₦airaland Forum

raphieMontella:
Na WA oo, this one doesn't even know his nature given right. ..
That's how whites would tell you blacks are meant to be their slaves, you'd totally agree and any black man you see employing whites would be called a criminal by you.. .
Abeg carry your problem.

Right?

Even armed robbers and murderers have rights. Rights doesnt keep you away from jail.

raphieMontella:
I agree with you on the first, but the second is plainly wrong.
Where's the court order declaring it illegal?
Since when did protests without inciting violence become illegal?

Agitation for sessesion is illegal and government can arrest anyone and treat the offense as treason just like Nnamdi is facing.

How i wish Biafra will be given to them. I just pity the SS because they have no idea what they are getting themselves into. They were dominated by Hausa/Fulani but this time around will be dominated by their own brothers the Igbo.

SS should not see benefit in Biafra, they will beg to go back to Egypt just like the Isrealites or the South Sudanese. Biafra is an Igbo dream, the SS resources will also be controled by Igbo. That is when internal crisis will start in Biafra. Dont forget even politically, Igbo will dominate using population and so they actually stand to benefit.

The capital of Biafra should be Porthacourt but will never happen, Igbo will move it to SE. If that capital is placed in PH during sessesion, then its just to encourage SS to remain in the sessesion but will soon after be removed by the first Biafran president which will definitely be an Igbo.

Every ethnic group in Biafra is there for selfish interest, at the end, only igbo interest will dominate leading to rebellion by SE. A new South Sudan is born. SS are in this to control their oil, they wont get that control no matter how Igbo promises them. Igbo will easily promise to allow SS control their oil but will backtrack as soon as they have Biafra by dominatng politically.

I see one chance when i see one. People of SE and SS had no foresight in handling the North, if they get Biafra, SS are the ones with no foresight. SW has foresight thats why even in minority, they always have a piece of the national cake, SS has no foresight to check the SE.

GAZZUZZ:
19k

Ow f..K!

Please confirm that again. New or toks?

Anyways, i felt a jab in my heart when i saw it this morning. I saw someone replace it long ago and learnt it was expensive but i didnt think it will be that costly. The junk yard in Kaduna (panteka) is my best option for now. Probably if i ask them to give me a discount by removing their pressure switch while i use mine, it may come down a little.

The leak is very little at the moment causing me to top PS fluid daily and causing a cold start whine which fades when the system bleeds out the air. I have to ork it soon so as not to damage the pump or rack.

I will probably do a DIY on it but i am concerned for leakages especially at the flare nut end. My friend was tormented with leakage at that point. It also looks like it has no o ring there. Any tips to prevent leaks around there.

Thanks oga.

GAZZUZZ, please how much is the power steering pressure line for 2003 Honda Accord 4cyl?

I discovered a new leak this morning after a trip yesterday.

GAZZUZZ:
Very true!! And the rains are here. Even though toyota camry 07 has its Engine ecu in the engine bay beside the battery.

Its also good they mounted vertically.

Do you have Mercury tubular/flooded 220a batteries?

hardbody:
After my last set of brand new tyres that went bad inside 2 years, i have resolved to only do tok tyres going forward. I have a.ready bought 2 tyres and will be buying 2 more next week. Our mumu don do

2 years is good in my books. Mine was exactly a year, totally worn out like i did commercial tranport service. The tires was Tripple A 205/65R15.

croxx86:
Please house assist me. I noticed my ABS and Brake lights came on at the same time on the dashboard of my Toyota Camry 2007. And when it does, the speedometer, A.C. and Coolant guage stops working. They just move up and down erratically.
It happens and then stops and everything becomes normal. After a while it starts again.

The last and only time my car threw erratic lights, speedometer and tachometer malfunctions, it turned out to be water in the ECU.

GAZZUZZ:
Team Toks any day!!

What is a toks tyre? It is a used tyre that was removed from a Foreign used vehicle. (In better shape than one removed from a nigerian used vehicle )


1. DO not buy a winter branded Toks tyre

2. Ensure age of toks tyre is less than 4years

3. Do not over gauge tyre (35psi max!)

4. Do not drive at speeds Exceeding 200KM/HR

5. Buy Trusted brands like michelin and dunlop

Toks tyres will not fail if you Follow these guidelines.

In fact i am planning to change my EOD steel rims to alloy soon. I like the stock EOD rims which is 16 but my stock is 15rim. To do that, all my tires need to change incluging the 2 brand new star fire i bought recently.

