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AleAirHub:I'll check out the links. Of course from my earlier patronage of your services, I was equally explicit in the item description and I later reasoned that it made procurement easy. You thereafter offered another alternative. Then i can remember my response was "I trust your discretion to get quality, so go ahead with the processing" Well the deal was worth it. And the item is still strongly serving its purpose till date. Thank you for that. |
abbeyforex:This is good, very good. I guess I'm still gonna make use a lotta tutoring before swimming this ocean, except of course I'm ready to learn the hard way like AleAirHub did But bro, I nor envy those your experiences o I'd rather lean on consultants for direction than plunge in.My plan B? I think I may have to consider the option of group importation, or at least invest in someone with the right ideas. But these days, sincerity, honesty and uprightness which are needed to engender trust are hard to come by in people. |
keeeem:Maybe they are in the process of pulling that GTB stunt of few weeks back on unsuspecting victims. I suggest you approach with caution. All your senses alert to the prowling enemy. |
miky:Slow down on the blame on this one. Burn injuries especially deep dermal and third degree like this have serious morbidities and mortalities that accompany it. Infections set in and even brought about by the most antibiotic resistant bugs. You are right about the dearth of effective Medicare in the country though, but even in advanced economies, serious burn injuries come with severe morbidities and mortalities that may not be too different from what obtains here. |
Here's the catch y'all. The mug shot put up by the security agencies is what you need to reckon with. The real names and data are all what the mug shot indicate cos that is the name she actually bears and what goes into records. That is Obiageli Nwagu. Now back to why the OP smuggled in Funmilayo. It may be to discourage the usual joy of the "NCAN" or whatever the call 'emselves when meals like this are offered on the plate. This is in my opinion is not entirely bad if it's to put in check tribal vitriol. Sadly, the link is not a very reliable one in itself else I would have clicked on it to get the "non-doctored" version of the news at least for personal information.
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DJEhimond:I have this 8" Win 8 tab. It has a mini USB port (which I still assume is only for charging) and another port just below it (dunno the function but I assume it'll be for connecting peripherals). What cable do you use for the OTG of your winpad? NB: I got the pad with wireless keyboard new, but the user manual offers nothing helpful on that port. |
spacyzuma:Thanks bro. Already had it done. Can't say if it had something to do with location access anyways, cos I always have location on. |
spacyzuma:Lol. I use my devices heavily, and I mean heavily, ever since Symbian days. If you use your IE browser majorly, you may notice some serious hogging of RAM. Trying to still stay within the stable 8.1 ecosystem and edging on to further the war for disk space, I am thinking of securing a L1520 32gig variant and have a 128 gig SD card popped inside. Used to have my 16 gig Nokia N8 blessed with a 32gig SD (that's an impressive 48gig as at that time), not to talk of it's added advantage of USB OTG. The limitations to use then was only ROM space, not RAM. But this L920 eh, na wa for am. |
UjSizzle: I wish I could help it, especially that "system file". I have had to start removing several seldom used apps that I have loved to keep on the device.By the way, I eventually got that StanbicIBTC app installed. Just woke up in the middle of one night and restarted the installation. Fiam! It went thru ![]()
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AleAirHub: Months ke?! With the vastness of knowledge base you have acquired in this terrain directly, indirectly and the painful experiences and losses in your sojourn as you recanted earlier, answering this should be a walk over for you o. Abi you no know say you be consultant already ni? ![]() Anyways please don't forget to forward those quotations to the email given above. I await your reply. |
winetapper:Thanks s'much. Your answers do enough justice. I think the issue lies in the fact that I assume people just import first, then think of marketing it. They most likely have done market surveys, underground works and logistics to know what commodities will sell before they move the next step. The current exchange rate hasn't been of a major issue or deterrent to me in most ways (well, save for the fact that hard currencies ain't readily available as before), but I don't have this gift of persuasion in marketing, I must confess. And perhaps it doesn't have to be innate, maybe it can be learned. But before I learn that strategy of persuasion, I guess I'll remain in winetapper's category of importation for personal use ![]() |
