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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 8:42pm On Jun 15, 2019 |
dapsyra: The problem is few people intentionality willfully abuse their system. For majority abuse happens when you use the wrong components. Wrong charger wrong BMS or even the wrong Lithium packs. Which again is why I said Lithium works best in a closed loop system where all is considered where the coupling integration is all done for the user with safety and anti abuse measures built in. This is what tesla brings to the table.. A Turnkey solution. And it is what you get with your smartphone everything is well designed to the point u don't even know what battery tech powers it. Most phones u can't even see the battery or remove it. The skill level of installing lithium in a traditional good ol clubber together assembled offgrid setup is very high the number of things that have to be just right is alot and margin of failure very very thin. The cost is so much that you just have to get it right the first time or millions go down the drain (if you are lucky) 3 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 7:28am On Jun 15, 2019 |
pranil:Thanks for posting this. This is great news and makes me a bit more optimistic about Lithium although it does little to change my current stand that Lithium works best when procuredas an integrated all in one plug and play package. This is where it shines. We have a 150k dollars solar project at work and i am recommending we use lithium because at that scale and the money involved it is a no brainer. But for the average solar DIY Turnkey plug and play solutions are totally out of reach for now. And the time value of money and the huge thin margin of failure involved in assemblying lithium battery packs made up of different independent components clubbered together together to work as a unit is something I am not ready to dabble in. I don't have that much money to waste. The day we have a knock on wood lithium battery based solution plug and play and within reach then count me in. For now lithium would be solution for enterprise, large scale project, and specialised applications like mobile and auto where the economy of scale makes it a no brainer 3 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 5:53am On Jun 14, 2019 |
Everything that has been said about proponent of Lithium all goes to reaffirm my believe about the tech and why I still maintain that for DIY and mainstream solar user Lithium is not there yet. It is still too expensive, complicated and potentially dangerous. Yes advance in portable and mobile tech would not have been possible without lithium which is exactly where lithium shines best. Close loop applications where it is designed as a one piece solution with charging battery monitoring all built in and the whole system is offered as a one piece machine. This is what you get with a laptop and electric car and mobile phone. The lithium battery is part of a whole. It is what tesla offers and it is why tesla power pack sells. The thing about such systems is that they are very very expensive more expensive than even buying battery packs in isolation and then assembling it into a power backup solution.. In fact in middle income countries like Australia such systems are so expensive that they are ownship cost is spread over 4 to 10 years where the owner pay small small. Now this does not mean u can not diy lithium it just means the level of skill and time required is very high and margin of error very very thing.. One bad move and if u are lucky your bank will fail other wise you are playing with fire. Someone talked about finding the right BMS digging through the Chinese Market or getting an American brand then the right charger and right balancer this things are not easy and sometimes by the time u realise you have the wrong component it is already too late.. For lithium given the cost often time such mistakes can be very expensive. Same thing can not be said for lead which can be quite forgiven. You can assemble an offgrid bank easily and cheaply buying off the shelf components. Worse that can happen is your battery don't get improper charge and even this can be remedied if you notice quickly. Lastly the notion that lithium will get cheaper as production ramps up is not backed by reality. Lithium is made from rare earth materials which are not easily available. This is why it is expensive in the first place. There are few places in the world with large deposit of lithium and as it becomes indemand the price would go down as producing becomes efficient up to a point then it will go up as demand begin to out stripe supply and we would be back to cartel system we see with oil where lithium countries try to control price to make more money. Lithium has its applications no doubt especially with mobile tech ie laptop, phones, auto.. It is still a long way from being defacto standard for home use. And when I say long I am looking at 5 to 8 years. And the future of lithium lies in all in one closed loop systems not the voltron system we see with lead acid. The only person who currently uses a lithium system for his offgrid on here got some of the best lithium battery cell and from a classified project.. That alone should tell you something. 2 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 7:56am On Jun 07, 2019 |