I am going for toks Michelin, Continental, Goodyear or Dunlop. I have asked a dealer to get me the best he can find which are not older than 2014. They are cheap and a little more reliable as far as am concerned. Note, this will be my first time buying toks tires.

I completely exhausted new chinese tires in 1 year. My friend lost 4 brand new tires between last year and this year. I was driving on one ocassion. The recent one was less month old Boto 225/50R17. He has sworn never to buy new tires again after the multiple loss. Every set of 2 new tired he buys, 1 gets destroyed within a month.

See below the last one that got damaged at the sidewall

Piyke:
In addition to what Adanny01 has said, how you rotate your tires depends on whether the tires are directional or not. For directional tires, tires for a particular side stay on the same side, you just move front to back and back to front on the right side and do same for the left. For non directional I've forgotten the movement since I haven't used these kind of tires. Just google tire rotation, you will find all the info you need.
Also when to rotate depends on manufacturer recommendation. My accord recommends every 10k miles, Toyota corolla's recommend every 5k.

Great

Because honda recommends 10k and my service is 75k, i feel its workable.

For non directional tires, the front tires are crossed while the back tires are moved without crossing.

Thats why i make sure i dont buy directional tires. Directional tires never change from left to right or right to left.

GAZZUZZ:
for the engine oil, if old user has been using monograde for so long better to stick with it. I will advice Cepsa 20w50.
For the transmission oil I have no advice.

I see your wisdom.

GAZZUZZ:
for the engine oil, if old user has been using monograde for so long better to stick with it. I will advice Cepsa 20w50.
For the transmission oil I have no advice.

I see your wisdom.

Dbkk:
So I just changed my tires with brand new tires, a colleague advice is go for balancing.. My question is it necessary?? Car is accord 06 cc Gazzuzz adanny01 kingreign

Please do, you will enjoy the tires better.

badoh:
Good day,
kindly enlighten me on the more superior position between Chief of defense staff and Chief of Army staff in the Nigeria settings.
It seems the Chief of Defence staff do not get much public attention compared to the Chief of Army staff .
What are the expected roles of the two Military Chiefs?

Their ranks should have answered this question for you.

One is a general and the other a Lieutenant General.

Feshizzy:
Then what next?

You forgot to mention recording voltage after 3 hours state of rest of charge/discharge also!

Thanks for the addition, i had to drive so i couldn't continue with long details.

tziz:
Well, iv load tested the first battery and its very good, the guy givs 1week for u to load test his batts. I still hav to load test d 2nd batt anyway cos iv nt even used it yt. Wen u say "the drop in voltage", u mean i have to test dem individually with a multimeter? Pls explain dt part..

Charge each battery to 100% state of charge.

Test the voltage of each one with a multimeter. At full charge, 12V battery should read 13.7Vdc.

Get a DC load or use a battery load tester. Connect one battery for a period say 30mins. Then record the final volt. And repeat process for the second battery. Compare the voltage drop for the 2 batteries.

bsideboii:
Pls, When you say "Rotate" what do you actually mean?

As part of service, car tire positions are supposed to be swapped or rotated to different positions in the car. Example front tires go to the back while back tires come front. In addition, left and right tires can be swapped too.

Piyke:
Do you rotate your tires as recommended? Never noticed this in my 9 years of owning one

I rotate my tires every 2 months. The rear is my problem.

obidevine:
Ball joint issues is a major deterrent in buying Honda cars, especially in the " Eod" and " Baby boy"

As far as am concerned, its not a problem. If it happens to me, i cant blame Honda but myself. I should have noticed that the ball joint is bad but kept on driving.

I have driven my car (EOD) for 4 years now but have never replaced the ball joints. The ball joint also cause tire wear but people still fail to notice.

The people who experience the pull out should blame themselves not Honda.

tziz:
@bolded, yh right, but thing is iv already gotten a preowned 200Ah batt, the batt gave me a reading of 13.5V on full charge wen i tested it with a multimeter, iv used it for almost a month nw and its been perfect. Now, i dcided to add one more 200Ah batt to the setup for longer backup, so i met the same dude i bot the previous one from and he brings me a 200Ah batt from the same power bank that the first one came from, same product, but this one reads 13.6V on the multimeter as against the 13.5V of the previous one. So there's no way iam shelling out cash to get new batts again after spending cash on these ones, dats ruled out. I jst want to know the best way to connect these two togeda without causing problems for each of dem. Iv tot about wat u said sha, charging both of dem to full or discharging dem equally..

