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jonescosmos:
I already mentioned that SolarCo is a reliable partner. Fadi is a cool dude, I have known him since the day he set his foot on Nigerian soil.

So you can strike deals with them, no issues.

Ok, thanks a lot

Ferdiwar:
You can get them from Solarco (Abuja) or Xtra power (Lagos).

Someone must've shared contact add or phone, but I think I missed it. Please care to repost?

jonescosmos:
12Kw Deye Inverter

Please can you share your Deye plug? Thanks. Awesome job

adrusa:
He behaves like a kidnapper. Once he smells money from you, he will try to collect it as quickly as possible and if you don't immediately drop the money at his feet, he declares you an enemy!

I guess he belongs to the CREAM -Cash Rules Everything About Me- crew.

Betnomore:
I'm not saying his water or products are bad. It's just the way he conducts his bysiness is not what I'm comfortable with. I contacted him few months ago regarding the distilled water and he told me the price. I told him i would be coming to abule egba to pick up when my route is around that area as i cant afford to pay for delivery. Can you belive this giy just blocked me on whatsapp? I can't compel him on how to conduct his business but as a buyer also, I can decide not to patronize him. I just need a local seller here in Ikorodu. Thanks

He doesn't like delay. It shows you are not serious. Lol. That dude is a case. Use your clean AC water and don't bother yourself with this punk.

TCD:
Hello experienced guys please advice me

Among these lithium battery brands which is the best quality and uses Grade A cells

Pylontech

Blue carbon

Felicity

Cworth

Any other ones you recommend for quality?

Thank you

Pylontech. Others na gambling.

achorladey:
@ Olamak1 I found interesting price about some particular product and I felt skeptical how genuine they are under spring sales the reason I asked those questions.

If price is too good to be true, 9 out of 10, it's substandard product. Do well to check the reviews, especially the 1,2, and 3- star review. Most 5 star reviews on such product are often fake. Take a look at that lower star review, if there are none, seller is up to no good. Check also the date of the reviews, an item with only 5-star all issued on 2nd April 2024 is a bit sus

saint2ace:
What's the attached battery capacity of the setup? You only provided the inverter output capacity.

The post you quoted has the first line as 1KWH

kristien4:
Growatt 120amps 150v mppt charge controller
Price 240k
Location: benin city

Interesting.

icon91:
Omo, this thread no dy bubble again as before, people dy see shege both online & offline, this exchange rate & other inflated prices no funny, in the very least, i'm a bit happy the rates are coming down gradually, makee reach #500/$ in the coming months i pray

Has anyone used this Stanbic IBTC prepared USD card before, i just saw this email they sent me

I see PTA and BTA, can one still use it for other things?

Mavor:
I need a branded product from a well known vendor/website.

DYOR, not affliated, just saw them on twitter https://www. zedora. io/

A good day to top balance some LiFePo4

Trippledots:
I just hope he didn't run a freezer with an MSW Inverter. Apparently the compressor coils are bad. Your suggestion of a professional fridge repairer is in order.

THAT, too, may lead to failure. Do people still use MSW? I know it's cheaper, but the wahala wey dey follow am is pretty expensive.

adibo:
Good evening all. I bought a digital timer to use with my fridge for my inverter. I used it for the first time on Friday and set it to turn on my fridge by 8.30am and turn it off by 3.30pm.

The problem now is that when I got home around 7pm, the fridge was off, since there was light at that time, I turned on the fridge but the fridge is no longer working. It makes a click sound every few minutes, the fridge light is on but the things in the fridge and freezer are not getting cold.

Also, now, when the fridge makes the click sound, the load on the inverter rises to about 800w for a few seconds before dropping down to normal which did not happen before.

What could be the problem?

My freezer has been on programmable timer that turns on at 8:40am and turns off at 3:20pm for two years now. I doubt the issue with the fridge has anything to do with the timer.

From what you described, it appears the fridge may be experiencing a technical issue something to do with the power circuit in charge of powering up the compressor. The 800w you see is I think the fridge compressor's initial power draw when the compressor is about to kick on . I'm afraid you may need to invite a fridge repair person to take a look at the fridge (special attention to be paid to the compressor circuit control power board).