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AleAirHub:Alright. So let's do some talking. First, I wonder how this importation thingy works as regards reselling and making profits. I have done one or two, right (just two WiFi routers I got on Aliexpress for 6k each and re-sold at 10k each), but I wonder , can one go major on this? One reason is this: Assuming I use procurement services like yours, I calculated the amount I'll spent at the end of it all (purchase, procurement and shipping) will be very close to the amount this item is being sold by every other merchant here in 9ja. So how the heck do guys make profits on these stuffs? It beats me. I have imported coupla things majorly for personal use (electronic components, LED grow light fittings and other solar power components). Some of these things I later "angrily thought" can be manufactured here with the right incentives, of course some of the raw materials may still have to be imported while some can be sourced for locally. I am about making some feasibility studies on that though. That is just some of my thoughts echoed for you to know. Please answer that my first question on how re-sellers reconcile that profit thingy. Having said those, please give me the full financial implications (preferably broken down into cost price, procurement and shipping) of these two items having the pictures attached: 1. 24 volts DC solar operated chain drive Sliding gate opener (pictures 1 & 2) The one in the link is driven by rack and pinion gear coupling. There may be issues with sourcing for replacement racks in the future (no merchant in 9ja stocks it), so I will prefer one that is "Chain driven". You can easily get to buy your chains in auto shops in Nigeria. https://detail.1688.com/offer/1283670913.html?spm=0.0.0.0.PaKS2o 2. 40 watts Portable solar home system (picture 3) I haven't the link to this item, but I'm hoping this picture will do justice to help you understand what it is. For those price quotations and breakdowns, reply preferably to my mail: smartintelle at gmail dot com For the other questions, please reply here for the benefit of other members. NB: I have utilized your services for procurement and shipping once before (around January). I am pleased with the result. Please handle this with the same dedication.
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amtaken:What?! So why don't you avail the whole world and especially the EFCC pictures of BAT's kids living ostentatiously, prove the monies were truly proceeds of illegal enrichment and see if you won't get the attention and support you crave. Before that though, let your opposition be reasonable and stop justifying evil because of your selfish intense hatred for anything that gives hope to the Nigerian people **** |
babafemi1000:Read this to find out how you may harness solar energy to drive major light loads on 12 volt/24 volt devices/appliances. https://www.nairaland.com/2777363/aluminium-stone-coated-tiles-things/3#45057032 |
dragunov:I think it's better to just leave 'em guys and let their tantrums slide. They actually come across as having the bad day but looking around for peeps to dump the garbage on. I'm sure you have greater concerns than two unknown, perhaps inconsequential faces. |
They (commonly called POP lights by most people) are absolutely replaceable. The ones you refer to in the picture are called "recessed" ceiling lights as against the few bigger ones which are "surface mounted". The recessed ones give a nice continuous-like appearance to your work but its use requires you cutting holes in the jobs which doesn't matter if finely cut. LED lights half lifespan (time at which the light intensity decays by half) averages between 50,000 to 100,000 hours if left working 24 hours - that's 3-4 years of continuous working. In replacement, the common option is to go for an entire unit either wholly (i.e. with the LED driver/choke) or if the driver still functions, the bulb unit partly. What I improvised however is to get the LED chips itself. About 100 pcs of chips may cost you about $5 - $20 USD depending on the power and type of the chip. Once a bulb starts diming out relative to others, I simply pull out the unit, desolder the chip and solder on a new chip. 5 minutes, you are in and out and home dry. A lotta guys don't yet know a thing or two about their works. When they try to prove knowing everything about it, they mislead people. There is where the opener of the thread got is right. He appears to be open to novel ideas from professionals and non-professionals alike. I take care to watch 'em do their jobs and learn a thing or two from there, then consolidate on what I've learnt. I'm still working out time to put to use the few things I picked from watching the guys that did my POP and execute a few designs myself just for the fun of it. |