You do know a bad battery can still read 13.6V but fail load test. That is where the problem lies.

Only load testing can proof battery integrity.

Each battery should be charged to 100% and both loaded with the same load for the same time. The drop in voltage will show which is better.

obidevine:
Nice, but why do you have an affinity for Honda?

1. Honda design
2. Spare part costs
3. Performance

I recognize the major problem with Honda is front upper arms, ball joints and tie rod ends. These are very easy and cheap fix compared to the very expensive shocks problems with Toyota.

Another problem i have with Honda is tire wear. Tires usually wear at inside edges not matter how you make effort to keep the suspension good form.

I like Toyota for very quiet engine.

Am not Hausa but a northerner. My car fleet must always have Honda Accord or Civic. It is my preference. Am currently using my 3rd Accord.

I have also noticed that Honda is a prefered Hausa brand.

tziz:
This has nothing to do with wat iam asking. I knw how to connect batteries in parallel or series. Or maybe the response isnt for me.
Iam interested in how to equalize and connect two 200ah batts in parallel to my 12v inverter without causing harm to the batts due to overcharging or undercharging of either of dem..

Oh thats simple, however with no guarantees that both will be a match for each other. State of internal resistance, sulfation levels, electrolyte conditions may permanently defer and cannot be regained to give best results in a paired condition. The batteries were not exposed to exactly the same situations so may not have same performance levels even if they are both the same product. Batteries in the same bank experience such differences not to talk of differently used batteries or different product batteries.

I suggest you charge each battery individually till 100% state of charge before pairing them. Alternatively, deplete each battery to the same depth of discharge then pair.

I prefer you buy new ones of 100AH and a month or 2 later increase your bank.

tziz:
CC: @adanny01 @israelpalatoe
Pls com into dis case, how do i connect a second batt in parallel witout causing harm to any of d batts?

1st pix is 2 batteries in 2 series connected for 24V

2nd pix is 4 batteries in 2 series 2 parallel connected for 24V

3rd pix is 6 batteries in 2 series 3 connected for 24V

israelpalatoe:
Bro, you are right. lemme just add a little more.
i measured the power factor of a popular brand of inverter during charging. It was about 0.6 . meaning that the a.c. current is not a perfect sine wave that is in phase with the input a.c. voltage.
Such inverter will require a gen that is at least two times more than the product of charging current and voltage.
E.g. a 24v inverter charging at 20amps:
charge power = 28 * 20 ÷ 0.6 = 933va.
approximately 1000va to charge @ 20amps.
For practical purposes, include the other loads in the house ( 800va maybe). Making 1,800va.
I would choose a gen above 3kva for best performance. 2.8kva gen would be just fine though.
Thanks.

This makes sense. These Chinese and indian products use efficiency to decieve us.

Jummymine:
Hello everyone!please I need your advice. I can only afford to get 2.4 kva inverter now with 1 200ah.I was planning to buy two batteries before but I can't afford it yet maybe in some months time.can I still buy the one I can afford now and add more batteries later.If yes,how can I manage it so that the load of the house will not be more than what the battery is capable of?

You can buy 2 100AH for now and buy 2 100AH again later.

Your setup now will be series and later 2 series and 2 parallel (2S2P).

earthrealm:
errrm, i beg to differ..i used to have the same thought as you, but real life experience taught me otherwise
my 2.5kva/2.8kva gen has no issue powering my 24v 1500kva luminous inverter with 2 x 200ah batts. but same gen coughs and goes off when connected to my 4kva 48v mustpower inverter with 4 x 200ah batts.
cos going by your maths, the mustpower outputs 31amp x 48v = abt 1300w, thus the 2.5kva gen shud charge it easy peasy, even doing 60v x 31amps is about 2kw, so the gen shud hv still charged it, but it didnt.

THIS IS WHAT I ADVICE YOU DO, CONFIRM THE CHARGING CURRENT OUT OF YOUR INVERTER AND MULTIPLY BY 220V, AND 0.8 PF, THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE POWER OF THE GEN YOU SHOULD BUY.

WITH A CLAMP METER THE LUMINOUS OUTputs 9 to 10amps, while the mustpower clocks in at 30amps.
10amps x 220v x0.8 = abt 1.7kw wch explains why the 2.5kw gen can power it effortlessly with a 140w fridge sef

Lets be very practical and go back to basics.

