https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWDfbBQTnOQ

previous work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPpVWVrCg74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWDfbBQTnOQ

In this video, I show the step by step process of how to fix, repair, restore any rechargeable lamp deem unrepairable using Lithium Ion Battery, TP4056 1S Lithium Battery Charging Module.

The battery were harvested from dead laptop batteries, it tested for capacity and ability to hold charge before use. The TP4056 battery charging module was ordered from Aliexpress.

Caution: Do not use Lithium Ion Battery without a battery management system to prevent fire outbreak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgdkzh22vTE

Anything that cause Mitochondrial dysfunction will lead to chronic metabolic disease. These 4 Substrate in our food supply will damage the Mitochondria.

engreddy:


Ok. Give me some moments.

Contact him

akpota:
Op abeg post your number.
This number isnt easy to see from your video abeg.
I want to contact you.

Ok. Give me some moments.

akpota:
Op abeg post your number.
This number isnt easy to see from your video abeg.
I want to contact you.

here it is.

Is a Calorie a Calorie?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvdOn_RRr_Y

In this video, Dr. Robert Lustig explains how counting calories is bad for your health and why it is the biggest lie in the history of medicine.

Enjoy.

Please Like, Share and Subscribe.

bobkezel:

Can u make me one?

I think it is better you buy one. I may not have the time, I have a lot of programs I am running. If you need a link to where you can buy, I assist you.

stephenponti:
link to the item in AliExpress store?

that is the direct link
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004939508630.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.10.1a061802VIUXMP

Third Video
In this video, I take a look at the HBand App connected to the Smart Watch. Previous videos of the Smart Watch Unboxing and Review are in the link below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0QLflhOfY8

Second Video
EP03 Smart Watch Review and Impression
In this video, I take a look at the different functionals of the Smart Watch. Enjoy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZtwCXiboo

In this video, I unbox the smart watch from AliExpress.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1wKWdALnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH8jbhST6z0

Seventy-four percent of products in the grocery store are spiked with some kind of sugar. The food industry has done this on purpose to keep you coming back for more.

Here’s the thing: The liver can innately process a small amount of sugar packaged in a real food, like a piece of whole fruit. But when it comes to large amounts in our food supply—and regularly eating lots of concentrated fructose in particular—we are poisoning our liver and mitochondria, and severely disrupting our microbiome.

Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Dr. Robert Lustig about the real dangers of eating too much sugar and how to take better care of our metabolic health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTAuLtgI-4

Asus Republic of Gamers/Work Station

Hardware:
Model number : GL502V
7th gen Intel @ Core (TM) i7 - 7700HQ Cpu
2.80 GHz (8 CPU)
12gig DDR 4 RAM, 128g SSD + 750TB HDD
15" Screen Full HD (1920 × 1080),
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060
GPU memory: 3g
180w charger

Software:
Windows 11, efootball 2022, office 2016

Slightly negotiable for serious buyers

Whatapp/Call: 07038090896

Sold

starpower:
If you yourself don't want to be scammed, who will sell panel 300W at that price. Only sticker panel.

I'm only responding to this just for educational purposes. Early this year, before dollars went so high, brand 300w panel was around 60k and farely used was 35k. By the time I was about to buy, it was 45k. Now, new 300w is about 80k to 90k depending where you buy it.

So I had realistic expectations about the cost of the panel. I just happen to fall into the wrong hands.

Maforgreats:
Mistake u made was in returning it. But the price u paid, is that the normal price for the 300w panel, or it was cheaper than it and u wanted to give it a try, I knw nothing about these solar materials

It was price for fairly used. Beside, panels were really cheap then before the dollar escalated it. New 300w was for around 60k then. Now it's about 80k to 90k depending where you buy it.

fman:

I guess u saw my mention?
That's the best advice u av gotten.
Always think Outside the box
Everything no b quarrel ok?
I guess u r educated?
Make use of it
And the skies will b ur starting point.
Happy new month

sure

this is the link to his jiji page

https://jiji. ng/sellerpage-7958400

I also noticed that immediately after I sent him the money, his number I had used to contact him on jiji had changed

https://youtube.com/shorts/Pz6APiiUVoQ?feature=share


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UwME9IugHY

This is my experience with Maduka Promise Umeh

15 July, 2022 - 26 July, 2022
I needed a 300w solar panel. I saw his listing on Jiji and contacted him and he said 45k and waybill was going to be 1k. So, I sent him 46k.
After about 10 days, the panel arrived. I paid 3k waybill and collected it.

