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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 9:32am On Mar 03 |
ChatGPT 3.5 User What is the conductivity difference between aluminum cable and copper ChatGPT The conductivity difference between aluminum and copper cables is significant. Copper has a higher conductivity compared to aluminum. Generally, copper cables are preferred for electrical wiring and transmission due to their superior conductivity. Copper has a conductivity of about 58.5 × 10^6 siemens per meter (S/m) while aluminum has a conductivity of approximately 37.7 × 10^6 S/m. Therefore, copper cables can carry more current with less resistance compared to aluminum cables of the same size. User Can aluminum cab lure be used from solar panels to charge controller? ChatGPT Yes, aluminum cable can be used to connect solar panels to a charge controller. However, there are a few considerations to keep in mind: Size of the Cable: Aluminum cables typically have higher resistance compared to copper cables of the same size. Therefore, you might need to use a slightly larger gauge aluminum cable to compensate for the higher resistance and ensure efficient power transmission. Compatibility: Ensure that the connectors and terminals used with the aluminum cable are suitable for aluminum wiring. Some connectors and terminals are specifically designed for copper wiring and may not be compatible with aluminum. Installation and Safety: Proper installation techniques must be followed to prevent issues like overheating, corrosion, and loose connections. It's important to use appropriate techniques and materials to ensure the safety and longevity of the electrical system. Environmental Considerations: If the installation is in a corrosive environment, special measures may be needed to protect the aluminum cable from corrosion. While aluminum cable can be used, many installations opt for copper cables due to their higher conductivity and lower resistance, which can result in more efficient power transmission, especially in solar power systems where efficiency is critical. 4 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 5:16pm On Aug 04, 2023 |
Drgreatone: Well, I think this depends on a lot of factors.. 1. For me, I did the material calculations solely by myself, so I didn't have to pay, 2. Had the design done by a subordinate, didn't have to pay. 3. Went to the market myself, bought the materials, moved them to the drilling point, and instructed the industrial drilling. cost me abt 70k because I wanted an easy to dismantle pass and tie system. 4. Did the installation and mounting single-handedly. 5. Painted anti rust myself... Casted the standings myself etc. 5. Quality of material too has great impact on cost... So at the end, steel and drilling and paint took about N370k... So it depends on what u want, what u can do for urself and also the size of what u have to mount... Take note, am an enthusiast of DYI that's why 2 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 1:39pm On Aug 04, 2023 |
yemi2plus: I had same challenge until I had to design something and showed... But in my case, the luck I had was that the sun was running along the fence so I made a car port instead and it was not an issue... Check mine out, few pages backwards |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 10:25am On May 05, 2023 |
In trying to understand what 50% DoD for a 24v norminal system in Volts... Eg, from 29v to 20v, 21v,22v,23v or 24v use? considering that at rest, a Lead Acid battery would always drop to 26.xV without trickle charge (Float), I got this unsatisfactory info: "Open sidebar 24V Battery Depth Discharge. User what is 50% DoD for a 24v norminal system in Volts... Eg, from 29v to 20v, 21v, 22v, 23v or 24v use? considering that an rest, a Lead Acid battery would always drop to 26.xV without trickle charge (Float) ChatGPT If the nominal voltage of a 24V system is assumed to be 24V, then a 50% depth of discharge (DoD) would mean that the battery has discharged half of its capacity, which would equate to approximately 12V. However, it's important to note that the voltage range you provided (from 29V to 20V) is a bit wider than what would typically be expected for a 24V battery system. Additionally, the resting voltage you mentioned (26.xV) would likely only be applicable after the battery has been fully charged and then allowed to rest for some time without any load or charging. In general, the voltage of a lead-acid battery will vary depending on a variety of factors such as temperature, charge level, and load, so it's difficult to give a specific voltage range for a 50% DoD without additional information about the specific battery being used and the conditions under which it is being operated. Send a message. Free Research Preview. ChatGPT may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts. ChatGPT May 3 Version" Can we have more indept info better than the above please from any member in the house... The scenerio above is considering an off grid instance where at 5pm, the sun is completely out and loads depend on the backup till next morning |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: How Does Depth Of Discharge Factor Into Grid Connected Battery Systems? by contease(m): 10:16am On May 05, 2023 |
SolnergyPower: Having read your extract sir, what then is 50% DoD for a 24v norminal system in Volts... Eg, from 29v to 20v, 21v,22v,23v or 24v use? considering that an rest, a Lead Acid battery would always drop to 26.xV without trickle charge (Float) |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 6:12pm On May 04, 2023 |
