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Hi folks...I need a fairly used , good working condition 10 amps smart charger for my ups/inverter battery.... Reasonable prices too...got one? Drop ur price and contact....

Estonia should probably be on that list too...

double0seven:
with all the advancement in phones, what is the use of iPod touch today? Just wondering

If you ask me....na who I go ask?

Paid volunteers will be far better....they will have Nigerians struggling at their gate.... The virus no dey kill naaa

I need one too...like yesterday..... Preferably 100AH....

curious123:
Abeg negotiate better price o...lol
07015311038

Oh...you not on WhatsApp?

Phone number....? So we can negotiate like Nigerians.....

omolola15:
All these isp's and their wahala. Glo will keep advertising super fast Internet and its a lie. Any time I watch that RMD advert I am always very angry. I have spectranet and its ok here in my area. But sometimes I do have to put it on the window. I also use glo and that can be very very frustrating sometimes. The network will just keep dancing shoki. Just yesterday the mumu network make me lose a bid for a player on top eleven after I have used like 7 tokens. E pain me walahi.
I use spectranet because of the free night browsing and i do really enjoy it. I used 237gb last month, I'll use more than that this month . Immediately it's 1am I wake up queue my downloads and go back to bed. 10k no be small money na.

you sef dey play top eleven? I can relate to losing a player u bidding for due mad network. Anytime u wanna start bidding, look for a location where the signal strength is good...then carry go....to lose tokens dey pain die....

generalstingz:
Let me take it from your first question. I already explained some part of the modification which anybody can do to have your setup working.

2. You need Anderson connector cable to connect it with the battery

3. The one around is 40Ah but there other capacities. To have long hours just increase the number of batteries.

Hope have answered you questions well Bro?

Yea bro....fair enough

Camp McGregor..... Afikpo....OP drop pics naaa....sure won't mind seeing that camp again...fun memories I must say..eating at the mami market was a no no for me after hearing stories of donkey meat which I later confirmed was true about some areas of Ebonyi....fish, chicken end of story...nothing more..

Hi bro, I am very much interested in your set up, however I have a few questions.
(1) what kind of modification was carried out on the ups used?
(2) if I have my own unmodified ups, how much will it cost me to ve it modified and also have the LifePo4 battery and the whole connection?
(3)can you get bigger capacities for the batteries? And not just the 40AH you currently have...

As the European Union threatens to unravel in the wake of Britain's vote to leave, the African Union is pursuing a path of closer integration through the launch of a common passport that will grant visa-free access to all 54 member states.

The electronic passports will be unveiled at the AU summit in Kigali, Rwanda, later this month, where they will be issued to heads of state and senior officials. The Union aims to distribute them to all African citizens by 2018.

"This flagship project has the specific aim of facilitating free movement of persons, goods and services around the continent - in order to foster intra-Africa trade, integration and socio-economic development," the Union announced in a statement.

The passports represent a key plank of the Agenda 2063 action plan, which emphasizes the need for greater continental integration, drawing on the popular vision of Pan-African unity. Freedom of movement has been a longstanding priority among member states, as enshrined in previous agreements such as the 1991 Abuja Treaty. Common passports have already been adopted for several regions, such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Open door policy
Currently, just 13 African states are open to all African citizens without advance visas, with many placing severe restrictions on travel. A recent report from the African Development Bank advised that easing entrance requirements would support economic growth, citing the case of Rwanda, which saw GDP and tourism revenues climb after abolishing visas.

AU Director for Political Affairs Dr. Khabele Matlosa believes opening borders will have a profound effect for workers at the lower end of the scale.

"We have a problem now that young people are risking their lives to cross the Sahara Desert or travel on boats to Europe," says Matlosa. "If we open opportunities in Africa we reduce that risk."
The Director has been studying the example of Europe, but believes a closer African Union will not be so threatened by concerns about immigration or loss of sovereignty.

"Africa is a continent of migrants so we are not as suspicious of refugees," he says. "This is a test of our Pan-Africanism, the doctrine which underpins the African Union's existence. We are committed to this philosophy."

However Matlosa acknowledges the target of providing all citizens with the passports by 2018 is ambitious, conceding that full coverage may not be achieved until several years later.

Risks and rewards
Analysts have highlighted logistical challenges of the initiative.
"Not all countries have the same level of technology needed for the biometric system and to register their citizens," says David Zounmenou, senior research fellow at the Institute for Security Studies. "The timeframe is too short -- 2020 would be a fine effort."
Zounmenou adds that the closer union will face a complaint familiar to European counterparts -- that of more powerful states overriding smaller members.