Immediate, I noticed that the panel was not 300w (actually 199w but a sticker was made and papered over the original 199w). Immediately drew his attention to it. I also had to confirmed from my other 300w panels.

28 July 2022
I sent back the panel to him and paid 3k again for another waybill.

4 August, 2022
After much excuses and up and downs, he said he had collected the panel the logistic company. Now, I was expecting a replacement. There was none.

I demanded for a refund and sent him my account details. He promised to. Then he stopped answering my calls or responding to my messages.

After several calls and no answer, I resorted to using other numbers to call him which he would immediate pick. Along the line, he made a statement that the place he bought the panel from, they do not want to give refunds, that he is trying to get them to refund but they do not want to.
I told him that I bought the panel from him and not anyone else. He advertised the product not the company, that I sent him money not any company and it is him I am going to hold. He said that he will have to refund the money to me.

17 August, 2022 - 1 September, 2022
After asking me to drop my account details for refunds, then he made excuses of Zenith Bank network problem. I sent him my zenith bank and he promised to send the money. Then he stopped picking my calls.

Then I informed the person who had given me the money for the panel who began speaking with him. As he did with me before, he will say something that he does not intend to do. He said he travel to the village for his gramma burial and will return to Lagos and then return the money (as if staying in his village prevent him from transferring someone's money).

This is just a summary my experience with him. I have bought several things from different people online - Jiji, Nairaland, Facebook, Instagram. I let my guard down, at the least, I should have made a video call and demand to have his Facebook profile before any transaction.

One thing I have noticed about him is that when you speak with him, he will sound nice, reasonable and you would want to give him the benefit of a doubt. But give it sufficient time, you will see his true color. He is a very shifty character.

Buyer's Review on Jiji
After my experience on the purchase, I left a review on his page on jiji. He deleted the review so that other buyers will not see it.

taiwooguns33:
Pls how do u remove d secondary coil because I wasted one transformer in dat process now

I took mine to these people that make aluminum windows and doors. I should him the cool to remove. So he sawed the coil, then use hammer with a rod (chisel etc, can't remember) hammer it out.

He sawed it off first. Then hammered it out.

okikigsm:
pls is the transformer to use a working one or bad one?

Most times, when a microwave oven is bad, the transformer is still good. So you get the transformer that is still working, but repurposed it for a the spot welder. You only need the primary of the transformer. You cut out the secondary.

admiral007:
Op, I'm interested in making a spot welder myself, any tip/heads-up from you?

I assume you already got the required materials

https://www.nairaland.com/6638536/build-spot-welder-18650-lithium

8/
THREE PHASE GPRS ENERGY METERS

OPTION 1 (See File 10, 11)
Direct Link to marketer: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Three-phase-prepaid-electricity-meter-energy_60194888436.html?spm=a2700.details.0.0.463e7b03yZbYjp

OPTION 2 (See File 12, 13)
Direct Link to marketer: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/DTZ1737-Three-phase-tariff-controlled-intelligent_62510357285.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_title.29987004rWTVMP
All the above energy meters have the following functions:
a) Remote Power on/off Switch Control: Relay built in answers the Switch on/off command from the server platform to remotely control the power on/off.
b) Communications: Built in GPRS modem with plug-and-play design for transmitting data directly to the server platform.
c) Data Storage: Energy data stored in the modem traceable and retrievable in case of GPRS or other network disruption. Storage up to one year to avoid data loss.

As the federal government is moving into a digital economy, I believe this to be the direction government policies should focus on.

Direct Link to the PDF Document:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQ7akhiy--yCTpIP4P8gh3FKqfG7_qfD/view?usp=sharing

7/
OPTIONS OF A GPRS SMART PREPARED METERS
The regulations by NERC should allow for importations of Smart Prepared Meters into the country by just anyone as is allowed in the telecommunication sector. This would have the benefit of flooding the country with energy meters thereby driving down the unit cost. Smart Prepared Meters are the end products that enable the players in the power sectors to recover their expenses. The cost has to be extremely low so that the masses that really need them can purchase them.

I believe the economically, technologically beneficial thing for Nigeria is that the regulations from NERC should be in the form that energy meters imported into the country supports SIM Cards (GPRS services) which would offer the DISCOs the ability to monitor in real time the activities and behavior of power consumption in areas covered by them and also to detect meter tampering by electricity consumers.

The advantage of GPRS supported smart meters are numerous. DISCOs or third parties would be able to set up servers where data transmitted from the energy meters are stored. Below are options of GPRS enabled smart prepared energy meters the Nigerian government can look into.

