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CuteMaro:
Update from mrreed's battery.

Actual capacity is 320 ah more than the 314 ah quoted.

At that price this is the best deal you can find anywhere.


Thanks to everyone that has contributed one way or another on this forum, I was able to set up my inverter parameters successfully through the knowledge acquired here for free (My installer is more of an old-school guy but did a very neat and impressive job)

What wire size did u use from battery to inverter?
Since you using 24v system it'll be cool you use 2awg size coz of high amps if you one day use a high inductive device on your system like pump or AC or iron. You could draw 80-120a. But if you don't use any of these then 16-25mm 3-4awg that you seem to be using could go.

HeavenlyBang:
There's no usable power above 54.8v anyway, since a 16S Lifepo4 rests at under 54.2v usually. Not sure what the complaint is.

If your battery is full, why would you need it to constantly be charging even when above 54.8v? The moment you load the battery it'll rapidly drop below that 54.8v and charging begins again.

You can safely keep LFP floating at 56v sef. That's not too high for safe floating. 56.4v upwards is what i personally avoid (that's just me).
Your LFPs rest at 54.2v with load and no charge current? Wow. All the LFP i see, with load, they rest at about 53.1v and they stay there for a long straight curve. Cworth rests at 52.9v sef which makes me suspect their cells.

So you saying yours rest at 54.2v or 27.1v or 13.55v? Wow

Most infections enter via the pores of your skin and not through the urinal tract.
A little sore or cut can give you an infection from an infected person.

That's why it is said that those who don't shave have less chance of infection compared to those with clean shaves.

That jbond that brought negative energy in here just made me get banned.
I had to say my mind and the platform banned me. It's good he didn't get to see it though.

We don't need such negative energy here

ibietela2:
Lol… except maybe by the window

I was giving him a sarcastic answer. Even buy window it won't work. I wonder how he wants to get sky from inside his house

ijeezlux:
I live in the ground floor of a one storey building, and it's not possible to mount starlink mini on the roof cos of landlord wahala. Is it possible to use starlink mini inside my house?

If inside your house somehow has direct view to the skies without obstruction, why not, you can use it in the house.

Someone that was already married to bench.
This is his second wife

ijeezlux:
Please who can recommend a good powerbank that can power starlink mini for up to 8hrs. Will be very grateful. I need an answer. God bless you

All those 2000w power station can

Juror:
Check your setting [37], what value do you have there ?

This did it oh!
I checked and it was at 52v. The setting option says once the battery is tagged full according to settings, the inverter will stop charging the battery till the battery discharges and gets below a particular voltage point (which was set to 52.0v).
Why will SRNE have such unnecessary complications?
Any way, i set it to 54.8v which unfortunately is the highest it can set to. A minute or so after i applied the setting, for the first time ever the inverter started charging the battery in front of me. The "full" icon disappeared.

What this means is that, the inverter will now charge my battery to 56.0v (charge and float voltage i set it to) and then stop charging and will discharge the battery to 54.8v before picking up again to charge till 56.0v. What a pain? What now happens to the float setting that is at 56.0v? Its now useless?

The below image also shows that when it finally started charging, 3kw is coming from Sun, but only 24A is charging the battery which is around 1300w. Where did other power go to?

Why did people rate SRNE as top inverter when it has all these confusion in it?
Felicity is far better and straight forward than this SRNE.

Juror:
Check your setting [37], what value do you have there ?

Will check that tomorrow. I'm reading from the manual and that's a possible issue. Only that it's setting ranges from 44v-54v. Why will a full level stop at 54 which is low?

Will check tomorrow sha

Mrreed:
Can you check the individual voltage of the cells in your battery bank ? One of the cells getting to 3.65v before the others wil also stop charging

Wooo! That's a possibility. Will check that Bro

olopan:
Do a complete system reset to reboot your new setting with startup and see if the battery will accept the charge. Also to note is that if your current is high, it may be rejected, so watch out for that too.

Ahh. Wahala !
If current was high why did the inverter accept the panels without error msg? All these top brands and their wahala. I could've been very happy with my felicity oh.

Thanks a lot for the ideas. Will try tomorrow when next sun comes up

Hi guys!