"Not every country will buy into it," he says. "Visa revenue is an important source of income for some countries and removing it will affect the local economy unless there is compensation."
But Zounmenou believes that common passports will support international trade within the continent, reducing the widespread dependence on Western goods, and offer new opportunities to many citizens.

"Many people ask 'what are the practical benefits of being a member of the AU?'" he says. "This can be one of the most important social and economic responses, which allows business to flow, students to travel, and people to move from one corner of the continent to another."
Critics have suggested open borders risk strengthening terror groups and organized crime, but Zounmenou disagrees.
"One key advantage is that we will have centralized records to show who is going where," he says.


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/05/africa/african-union-passport/index.html?sr=fbcnni070516african-union-passport1110AMStoryLink&linkId=26219313

uc97:
Please help me thank the op. He is a man of his words. The whole issue has been resolved. Actually there was nothing wrong with the products he sold to me. What I was terming dead batteries and below capacity inverter were never so as the problem I was having with them was as a result of poor(wrong) connection. I do not have the technical know-how to connect the inverter and battery to my house. The op has helped me to do the right connection and everything is working like a charm now. I'm really happy.

I have apologized to him for the erroneous post. If not for the communication gap that existed between I and the op,the problem would have been since solved. I'm really very grateful to him and I highly recommend him for your inverters and batteries and other products and services. He is a very sincere and honest man. His after sales service is the best I have ever come across in Nairaland. I say more grease to his elbow and a million thanks to him.

Now there goes a happy customer! An aggrieved fellow is now singing praises to the once complacent seller! Good customer service will always save us so many headaches!
Nicely done to the buyer and seller

DUNKA:
sorry for your loss but if not cash constrained go for the high end inverters e.g. Manum,outback,victron,sunny sma,exeltech,xantrex etc. The difference between changing an inverters time to time will be almost the cost of any high end inverter which u can buy and go yo sleep. Unfortunately most of the indian and chinese inverters don't just cut it. My advise save up on a high end inverter and let the Chinese and indian one serves as your backup inverter. Thank me later

Nicely said bro... Or better still get yourself an APC ups and convert it and you can be rest assured of getting service anytime you need it.....

youngest85:
make una deh pity us 4 nairaland na.....see epistle, even paul no write up 2 ds at a time

If you go school which I believed you did....I believe you wouldn't have a problem reading this epistle....read up bro....enlarge your horizon....

Dripping with menace, the alien in Ridley Scott's 1979 space horror classic was quite literally the movie's break-out star.

With an extendible jaw that salivated acid, it wasn't enough that "Alien" could capture and kill; it wanted to use humans unfortunate enough to cross its path as a surrogate womb as well.
Yet while enthusiasts know much about the film's cast -- its heroine Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, and the unfortunate crew of the spaceship Nostromo -- the man behind the titular creature was nearly as elusive as his enduring on-screen character.

"Alien" was sold with the strap line "In space no one can hear you scream." Fittingly the actor in the suit, Bolaiji Badejo, was largely silent in his part in one of the 20th century's most celebrated films.


The six-foot-10-inch tall Nigerian is no longer with us, dying from sickle cell disease in 1992. But by talking to those who knew him on set we can piece together the story of one of Hollywood's greatest villains -- and one of its unlikeliest actors.
From squeezing into rubber suits to being covered in KY Jelly to mimic the appearance of acid, it was quite a way to earn your first film credit.
Close encounters of the thirst kind
Special effects supervisor Nick Allder laughs when recalling his first encounter with Badejo.

"Ridley walked in with this guy. I thought I was looking at a giraffe... Stood in the doorway, you could see his body, but his head was above the frame."
Director Ridley Scott and associate producer Ivor Powell had long been scratching their heads as to who could fill the not inconsiderable shoes of Alien. Peter Mayhew (known for playing Chewbacca in "Star Wars" was considered, as were basketball players, mime artists and six-foot-three-inch" German model Veruschka von Lehndorff. But none were quite right for the otherworldly being created by Swiss surrealist artist, H.R. Giger.
"We'd had this vision of a praying mantis," Powell remembers. "We needed somebody incredibly tall with very long legs, so when they crouched down it gave the impression of an insect."
Eventually, Giger's creature emerged -- from a pub in Soho, London.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, 1953, Bolaji Badejo was the son of the director general of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation and a welfare administrator, according to an interview his brother gave to the online blog Strange Shapes in 2014. He went on to study in Ethiopia and then the U.S., before moving to London to study graphic arts.

