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Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 5:48am On Jul 03, 2020

JESSE2:
This is the judgement from AliExpreess
What should i do?
Should i cancel nd reopen the dispute?
Because they sent me a message after my BP expired that i still have 15days to file a disput

Did the BP actually run out before you opened the dispute? Notice that phrase in the message: "since your package is still in transit time"

The "BP running out but item still in transit" reason is usually valid when BP has run out and there is tracking evidence in support of the claim. You may have to attach screenshots of the tracking as evidence that the item is still in transit.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 5:44am On Jul 03, 2020

Rajioba1:
Guys my package recently showed arrived destination country and then went back to despatch to overseas.
Has it arrived Nigeria?

Ha! This one is strong o.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 8:06pm On Jul 02, 2020

ojtech8291:
Since this place is quiet let drop another question.

Can One HA02 handle 4S5P battery bank?

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 7:53pm On Jul 02, 2020

JESSE2:
I hope the judgement from AliExpreess won't be invalid?

Arbitration will likely be in your favour.

Just make sure you reject the seller's proposal if he begs you to "please cancel the dispute". He will then be saying some rubbish about refunding you using PayPal or paystack or some shyte like that as if na everybody get PayPal. Once you cancel, na chase you go dey chase am to pay you your money.

Nonsense guys.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 3:59am On Jul 02, 2020

brainhack:
1.5KVA Inverter + 200 mah batteries (x 2) for sale (used - over 2 years old but still in top like-new condition cuz I never connected heavy appliances to it). I called a technician to test it recently, yes - still in top condition.

The last time I tested it myself with;
1) 40” Samsung Curve TV + Fan + X Box One S = Lasted about 13 hours (Note: 13 straight hours of gaming & X Box One S is an energy hungry ~~device~~ monster).
2) Just lights + Fan + charging Laptop + phones = Lasted over 30 hours.

You don’t have to take my word for it, bring your technician along for testing.

I don’t need it again cuz I am moving to an apartment building with 24 hours guaranteed electricity.

Last Price: 190k
Location: Lekki

The Xbox one S apparently consumes 80w and below. That to me is not energy hungry. The average laptop takes about 65 watts while charging and in use.

Seems a fair deal. Happy sales.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 3:42am On Jul 02, 2020

ojeysky:
I was actually referring to capacity in AH, what's the capacity of the 24v system, and how much capacity is consumed by the time you are at 24.3v?

24v is 105 ah. But there's no way I can tell what's left of cap when it gets to 24.3v.

ojeysky:
Interesting, 10A pwm means capacity is 100AH or less?

The PWM acts only as a LVD device, nothing beyond that. It does contribute any charging. The charging is by a 60A MPPT.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 3:36am On Jul 02, 2020

ojeysky:
It's LFP/li-ion so can do both 3.2 and 3.7 normal voltages

Nice.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 3:34am On Jul 02, 2020

sobality:
hy guys

what is happing with nipost site tracking number is not going it showing connection error since yersterday?

Has NIPOST website ever been reliable? I have not even accessed it since about 4 years ago when they showed signs of serious inefficiencies.

Maybe they've improved a bit now sha.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 7:40pm On Jul 01, 2020

ojeysky:
How much capacity do you have left after 12.5v below? I don't think it will be up to 10%

I have one left at 12.9v/13.0v by daybreak. The other pits at 24.3v by daybreak. I am auditing the loads on that one with a view to changing to more energy efficient ones.

ojeysky:
what system are you using that allow you set cut-off above 12v?

In both scenarios, I used a 10A PWM with adjustable parameters connected to another relay that controls the inverter switch as the LVD device.

I have a big LVD bought off of AE that would have done the job of disconnect along the inverter to battery wires but I don't think I'm comfortable with doing it thru the connection from inverter to battery. So I basically utilize the same contact points that the inverter switch are soldered to.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 7:31pm On Jul 01, 2020

ojeysky:
It's the silver in the picture here, got a few more when I placed some order recently. Have a few 12v and ant(7s to 20s) BMS as well both with bluetooth.

https://www.nairaland.com/390522/solar-energy-complement-fta/747#89842978

The BMS are LFP not Li-ion 18/6/5/0s, right?

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 7:24pm On Jul 01, 2020

NiyiOmoIyunade:
The general thinking is that the Cylindrical cells are better as they dissipate heat more efficiently than prismatic cells. Being that they are tightly wound in a metal casing, they are also less susceptible to degradation from thermal cycling as they charge and discharge as well as mechanical stress and vibrations when/if moved around.