wirinet: Let us take this off the realm of theory and talk practical. My first solar batteries were 2 Flooded acid non premium tubular batteries with worse rate of discharge and even worse charge rate compared to an AGM. I had 2 for a 2br apartment attached (first to a 480w solar array, and upgraded over the space of 14 months to a 1.84kw array).. Those batteries ran for over 3 years (In fact one got bad due to earlier electrolyte spillage which was the second battery was still waxing strong) Those batteries served me for 3 years (Including 1 year completely offgrid) The powered fridge, freezers, washing machines and the whole shebang of running a house hold of 4, laptop over 4 charging, 2 tvs, 4 fan etc. 3 good years that is about 900 cycles from a 5kwh battery system I goes for 200k today's money. Lithium is sexy and cool and it seems to be the future, but right now, lithium still has many quirks to address before it becomes mainstream. It is still too delicate, damn expensive and bleeping complicated to use. The biggest concern I have with lithium is the tech is fast evolving, any thing you buy now is bound to be obsolete very soon. Lastly Lithium works best when it is used as a complete turnkey all in one intergrated solution not the Frankenstein mix mash setup common with Lead acid batteries where Battery is different from inverter which is different from controller. A all in one integrated package like the tesla is where Lithium shines the best.. and such solutions are so damn expensive that even in OECD counties like US and Australia such systems are deployed on a pay small small bases with payment scheme sometimes running to over 10 years. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 7:32am On Jun 07, 2019 |
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 1:51pm On May 18, 2019 |
Namzy:One of the weak points of fangpusun is equalisation is automatically timed and decided by the cc charge algorithms which sometimes is too conservative. What you can do is to restart the charging process by turning of the pv input and pvoutput forcing it to restart the charging process. You might also considering forcing it by increasing the absorption voltage if you will not be at home in which case auto equalization will become useless to you. You can also increase the frequency to maybe every 10 days? |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 1:12am On May 12, 2019 |
Saipro:Me labout 3 years ago. I tried all that trick and still have the 150/45 fangpusun under a able somewhere in retirement. Hoping to one day put it under the axe and use the internals while secretly waiting for the hardware hacker community to take up the challenge.. maybe someday. I hope u succeed way I did not. |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 9:15am On May 09, 2019 |
olatade:used it with tubular battaries for 3 years. No issues |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 12:23pm On May 07, 2019 |
NiyiOmoIyunade: My 3rd year on the fangpusun clone and not a single problem.. Note that I ran through 3 epsolar models of cc before finally settling on the bluesolar clones. The only time I had issues was when I installed a firmware update from victron and promptly had the clones killed. Fangpusun is the company promptly sent me a replacement after I explained the issue with them. I have been so impressed by the fangpusun devices that I am considering going the original victron as a show or appreciation for designing such a fantastic program. 2 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 3:47pm On May 05, 2019 |
chris81964:Probably true. My figures are from my experience in abuja. Using hard data collected over a 3 year period some of which can be verified from my signature. My panels it should be noted are barely tier 2 and with a battery capacity of 5kwh.. Are grossly over sized. 2 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 5:17am On May 05, 2019 |
mctfopt:not at peak though.. generations usually peak between 11 - 1 and subsequently drops off. The standard practice is to use the 77% rule which will account for heat, wiring and charge controller related loses. do your calc with 77% of the capacity of the solar panel hence 300 x 0.77 = 231 231 * 5 = 1,155 using 5 hours is also a safe bet. Such calculation as this should err on the safe side and as such should focus on a minimum average 2 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 5:54pm On Apr 29, 2019 |
Barezzi: Bro. How area. Abeg ping me backstage i lost your number during a phone swap. 1 Like |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 9:22pm On Apr 28, 2019 |
duwdu: Thanks for the update. |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 4:44pm On Apr 27, 2019 |
duwdu: If I am not mistaken the system you are monitoring is the axpert inverter? which communication media are you using? The supplied usb connection cable? I asked because that cable driver is an issue and I was only able to get it to work by treating it as a hardware input device and the hack was not that easy. How did you do the connection in your case? |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 5:06am On Apr 27, 2019 |
duwdu: welcome to the club bro. The system I setup some times in july last year is still running and has been logging away without issues. Even when I am out of the country, I can still always take a peep and see what is happening. Using the solar equipment with open communication port and documentations (Looking at Victron and to some extent some tracer and epsolar devices) is also very important if you are considering going this route. |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 8:18pm On Mar 30, 2019 |
4llerbuntu: Last time I spoke to Juo about the heat.. his response was "what heat?" I can not even begin to imagine how people are coping.. My friends keeps reminding me that the weather is not getting cooler |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 7:13am On Mar 30, 2019 |
