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BLS1:
The main reason I bought it was to revive 2 batteries. My car battery, which now seems to be ok but more importantly my 5 year old tokunbo Ritar telecom which it took almost a week to get full. Once I tried the load test the voltage dropped drastically and I then decided to use the manual charging to make things faster.... within a few hours the battery was swelling and smelling and I had to shut it down. The funny thing is that I gave it a day and the swelling disappeared like magic lol. I tried a load test and it failed again.

I might still use it on that battery for a month (in smart mode).

The on-display voltage is useful to me though as I use it offline to monitor my inverter's (India) charger as I blame it for spoiling my Ritar. Chinese seem to know more about charging than these Indians

BLS1:
You are probably right about the battery being gone, but when I remember how long it lasted for and how it proved itself so many times, I almost don't want to give up on it lol

If only we had someone on here who could reveal there secrets in Oshodi and tell us how they refurbish these batteries.

ceejay80s:
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BLS1:
I wanted to mention Anyanwu but he's still owing me a 30amp charger oooo lol ... but he's definitely better than most of those Arena guys.

About the Walasanhe charger Ceejay, I bought it after your recommendation but noticed my unit is usually .2 volts higher than my multimeter.... so I usually turn my load off at the 12.5v reading it gives which I take as 12.3v (which should still represent 50% DOD). Have you tried independently testing the reading to confirm yours isn't off too?

error4040:
The contents have PC games ?

obinna37:
Oga ceejay,abeg you fit borrow the charger

BLS1:
I wanted to mention Anyanwu but he's still owing me a 30amp charger oooo lol ... but he's definitely better than most of those Arena guys.

About the Walasanhe charger Ceejay, I bought it after your recommendation but noticed my unit is usually .2 volts higher than my multimeter.... so I usually turn my load off at the 12.5v reading it gives which I take as 12.3v (which should still represent 50% DOD). Have you tried independently testing the reading to confirm yours isn't off too?

saint2ace:
What's Ur estimated power usage in watts?

Allem:
Please boss, Where can I get this charger?

ktoby:
Please anyone know a good smart charger repairman at arena

dollarnaira:
To illustrate why you need to avoid your Inverter beep low power and still allow it die is like:

Allowing fuel to go too low in your generator or car which will most times affect the carberator or fuel pump respectively, if carried out number of times.

Monitor ur battery voltage the way you monitor ur fuel gauge meter.

Protect your battery.

BLS1:
I think most people have kept quiet on your post because of your budget, which is sad because the aim of this thread originally was to show great things could still be achieved even within a small budget.

Anyway my advice will be on what I know. I currently run my laptop from about 8am to 7pm everyday, usually with NEPA only coming in the evening. I have 2 seconddhand 200A gel batteries (3 months old now) , and funnily I run them on a 12v system one week at a time (meaning I alternate, I have chosen not to parallel them yet as I have been testing their capacity). My single battery load with the laptop and energy efficient lights I run never gets below a healthy 12.3 volts with the said load for that duration.

Simply put, I think you should get a 200Ah battery because of oversizing. Now since I discovered this thread almost 5 years ago I have used 4 batteries in total (all 2nd hand). A great Ritar 150Ah telecom battery which I bought by following Ceejays initial manifesto word for word (30k @ that time). That lasted me till early this year before it started dying off. 2 years into using that battery I got another great deal for a used Fullriver 200Ah battery. It did not last for up to 2 weeks before I realised it was pointless. However I lost almost no money on it because of the price I bought it for(18k) and i disposed of it after 6 months . Then earlier this year another good deal for these 2 batteries came up and I jumped on it, afraid (50% success at that time), but knowing I had little choice as my faithful Ritar was dying fast. These 2 200AH gel have been excellent and yes they are Ritar Batteries again but different chemistry from the earlier telecom Ritar.

The moral of my story is in 5 years I have had a 75% success rate with used batteries and in total not spent up to N140k which is the price for a single top of the line Ritar or Fullriver. So I have achieved 550AH easily below my budget.

Your challenge is the battery. Once you get a good battery everything else is an appendage. Don't be scared of your budget, look for deals.... your best bet are decommissioned battery banks for telecoms, hotels or banks. Trusted 2nd hand battery sellers are now rare but still an option. If you consider a new battery it will clear your 80k budget and honestly from my experience it isn't guaranteed that you wont experience battery failure.

That's my 2 cents.

Ooo and before I forget, I have a power hungry Dell laptop that takes 65 -70w... but thats only when charging. Test your laptop again and you will see that when the battery is full the laptop takes only half the power to run, mine takes 25w on power saving. So your consumption on an inverter is even less than you think.

Marvel1206:
I've gone through pages now and I can't find anywhere you mentioned the contents. I think you should lay more emphasis on that

hashtagged:
Dont be silly, you think 3 pastors will say no by coincidence, they saw something bad in her get a clue

MyphoneandI:
Where are you, how can I get it and what kind of content are pre-installed

ceejay80s:
R

Valto:
there is this pure sine wave Icellpower 12v inverter. i kept it my backup inverter, it very efficient with 20A charger and very low self consumption. everything setting is adjustable.

Goldp5988:
Our road safety please come over and do the needful.

RuggedSniper:
1. Isola Oyenusi was NOT the first armed robber in Nigeria because British colonial records show that violent banditry with guns and swords took place before and after 1900 in the north and other regions. 2. Sina Rambo is now a pastor and is still ALIVE! His father was a police officer from Abeokuta and his mother was a Bini-Edo. Sina usually went for ruthless operations in the luxury Nissan Pathfinders. 3. I vividly remember watching NTA NETWORK NEWS on TV at 9PM and Gen. I.B. Babangida famously asked the then IG of Police Etim Inyang in 1987:"Where is Anini?" Anini loved to go for operations in the VW Santana. Inspector George Iyamu was a big dissapointment to Nigeria and the police because he was an informant and gun supplier for the infamous gang. A white lady was even raped by some of the gang members and I still have 1986/87 magazines that featured the Lawrence Anini saga. This post brings back the 1970s/80s/90s memories which I fully witnessed.