But apparently the cylindrical cells occupy greater volume in assemblies, capacity for capacity.

Prismatics are also now made with tiny projections on either side of the flat surfaces so that when packaged, there is always a slit in-between the cells. These allows for proper aeration and allowances for minor volume changes that may occur with the charging and discharging cycles. Will Prowse showed one in one of his videos.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 7:11pm On Jul 01, 2020

ojeysky:
Battery and inverter for that price or was it a typo?

Bro, coming from kiekie then it's definitely a typo grin

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Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 7:09pm On Jul 01, 2020*

ojeysky:
Let's just say it's one of the disadvantages we get for not going premium, I guess we should just leave with that I set mine to the 24v cut-off but I endeavour not to get to that level in the first place because mine is LFP, I think with lead acid you should be fine with 24v.
On the LFP question, both are fine though I prefer the prismatic as I get to work with fewer cells but it's a matter of preference not performance

I have all my LFPs at 12.1v low voltage cut-off now o. I just reduced a set from initial 12.3v to 12.1v. I still hope to get an impressive performance cum duration of use from them sha. Not that the backup was not sufficient but I want a uniform Low voltage disconnect across my systems. It usually does not go below 13.0v/12.9v by daybreak.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 8:36am On Jul 01, 2020

JESSE2:
Sorry for my English
I have already opened the dispute then later cancelled it
Bcus the judgement was invalid.

Okay. You still have chances to open dispute again for "BP running out, item still in transit" at expiration and not later than 15 days after.

I believe the arbitration should be in your favour.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 5:26am On Jul 01, 2020

JESSE2:
Guys help oo
I'm trying to open a dispute ,when i have 1 day left
Ali judgement is still invalid oo

You've not opened the dispute, so how can judgement be "invalid"?

I think you mean to say you have not been allowed to open dispute. In that case, you have to wait till the BP runs out in few hours time. You have from then till next 15 days to fike a dispute based on "purchase protection running out but item is till in transit" reason. But your tracking also has to show your claim as valid else AE will invalidate your claim.

Another danger here is in a situation where the seller actually does not ship the item but gives you a tracking number issued by another seller who also has a buyer in Nigeria. In such instance, two people in Nigeria are issued the tracking number. The only time you can tell that something is wrong is at "final delivery" where you can now see the town in Nigeria where the item is delivered. In that case, your dispute reason will be "package sent to wrong address" which will be validly incontrovertible. But you will also need adequate days of BP to follow the parcel till delivery for that to happen. If not, you risk AE telling you to wait for parcel to arrive within you BP period since tracking is still active.

I've had a similar situation about 3 years ago when seller claim to ship the item - a Windows tablet - but he didn't. Apparently he ran out of stocks and didn't want me to close order on implicating grounds, so he kukuma tell me "it's shipped". I come open mouth dey track number expecting the item only to later see final delivery at "Umuaiha".

Of course I opened dispute on the basis of "item sent to wrong address". And I believe that attracts less penalty to seller than "refusal to ship item after payment" which would have warranted an order cancellation.

I've had a seller who irked me by saying that the price of the item I paid for was a wrong price typed against the item in error. Me wey I don happy say I jam goldmine. He appealed that I pay more to make up for the price or cancel the order on the basis of "other reasons", a reason which I think attracts the least penalty among all reasons listed under the order cancellation tab, those reasons that will likely seriously derate the seller. Of course I obliged him, but I no happy as I miss that awoof.

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Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 4:59am On Jul 01, 2020

Mofolam:
4px is really getting on my last nerve. Does Yanwen and cainiao have two heads?! No be the same road them go follow? One wahala seller advised *ship with cainiao. I was happy and decided to buy from him. I even sent a message to tell him to ship via only those 2 logistics, he said ok. Only for me to later get notification of order shipped and BOOM I see the ugly 4px and 90 days BP.

I'm not sure though, but I think a seller changing an agreed logistics company is enough grounds to open a trade dispute that will favour you. So if you wanna consider that, fine.

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Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 8:48pm On Jun 30, 2020

babaegun:
@essegis
Solar has changed my life. I have had constant light since the day I put up my setup and I have saved a lot of money. I have not used my generator for the past 3 to 4 years. Can you imagine. It is the best way to go. And do you know PHCN people have visited my house several times with their testing tools to check because i no longer buy token like before. Enjoy the world of renewable energy. No body can do you shakara. Well done @NiyiOmoIyunade. You are appreciated.

@bolded.