SINGLE PHASE GPRS ENERGY METERS

OPTION 1 (See File 6, 7)
Direct Link to marketer: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/STE18-G-STS-Single-phase-smart_1600205660261.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_title.40af185aEgjXW1

OPTION 2 (See File 8, 9)
Direct Link to marketer: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/STE18-G-STS-Single-phase-smart_1600205660261.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_title.40af185aEgjXW1

6/
A LESSON FROM THE TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY
We can agree that the telecommunication industry is much more complex, require a higher level of expertise, technology and innovation than the power industry. But why is the telecom industry so successful but the power industry is not?

Let us think about this, we remember how costly it was to purchase phones, sim cards and airtime back in the early years and when data network became available, it was quite expensive. However, as time went by, even while scaling up their services, providing 3g, 4g, fiber optics, mobile applications etc, the cost kept going down. Today, sim cards are cheap, airtime and data can be gotten at even 50 naira.

Now imagine that NCC had made a policy for telecom companies like MTN, Airtel, Globacom and Etisalat to be the sole providers of mobile phones to all Nigerians that would need it, how messed up would the telecommunication industry be? It would not grow or expand. Let us also imagine that after seeing the failures by the telecom service providers, that NCC had reviewed their policies to allow for say 99 companies as suppliers of mobile phones? We would not have seen any appreciable improvement from the days of NITEL. We would be in a similar situation we see ourselves in the power industry.

MY CONCLUSION AND OPTIONS
The money needed for growth and expansion of the power industry in Nigeria is in the hands of millions of electricity customers. The DISCOs are not seeing the money because they do not have an efficient way of getting the money and they cannot force the money into their bank accounts through estimated billings. Customers are never going to pay, even if they have the money to.

Meters needs to be provided but customers are not going to be happy paying for the exorbitant overpriced meters. The market needs to be overflooded with prepared meters, customers need to be able to buy prepared smart meters off the shelf at a cheap rate.

And these are never going happen (leading to fixing the power industry) if only 99 companies are allowed to supply meters to a population of about 214m people. People should be able to purchase their meters off the shelf (as with the case of mobile phones and other gadget in the telecom sector), individuals should be able to import meters and use them, after all, they will still need to purchase the electricity from the DISCOs.

Discos should be unburdened with the responsibility of providing smart prepared meters. This is the best that can happen to them. Let consumers get these meters, off the shelf at its real cost. After importation or buying them off the shelf (which should not cost more than N20,000), to allow the smart meter accept their recharge token, it is taken to the DISCOs offices or their field office for calibration, firmware/software upgrade/registering into their system. This would be similar to getting a sim card for mobile phone after purchase.

5/
STIFFLING GROWTH IN THE POWER INDUSTRY
The power industry being a business cannot expand because they are not getting the money needed to expand from the vast majority of consumers who are weighed down by the burden of estimated bills. If all consumers were metered, they would get their money and use it to expand their business.

The business model used by the power industry is stifling its growth and progress, especially as it concerns the DISCOs, but it trickles up the value chain, because money made by the DISCOs is passed up the ladder.

The problem is that when just a handful of companies are allowed to import meters, it gives these few the power to control the price of meters leading to scarcity and increase in price of the product. At the end, Nigeria and Nigerians loses. When only a minor fraction of the electricity consumers is able to purchase the overpriced meters from DISCOs, the mass of consumers continues with estimated bills which they cannot pay, money is lost by DISCOs, which affect it growth and expansion. So, we remain stuck in low distribution network even while we have a higher transmission and generation capacity. These have been the problem for years and it is why we cannot grow.

But consider if we allow anyone (even individuals) to import their meters, even buy these meters off the shelf at the real market price, the country wins because of the dominos effect it will have. The DISCOs will get their money from every consumer, the money get up the ladder to the transmission and generation companies and other stake holders, the DISCOs will also see the money they need to maintain and expand their distribution networks, the consumer is happy to pay their bills because it is what they use, everyone wins etc

All these would require or take is for the regulatory agencies NERC to allow meters to be imported not by a selected few but almost anyone. These would flood the market with meters where anyone can get it off the shelf, crashing the price of meters.

HOW ABOUT LOCAL METER MANUFACTURING?
Earlier, I quoted Mr Kola Balogun, Chairman of Momas Electricity Meters Manufacturing Limited who said.

“This means we would further be developing another country's economy and continue to increase unemployment, poverty and underdevelopment in our country… "We are bold to emphatically say that we at MEMMCOL have the local capability to bridge the metering gap if the right policy is put in place.”

