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Bankyshinani:
Good afternoon everyone, please I need solution to this my little problem..I have 6 450w solar panels on my roof which consist of 3 halfcut and 3 straight panels. The highest I have got during the peak hours is 1.5kw buh I think I should be getting more.. I guess the straight cut solar panels are the ones restricting the performance of the halfcut ones buh I may be wrong?....
Please,gurus in the house kindly help out?

looks like you are restricted by the default charge current of the inverter, try increasing the charge current and see if there will be an increase in power generation, also try putting on some power hungry appliances during peak sun hours to see if there is improvement in power generation

Topper33:
Hello My people

Please I discovered that my Inverter (itel hybrid 3.6kva) no longer charges from the grid. When ever I turn on the breaker, I get error 3 and the inverter stops. From the manual, it states the error is Bus Voltage Low

This occurs only when I turn on the grid breaker while attempting to charge. Charging from the panel is working fine

Please can this be fixed or where can I take it to for repairs... Would appreciate feedback based on your experience.... Thanks

I don't think there is anything wrong with your inverter, what is your mains voltage? If your inverter is in ups mode, it will trip off if the voltage goes below 180v

lovediehatelive:
Please I packeded this exact lifepo4 blue battery 12v 48w for over 4 months and travelled. Now it don't pick up or come on.


When I use nepa it come up, but immediately NEPA goes off it goes off like TV.


When I try connect to solar it not bring light at all.


How do I reupve it please.

Does the charger change from green to red when you plug it in to the mains?

Lush100:
Please what's your take on this.
Pros and Cons

capital NO, there are far better options nowadays

Bryanluke:
do you have picture i can show seller to get the best to use for my lithium battery since I can only afford Pwm for now

buy this, supports 3s and 4s li-ion packs

Lush100:
By God's grace
I will have my solar set-up soonest.
Waiting patiently dear God

Amen

osayuwamwen:
pls i how do I disable that beep sound that comes up when pv input is coming in the morning and Going out in the evening that noise the wan gv me BP once I they hear the sound I go tink say something bad they happen to my inverter until I go close, I can't find how do disable it in settings in luxsun inverter

no need to open up your inverter, just go into your inverter settings and disable the sound when input source changes, that is what I did with mine, you can post your inverter manual here let's go through it together

adimx:
If so, you battery never full for once oh.
Change your charging voltage to 28.8v

I set my charge voltage to 55.6v which is 13.9v, there is barely any capacity when your battery hits 3.45v per cell.

mangolpupa:
Hello house, please who sales a 3 phase meter with neutral (4 lines in and 4 lines out) energy meter with (tuya) wifi. Like in picture below

Also tag who you think sells it

contact @valto

codemaster2much:
those arena boyz for oshodi dey always fear me, you fit carry one problem go there them fit dash you 2 more for free or make them pafuka am for you kwatakwata. But no problem if I can not find who can help me fix this then I will take it to Arena this weekend or as soon as I am chanced, thanks brotherly

message me on Whatsapp, let me put you through

codemaster2much:
Hi everyone,I need help reviving a HenryLFE 12V 150Ah battery drained to 10.24V. The BMS is locked and the Bluetooth signal has disappeared (it won't show up on any phone/app).What we've tried:14.6V 20A LiFePO4 Charger: Won’t start; doesn't "see" the battery.Parallel Jump: Tried jumping with another battery, but the BMS won't wake up or allow the charger to take over. Help

the parallel jump may not work because of the inrush current, you need a "dumb" charger to wake it or use your solar panel early in the morning before the sun intensity is high. You can also use a 15v TV or laptop adapter to wake it

fhranchez:
Hi all goodday, I have a battery pack that depleted to 0% and now the BMS won't wake. I tried using a spare lead acid battery to wake it but it won't charge afterwards. Now it can't even wake the BMS any longer.

I've tried a lot of things and the BMS isn't coming on. The only thing I'm yet to try is the standalone 12v lithium charger.

I'm thinking of opening the battery and charging the battery by bypassing the BMS.