temitimx19: "Open sidebar Solar panels and batteries. User which of these solar panel charge batteries during rainfall, Monocrystalline or polycrystalline. Thanks ChatGPT Solar panels, whether monocrystalline or polycrystalline, generate electricity by converting sunlight into electrical energy. However, during rainfall, the amount of sunlight reaching the solar panel is reduced, which can affect the charging of batteries. Therefore, neither monocrystalline nor polycrystalline solar panels can directly charge batteries during rainfall. However, if the solar panel is connected to a battery storage system, the battery can be charged during periods of sunlight, and the stored energy can be used during periods of reduced sunlight or rainfall. It's worth noting that polycrystalline solar panels are generally less efficient than monocrystalline panels, meaning they produce less electricity per unit area of solar panel. However, the difference in efficiency is typically small and may not significantly affect the ability of a solar panel to charge a battery in varying weather conditions. Free Research Preview from ChatGPT 4 Likes |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 4:50am On Mar 21, 2023 |
viperVIP: The make/Brand is HV version of Ashapower... Got it directly from India... As per the LV Cable you sighted, I can tell you, the distance between the panels and those over head cables is the height of an adult which means the shadow thins out if it lands/cast on the Panels so that can not be an issue in my opinion... https://www.amazon.in/ASHAPOWER-Solar-Charge-Controller-Ver-6/dp/B08P5VJGFK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=1JZ2WTCJHVLI9&keywords=80+amp+ashapower&qid=1679370444&sprefix=80amp+ashapower+%2Caps%2C502&sr=8-3 |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 3:16pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
viperVIP: Many thanks for your observation and thoughts... Using the basic phone compass followed by my feasibility study, the sun rises and sets right along the fence precisely from left to right wing of the panels standing i from of them. With that, am not sure the barb wires will cast a single shadow on the Panels, atleast I observed the sun rise to sun set yesterday being "SUNDAY"... Secondly, there is no single cable running on the Panels... Each panel is just divided into two equal halves by design, I guess that's what you see and assumed to be a running cable... But one question please, I noticed my yield is generated and rated in UNIT. And this is not so convenient for me to understand or convert... |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 1:44am On Mar 19, 2023 |
For those who have been following and supportive through this journey, "The prof"@GeorgeD1, one of the "Techiest"@Niyi, and everyone, thank you so much guys. Even though it's been slow but determined, Finally am up and running with my 4 x 600w Pv (paired as 2S2P), though with 80amp cc and a 2.4kva, 2x230Ah battery... All planning, accessories purchase, design, fabrication, mounting, installation, connection etc, all proudly done by me with the supports and ideas gotten here! Can't appreciate you guys enough for the heads ups! 13 Likes 1 Share
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 11:28am On Mar 04, 2023 |
HajjiRuffy: https://www.amazon.in/ASHAPOWER-Solar-Charge-Controller-Ver-6/dp/B08P5VJGFK/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=28XW8DX08LUCN&keywords=Ashapower+80amp&qid=1677925660&sprefix=ashapower+80amp%2Caps%2C492&sr=8-2 |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 9:24pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
earthrealm: Yes you are absolutely correct. But whether the tester has a wide range scan for hydrogen, I may not have a prove for that but I can tell u, am on a project where we are rehabilitating a hydrocarbon plant and each time a hydrocarbon line is aired/opened, the testers triggers and am I usef same tester on my project... Which means this tester is of the industrial standard and approved by the appropriate body for use... So I have got a great level of confidence on this. On the issue of the period the batteries bubbles, again, yes, I have set my equalization for once every month, so if this is happening and my fan is active, I sure be safe at this period... My major fear was not so much of explosion but the harzard, if any, it poses to life... So with this test result, I think am safe with my batteries in the long corridor within the house as yours.. So I think from your comment, this Concept is safe and it helps... Tha k you for the perimeter provided too anyway! |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 5:18pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
dollarnaira: Many thanks for your input.. There has never been any "rotten egg" smell... As seen on most of the level gauge of TBs these days is that black "filter/foam-like" membrane which is think has its function to filter this supposed gas. Just my thoughts anyway... The doors do not really lap as such due to shrink effect of the woods over time so that takes care the need for more parforation.. |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 8:38am On Feb 10, 2023 |
Greetings everyone... Just something to share and perhaps, any further enlightenment on this... Considering the concern on the gas emitted by Tubular batteries and due to my constraints on having to assemble my batteries within the flat, I had to use H2S gas tester to be sure if it triggers but it didn't even though the batteries are in an enclosed make-shift cabinet.. So to makeup for the heat up, I had to install a fan that serves as an extractor and I could tell, the temperature therein is pleasing... Does anyone have any objection to the whole concept please... See image.