JUO:Yes o, especially in Nigeria where there are often imported dry and then filled with "distilled" water by the merchant and subsequently sit idle in the wearhouse/shop until they are sold (in many instance at a longer than recommended partial state of charge leading to surlphation). Even at the best of conditions I have come to realise flooded batteries are not the best for offgrid use. Their low charge and discharge rate means you are unable to take advantage of the less than 5 hours peak sun time... unlike AGM which has ability to fast charge and can take close to 30% of it's rated capacity i.e a 100AH AGM can be charged at 30A while the flooded equivalent most not be charged at more than 13% or 13A to avoid damage. The periodic equalization and distilled water topping adds and extra layer of maintenance that becomes a chore especially if you have them in numbers exceeding 2.. Not many inverters supports equalization. Flooded does have its advantages, their are cheap, quite robust and can be easily diagnosed for problems.. they can also take some level of beating. Unfortunately from my experience, their advantages is seriously out weighed by their disadvantages 3 Likes |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 4:34pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
SOLD!! |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 12:15pm On Mar 11, 2019 |
cyif2003:you are welcome |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 4:36pm On Mar 10, 2019 |
esperiense:If you are really interested and serious *call* my number. 2 Likes |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 1:56pm On Mar 10, 2019 |
dirtycoin: Lokogoma. Give me a call if you are serious. |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 11:55am On Mar 10, 2019 |
I got calls regarding the battery life. The laptop lasted 5 hours watching a movie while unplugged. |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 11:54am On Mar 10, 2019 |
dirtycoin:brand new online from amazon UK. I have the online invoice. |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 11:54am On Mar 10, 2019 |
cyif2003:+ 40k. don't even call me if you don't have 135k |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 10:01pm On Mar 09, 2019 |
cyif2003: Internal Battery Front Li-Polymer 3-cell (23.5 Wh) and rear Li-Polymer 3-cell (26 Wh), both integrated Rest of the specifications are here https://www.lenovo.com/ng/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/ThinkPad-T460s/p/22TP2TT460S |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 4:44am On Mar 09, 2019 |
Oshomo12:You have said it all. This is a case of a bad battery. Under 2 months says it is bad from the factory so you best recourse is to have it replaced. 2 Likes |
Technology Market / Re: Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 4:20am On Mar 09, 2019 |
divo:14 inch 2.3 - 2.8 GHz The T4** series of thinkpads are all 14 inch. This is the slimer version of the flagship Tseries. |
Technology Market / Clean Thinkpad T460s 140k SOLD by bigrovar(m): 3:39pm On Mar 08, 2019 |
Neatly used Thinkpad T460s ultrabook. Specification: Intel (Skylake) Core i5 12GB Ram DDR4 256GB SSD NVME (4 times faster than normal SSD) Finger Print Reader Backlit Keyboard 1080p Screen resolution Antiglare screen Screen size 14 inch 3G/LTE Sim card support Reason for sale: I got an upgrade (The t470s) Location: Abuja
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 12:18pm On Mar 01, 2019 |
Namzy: Equalisation can only be enabled through the victron connect software for victron charge controllers. The particular brand of fangpuson u are using is a clone of the victron mppt bluesolar controllers. Since late 2016, victron have made it difficult to use their official victron connect software with the fangpusun clones.. Often times they inject a silent kill switch to the fangpunsun which gradually kill the controller. This happens when you try to connect the fangpusun with a victron connect software (least from november 2016).. It was because of this issue that fangpunsun starting making a "*new*" bluesolar with a new casing that comes without the victron connect port hence making it impossible for users of their product to mess with victron software and end up causing damage. Your options are in 2 folds. 1 find online an older version of the victron connect app (I am using version 1.7) and that seem to work without issues. Once you get this you ccan connect it to the fanpusun cc with the ve usb port. The newer models without the port on the surface can still be used but it would need to be opened up. The best and easiest option 2 is to just manually increase your absorption charge voltage to 15.5 per 12v and ensure you maintain this for close to 2 hours. This is pretty much what absorption charge does anyway. The downside is you lose automatic equalization which is suppose to happen once every 30 month at least. But trust me, you always want to be there when equalizing batteries just to keep an eye on things so option 2 might not be as bad as it sounds. 2 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 7:58pm On Feb 28, 2019 |
I have a used 5kva 48v ipowerplus solar inverter for sale. It has been in use for about a year in a server data center. It is been sold due to upgrades. The system is in perfect working order. The ipowerplus is a white labelled axpert inverter mks 5kva. 120k SOLD 1 Like |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 12:14pm On Feb 28, 2019 |
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 11:06pm On Jan 16, 2019 |
Malevonent: You are right on the mark. 2 250w panels for a 48v setup is essentially running your mppt as a pwm. There is little or no head room at all and your system will have little tolerance for voltage loss. 1 Like |
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