Abeg na God I take beg una, next time they show up why don't you do them the courtesy of unleashing the dogs on 'em if you have one. Shey dem no know say you don become the husband of dem mama ni?

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Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 7:20pm On Jun 30, 2020

ojeysky:
I think it operated at 50hz, they did something to it that makes it seem to display lesser power consumption compared to my GK. Ofcourse that also skewed my data accuracy

Low tare. That's cool. What's the value?

There's one that was marketed to someone I know. It's 80amps MPPT and 3kva. The supplier is mumbling something about 200k but someone has revealed the secret that it can be supplied for much less than that.

I don't know the tare though. I'd have loved to make a good comparison.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 7:09pm On Jun 30, 2020

JESSE2:
How many days does it take b4 u where refunded?
Bcus i cancelled an order two days ago,but they haven't refund me

Refund for cancelled orders (before shipping) may likely be faster than for failed deliveries or faulty products (which usually takes place at BP expiration or at delivery respectively).

My refunds (at BP expiration) usually takes 5 working days on GTBank.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 7:03pm On Jun 30, 2020

SpicyMimi:
I am soooooo confused right now! I need to get a dress for someone but can't find it here in Lagos. I don't know if I should take the risk to order on Aliexpress or just forget it. Need it for August by God's Grace.

With the serious delays in shipping and delivery, I don't think it's worth it.

An item I ordered last week was shipped yesterday. The BP read 89 days remaining. It used to be 60 days pre-covid.

By the way, one useless AE seller like that that gave me a wrong tracking number that belonged to another buyer in Nigeria (I discovered it was wrong due to a serious disconnect between the time he claimed to have shipped my order and the time shown on the tracking number provided as "item shipped". That was in April. I opened dispute straight and got my refund. I still plan to blacklist that seller for being fraudulent. But i kept tracking that number to know where it ended.

5 days ago, after almost 2 months of inactivity the tracking finally showed "sorting in Lagos" and yesterday showed final delivery. Guess at what place? - Kaduna. grin

Meanwhile na Ogun State be the destination for my order cheesy

Crazy seller that was.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 6:53pm On Jun 30, 2020

Valto:
using access bank card is suicidal, they deducts #445 per usd. try and use gtb or zenith bank mastercard @#391 per usd. infact i just received a 23usd refund from ali express credited@ 391per usd(zenith bank mastercard)

StanbicIBTC too may have reasonable deals. I used their cards massively on AE during that recession that occured in ex-president GEJ's regime. I think their exchange was reasoble because they are more like a foreign owned bank. I don't know if they still maintain that good rate though.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 6:37pm On Jun 30, 2020

essegis:
I thank God I discovered this group. In the small time I have spent here I have learnt so much here with a lot of side helps. Thanks to the folks making this place go on. More grease to all your elbows. That being said my eyes have seen things. I am still stunned at what I came across between yesterday and today.

So I requested for a MK3 interface to help program my Victron and before you can say Jack Robinson two cool guys raised their hands and vola I was on my way to the island to pick it up without even thinking about any other plan for the day.

I found a museum. One with modern capabilities and set up instead of antiques. I am talking about the system of sir @NiyiOmoIyunade. As I type I still dey try to get my head around what I saw. So many panels, so many Victron, so much power, so much big words I was lost somewhere.

Even when my archaic brain couldn't find a way to get around the inability of the MK3 to connect with my laptop he offered to help and I was knocking on his door before day break today. Baba didn't even mind, attended to me like say we have been growing up buddies. Abeg you can all help me thank him.

And if you really really wanna see why his batteries are called that they come with bells and whistles take style look the attached pictures.

Lol @ Museum.

Na real museum of sun energy. Mr. NiyiOmolyunade is in the heavyweight category.

Thank you o Mr. Niyi for being of reliable help in times of need. It appears one other thing that gives you exhilaration is probably having more people jump on the AE train. God bless you, keep up the good work.

I shared to neighbours that usually come to charge their phones in my crib, all my AGMs when I settled for the lightweight league Lithium, having upgraded from the featherweight lithium category. That encouraged them to get small sized (9k modified wave) inverters and at least one 150w panel to power basic things - lights, charging, 19 inches TVs mostly and Gotv. Even some of them that were hitherto on MTN lumous started to blame themselves for that bondage.

The community has no grid power yet and I was the only one on reliable AE. Aside from the reduced traffic of phone and torchlight charging at my place grin

, It's always a thing of joy to see rays from light bulbs shine thru their windows at night when I pass by.

