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No one they said that flex condoms have always been disappearing without trace

Even those that looted the Treasury do not spend money like this.

Dangote, Otedola and Folorunsho Alakija don't do this.

This guy must be in one form of cult or the other.
I can't remember Bill gates or Carlos Slim showing off as much as this guy who doesn't even own 1/4 of what they've.

zeestone99:
windmill sir

Is anyone in Nigeria using that 'fan' like system at the moment?

Hello team.

Found this, but not sure of it usefulness

DMerciful:
Funny when at investment stage the wifey will be like why are u spending so much. But at the benefit stage they can't do without it

Hahaha.

It shows you're an experienced Married.

When I started satellite TV stuff, it was wahala.
Come see my collection of decoders, you go fear. I have a unique way of describing my house. I'll say its the only house you'll find a 3 90cm dishes and one massive 2.6m mesh dish in my entire estate. My wife almost reported me as being wasteful. But now, she watches AFN, which is not available on DSTV and other interesting stuffs

I do remind her of how she criticises me each time I'm spending.

Na our work ooo. Na we say we're tired of single living and go marry

DMerciful:
Led TV and fan should not be more than 70w....mine is 42inch led TV and it's 50w and fan 20w

OK. May be I was wrong.

At 70watts consumption per hour vs 12.5amp dropping now, I may still be covered

dejidotun2000:
It depends on your load.
If you panels are supplying 4A @ 24V, that's 96Watts.
Let's say your load is 100W, the panels will supply the 96W and the extra 4W will be taken from your battery.
In essence, your battery isn't charging.
Note that the self consumption of your inverter wasn't factored into the analysis.

My current system is 12v and load as I type is 150watts. Put off the fan cos weather is cold

DMerciful:
Davodyguy,
You are right the sky is very cloudy and I am only getting 232w fortunately my 'convenience loads' are less than 180w so net my battery is charging a little.

Look at it this way, you a filling a bucket at a volume flow rate of 10m3/s and draining at 15m3/s....net you are depleting your reserve. For mains, the inverter takes enough power from the grid(we can say the grid power is unlimited comparatively) to power the load and charge the batteries.

I have an analogy meter that tells me if the batteries are being charged or discharged and by how much depending on the needle direction.

For light loads like TV, fans and lights, I use a small inverter of less than 20k but very efficient while I use my mustpower 3kva for heavy loads like AC, pumping machine, iron when needed.

See pics below

Wow. Yours is super. I'm currently doing 200watts. Its safe to conclude that I'm losing batteries, cos the 10amps can't do anything.

My wife is on my neck and since we work to take care of the family.

If the batteries start showing, signs of being low, I'll put on the gen.

My aim is to increase my system by end of march, 2018.

I'll get 2 more 300 watts panels to take my system from 600watts panels to 1200 watts panel

NiyiOmoIyunade:
If solar is your only power source and your loads exceed the 3-4amp solar charge current cominng in then your batteries would start draining since they must make up the power difference.

Even if there were no loads 3-4amps is very small to charge a battery so I would say wait a while for the sun to come out later in the day before you start putting on your appliances.

Haha, this response came late o.

Madam was on my neck and was forced to put it on since 11:00am.
Now, what's dropping is 11.5amp from Panel.
Also, the transformer in the neighborhood is faulty, hence I'm dependent on Solar during the day and Gen from 7pm till 11pm

Load on LED TV and One fan, about 200 watts (TV 150w + Fan 50 w)

linearity:
GOP

Na dem dey do this kind thing

Is he a Democrat or GOP like Trump?

Hello chief niyi and Dmerciful

It rained heavily last night and the effect is seen on the sun right now, very poor now in Lagos

My Panel is sending 3-4Amp to the batteries.

I want to use the inverter now and still allow the Panels to continue to charge. My question is if I load the batteries now, will the load be on the batteries by draining them or it would be like normal electricity that charges batteries and also supplies power without depleting my batteries?