From physics, the relevant formula to this matter is
Power (P) = Current (I) x Volt (V)
P=IV

The man has 2 x 100AH = 200AH on a 24V inverter connected in series.

Remember that connection in series, voltage increases nd current remains same.

Power =24V x 100AH = 2400Wh

This battery has the capacity to store 2.4kWh of energy. A charger must be able to produce this energy for the battery to store.

So what charger does he have? He has a 20A charger. This means the charger will be able to provide

P = 24 x 20 = 480w

It means that what ever his source is, whether NEPA or generator the charger will be drawing not more than 480watts per second and depositing in the battery.

The math continues
2400Whr /480W = 5hrs

The battery will be full in 5hrs.

It means that any source of AC supply, the charger gets to draw 480W.

In your case, you didnt mention the current for the luminous but i assume its 20A.

Power will be 24 x 20= 480w same as above. Your generator which is actually a 2000w generator (generators of 2500-2900va are 2kw while 3000-3700va are 2.1-2.3kw) will carry this load with ease. Like i noted in my last post, this will depend on other loads on the generator and additionally the state of your generator. Also, this power 480w is 24% of the capacity of the generator.

For the Mustpower which you said 48v x 30A=1440w. This is 72% of the capacity your generator, that is excluding any other load you might have connected to the home. This is not even taking into consideration the serviceability state of your generator to carry such a heavy load.

With this, i dont expect your 2.5kva generator to struggle to power that mustpower inverter especially if connected through your home with other loads and losses.

banmee:
Minority you say. Ok. I don't think you understand the country you live in. Are we not talking about a country where a policeman can stand confidently in public and collect, nay, demand bribe in full view of the world and nothing happens? Try that shiit in Germany, the U.S, France etc and see what happens to you. You will spend a better part of you life behind bars. This culture can only exist if most Nigerians, if not all, are corrupt. This is a country where you are not respected unless you are a "sharp" guy which is why only criminasl opt for public office. Guy, wake up. The OP knows knows what she/he is talking about.

As sad as the entire article is, i couldn't deny any even if some parts were over exaggerated.

I figure 50% of population of Nairobi wakes up every morning and thinks, “Who can I rip off today?”

This was the part that got me cracking with laughter.

Feshizzy:
Just think about it,
You have 200ah battery connected in series would give you 24v x 200ah = 4800Wh

But note that most inverter recommended charge settings shouldn't exceed 10% to 13% of the battery capacity meaning your 200ah would need at most 20a draw during charging,

So maximum charging current would be:
24v x 20a =480W

Meaning your inverter requires 480W of power to charge it batteries,

Smallest tiger generator is 800W

Meaning you would be using 480/800 x100 = 60% gen power

Which is quite fair, so long you only use the generator with just lighting bulb and no much load during the period of charging the battery.

Just to be safe,
Anything abit bigger than a small tiger generator should be fine.

Cheers!


Edit:
I just remembered that charging voltage is always higher than 12v, around a maximum of 14v x 2 = 28v
So considering maximum factor of 28v during charging would be 28v x 20a = 560W

I would leave you to do the remaining maths!

I will just add that he should note that this is just power needed to charge batteries exluding power need by any appliance connected to the inverter especially if the load will be on inverter mains bypass.

It means, that a tv, home theatre, lights or fan load during charging goes directly to the generator by mains bypass design.

Say LED tv 60w, home theatre 30w, lights 3 x 20w, fan 60w, laptop 60w in total 270w. Whether these loads are on the inverter or the entire house mains, they fall back as load to the gen if the gen powers the entire house.

Generator required must be above 560w + 270w =830w. This will be beyond "i pass my neighbor" generator. I would suggest 1500w as minimum.

chukel:
sometimes buyers think then are smart. A friend told me he was offered a toks 2003 highlander by a dealer in kaduna for 1.9m. I laughed. People don't understand that wicked dealers are repackaging tired naija used cars as toks. Then they will term the honest dealers wicked, only to come and inundate us with numerous codes and complaints when they buy from the unscrupulous elements.

Back in 2013, a friend gave me his used 2005 Highlander with 3rd row for 1m, i had 900k and was willing to collect balance later but i later declined.

Reason, maintenance cost. I settled for 2003 accord and never regretted.

Whe i bought my car, a dealer offered me 200k on top of my spending to get my car but i declined.

People can be lucky to get a good car at a ridiculously cheap price but certainly not from car dealers.

I would never encourage anyone to buy a car from Kaduna car stands. They are cheats to the core.