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Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 6:17pm On Jun 30, 2020

Alozera:
Hi guys, please help me figure this out..
I got this email about my order enter Nigeria today but I dunno which other it is because the tracking number is different from the ones on AliExpress

I've had two messages like this in my mail too in the last 72hrs. Number did not tally with order number or tracking number. What I did was to check my 24track app to see the two orders updated as having reached Nigeria, so I was able to guess what items the two mails referred to.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 3:18pm On Jun 30, 2020

ojeysky:
No it's the attached hybrid, which I have now packaged back waiting for any interested buyer.

Apparently it is high frequency type.
What are the other specs?

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 7:54am On Jun 30, 2020

Babanhajiya:
Finally, interstate travel restrictions have been lifted by FG, hopefully our post offices will resume normal activities.

Interstate travel restriction did not really impede the movement of goods, but it's government decision that civil servants stay at home at the initiation of lockdown that was initially responsible for NIPOST delivery failures. I happened to send a NIPOST EMS package 2 days before the lockdown. It was already at the destination post office on the third day but the receipient was not contacted and he couldn't get it until after 5 weeks when the senior officers resumed partial services.

Then the workers themselves began to use that excuse even after the government said level 14 upwards should resume, and delivery was still hampered. A visit to a NIPOST office last week shows that they resume office by 10am and close by 2 pm so if you happen to show up after 2pm you will be asked to come the following day. Worse still, only a few of them show up for the work. No sorting, no active services goes on in the office. I believe same applies in NIPOST in other places.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 7:21am On Jun 30, 2020

ojeysky:
MPP GK back online with a few redress, 3 things I noticed straight up.

1. MPPT efficiency is way better than the felicity I was using temporarily. Now it's just less than 2A difference between charge current reading from MPP and BMV as against 5A on felicity.

2. MPP also seem to support more battery option on 3kva GK such as the pylontech.

3. Fan noise is way more silent, it feels like there is an improvement with the new board

Was this your type of Felicity?

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 8:51pm On Jun 29, 2020

henrygold100:
alright thanks. It's 200wts and I just want to use it to plug two things.... Tv and Ps2 console

I'm afraid 200 watts may not work for the two devices. I believe PS game console guzzles nothing less than 200 watts in itself. Your TV will require at least 40 watts too.

So it seems the two can not add up. I may be wrong though. You'll be better of determining the expected consumption of your device by checking the nameplate or better still use a wattmeter to measure the actual consumed watts while eacg device is plugged in.

Technology Market › Re: This Thread Is Only For Aliexpress Shopper by ceaser: 8:38pm On Jun 29, 2020

henrygold100:
Pls can two or three devices be plugged in one step down transformer or must it be one step down, one transformer

I believe two low wattage devices may be plugged into one step down transformer. The common step down transformer being sold around reduces the voltage from 220vac to 120vac whilst maintaing good amperage supply to sustain two devices.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 9:50pm On Jun 28, 2020

Monlo:
Tough times may be ahead for those using this logistics

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/dhl-suspends-import-shipments-from-china-hong-kong-macao/amp-11593144384998.html

Shyte!

I ordered two MPPT CCs few days ago and insisted it be shipped with my choice - DHL.

jmaine:
This is related to India bound goods from China and Hongkong..

Better. I've seen that.

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Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 8:09pm On Jun 27, 2020

Penuelseun:
This?

Yep. There is usually a much smaller size of it I've seen around sometime ago.

Satellite TV Technology › Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ceaser: 6:26pm On Jun 27, 2020

essegis:
You know its DIY when na kpako we use hang home made bussbars

See wetin COVID-19 do a brother.

I just thought about this now:

How about you use a smaller version of this high tension insulator used by NEPA guys as your base (support) for attaching either side of your bus bars to the board, in place of the wooden supports.

Those insulators usually have thru holes to screw 'em on any receptacle, your bus bars and board in this case.

Aside from guaranteeing poor heat transfer to the wood board, it will also provide some aesthetic.

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Technology Market › Re: Buy Plasma, Lcd And Led Televisions For Affordable Pricein Lagos. by ceaser: 6:15pm On Jun 27, 2020

Orubebe01:
pls can a machine of a sound system that is 15w produce a good sound.

15 watts is not much. It is something in the order of the Bluetooth speakers.

My BOSE sound link Bluetooth speaker is rated 2 x 10 watts for two speakers - that makes 20 watts.

Typical car sound system speakers is rated 50 watts x 2 - that's anywhere between 75 watts to 90 watts for an average car.

So if the machine you have in mind is the home theatre kind of boom speaker sound, then 15 watts is not even close to it.

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