dest4real:Stanbic. Haven't utilized that feature of theirs though, but amongst other things like their competitive dollar exchange rate (which sadly has now been eroded), their DCC and Minimum Basic Allowance features are the reasons I opened an account with 'em 2 months ago. |
Busbus2:http://thenationonlineng.net/fethi-workers-accuse-cmd-using-juju-kill-colleagues From the part of the country I reside, the news of the excesses of this guy rents the air. Apparently, he already is exposed. This may be his last public "assassination" stunt, for he is reputed to have gotten away with several ones. According to the news, there are already 42 deaths of staff members in the 42 months of sway of the dude. That's even a conservative figure, the exact number nearing 51 victims. And one thing that is bothersome though; as reported in that link, each time a MEMBER OF HIS STAFF dies, he gives specific instructions to the hospital head of security not to allow the corpse into the hospital premises, even if it's to use the mortuary facilities. In the same vein, the latest two victims are embalmed in another facility kilometers away when they could have been kept at the place they worked till death which is even closer to their proposed places of interment. If this trend could baffle I as an outsider, I can imagine what would be going thru the minds of those that work there. |
dubemnaija:The mishap happened on a very good road. Straight, double carriageway with dividers, tarred with no bumps or portholes whatsoever for tens of kilometers: On an expressway dude! |
kokoA:In a attempt to put the situation under control, the police tried to grab the jerry can from the na.ked dude who in turn parried that move. |
nnachukz:Just the transient darkness before the light. At least for once Nigerians have someone who is prepared to fight the evils headlong rather than looking away when tens of his subordinates loot on, fill their own pockets with the funds he voted to solve problems and give him cooked feedback results that things are getting better. |
GadgetsCo:Bro. Here is how it works, at least for me. I just get 1 or 2 pcs of the real stuff, note the components and just import 'em. Reverse engineer and couple the rest myself. That way I don't have to fear getting replacements of whole units since I have the replacement components. The attached picture is just a tiny part of my collection. Note in the picture, there are two LED lights that we all may be familiar with. I got the first 2 units of the white 3W SMD on the right (commonly called POP light by Igbo traders) from an Igbo merchant at 1k4 apiece. Accidentally days after I bumped on sellers online that give it out for cheaper and with better quality (I want to avoid quoting the price here, but it's a loooot cheaper). So I imported just enough to clear my installations and a lil more for tweaks, moddings, experiments and errors before I actually convert/mod the whole bunch to my taste. It's a 3W LED panel light and with an AC 80v to 220v led PWM led driver. There you can see the AC led driver has been removed and instead installed two in-line resistors (combined in parallel to obtain the desired resistance) to act as a current limiting resistor for a 12 volt DC source. I aimed at 0.9 watts power consumption instead of the factory 3 watts, of course with some reduction in lumen output, but definitely resulting in an extension of average half life of the LED chips. Average LED chip half life is 50,000 to 100,000 hours if left working for 24/7. You do the math. Still in the picture, you can see a reel of spare 5730/5630 smd LED chips that that particular POP light uses. All I just need do is solder in chips that have their lives spent, in the next 4 or so years. Another familiar item in the picture is the aluminium cased POP LED light on the left. The one in the picture is 1 watt (contains 1 watt cree LED chip) cos 1 watt is exactly what I need. There are 3 watts, 4 watt, 7 watts, 20 and even 80 watts containing 3, 4, 7, 20 pcs 1 watt or 3 watt chip as the case may be. You will notice its factory AC LED driver close to it, with a male clip. But I don't need 220volts AC. So what I did was to get a 1 watt 12volt G4 LED driver with a male clip and just inserted it into the female socket already on the POP light. Viola, you get