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 12:27pm On Jan 27, 2023 |
FEGEITOK: Got it from India. Just convert the Indian ruppee to naira as per black market though...
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 7:55pm On Jan 25, 2023 |
NiyiOmoIyunade: Here we go... Very apt point here... Again, I remember talking to you privately on the "power" of the 80ams mppt I got... It also has the algorithm power to Control my "non-smart" inverter as you have described... It's called Ashapower. With this, I can set some special parameters like panels over grid or otherwise, I can shutdown grid completely, I can set parameters for float, agitate, equalize etc becos the supply of grid to the inverter is connected via the mppt... I have shared the data sheet somewhere behind... To be honest, this CC is as great as those high end inverters... Thanks you for always coming through with what's obtainable on other inverters.. Just wondering how much trials u have done with all these big names... 😂 1 Like |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 4:12am On Jan 25, 2023 |
toyeoye: You are not alone bro... At some point, I had to look through the grid source lines after my meter to be sure neighbour's are not tapping my line, but of course, it's almost impossible because all cables are conduit just after the meter. So seating down to analyse, what I see happening is that, we pay for grid even when no national grid. Assuming you have 100% charge of your battery, and grid goes out to the time your battery becomes 50%, once grid is restored, your battery begins to charge while your appliances are also in use, this process draws so much current to fill in the gap on both the battery and the appliances..., putting off the inverter once grid is off or putting off basic appliances makes no sense otherwise what's the need to having a non stop power supply going solar... The only way out is to use the sun via panels Sincerely, I think this is it... Let's wait for the SMEs to tell us more! |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 12:06pm On Jan 22, 2023 |
Greetings to everyone... Please anyone with a personal experience on the Tactel products... Precisely the 3.5kva 24v norminal system? : Check out this product on Jumia https://www./tactel-solar-3.5kva-24v-pure-sine-wave-inverter-105338686.html?utm_source=social&utm_medium=pdpshare Kindly share your experience please... |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 12:54pm On Dec 03, 2022 |
NiyiOmoIyunade: Seriously, why are both of you doing this to us, you just drive my brains like "it's convayed in a roller coaster" �. But was a nice read from both of you... I see both of you still have alot to contribute to this particular subject matter, for me, one take home is "Do not connect DC negative to any protective earth at all" and now it's clearer. Why dont we have a space on Twitter and have a real talk on all of these please... I know Niyi still has a lot to pour out... But to be honest Niyi, sometimes your choice of words, I know they are the right vocabs and terminologies, but I really get lost reading your articles and then I have had to call you to get them expressed better in words and this is why I think Twitter space will help all of us understand even much more what you have explained in writting. Mr Niyi, please open one, could be late evenings and I sure will be one of your listeners.... Kudos guys! 1 Like |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 2:48pm On Nov 13, 2022 |
AshipaEk0: Lovely question you got here not so a "mumu" question .. What I did was first download a compass on my phone to identify sun rise and sun full, Luckily for me, it was precisely running on my fence (east to west), and so I took my time to check this physicaly and it's what the compass says so I did what u see on the image attached... With this, the sun will be on the panels from 6.40am till say 5.00pm without shades Think in that direction. 3 Likes
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 8:18am On Sep 12, 2022 |
Greetings everyone. Am overwhelmed with the huge wealth of consultancy I got and still getting from this league of extra ordinary great fellows.. Even for free, I must say... Still joyful for the experience am getting with everything about RE and being able to DIY(myself). Again, this I am doing only because of my passionate interest in every DIY, otherwise, best is to get the real tested and trusted experts. Spent the major part of my weekend programming, learning and manipulating my new CC.. Can't help but say a sincere and big thank you to the "Prof" @GeorgeD1, @ojesymsym, @Ojeysky, @Niyiomolyunade, and everyone who's read all the back and forths here. In attempt to try something new, even though the new CC has the feature of passing Grid through it to the inverter to make it smart(er), I wanted to further loop the CC to the battery through the inverter terminal, one key example @Niyiomolyunade gave was, "assume the currents from CC and Inverter to the battery being a pressure water pipe... If the meeting points of the "water" from the CC (say" A" and Inverter (say "B" being point "X", then the carryer of A+B=C must be bigger, I.e, C must be big to accommodate A and B comfortably to maintain same volume, else there will be great loss of water pressure and that is if both A and B are to run at same time at any given point which may lead to burst of line "c" - heatup and then fire in this case" With the above, I now have DC supply from CC and Inverter running seperately to meet at the battery terminal... Thank you so much guys... I hope someone is learning too... Right now am able to manually or automatically shutdown or run my inverter from the CC... This CC is able to manipulate the inverter at will... Grid to Solar is set at 14.5x2 which mean I may hardly need grid... Lol while Solar to Grid is set at 11.5x2 (simply becos my battery can run for 5days without charge, and my environs is hardly without power in 24hrs)... With this, I can say bye to Grid o... Lol Thanks guys... More Juice to your batteries! NiyiOmoIyunade: 1 Like |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 5:23am On Sep 08, 2022 |