This SRNE 10kva inverter has kept my battery charge stuck at 53.2v. That's far from full. There are 6kwh solar panels connected to it. But right now in hot sun, only the sun is carrying the load of the building (as set by user), and battery isn't discharging as we can see on the inverter.

My first guess was the float was set to 53.2v and that's why its like this.

Entering the settings, battery type is set to Li4. I changed it to USER and set bulk and float to 56.0v (thats my personal setting for all my LFP). Yet, nothing changed. Inverter still only getting the sun it needs to run the house and not charging the battery to set 56.0v.

Settings is such that only solar panels runs all loads.
Charging source is set to solar too. Though there's NEPA, the inverter is set to ignore it.

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

Battery is cworth 20kwh.

Need help for who understands this SRNE behavior

georgee:
I don't understand.

57K*12= 684K
My card detail is on my starlink profile and gets debited monthly.. I don't need to do anything. Starlink does the rest

So, kindly explain to me how 57K monthly is cheaper than 684K/year asides time value of money and the stress you go through when starlink debits your card monthly

My point exactly is that paying 57k monthly will be costlier than paying a single fee for a month.

georgee:
Who are we

If dem do one year sub at 620k, you no go prefer am over paying monthly?

Yearly is often cheaper.

HeavenlyBang:
That's funny because I could ask why exactly anyone would need the larger Starlink models when the Mini exists.

No one answered my main question which is, is mini tied to a fixed location that i can't move it from Lagos to Benin during same subscription?

Omoawoke:
Old men are dying after achieving all their life dreams..
You are mocking them.

You still have many years ahead.. you never become ordinary local government councilor

Go make your life achievement and even if you achieve nothing, at least pray to grow old and have children and grand children

Lol.
You don't even know who you are talking to apart from my moniker. You just made assumptions of what I am not and you thought you really ate with that comment.

One by one...
Dem don dey??


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yemkoguru:
by choosing outdoor AP, the will network still be visible indoors and strong

Al depends on your home, walls, materials of the above, and other obstructions.
One can't just give you a definitive answer

dustmalik:
No, you will need to pay 57k to activate it. If you're in an area where activation charge is mandatory, you will also need pay additional 400k.

No point buying Mini in Nigeria, unless you are in an Area where they don't charge activation fee. It doesn't make sense.

I also wondered why one will want to go for the mini.

Is the mini tied to a specific location too like standard? If not, maybe that may be why one will want it over standard.

paxonel:
your relationship with God has nothing to do with church.
John 3:16 says whosoever believes in him, not whosoever go to church.
first of all, you have to understand what your faith is.
Your faith is believing in Christ for your salvation. Is that synonymous to church going?
No!
if you truly want to attend church, make friends with people in church who they either benefit from you or you benefitting from them.
You must have a target of a tangible thing you want to achieve in church.
Whether you want to enjoy the relationship with the people or you may need some financial help which will require them seeing you coming to church all the time.

This one must be pentecostal.
See how you just summarised church as a place for financial connections. Big shameee.
Pentecostal churches are the biggest virus to Christianity. Christ has been eliminated from the centre and replaced with material Prosperity.
You said anyone who believes in him will be saved, instead same you changed the belief to tithe - whoever pays tithe will be saved.

Its all about money and prosperity and nothing again about Christ.

That's why people don't find Christ again in churches.

I love to just chill on Sundays, relaxing. I can't be stressing myself very early on a Sunday morning after having a hectic weekday plus Saturdays at times. Thankfully I can attend evening mass during the week so to me its not a must to go on Sundays.

I believe so far your relationship with God is good and you treat your fellow humans fairly, its not a must to go to church every Sunday. Some take church as a social club, some go on Sundays cuz they don't want people to start asking questions on why they didn't go. Nobody can dare ask me any question when its not like I come to beg you for anything so why would you want to dictate how I live my life. Whatever I choose to do on Sundays is between me and God and a pure heart is better than marching to church on Sundays.

I love how you said "according to me" and used "I" throughout.
Unfortunately, as a Catholic that you are, it's not about me and I. It's rather about Christ and His church. It's a divine law to observe the sabbath day which is now Sunday the day of resurrection. It's also an ecclesiastical law to attend mass every Sunday and failure to do so are mortal grave sins.

