₦airaland Forum

Nonsense band A

Max24:
You people are hard to please. You said you want 24hours light like other nations and you were given 20hours in some locations. Now the story has changed. It's no longer give us power but it's too expensive. So, basically you want everything to be on Subsidy or free. Was that how America and other nations developed ? Even the smaller West African countries around us are paying more for their steady electricity. You want to go to heaven without dieing. Funny people.

Oga stop praising bad policies, that is the reason Nigeria is where it is today

GerogeI:
If you are in band A,
To reduce your bill, and turn the 24 hours into advantage,
1. Put your refrigerator on half duty cycle, it should be off at night..

Bullshit

A fridge that's always on will consume less power when it's cold enough for its compressor thermostat to cycle off...

For example, my own refrigerator when it becomes cold enough, its compressor shuts off for 40 minutes and turns on for 15 minutes

But if you switch the fridge off, the compressor will run continuously to replenish the chill, thereby consuming more power

Max24:
You people are hard to please. You said you want 24hours light like other nations and you were given 20hours in some locations. Now the story has changed. It's no longer give us power but it's too expensive. So, basically you want everything to be on Subsidy or free. Was that how America and other nations developed ? Even the smaller West African countries around us are paying more for their steady electricity. You want to go to heaven without dieing. Funny people.

Nigerians want everything free, govt should provide at zero cost.

GerogeI:
If you are in band A,
To reduce your bill, and turn the 24 hours into advantage,
1. Put your refrigerator on half duty cycle, it should be off at night. You either use a timer switch (cost about 10k on Jumia) or you switch it off and on manually - labour intensive. Any night you forget is about 2 kwh or credit units or about N500.

2. Invest in grid tied Solar system. This takes advantage of the 20 hours power availability. You do not need to buy batteries, but you need a good Hybrid solar inverter with grid connection. For every 4 used solar panels, you will produce 1kwh of electricity daily. The more you have the more you produce. As a rule of thumb, each 300w solar panel will give you an average of 50w for 5 hours or 250wh or 0.25kwh.

A normal house with lighting TV and refrigerator, without Air conditioner consumes about 6 kwh daily. Putting your refrigerator on day cycle will reduce 1.5 kwh or credit units leaving 4.5. Adding 5 solar panels, will reduce it to 3.5 kwh. Adding 10 Solar panels will reduce it to 2.5 kW hour. Because you must use lighting and fan at night, you cannot go lower than 2.5 kwh daily without investing in Storage batteries which are the costliest part of solar with 2 or 3 years short life span.

At 2.5 kwh per day your electricity bill for band A will be 2.5 x30 days x N230= N18000 approx. Not bad for 24 hours light.

who uses 6kwh per day in Nigeria? My 3 bedroom apartment here in Benin city,i don't use 5kwh in one week.I have washing machine i hardly use,I wash my clothes with my hands.I dont have AC,but during extreme heat period,i use my industrial fan which slightly increases my power consumption.I am not on band A,but if they give me 20hours in band A today,i cant spend more thank 5k per month.

press9jatv:
“Please NEPA remove my family from Band A” — Anambra man cries out.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMkV9xWN834

Just goes on to show Nigerians are an unproductive set of people.

We always shout for power all the time saying it will bring development, now you have the power but don't know what to do with it.

Jokers...

Even my own neighborhood dey IKDC office right now with placards demanding we be returned to Band B

Na work no make me follow them

But sha, na me supply and write on the cardboard wey dem carry

Tinubu no go use us buy new private jet

Alaaye, I support you with a placard jare

Invest in Solar instead of paying the huge Band A bills

My solar saves me nothing less than 35k monthly. My recharge is around 20k for NEPA consumption. If I was not using solar, I should be spending close to 60k monthly on bills. IKEDC Band A bill na die, but they are doing well. They have been consistent with the minimum of 20hrs light in a day

Abeg, the way we dey get light now fear dey catch me. Hope something bad is not waiting to happen.....Through out since the day before yesterday nepa no gree take light...If dem take am dem go bring am back most immediately. Hope all is well ohh.

We are bunch of unserious and confused people. Now you have stable power you are complaining

Band A 3.5 unit for 1,000
Its expensive

GerogeI:
If you are in band A,
To reduce your bill, and turn the 24 hours into advantage,
1. Put your refrigerator on half duty cycle, it should be off at night. You either use a timer switch (cost about 10k on Jumia) or you switch it off and on manually - labour intensive. Any night you forget is about 2 kwh or credit units or about N500.

2. Invest in grid tied Solar system. This takes advantage of the 20 hours power availability. You do not need to buy batteries, but you need a good Hybrid solar inverter with grid connection. For every 4 used solar panels, you will produce 1kwh of electricity daily. The more you have the more you produce. As a rule of thumb, each 300w solar panel will give you an average of 50w for 5 hours or 250wh or 0.25kwh.