I hope you get my question

She has been out of fame lately. Does she still act?

ladeb:
hmmm that dirty girl

Na pimples full her face, with her fake accent

Im sure the issues will be about settlement being demanded by the community.

No wonder they prefer settlement/amnesty to community development

Later them blame the government for lack of development.

Remember the Niger Delta Avengers have gone into hiding. We heard that they get up to $ 10million every month. Since Buhari has been giving them this money, did they shout lack of development in thier region?

When Tompolo and Asari were getting paid by GEJ, did any of they remember that there are no roads leading to GEj"s hometown?

SMH

www.nairaland.com/attachments/6734728_lagostraffic_jpeg89513e09f046c6082b8e8044f806c640

Can this be Lagos?

This definitely can be Lagos.

The Op must be high on expired taba or cow shitz

DMerciful:
Sun wasn't that great today and depends on he direction ur panels are facing. They should almost be horizontal but 6• facing south

Thanks

Kindly advice on the best position they should face.
I plan to get another 300watts Panel

Oshomo12:
Not at all! If you were scammed, u wouldn't even see the panels talk less of the 27a u saw! Other factors play out too( is d panels facing south, DMerciful talked about it to lie wethin 6 degr{tilt angle}, what is the diameter of the wire frm panel-Cc, are de connected in series or parallel, etc.)

Note: look for the third eye(pro installer) to check it out for u.
U will need additional 600 w to really make those batteries happy( except u have a good Phcn supply and ur inverter can push in around 40 a)

Thanks. Power supply was too notch in my area till early January, 2018, that the inverter at 10amps per hour was able to fully charge 400amps batteries.

When power supply, became worse at the start of February, 2018 i opted for Solar.

I may have to do another 300 watts Panel to take my system to 900watts

Oshomo12:
I am lost here, 600 w 12 v system( aside your previous installation)?

Just gone thru ur initial post, 600 w 12v @80% panel effnecy and co; u should see around 38-40A (ALL STUFF TAKEN CARE OF!)

Yes, that's why I asked if what I'm seeing is at its peak

Inverter 900watts 12v
2nos 200amps Gennex Gel batteries
40A E-Smart Charge Controller
2nos 300 watts Panel

From 8:00am to 2:30pm with sun, the best I saw was 27amps dropping into my batteries.

Ha e I been scammed?

Hello sirs.

Today is the first sunny day since my imstallation of the two numbers 300 watts Panel on Monday.

From 8:00am till now 2:35pm max Amps is 27Aps is what the the max I should expect?

The police acted after the death of their colleague?

Stuffs happen anywhere in the world, not only in Nigeria.

But due to the peculiarities of our situation, we have no chill when stuffs happen

DMerciful:
You wey be guru for FTA, i think say u go get multimeter!loool. Anyways, go to an electrical store u will find it or borrow from the electrician near you or get a professional installer

For Satellite and IPTV, cars and properties, musical instruments, are my core discipline, not into electricals that's much

Very soon, you guys would see my hand work.
The Land Use charge Valuation that covers the entire 4 million buildings in Lagos state is being handled by my firm along side Knight Frank.

Then you'll hear from me

NiyiOmoIyunade:
Having a digital multi-meter or other reliable method to measure voltage is a compulsory requirement for anyone who lives off batteries.

Knowing the battery voltage gives you a fair idea of battery state of charge and health or otherwise and can help spot potential trouble (weakening or failing battery, battery overcharging e.t.c.) before it becomes a big deal.

Beyond ability to measure voltage, one also needs to be able to track the DC amps going in and out of his/her battery bank - without the ability to measure DC voltage and DC amps reliably, you are essentially in the dark about what is going on with your system.

You can get a very basic entry level multi-meter for like 2,500 Naira (measurements may not be very reliable) and budget at least 15k for a decent meter which has DC amps and voltage measurements.