Casting agent Peter Ardram had been in a London pub when he saw Badejo, and called up Powell.
"'I've seen this guy in a bar,' he said. 'He's exactly what you were talking about. He's never acted before or done anything like that.'" A meeting was arranged.
"As soon as I walked in Ridley Scott knew he'd found the right person," Badejo said in a rare interview for the French film magazine, Cinefantastique, in 1979 (transcribed with permission by Strange Shapes).
The Nigerian had long limbs and a slight figure, ideal for the role, but translating that into Giger's vision would be no mean feat.
Slipping into the part
Badejo had physical trainers build up muscles in certain areas of his body, remembers Allder, and took up mime classes, learning to move according to Scott's wishes.
"The idea," Badejo told Cinefantastique, "was that the creature was supposed to be graceful as well as vicious, requiring slow, deliberate movements."

This was made difficult by the lumbering presence of the alien's head, nearly a meter in length. In early test footage from inside "The Nostromo," Badejo can be seen skulking around the ship wearing a rudimentary alien head, becoming accustomed to the unavoidable sensory deprivation.

In the final outfit, designed by Giger and completed with the expertise of special-effects artist, Carlo Rambaldi, the actor could breathe and see a little, but not much else.
"I could barely see what was going on around me," Badejo recalled in 1979, "except when I was in a stationary position, while they were filming. Then there were a few holes I could look through... It was terribly hot... I could only have it on for about 15 or 20 minutes at a time. When I took it off, my head would be soaked."
Powell sympathized with the actor's predicament. "That dreaded suit must have been pretty uncomfortable and hard for him," he says. But the associate producer only knew the half of it. Allder says that at one point they'd planned to fill a cavity in the semi-transparent head with maggots
One quirk that did make it to the screen however was the alien's acidic saliva. In reality it was KY Jelly. And lots of it.
"We had to come up with a slime, something that didn't affect the suit," says Allder. "We tried wallpaper paste, all sorts, but KY Jelly just so happened to work.... We ended up phoning round every hospital and pharmacy open in the area, asking to buy as much they would let us have. We sounded like sex maniacs."
Standing seven-feet-tall in the suit, but walking around the six-foot-seven-inch high set, covered in lubricant and largely blind, playing the villain was not always a glamorous job. Yet "he never complained about it at," says Allder. "He really didn't."
"He did keep inside himself, quite a bit," the special effects supervisor remembers. "Being on a film set must have been quite strange for him. To have been the center of attraction... it was a bit of a shock to him."
Life after the final clapper
"We knew we were dealing with an iconic baddie," says Powell, referring to himself and Scott. Whether anybody else did was another matter.
"I wonder if Bolaji knew how important the role was... Perhaps he did after the event. I doubt it at the time."
Badejo wouldn't have been the only one -- when Sigourney Weaver signed up, she thought "Alien" was a "scrappy little independent film." No one knew the film would go on to make over $100 million at the box office from a $11 million budget, or win an Academy Award for Allder, Giger and their team for Best Visual Effects.

According to his brother, Badejo returned to Nigeria in 1980, and by 1983 was running his own art gallery. Badejo died in 1992, 39 years old, leaving behind two children.
Not one for the limelight, he was according to Allder "lovely, gentle and quiet," and yet, says Powell, "part of cinematic history."

He never did return for the "Alien" sequels, despite having the legal opportunity to do so. The 1979 hit was his only film credit.
"The fact that I played the part of Alien, for me, that's good enough."
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/07/africa/bolaji-badejo-alien/

Chile is generating so much electricity from solar that it is giving it away for free....

generalstingz:
40Ah bro, lasts for 8 hrs long if fully charged. As many as you want bro but presently have two on ground.

40AH? And fairly used? 7k bro... Cash and carry...let's deal

What's the capacity?
For how long has it bin used?
How many of the batteries do you have?

Hi bro...check your WhatsApp messages

Thread Closed!!!

Happy Sunday folks

Fuel at 145? No troubles

What you see is what you get....

TGIF!!!

Hello, good evening. Pls can you help out with a good piece of farmland around Ado? Bin trying to get one for a while now.....

Grab this beast...

Plug and use....no long thing....

Put this bad machine to work....no fuel? No wahala

American tech......

Top of the morning to you

It can be yours.....