A normal house with lighting TV and refrigerator, without Air conditioner consumes about 6 kwh daily. Putting your refrigerator on day cycle will reduce 1.5 kwh or credit units leaving 4.5. Adding 5 solar panels, will reduce it to 3.5 kwh. Adding 10 Solar panels will reduce it to 2.5 kW hour. Because you must use lighting and fan at night, you cannot go lower than 2.5 kwh daily without investing in Storage batteries which are the costliest part of solar with 2 or 3 years short life span.

At 2.5 kwh per day your electricity bill for band A will be 2.5 x30 days x N230= N18000 approx. Not bad for 24 hours light.

GerogeI:
If you are in band A,
To reduce your bill, and turn the 24 hours into advantage,
1. Put your refrigerator on half duty cycle, it should be off at night. You either use a timer switch (cost about 10k on Jumia) or you switch it off and on manually - labour intensive. Any night you forget is about 2 kwh or credit units or about N500.

2. Invest in grid tied Solar system. This takes advantage of the 20 hours power availability. You do not need to buy batteries, but you need a good Hybrid solar inverter with grid connection. For every 4 used solar panels, you will produce 1kwh of electricity daily. The more you have the more you produce. As a rule of thumb, each 300w solar panel will give you an average of 50w for 5 hours or 250wh or 0.25kwh.

A normal house with lighting TV and refrigerator, without Air conditioner consumes about 6 kwh daily. Putting your refrigerator on day cycle will reduce 1.5 kwh or credit units leaving 4.5. Adding 5 solar panels, will reduce it to 3.5 kwh. Adding 10 Solar panels will reduce it to 2.5 kW hour. Because you must use lighting and fan at night, you cannot go lower than 2.5 kwh daily without investing in Storage batteries which are the costliest part of solar with 2 or 3 years short life span.

At 2.5 kwh per day your electricity bill for band A will be 2.5 x30 days x N230= N18000 approx. Not bad for 24 hours light.

Me wey I don comot for NEPA since they put us to Band A without our consent

Now, it's solar in the day

Inveter at night

NEPA is to charge the inverter for night use

No be me go fund T-Pain new yatch..

Iyalaaya PHCN

highchief1:
Exactly I’m on band A.i use nepa for just 3hrs daily.7-10pm to power my batteries.all through the day I use my solar.So solar gives me 21hrs light then nepa gives me 3hrs.I am fine with not paying more than 30k bill monthly.If u don’t have solar on BandA u will die

You get Solar still dey pay almost 30k bill monthly.

Na wa oh. Me without Solar pays 20k monthly

GerogeI:
If you are in band A,
To reduce your bill, and turn the 24 hours into advantage,
1. Put your refrigerator on half duty cycle, it should be off at night. You either use a timer switch (cost about 10k on Jumia) or you switch it off and on manually - labour intensive. Any night you forget is about 2 kwh or credit units or about N500.

2. Invest in grid tied Solar system. This takes advantage of the 20 hours power availability. You do not need to buy batteries, but you need a good Hybrid solar inverter with grid connection. For every 4 used solar panels, you will produce 1kwh of electricity daily. The more you have the more you produce. As a rule of thumb, each 300w solar panel will give you an average of 50w for 5 hours or 250wh or 0.25kwh.

A normal house with lighting TV and refrigerator, without Air conditioner consumes about 6 kwh daily. Putting your refrigerator on day cycle will reduce 1.5 kwh or credit units leaving 4.5. Adding 5 solar panels, will reduce it to 3.5 kwh. Adding 10 Solar panels will reduce it to 2.5 kW hour. Because you must use lighting and fan at night, you cannot go lower than 2.5 kwh daily without investing in Storage batteries which are the costliest part of solar with 2 or 3 years short life span.

At 2.5 kwh per day your electricity bill for band A will be 2.5 x30 days x N230= N18000 approx. Not bad for 24 hours light.

Nice

GerogeI:
If you are in band A,
To reduce your bill, and turn the 24 hours into advantage,
1. Put your refrigerator on half duty cycle, it should be off at night. You either use a timer switch (cost about 10k on Jumia) or you switch it off and on manually - labour intensive. Any night you forget is about 2 kwh or credit units or about N500.

2. Invest in grid tied Solar system. This takes advantage of the 20 hours power availability. You do not need to buy batteries, but you need a good Hybrid solar inverter with grid connection. For every 4 used solar panels, you will produce 1kwh of electricity daily. The more you have the more you produce. As a rule of thumb, each 300w solar panel will give you an average of 50w for 5 hours or 250wh or 0.25kwh.

A normal house with lighting TV and refrigerator, without Air conditioner consumes about 6 kwh daily. Putting your refrigerator on day cycle will reduce 1.5 kwh or credit units leaving 4.5. Adding 5 solar panels, will reduce it to 3.5 kwh. Adding 10 Solar panels will reduce it to 2.5 kW hour. Because you must use lighting and fan at night, you cannot go lower than 2.5 kwh daily without investing in Storage batteries which are the costliest part of solar with 2 or 3 years short life span.