Chinese brands like UniT, Mastech, Extech, EtekCity e.t.c are good value but you will never go wrong with the more premium offerings e.g. a 'Fluke' or 'Amprobe' or 'Klein Tools' meter if you can afford it. Other house members can suggest other good names they have experience with...

I own several Flukes including the Fluke 117 Electrician's MultiMeter and the venerable Fluke 376 and an Amprobe, I could no longer bring myself to touch or use the UniT's I had after I experienced a Fluke meter for the first time so I gave them out.

Regardless UniT UT210E and UT210A are good value and can be had for between 15k and 20k - they have both DC amps (critical to have for any one who wants to monitor/improve his system performance) and DC voltage measurements as well as AC measurements too although I find their AC Frequency (Hz) readings rather finicky/unreliable but they are more than sufficient for DC amps and volts measurements.

If you choose to go with any other meters, please verify that they can do both DC voltage and DC Amps measurement or you can take the plunge and just splurge on a battery monitor but a good multi-meter with DC Amps and Volts measurements is really all you need.

Hello chief.

Can I get additional 300 watts Panel to the already 600 watts that is on ground?

Charge controller is E-smart 40A
Inverter 900 watts
12V
2 numbers 200amp batteries

Thanks

makavele:
How do you it was drained? Did you check the voltage reading this morning?

Do not use the battery bar indicator as it gives false readings.

Check the voltage of each battery with a multimeter and let us know what you get.

I don't have this equipment

makavele:
p.s.: you need to double your panels... 600 Watts panels cannot sufficiently charge 400ah battery bank;

unless you are discharging to only about 80% each night.

The idiot that sold the Panel advised we use 600 watts. Its my money and was ready to do 800watts in 4 panels. But he No, cos the inverter is 900watts max output. I was advised otherwise.

So how, how do we solve this discharge issue now?

makavele:
it is not discharging . . . the load mode is turned on . . .

these tier 2 charge controllers usually have 2 extra ports where you can connect light DC loads like led bulbs and a small dc fan etc.

they are not meant for large loads. .

it has different modes.. it could come on automatically at a preset time; go off automatically, enabled or disabled.

in my case, it comes on around 10am and goes off around 6pm; because i use it to power a small dc fan

which cools the mppt during operation
If you don't like seeing the icon, just disable it.

Thank you very much for your response.

Last night, we left 2 bars around 12:00am and powered off the inverter, by 6:00am, battery completely drained.

How do I know? Now its Past 7:00am and its charging from Solar at 0.4 to 0.5 but the battery lever level is starting from 0,1,2,3 to 4. Since we left 2, it ought to have started from 2,3, to 4.

What do you think is wrong?

Thanks

Hello guys. Urgent need your advice on this

1. I have this 1000 watts invert, 12v
2. Bought two numbers 200amps Gennex batteries since April, 2017 and it was connected in parallel form to keep with the 12v rating of the inverter

3. Today, I decided to do Solar, so I bought 2 numbers 300watts Solar pa Nels and now have 600watts Solar panels
4. The charge controller is 40a E smart Mptt
5. Connection was completed around 6:00pm, so the panel couldn't send a charge.

What we noticed is that despite not loading the batteries at all, the icon on the display screen is constantly showing a discharge. I.e signal keeps going to the bulb on the screen showing a discharge sign.

Though no clamp meter to check is current is actually flowing out, but this lives me confused as to what's going on.

I need advice so I don't regret investing in this.

Thanks all

So so true

She has no power to do anything.

There is BB Uk, BB america and the governments in these two advanced countries couldn't do anything about the show.

It is rated 18 and you have access to block contents not suitable for kids

Trust my Governor. He doesn't have time to attend frivolous meetings of governors seeking favours.

We're in the state house today, planning how to successful execute the Land Use Charge Valuation scheduled to commence 1st of March 2018

Vanguard.
PDP newspapers

massinola:
Again I ask, who's the presidency?

The cabals comprising SARAKI, KYari, Daura, MALAMI

BUHARI is a figure head president