide underground drainage systems and sewage lines. These things cost money but they are an investment for the future.

ebufa:
It is left for the government to do the needful by building world class cities and "forming" the huge corporation you are talking about? I am not sure which Igbo economist that worked as a world bank consultant in southeast Asia ( idika kalu or Soludo?) Anyway I am sure Soludo knows about Chaebol corporation like Daewoo and LG and Samsung ,companies that were essentially conceived and birthed by government..........What I am saying is that we business men are like sheep left to graze blindly in the bush...it is left for Soludo to point the way forward! He has the yam and he also has the knife!

The work that man has on his hands is daunting........he is still building gutters and roads , nobody remembers his automobile and pharmaceutical production hubs.................Soludo needs a lot of help to hurry things along but I am not sure he has done enuff to galvanise that much needed help in terms of investment and human capital! Why will Soludo allow Stella okoli to carry the new Emzor factory to otta Ogun state? Give it to Peter Obi sha for getting SAB miller to invest.........though he had some leg with the company prior to him becoming Governor!
Its not all bad but a lot of work needs to be done!

Obi got the message as they say in America and what he did is standard investment promotion. New York campaigned for Amazon to locate there for instance.

But if you are campaigning is it when your city transport is marked by tricycles and mini shuttle buses? There is a reason India gets tiny investment compared to China that went modern completely not accommodating primitivity.

I like what is happening in Enugu because the governor there gets it. He got Germans to design waterworks for him and pipe water from ninth mile to the city. He is building a massive bus terminus. That's city level thinking.

Onitsha meanwhile the trailers and buses coming into the city has been left to the one man touts to organize.

Onitsha goods everywhere but where are the factories? Where is the power for industry?

Designing cities requires vision and thoughtfulness. European cities the iconic symbols of cities are public infrastructure otherwise known as the people's money. New York City. George Washington Bridge, Hoover Tunnel, Subway, Central Park, Grand Central Station, Statue of Liberty, grid pattern of Avenues and roads.

Please name iconic or grand public infrastructure in Igbo cities. Even sculptures are hastily assembled without much thoughtbor quality. In the land of Enwonwu.

Soludo should stop begging Anambrarians to invest and give them many reasons to invest.

The solution to Igbo resurgence is to build world class cities that have strong service and industrial bases. There are three core cities in igboland. Enugu, Onitsha and Aba. None is inspiring. Go past the space shipped Secretariat building Sullivan built and it's already wearing a forlorn look. Onitsha with it's majestic Niger Bridges and wide expressway then you enter the city and primitive trading everywhere.

The greatness of cities is accumulation of capital both physical and human. Not one Igbo city can boast up to 10 corporations with over 50m in revenue. Not one Igbo city can boast three 10 storey buildings or iconic architecture. This is what happens when you don't have scale and rely on emigration as a strategy.

Soludo understands the importance of cities as an organizational force. Primitivity has to be weeded out. Organized public transport not Keke, organized business districts not out of control street trading. Big businesses form in organized settings not chaos.

HeavenlyBang:
Growatt 6KVA/SRNE 8KVA 48v inverter
SRNE 10kwh/15kwh LifePO4 battery (10 years warranty)
12x 625W Jinko panels

Buy what you need from Fouani Store and HMSolar.

Inverter - 1m
Battery - 3m
Panels - 2m

Not a 5m solution.

luvlyoracle:
Any reliable used 24v at least 1.5kva hybrid inverter someone can buy for 180k
MPPT charge controller

Would really appreciate any help

Have luminous 24v hybrid inverter but 40a pwm charge controller. Dm

rdokoye:
I'm pretty sure such laws already exist in Anambra. I know a law exists that regulates how far or close to the roads one can build.

The issue in this instances is simply enforcement. Which is pretty difficult to do, when you don't have a police force.

Ndigbo have a survival mindset. Which is understandable, when you consider the number of administrations Nigeria has had, over the past 6 decades. Coups, counter coups, democracy then coups again. Nigeria has existed in a state of lawlessness for a long time.

Reorientation is what is required right now, and from the looks of things, that's what Soludo is doing. It won't happen overnight, it'll take time, but eventually, the people and their mindset will start to change.

In America, waste, water, streets, schools, tax, police are under the purview of local government. Who makes up local government? People living in the community. In Nigeria we funnel external resources to someone answering governor to be in charge of allocating it to local government in places he hardly knows and we wonder why there is so much theft and irresponsibility in government.

Soludo did one good thing in Awka and that was put an honest hard working Awka man in charge of ACTDA. The roads got patched quickly, the squatter shacks along roads removed.

But for sustainability this model should be a city or town development agency run by qualified honest indigenes with clear cut responsibilities and oversight from both state and eminent leaders to prevent abuse.

All this senseless back and forth comparison. How come oyo is not comparing itself to ekiti or Ondo to Osun or Kano to Kaduna?

Only comparison should be to advanced things. Water systems, transport systems, etc.

iamphilips:
Good morning guys, please I'm seeking an "affordable" lithium battery & inverter kit for a 2 bedroom apartment

2 freezer 180w
1 Tv (120-160w)
2 laptops
Multiple phones
3 cloud energy fan (10w each)
Multiple light points

If I'll be adding solar later, what capacity should I be looking at.

Send me dm.

isangjohnson:
48v 230ah for 2.3m
24v 100ah for 495k
12v 280ah for 745k
12v 160ah for 430k

Do you have 24v 150ah battery?

afube:
I like the way every inch of setback is paved between the buildings and the road......soil and sand accumulation will be reduced on this stretch of road! Government should make it mandatory for residents to either pave or grass all open soil on road set backs.........and of course demolish all illegal shade projections and attachments to houses and walls............thankfully Awka capital authority is beginning to enforce these laws!

Awka Capital Territory Development Authority is doing a good job but it needs to be coded into law. The government needs to revisit business licensing and require compliance not just for projections but also things like:

- Approved Signage
- Waste Collection and Disposal
- Water and toilet facilities for plazas, food, pharmacies, etc.
- Clean gutters
- Non blockage of pavements or electrical poles

They should also look into the Keke business and set a timeframe for phasing it completely out in the capital and big cities like Onitsha. We are not India.

AllyPolly:
Please I need an answer.

I would advise you buy Aurora 10kwh battery.