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The same extortionists would attend church service with, pray with you in church, pay tithes and offerings etc. God help us all, bribery has become a way of life for us.

why spend so much over one and a half years. If you will be staying in nigeria for a long time, why not go solar.

Yes its working but not much difference anyway, with the clouds coming back. I guess the august break is over.

Thanks, I have downloaded the software thru the link in your mail.

@George_D
Not yet. My Friend says all the base stations under his jurisdiction has been replaced already.

@George_D
    I am going to load the system more. It seems I was being too carefull, cos on days no one is at home there is less harvest due to minimal load. I already removed the timers from the fridge and freezers.
How is your system doing? Have you gotten more battery banks?

@pecorns
Yes you are right. It would seem logical to go for higher wattage panels, but I needed a car shade as well. Going for a 280W panel would not have covered the area I needed for my car shade. So I opted for 140W. As for efficiency the flexmax80 is doing a good job so far in tracking array mismatch.
The Tigo maximiser is taking array efficiency to a higher level, I looked it up and I am impressed. Its like MPPTing individual solar modules.
The drawback is you have to get every other accessories like inverters from same manufacturer. And worse of all, like the emphase microinverter its only for grid-tie sytems for now. My email: adekoy22@gmail.com.

Cheers

@ pecorns

Thanks.
Its been day 32 of being on solar. 196KWH harvested. The panels are suntech brand.

@George_D

Am still at work. will get to lagos next week.

Cheers

President, Governors, others may now operate foreign accounts

[b][/b]Barring last minute change of mind by the National Assembly, the President, governors and Ministers will soon be allowed to operate foreign accounts. Others that could own foreign accounts are members of the National Assembly, House of Assembly members, commissioners and other public officers. The proposal is part of the amendments to the 1999 Constitution by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. With this proposal, such appointees like the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, his Trade and Investment counterpart, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji and other Nigerians from the Diaspora coming home to serve can maintain their foreign accounts. But anti-graft agencies through the Financial Intelligence Unit will be able to monitor such accounts to prevent public officers from engaging in money laundering. The Presidency may have decided to amend Part 1, Section 3 of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution which bans public officers from operating foreign accounts, it was learnt. The Section reads: “The President, Vice-President, Governor, Deputy Governor, Ministers of the Government of the Federation and Commissioners of the governments of states, members of the National Assembly and of the Houses of Assembly of the states, and such other public officers or persons as the National Assembly may by law prescribe shall not maintain or operate a bank account in any country outside Nigeria.” A source, who is central to the coordination of the proposed amendments, said: “This is one of the issues we are throwing up for debate as part of the new constitution amendment process. “The Presidency has decided to amend the Constitution to own foreign accounts in line with global best practices. “All over the world, public officers are now allowed to operate foreign accounts. Since we live in a global village, Nigeria cannot be an exception. “Also, many Nigerians in the Diaspora are willing to return home to assist the nation in its development but this Section in the Fifth Schedule has been an hindrance. “When they come home to serve, they always leave their families abroad and it is always difficult for them because they used to close their accounts and run from pillar to post to remit upkeep allowances and school fees of their wards. “You do not need to invite professionals abroad home and allow them to suffer.” Replying a question, the source also added: “By allowing operation of foreign accounts, the presidency is also trying to liberalise the environment to prevent money laundering by public officers. “With the present law in place, many public officers have been operating foreign accounts secretly using pseudonym or some agents. “That is why you see our public officers stashing funds in coded accounts abroad. Many of these ex-governors, ex-Ministers, Senators and public officers have died without any access to such foreign accounts by even their immediate family not to talk of the Federal Government. “There is a case of a former governor with $6million in a coded account in Cayman Island but nobody in his family knew about it. With time, the money will be forfeited to the host country. “Once public officers are now allowed to operate foreign accounts, all the host countries of looted funds will no longer allow coded accounts and the government thorough anti-corruption agencies will be able to monitor all these accounts of public officers, their relatives and associates from time to time. “The essence is to lift the veil off these public officers with secret accounts abroad.” The source added that the government will however “strengthen Financial Intelligence Unit of anti-corruption agencies to monitor all these accounts in collaboration.

THE NATION, Tuesday, August 09, 2011




Aloota continua

@ George_D
Bros how you dey?

What of the sponsored pilgrimmages?

Exponental:
D pix dos nt portray d topic.
It's more of an accident. If he was arrestd 4 one way, I think its nt bad.
Traffic Violation or driving against traffic is a Safety Offence!

My sentiments exactly. Currupt the LASTMA are, notwitstanding they provide a little sanity on the road.

Thanks George_D
Improving your battery bank for like 2-3 days autonomy will help in period of adverse weather like these.

Have a nice week.

Thanks George_D. Here in lagos its been mostly dark cloud cover and few rain. The picture of the indoor remote unit is attached.

Am anticipating a time when the nigerian government will do mass importation of solar panel and sell at subsidised rate to people.
Some american companies sell as low as $1.48 per watt. If individuals can form cooperatives and do bulk purchases it will further reduce the initial overhead hurdle.

^^^^
Not so my friend, big things start small. I started with inverters charging from nepa.

@George_D
It varies from day to day. Cummulatively after 5 days, I have generated about 50kwh which is not too good, cos its been mostly cloudy in lagos. But it will get better than that when its sunny again.
I manage my power with my timer switches: the big consumer my fridge and freezer runs from 8am to 7pm. The electronics, I cannot put on timer because I need it to be available on demand.
The battery banks are still fully charged and the system runs itself like a clock. My brother, what more can a man ask for.

Enjoy!

@George_D
I will inform my friend, and as soon as he has any available, I will contact you.

Enjoy!

@Life707
Yes you are correct. My friend who suppplied mine, uses the same type in his home for some 3yrs now and he has no complaints.

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These plug-in timer switches are very useful for efficient power mgt. I use them for my fridge and freezer. Its programmable for the time interval /days of the week you want the device to operate. It's cheap as well. I bought mine for £3 each.

George_D:
akanniade,
how true! all talk and no action won't cut it for solar.

saturday was a bit heavy for me at work so wasn't around to recieve your call.
kindly drop your number in my mailbox. let me call you instead.

thanks.

My number is in your box. Thanks

@life707

2 banks were fairly used. They were being replaced with more compact models in the base station. Its the 2v/400AH type.

George_D
sorry, about the mail. I actually called on saturday but it was before 9pm. It rang but no response.
I think our people are more interested in what they understand and can show off.

I got to lagos on sat. I loaded my solar system since yesterday morning and am on day 2 running.

Cost breakdown of my system.

Solar panels - N70,000 *24 panels(140W each)= N1,680,000
Metal frame support (also serves as my car shade)= N180,000
Flexmax80 mppt charge controller = N150,000
Tripplite 6Kva pure sine wave inverter = N450,000
Deep cycle batteries (3 banks of 48v) = N280,000, I got a good bargain from my telecoms friend
Racks and accesories = N50,000

Total= N2,655,000
All the installation I did, by myself.

That ended my association with nepa.

will do that.

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Load testing with a 2.4KW electric kettle

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