This argument is flawed in many respects. Let me explain why.
How many mobile phones are manufactured or even assembled in Nigeria and how has these led to increase in unemployment, poverty and underdevelopment? If Nigeria had made the policy to allow few selected companies import phones into Nigeria, how long will it have taken for almost everyone to have mobile phones and how much of underdevelopment, unemployment and poverty would Nigeria experience?

While true that importing mobile phones have helped to develop other countries, but it has helped Nigeria more by creating more jobs, reducing unemployment and dependence on government and underdevelopment. It would rather have the opposite effect if Nigerian regulatory agency Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) were to make policies to not allow mobile phone importation in the country or by a selected few.

In reality, we have seen that while importation of mobiles phones (and other electronics) has led to the development of another country’ economy, it has assisted us more as many are employed in many ways through these gadgets. In reality, it has benefited us more.

If the local manufacturers are afraid of the competition they face from importation of meters, then it is their problem to make their price competitive. Nigeria has a population of 214m people, growing at the rate of 2.5%, in the year 2030, it is expected to be 262m people and by 2040, 329m. There is still a very large market for the local meter manufacturers to key into.

If we are to wait for local manufacturers, Nigeria will never solve her power issues by 2040 because the DISCOs are not making the money needed to maintain and expand their business with an increasing electricity consumer base.

It’s time to think smartly and differently. To solve the problem of today, we need to flood the market with meters, smart prepared meters (or even better, smart prepared GPRS meters).

4/
BRIDGING THE METERING GAP: THE FLAWS
I have not done the census of electricity consumers in Nigeria but by my estimate, the metering gap is way higher than what is said to be. According to the Vanguard article of December, 16, 2021, it is said that.

“The records of the Commission [NERC] indicate that, of the 10,733,509 registered energy customers as at 31 December 2020, only 4,053,043 (37.76%) have been metered. Therefore, 62.24% of the registered electricity customers are still on estimated billing which has contributed to customer apathy towards payment for electricity bills.”

The estimate is that we have registered 10,733,509 electricity consumers. I would assume that these excludes those in the outskirt of the town, villages etc. These do consume electricity but are not registered with the DISCOs. The commission also stated that 4,053,043 (37.76%) of these registered customers are metered.

The record is flawed in many respects for it fails to account for the social landscape of the Nigerian housing market. In a typical Nigerian compound (except for compounds that is basically a family home), there may be as high as 20 electricity consumers (20 rented self-content/single rooms/flat etc.). If this compound is billed on estimate, it is going to be registered as a single electricity user as this was how it was registered by the landlord.

What this mean is, the landlord has 20 accommodations for rent. It could be 10 self-content, 8 single rooms and 2 flats. Under estimated billing, the landlord will be registered as a single electricity consumer but in reality, there are 20. If prepared meters are allocated and installed, it will then be evident that they are 20 consumers of electricity in the compound.

At present, my compound is counted as a single electricity when in reality, there are 4 rented accommodations (3 self-content and 1 flat).

3/
IMPORTING ENERGY METERS VS LOCAL MANUFACTURING/ASSEMBLY
Protesting the one year 35% import adjustment tax (levy) deferment by the Federal Government, Mr Kola Balogun, Chairman of Momas Electricity Meters Manufacturing Limited (MEMMCOL) said in 2020.

"The implication of this is that over 600million US dollars would be exported to China to import the approved 3million meters. This means we would further be developing another country's economy and continue to increase unemployment, poverty and underdevelopment in our country.” (https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/review-levies-on-imported-electricity-meters-emman-urges-fg-2/)

The above would mean that the 3million meters to be imported would cost $200 Per Unit. That is outrageous considering a unit cost ranges between $27 to $29 depending on the minimum quantity ordered. As has been noted, PHED single phase meter cost N63,000, that is $150 (at official rate of N418/$) or $130 (at parallel market rate of N483/$).

Mr Kola Balogun further stated:
"We are bold to emphatically say that we at MEMMCOL, have the local capability to bridge the metering gap if the right policy is put in place.”

Question is, at what cost will bridging the metering gap by local manufacturers be to electricity customers ? If the meters assembled (or produced) in the country is costing 3times of the imported, then who loses and how long will it take to bridge the gap?

WHERE MONEY IS MADE AND LOST BY THE DISCOS
The Nigerian power industry is a business and money are made from sells of electricity to consumers. The political class, the rich in the society can afford to settle their bills (estimated or metered) and they can afford to purchase these overpriced meters thereby avoiding the payment of estimated bills.
Here is the fact, these are just a minor fraction of the population of electricity consumers. The majority are those who cannot afford to pay for these overpriced meters and who cannot (would not) pay these bills as estimated. So, who loses at the end?