I also have my own sins i try so hard to justify with my own personal beliefs. But after a while i realise I'm deceiving myself and just looking for ways to continue in the wrong thing i want to be doing.

May God help you and me in our struggle for righteousness

DealHubNg:
Sorry, please do you have example?

There are various types for different scenarios. You need to know what kind of space you want to cover, target clients for it, walls or obstructions on the way, etc to make a good choice.
Get an IT guy who is into it to come see your space and the distance between you and the buildings you want to extend to.
If its just for your house, any tp-link with WDS is ok.
If its gen 2 and you want to do wired expansion which gives your best speed, then you must get starlink Ethernet adapter.

DealHubNg:
Please how do your wirelessly extend this to a few buldings away, say I want to give access to residents in a few buildings away?

By spending big money and buying routers that can do that. There are many and they can be moderately expensive. But it's a worthy one time investment to enjoy your starlink every where

DealHubNg:
Thanks.
Do you know how further 2.4GHZ can go, away from the walls of the building and fence?

Bro, won't solve your problem. The router doesn't have the best coverage and that's mostly coz starlink runs their frequencies on 40 / 80 MHz. They focus on speed and not on distance. Also their WiFi radio antenna not the best for distance.

Solution is to go buy a 3rd party router, link both up via cable or wirelessly and spread that WiFi to any where you want, even if you want to extend from your home to your work place 😁

easyyoke:
You said No AC, no Heat Pumps, just Fridge Freezer and other regular appliances that wont pass 4KW… So why are you looking at 11KW and 12KW inverters. Have you heard of something called idle power consumption of inverters before? The bigger your inverter, the higher the idle power consumption(meaning you will waste more of your battery). If your load is not more than 4KW, just buy Growatt SPF 5000ES from Fouani. If your load increases above 4000W in the future, you can buy a second SPF5000 as it allows you to do parallel connection

Its a 20 room house that could let in some crazy visitors any day though they mostly have at most 5-6 in the house.
That other empty end is to hold possible increase in house dwellers that could happen any time.

Mutmainneen:
If I understand correctly, is it illegal to download series or other entertainment services from third-party sites like we are used to with our local internet providers? Could this ever be grounds for banning people from accessing star link services that was paid for with our hard earned money?

Its clearly written in their AUP and user terms not to download illegal materials with their Internet.
Ideally they can ban you for continuous abuse of that.

But they just won't.

For America people dey go jail well for torrenting and illegal downloads. You go pay the company tire. People torrent there with VPN.
In Africa anti piracy laws just don't work that's why we can do it here without wahala.

Recommendation needed.

For big house with plenty rooms, no inductive loads of AC, heaters or pumps,.... Only fridges and freezers plus other stuffs that all in all won't pass 4kwh use...

What inverter you advice me to use between these?

Sako 11kw, Gospower 12kw, Cworth 12kw - all high frequency
Or felicity IVPM 10kva transformer based.

Need quality assurance for many years usage.

Help me with suggestion pls.

Finally got the dreaded warning from starlink that i infringed and downloading copyrighted materials illegally.

Reading the messager from the complainer, Paramount studios, they said I or someone using my Internet downloaded BILLIONS a paramount season series in FRENCH.

That's already a proof that it is not from my starlink. None of my users know French, apart from me sha. We never learn English not to talk of French.

I live near Benin Republic in northern Nigeria so i guess my starlink was among multiple starlinks sharing same public ip address when the material was downloaded. Guess i share ip address with Benin Republic guys.

Anyway. Got to know that starlink just, by obligation, needs to send that warning to everybody who were using the ip address at that point of time. They threaten with ban but i hear they'll never do so.

Someone once wrote to them saying he downloaded nothing and starlink told him they know but just had to send the warning to fulfil the law and the person should not worry.

Guess i shouldn't worry too.

dustmalik:
They use such charges to discourage people from getting onboard. They also do it overseas, not just here. In fact, in some parts of the US where capacity has been reached, they charge up to $1,000 activation fee. The idea is simply to discourage more customers from getting onboard, and it's legal.

And someone calmed the 400k activation was a mistake that will be rectified soon.
He's playing

Wish they produced a 48v version