ojeysky: But in this case, it's actually the other way round.. It's the CC that is designed to accommodate and be able to make the inverter smarter by releasing or disabling AC power to the connected inverter as a function of any preset values keyed into the CC... From what I read in d datasheet, it uses a relay to get this open and close done as a signal from the CC microcontroller... But I still have one gray area "prof" and I are still not in alignment... Now, considering there should be two DC cable that are conventionally meant to meet on the Battery Terminal, one from the CC and the other from the Inverter... Question is, any negative impact if this is reduced to one by sending the DC cable to the battery via the Inverter terminal instead? This is just to again reduce double efforts of double cabling... Since the inverter DC terminal already has contact with the battery, it's shorter to make the CC send its DC signal or current through the same inverter Terminal... Also note that the CC release of DC is I/O meaning its either CC or Inverter releasing DC current per time What would be your though @Ojeysky... If you don't get the point, I could share a paper sketch am still looking at... . |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 9:46pm On Sep 07, 2022 |
ojeysky: Menh! I have been struggling to load 2 screenshots here... Not even one loads... Keeps showing me either load memory or wrong reset code... Now u have it bro... I have been analyzing this new "toy" with one of the top guys here whom I refer to as "Prof" one of the guys with the big batteries... Lol... Am not sure if he likes his name mentioned... So he agrees with this new stuff so am proceeding soon... So sorry if the writeup is not clear but the diagram explains it in in one goal |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 9:31pm On Sep 07, 2022 |
ojeysky: @Ojeysky, let me allow you read the diagram and details from the datasheet then let me know if it's still not clear to youbro... Things are indeed fast changing in my opinion... Let me share parts of the datasheet... Many thanks and respect to the one I rather call "Prof" I met here... His been providing me priceless guides from the day one i started this venture with 6car batteries... Prof, thank you so much, may your batteries keep producing same power from day one till end of life! Lol... Thank you so much. You know I appreciate you Prof!
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Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 5:28am On Sep 07, 2022 |
Hi guys, I got a new "toy" Ashapower 80amp MPPT CC, Anyone with me on this one? It's got some additional technology to make the non-smart inverter smart by connecting the Inverter to it rather than connecting it conventionally to grid directly... |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 5:42pm On Feb 25, 2022 |
Hello everyone. Please I need a quick technical advice here. I have a 2.4kva BTS inverter. I have used this with 4car batteries(for a period of 2years) and now it's time to go for the real batteries. I want to get Tubular Batteries as against the Gel types. My worry is if this inverter can charge this batteries and if this combination can serve/perform well as expected considering the Tubular max charge is about 15v... See attached inverter... Same as mine but mine is not hybrid. Other specifications are same
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Religion / Re: Does God Interfere In The Human Race? by contease(m): 2:07pm On Dec 05, 2021 |
Niflheim: Could you also look at this writeup and share your view if you may... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashok-kumar-abb48714_god-satan-and-man-in-the-cosmic-perspective-activity-6873099613256187904-queE |
Religion / Re: Does God Interfere In The Human Race? by contease(m): 2:05pm On Dec 05, 2021 |
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Politics / Re: A Big Nigerian Just Died - Kemi Olunloyo by contease(m): 9:41pm On Nov 17, 2020 |
The "evil genius" may or may not be breathing.... Well, we await to hear who the the "big Nigerian" is... |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by contease(m): 12:05am On Oct 30, 2020 |
eleojo23: Many Thanks for your time. Been researching too and all I see affirms the cause to be the modified sine wave inverter actually. Though I just realised too that without the external charger connected to power, I get a few more fm stations than when it's connected. Infact I get only 1 fm station. Also just realised that my single rechargeable bulbs too either dont charge or just don't stay ON when I intentionally turn off all power including inverter... Lol... Not important/needed anymore though Both the inverter system and sound system are in the extreme of an "L" location of two separate rooms apart (just to describe). |
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