Name of BMS: JK BMS

Any solution is welcomed please I'm tired already

is the BMS Bluetooth enabled?

osayuwamwen:
una too like cheaper cheako u get what u paid for

the first induction cooker I bought was from jumia for 45k and it came with a pot, the thing did not use up to 4 mins before it stopped working completely, I quickly returned it and collected my money back, I jejely bought the oraimo which is more expensive but durable

Whytehandy:
Good evening

Pls can you give a review and user experience of this Oraimo induction cooker?

I also want to get an induction cooker but just a little confused on which product to go for.

I will appreciate your response

So far so good, the cooker has been serving me very well. The control is analogue not digital with different energy levels. I mainly use the 1.1kw and 1.3kw option for cooking and frying which are super fast. The cooker goes off and on when you select a lower wattage than 1kw. I also use a qasa rice cooker for rice and beans

Unfaized:
After usage for a while I think it's important to put this out there;
Induction cooker is great, but not a replacement for gas or infrared. From personal experience, the only major advantages are energy saving and almost zero heat in your kitchen.

The heat (Citing Dayo), is not evenly distributed compared to gas or infrared. It's more focused centrally which is not ideal for some cooking. I understand this is as a result of coil size.

Pot contact surface area to coil size ratio matters for heat distribution and effective cooking, which means different pot sizes will not cook the same.

Stir frying is almost impossible because a shift in contact will result in inefficient cooking.

I have a lot to say but I no get strength. Bottom line is these our portable induction stoves are not superior to the alternatives. Besides energy saving, don't expect magic.

mine is the oraimo induction cooker, the coil size is fairly large

Fremlin:
Do they deliver to Porthacourt?

Yes

androsurf:
Good morning bosses in the house, I’m looking to add 3 panels to my Canadian solar panels (5x550w), but I can’t find where to buy as Gennex and foauni don’t have any in stock. Please where can I buy original panels that’s within that wattage range? I don’t mind if it’s Jinko or JA panels.

Thanks

Contact techland

EMuyi1:
My senior colleagues in the house.

I bought Cworth 1.3kw 12v 100amp Lifepo4 Battery, it doesn't charge more than 13.2v and on the charge ctrller it's showing 101AH, and it drains so fast in less than 2hrs when full with a load of only 45w rechargeable fan.

What could be the problem.

Many thanks for the response I'd get.

looks like it is not getting a full charge, what are you using to charge it, solar or grid, if solar how many watts panels? List of your setup

muckvic:
Greeting to all the senior man in the house...I beg how I fit take get 18650 cell for my DIY 50ah battery...I'm in Lagos...I no trust those Arena & Alaba people...pls how can I source for it

why li-ion, why don't you go for lifepo4, valto sells some nice diy cells in the 20ah upwards range

cutefy:
Thanks so much.
Is there any special charger that can charge at 3.65v?

@valto sells chargers that can go that low

cutefy:
Quick question.

Do you have to balance the cells first before assembling them together? If yes, how did u balance them?

If there's no need to balance them, does it mean, you can just join the cells together without balancing them while expecting the BMS to do the balancing?

Lastly, does the BMS features active balancing?

Sorry for the plenty questions

you can balance them yourself or wait for the BMS to balance them which may take a long time like a week, your BMS balance speed also depends on the inbuilt balance current. To balance them yourself, you connect all the cells in parallel and charge them together to 3.65v, or take a faster route, you setup the cells normally, charge them until one of the cells get to around 3.55v, then start charging the cells individually until they all get to around 3.62v, but this second method requires constant monitoring

officialfestus:
Just in, 24v 8s 178ah lifepo4 with jk bms of 200a 2a active balancing and display screen.

nice one

fuckboys:
Oh boy came in yesterday evening

nice one, induction cooking is the way to go now that gas is now 1500 per kg in my area. Been using mine since early March and it has been smooth sailing since

AyarmBoye:
I have a question boss….i can’t afford Mppt cc for now…..can I use pwm cc of 60A with a single 450-510watts solar panels to charge the 12v 2.5lifepo4 battery…..my loads during the night won’t pass 100watts….thats about 50% DOD

yes you can, just ensure you set the float and absorb voltage to the correct value

AyarmBoye:
not yet chief…but I will get one after 2 months of getting the battery…

ok, you can use your current inverter, then get an external charge controller for the panels, or just get an hybrid inverter

AyarmBoye:
evening boss..which inverter do you use with this…I intend going lithium but I have all this old inverter(luminous ) transformer based…can I use it with the battery?