At 2.5 kwh per day your electricity bill for band A will be 2.5 x30 days x N230= N18000 approx. Not bad for 24 hours light.

You suppose be minister of Power o.

Wetin Man Go Na

Max24:
You people are hard to please. You said you want 24hours light like other nations and you were given 20hours in some locations. Now the story has changed. It's no longer give us power but it's too expensive. So, basically you want everything to be on Subsidy or free. Was that how America and other nations developed ? Even the smaller West African countries around us are paying more for their steady electricity. You want to go to heaven without dieing. Funny people.

I laff at you want to go to heaven without dying.

Sellfish:
Bullshit

A fridge that's always on will consume less power when it's cold enough for its compressor thermostat to cycle off...

For example, my own refrigerator when it becomes cold enough, its compressor shuts off for 40 minutes and turns on for 15 minutes

But if you switch the fridge off, the compressor will run continuously to replenish the chill, thereby consuming more power

I no understand this your theory oh. How fridge wey dem switch off from socket still dey chop light?

No be juju be that?

The way electricity is stable ehn, if you are not careful enough you will be conserving a lot of power...

Jorussia:
who uses 6kwh per day in Nigeria? My 3 bedroom apartment here in Benin city,i don't use 5kwh in one week.I have washing machine i hardly use,I wash my clothes with my hands.I dont have AC,but during extreme heat period,i use my industrial fan which slightly increases my power consumption.I am not on band A,but if they give me 20hours in band A today,i cant spend more thank 5k per month.

You get washing machine still dey use hand dey wash. You're literally living in penury.

Ski ski ski

Memyselfu2009:
Band A 3.5 unit for 1,000
Its expensive

It's 4units for 1k in my area

Memyselfu2009:
Band A 3.5 unit for 1,000
Its expensive

It's 4units for 1k in my area

Sellfish:
Bullshit

A fridge that's always on will consume less power when it's cold enough for its compressor thermostat to cycle off...

For example, my own refrigerator when it becomes cold enough, its compressor shuts off for 40 minutes and turns on for 15 minutes

But if you switch the fridge off, the compressor will run continuously to replenish the chill, thereby consuming more power

He does not know that.

lebete3000:
I no understand this your theory oh. How fridge wey dem switch off from socket still dey chop light?

No be juju be that?

D light wey e no chop when u off am, e go chop am when u on am because the compressor will run continuously until desired temp is attained

Meanwhile a fridge that's left on will consume very little power when it reaches desired temp, because compressor will only be cycling on for a very short duration

GerogeI:
If you are in band A,
To reduce your bill, and turn the 24 hours into advantage,
1. Put your refrigerator on half duty cycle, it should be off at night. You either use a timer switch (cost about 10k on Jumia) or you switch it off and on manually - labour intensive. Any night you forget is about 2 kwh or credit units or about N500.

2. Invest in grid tied Solar system. This takes advantage of the 20 hours power availability. You do not need to buy batteries, but you need a good Hybrid solar inverter with grid connection. For every 4 used solar panels, you will produce 1kwh of electricity daily. The more you have the more you produce. As a rule of thumb, each 300w solar panel will give you an average of 50w for 5 hours or 250wh or 0.25kwh.

A normal house with lighting TV and refrigerator, without Air conditioner consumes about 6 kwh daily. Putting your refrigerator on day cycle will reduce 1.5 kwh or credit units leaving 4.5. Adding 5 solar panels, will reduce it to 3.5 kwh. Adding 10 Solar panels will reduce it to 2.5 kW hour. Because you must use lighting and fan at night, you cannot go lower than 2.5 kwh daily without investing in Storage batteries which are the costliest part of solar with 2 or 3 years short life span.

At 2.5 kwh per day your electricity bill for band A will be 2.5 x30 days x N230= N18000 approx. Not bad for 24 hours light.

are you solar inverter engineer you know about power and renewable energy

Sellfish:
Bullshit

A fridge that's always on will consume less power when it's cold enough for its compressor thermostat to cycle off...

For example, my own refrigerator when it becomes cold enough, its compressor shuts off for 40 minutes and turns on for 15 minutes

But if you switch the fridge off, the compressor will run continuously to replenish the chill, thereby consuming more power

Really? Hmm, and I put off my two freezers every night. No wonder despite that, my family still use unit worth 65k per month unlike before that it was 20k

Mvnster:
Nigerians want everything free, govt should provide at zero cost.

Is Nigeria better than Luxembourg??

Sellfish:
D light wey e chop when u off am, e go chop am when u on am because the compressor will run continuously until desired temp is attained

Meanwhile a fridge that's left on will consume very little power when it reaches desired temp, because compressor will only be cycling on for a very short duration

Ok. I'll experiment it

DeLaRue:
Lol

Clearly acted, but the feelings they expressed are shared by many of those in Band A.

We get like 13 hours supply daily here, but better than joining evil band A, what can 4.4 unit for 1k do, 5k for 17 unit, while I get 70 unit for 5k and hardly at home during the day