But before doing that, I'll recommend connecting a 60w or 100w incandescent bulb (old school yellow bulb) to the digital timer and set the timer to power on and off to see if anything happens to the bulb.

Olumighty123:
I have this 2.5kva inverter for sale with an output issue, location is kola alagbado area. 100k asking price

What do you mean by "output issue"?

Also what DC voltage is the inverter.

Ferdiwar:
Thank you for your response.

I'm currently using the 570w version of Longi (5 pieces) and wants to add another set (of 5 pieces), but the seller only have the 580w available and it's in Abuja. So he offered them to me @155k/1 down to Lagos but I'm thinking of getting the Jinko 625w from Fuoani but wanted to know if it's a good move and if the Jinko panels actually outperforms the Longi as people claim.

Always a good move to me to get higher capacity panels. The more the power, the better it should be. So, go ahead and the Jinko. Now you can give us first hand experience the performance of the two.

jonescosmos:
2x 8KW Deye Hybrid Inverters EU-Version.
4x 15KW Felicity LPBF48300 Battery Packs.
16x 600W Canadian Solar Panels.
10x 540W Felicity Solar Panels.
8x 625w Jinko Solar Panels (to be added this weekend)

Installation is almost 2 years old. Try to use present market prices to cost it incase you are considering a similar setup.

If you are in a country with a smart metering system, PHCN or whatever they like to call themselves now, would be owing you so much power as the excesses which you are bound to generate would go back to the grid. A friend living in NJ, US pays less than $1000 as total electricity per year courtesy of his solar setup.

Ferdiwar:
Please has anyone used Longi panels?
How can it be compared to jinko panels?

I'm currently working on increasing my panels and torn between Longi 580w and either Jinko 580w or 625w, but wants to know how Jinko panels performs.

I've used Longi. The 450w version. Performance was superb and on par with Jinko.

Ferdiwar:
It is said to improve the solar panel yield by tracking the individual panels and in case of shading or failure on one to multiple panels, it helps to isolate them from affecting the entire array's production.

Interesting concept.

Ferdiwar:
Good evening house, please has anyone used solar panel optimizer?.

What's your opinion on using one.

How does that work?

Mavor:
Please for budgetary reasons, I am thinking of getting a 5KW SRNE inverter with 5.12kWh Lithium Phosphate Iron battery and 5.5kWp Solar panels (10 panels x 550w). My home load is a 2HP LG Dual Inverter AC, One 55 inch LG flatscreen, 2 laptops, 1 video game console, 2 standing fans, one fridge, one water dispenser and 12 energy bulbs. Please how can I efficiently manage the load application on the inverter system to prolong its lifespan and when during a 24 hour period can I switch on the AC, what appliances do I need to switch off when using the AC and how many hours in a day can I use the AC? Kindly advise please. Thank you.

I'll recommend downgrading your AC to 1HP and trippling both your battery and PV capacity. Well done.

kristien4:
Hello @the bosses in the house, does joining pv wires reduce efficiency like voltage/amperage.. ??

Improperly joined cables increases resistances and hence voltage drop, but properly joined cable has less resistance and hence negligible voltage drop. Also waterproof your joint if joint is exposed to moisture or elements.

easyyoke:
This issue of lightning frying Inverters, is this limited to only All in one inverters or can this happen to stand alone inverters too

Depends on your area, any inverter is susceptible to lightning surges that can curse temporary shut down or permanent damage.

To forestall this, it is recommended to connect your system to a good electrical earth and install surge protective device.

Oshomo12:
Lol, I remember when I gave a quote for an installation(ICT section) in a university, the VC and co told me it was expensive that I should reduce it. I told them no, that was the last time I heard from them. Only for them to call a big installer who did it 200k cheaper!

The 200k difference was for earthing the building and equipment.

Well, the transient current from the inverter damaged equipment worth over a million(this was when dollar cheap o, around ₦400/$).

Hope the savings were worth it

isangjohnson:
He has money to buy 5kwh PV set-up but he didn't have money to buy a good Mppt CC. It's well!

Why buy an expensive MPPT while you can get a cheap PWM? Saves cost and gets the hack the job.

rkarang:
I'm a novice here. Who are those offering third-party shipping and how do I contact them?