yourself a 12 volt 1 watt POP light. Since the driver was imported and for the sake of convenience, I imported components of it and constructed a few more drivers myself. In the picture too, you'll see a transparent sachet bag containing tiny pieces of pure white epistar 1 watt LED chip (1 also have another bag containing about 50pcs of warm white). Each bag of 50 chips set me back by about $2.50 (600 naira). So once the POP light chip completed its work in 4 years, I just pick one piece of those and solder it in. That saves me the trouble of having to visit the Igbo trader's shop and haggle 1k7 for the price of another complete unit. I have used a few of the 1 watt chip to DIY different types of light combinations and power consumption to light places like steps, under-railings and flower beds. As for lamp holders, I have various types all at dirt cheap prices in my collections (G4, E14, E27 etc.) I even have simple lamp holder converters (E27 to E14, etc). All these serve my need for tweaks, mods and DIYs and replacements. I have little reason to visit our 9ja shops to buy 'em at inflated prices. Other stuffs in that picture are resistors. So what do I really mean to say with all the above, I want to cut to the barest minimum my reliance on Nigerian traders to get some stuffs reason not because I don't have the money, but because I notice Nigerian traders unduly inflate these prices so much that we begin to look at such things as luxury whereas in actual fact they are not. I like how the average comfortable American handle his DIYs ranging from paintings to constructions to auto repairs and interior deco. Note that I don't toy with 220 volts mains im case of appliances that require such in my home. I still rely heavily on outsourced electricians to handle that for me. This is not to spoil markit for you bro. But that's how I prefer to roll. Get the simplest things to make the most complex and sophisticated appearance out there. Has worked so far.Oh, did I mention that my DSTV decoder runs smoothly on 12 volt DC direct? Yeah, I have clocked 12 straight hours on a single charge using one of my small portable solar home systems. So you can always have it connected to small TVs that also run 12 volt DC.
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EgunMogaji:Exactly. Flexibility and upgradeability is the fun of it all. |
This dude displayed a rather informal way to jump a long queue for PMS. Perhaps a transient moment of frustration and pain may have pushed him to do the unthinkable. Few days ago in a similar show of frustration, a man had voiced out in a the viral video where the interviewed man said he wished "all Nigerians will just die, including the politicians while this country should just disappear and go to extinction". Available video (5mb) can't be uploaded.
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otiigba1:Probably when they were first caught, they were striped na.ked and beaten. When you remove your trousers in haste, it usually gets turned inside out. So when the police waded in, they needed to have them dressed up and even had to wear back the trousers amidst heavy slaps and kicks from the policemen. Hence no time to get their trousers rightly before putting it on. |
Oluwacolded:My MO is to prolong their calls for as long as possible by tryna play along. Put on speaker phone for friends around to enjoy the conversations and have such recorded as well. Then when I'm tired of the joke, I end the phone call with massive KO vituperations. If the scammer calls for few seconds and asks me to call back, hin never ready to do business be that. |
senatorbayor:For goodness sake, I didn't tweet this. PDP is the originator and they have their senators in the house too. So if you choose to believe the 108 that investigations revealed and substantiated by the beneficiaries or the 36 that's an afterthought aimed at PR damage repair and saying the public is left to you. |
pragmatistm: I'm not an engineer. You may see me as a tinkerer though. Tinkering is just a hobby that I have had since I learnt to crawl.3W, 7W and 10W LED lights produce approximately the same lumen output that 15W, 25W and 40W CFL energy saving bulbs respectively produce, maybe even better lumen but at much reduced power consumption. CFL lamps are those small coiled fluorescent bulbs that is a common sight. If you initially use CFL and have 'em changed to LED bulbs for your inverter, you may almost double your battery life back-up depending on the number of CFL bulbs you were using. Please what low power refrigerator did you just talk about? Let me in on it. |