I intend to get an external charger for the battery since I can’t use the inverter to charge it?

you can use your old inverter with the battery but get an external charger to recharge. Do you have solar panels installed?

mctfopt:
Yeah, stopped using all my non stick cookware this year. I'm now team 304/314 stainless steel cookware. Health is wealth. Crazy you'd see old nonstick cookware, well peeled, on sale as Tokunbo in Nigerian markets. Knowledge, they say, is power.

where did you buy the stainless pots? The ones I have been seeing around are the granite pots

ajabani4allah:
This is charging profile at the back of the X2 series inverter. There is no setting for lithium battery, the person is planning to get lithium battery and charge with only grid. How do we go about this now?

Get an external charger to have rest of mind, the inverter will only be for inverting

Dabss:
You guys are over estimating his power needs please. There is no way he will be charging 100 phones at a time. Even if he is charging at full capacity the phones won't all start charging at the same time so some will already be full. A 2.5kva inverter is more than enough and I think his best option will be a mobile power station that can support at least 2000W solar input.

Baba, phone charging is no small business o especially if you are in a busy or student area, I have a client who started with about 20 phones using a 3000w satchet psw inverter with 24v 100ah battery and 2pcs 455w solar panels and 60a powmr charge controller, he used it for less than 2 months before needing an upgrade as the inverter cannot keep up with his load. Now he has changed the inverter to 4.2kw with 2 extra 455w solar panels, but the power still goes off in the evening during periods of low sunshine as his load is now nearing 2kw

bassdow:
Did you ask OP about His / Her budget ?

Did you ask to know if the roof is enough to contain 2pcs out of that 6pcs of 600w solar panels you suggested ?

Did you even ask to know if the load is more of DayTime or not ?

Security nko abi make person spend close over a million come install am in a shop/place not secure enough to house a 500,000 naira property.

About chatGPT, that's una headAche. Sometimes if english smooth too much (no be say the english sef smooth, only say e too smooth for una local ear), una go think say person copy grammar. na for this same thread people called me Yoruba simply because I mentioned something 150% done by most Igbos abi if my person thief, make I change the name of the act.

You are just all talk and no action, someone asked a question about a specific energy need, so I should go ahead to suggest 2pcs of tubular batteries and 4pcs of 350w solar panels like you always just because he is low on budget? So tomorrow when he commits money to the project, he comes back lamenting abi. I have practical experiences about installing solar for charging stations and I know what is required. Anybody that follows just any advice here will learn the hard way

WhiteAngels001:
First of all, I appreciate your contributions on this platform honestly, I'm very confident that with people like you actively educating poorly informed ignoramuses like us on this subject matter of solar energy, we are bound to make a better buying decision.

Secondly, just like you rightly pointed, I don't have 100 phones to charge daily, however, I intend to set up a phone charging set up at very busy and central point where people come to charge for a fee, so I estimate that I might likely get I'll to 100 people coming to charge, but that may not necessarily be realistic, however, it's better to be over prepared than otherwise hence my statement.

Lastly, I have a couple of vendors trying so hard to sell me the cola solar 2000 as the best solution for carrying a 200l deep freezer and a phone/power bank charging station but having read many of the takes here, I felt very indifferent about the suggestion hence my question.

I apologize for asking the same questions that have probably been treated here when I wasn't active here, I just don't want to make any bad buying decisions. Kindly pardon my excesses.

Get a 4.2kw inverter with at least 5kwh battery and around 6pcs 600w solar panels if you really mean business as you will be pulling upward of 1kw on a good day, also to cover future expansion, don't let someone that has no practical experience and only depends on chatgpt to mislead you. There are no shortcuts in solar, you get what you pay for

bassdow:
if you don't mind me asking, did the ASKer provide details of said hybrid inverter so we know it's actual capacity and if your suggestion would work with no issues ?

didn't you see where he mentioned deye 6kw inverter, abi you just want to talk just for the sake of talking