I guess Nonikings is still in business, contact the Chinese number that ends in 2441

https://www.nairaland.com/1819824/newly-found-shipping-agent-china#24807137

Trippledots:
Conversely, when some of us give cost to a quality installation clients will negotiate craze commot for the thing, or simply ignore you and say your price is too high.

I do installations on the side, and trust me if it was my daily hustle, hunger for don wound me and my family... meanwhile, some installers that don't do due diligence when installing are already counting hundreds of installations done YtD.

That's another thing. A friend, an installer gave someone a quote for ₦2.5m for some solar solutions, the client laughed at him and said if he has ₦2.5m that he would be out of the country where there is 24/7 power.

Crooked installers get the job most of the time as compromising on quality means nothing to them. Eg using a 40A PWM to run a 5kw PV set up. Lol

RickyM:
Good morning and happy Sunday to y’all great people out here🫡🫡🫡
I want to narrate my horrible experience with a guy known as BlueCross in Eleyele Ibadan right opposite Anwar’u Islam Grammar School, it will be a quite long story but I will make it short as much as I can.
Met him around June 2023 on jiji and we talked about doing a solar solution that is capable of charging my gadgets only, although the post of his I saw on jiji states that the solution can run a TV for 5hrs and it’s the same solution I requested for. His guy came around and installed it but then with just my 33W charger, the solution will trip off after 2hrs of charging when the sun already went down of which I contact him and made him realize this isn’t what we agreed on but I let it slide.
In October, I saw his whatsapp status one day with 10kwh battery just built by him so I said I would love half the capacity of that which is 5kwh I believe as I want to make use of it to run freezer for ice block business.
He gave me quote and I said he should take the one I had before and then I’ll add funds to it which we both agreed.
He said he will deliver within two weeks max and I paid him but more than 2months after before he came to do the installation giving me excuses of not being able to get his hands on the inverter he wanted to use for me.
Eventually he came and do the installation and after charging the battery full then I plug in my 110W freezer alone from exactly 4:30pm to run the test and behold the battery trip off at exactly 11:46pm in the same night which means it only lasted 7hrs 16minutes.
I contacted him and made him realize this can never be a 5kwh battery as there is no way it will only lasted for 7hrs as I expect nothing less than 30hrs at least from it.
Does anyone here has a police connect in that area or close by?
I do not mind spending my last kobo to make this guy realize the fraud that he is because I am frustrated by all of his doings.

As a professional Nigerian, I'll tell you one of the ways this would end if you involve the police.

Once the police hear the cost of the item is N1m+, they'll ask you to bring "ordinary N200k"to enable them open "investigation" on the matter.

The half-baked/crooked tech guy will be arrested and you'll be surprised to see him in his shop the next day. If you have an insider in the police you'll get to know he bailed himself with N20k

If you approach the police again, they'll ask for more funds to enable them use their "tactical team" to mobilize for more investigations that they realised the tech man is not working alone.

After back and forth, and more payment from you, the tech man may be persuaded to pay you some little money, say N100k as he was not solely to blame for the item not working.

At the end of the day you are still at a loss.

If you meet a lawyer he will ask for N50k mobilization fee to enable him start court proceedings that will ensure the tech man pays you N5m in damages.

Months after spending over N600k in court appearance fees and time wasted in going to court, you may be advised to settle out of court.

It's hard to get justice here. _{At least legally}

In the bid to make a quick buck, some installers end up lying and delivering substandard products to their client making many assume RE is not ok. Just here to tell any newbie that RE works when done right.

Olamak1:
Of cause they are! That's why l keeps wondering whenever they flag my payment card with error that "we cannot process this order.... – Submit appeal"

Their system Algorithm is becoming complex by the day.

Guess I'm lucky then

rkarang:
A mobile phone. From China on Alibaba. Many thanks!

Use third party shipper to avoid stories.

Olamak1:
This is incredible! Your affinity with Aliexpress' system must be very strong that they exempt your cards from appeal. I've had to appeal virtually all the usd cards I've used for shopping – Klasha, Cardrypto, Spendwise, Bitmama, Grey and Bitnob –all of them.

Are these cards not in the name you used in opening account with AliExpress? That's strange.