Tuktuk:If you are a handyman, then you may be able to do some of those DIYs and mods. I got the portable solar home systems (btw 11,600k to 35k depending on the mAH and number of bulbs) from sellers on Konga. Got about four units that can power the lighting points of all seven rooms and security lights for 20 straight hours on a single charge. Solar charge controllers (majorly PWM types) as I plan to reverse engineer some of those portable solar systems and then have them powered by your regular Li-ion power bank battery pack. As for the energy saving LED bulbs, I went for 1 watt high power Cree LEDs instead of 3watts Cree LEDs since a single 3 watts source can be made to supply 3 x 1 watt LEDs and made to light 1, 2 or 3 rooms depending on the brightness you want. In case of SMD low power smd LED chips (5050, 2835, 5630 etc), I got the 3watt flat panel POP lights (that's what Igbo traders commonly call it). Note that these are originally designed to be powered by 230 volts AC. You need to jettison the attached AC drivers and then use resistors and diodes as current limiting devices to reduce their power consumption from about 3.2watts to 0.9 watts apiece. The brightness will reduce, but that's what you need to trade for prolonged battery life and also prolonged LED chip life since the current you drive thru them is reduced. I got other components imported. They are components - hence not sold by your regular Konga or Ibo merchant - that you need in your assemblage or modding process. : Constant current LED drivers - I later reverse engineered some and proceeded to import the components and have more drivers constructed myself and to my taste. : Resistors, Capacitors, Diodes, transistors, Inductors, Integrated Circuits, SMD LEDs, high power Cree LEDs, Circuit boards, power banks, buck and boost voltage converters and constant current - constant voltage converters, etc : For automation, i got PIR sensors, Light dependent switches, solenoid valves. : Power tools - I tried as much as possible to get those that don't depend on 240v AC. 18 volt rechargeable power drill/screwdriver, 12volt rotery saw cutter. I just came across a USB powered 5volt soldering iron that I'm expecting the delivery. This is as far as I can remember for now. |
Candour:Like I said, I totally made the light points in the house independent of a central inverter. All the light points run on 12 volts DC direct. Some decorative LED strips even run on 5 volts USB source. Note that I have some standing fans and ceiling fans solar powered and rechargeable also running on 12volt DC. As for the 240 volts points (wall sockets), I had all that routed to the 240 volts inverter, and for now, that is what I do. However later on, I still plan to decentralize that inverter as needed. A different inverter and battery bank for the kitchen/fridge and water dispenser, a different set up for the sitting rooms gadgets and at least 2 set ups to handle the four bedrooms. The reason I think this is better is cos I don't have to always leave inverters on just to switch on lights in any if the rooms or even leave it working while I travel - the portable solar systems handle those ones. Also like you said that wify powers her blender on the inverter and probably several other heavy gadgets loaded on a central inverter which you couldn't monitor while you were away, and getting home in the morning from overnight work and need to watch TV or something, I realize there is not much juice left in the battery bank. If you decentralize, you need not worry about much about shedding loads. If she like make she exhaust the kitchen supply , I go still get power to watch my TV.Having said that, totally going off grid is an initially expensive process, but on the long term profitable. My DIY approach and strategy especially to the low voltage range (non-220 volt terrain) has been able to save money and stress associated with broken inverters that you need to always call and wait weeks for the installers to come repair. |
Candour:Sincerely, as for powering the air conditioner, I am still at crossroads. The one I have installed just lies fallow working only when the power generator is on. Direct Current (solar powered) air conditioners are available just as for DC refrigerators, but it is still not a common sight in Nigeria and therefore such may have to be imported at exorbitant prices. I have been doing some researched online on ways to tweak an existing 230volt/120volt Alternating Current air conditioner to run 12volt or 24 volt which makes the possibility of it running on solar possible. Haven't even tried hooking it up to a power inverter cos I know say Na gbege to dey power AC with inverter. |
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But bro, I nor envy those your experiences o
I'd rather lean on consultants for direction than plunge in.


