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Hydronium:
Today's peak was 270W. I'm reading somewhere that it could be that my delta 2 is reading the xt60 as car charger and is restricting current. Do you think that's a possibility?

Also am I to measure current or voltage?

BigDickProblems:
Yeah. The Africell could only give a max of 80Watts so far so good out of the 180Watts rating. Perhaps it’s the Controller that is responsible (I am not sure). Yes I got a 10meters 4mm cable and he even made a custom 19Volt port for me to use directly for my laptop instead of via inverter in case I want to save more power. I am really enjoying it as I have no worries about electricity anymore.

Babatundehy:
You measure both, multiply the values gotten and that gives the watts the panel is sending out (multimeter readings, amps * volts), if you get something like 400/450 during peak sun hours then your panel is fine.
I mentioned to toggle the setting to SOLAR CHARGING because that's how to tell the power station what the input is (car charging or solar panel), on river 2 pro there are three DC charging settings, AUTO, SOLAR, CAR.
You sure have something similar on the Delta, try playing with it on Auto and then solar, see if anything good happens.

easyyoke:
I am not a regular seller. I bought the power station on Jumia and then I bought an Airfryer that has a starting wattage of about 2900w which is far above the 1700w of Delta 2. I should have just bought the Delta 2 Max instead of the Delta 2. I have not even removed it from its carton or broken the seal of the carton it came with. So I decided I will just sell it at small loss. You can pay on Delivery if you are in Lagos or you can come to our Office in Berger to pick it up yourself

BigDickProblems:
Today makes it 4 days after I bought it and guess what? All I can say is that Nigeria does not deserve that guy. I went for the 512Wh system that came with 180W Africell panel, charge controller, and a 1000W inverter.

I did my initial load test and discovered 300Wh out of 358.4Wh power consumption while assuming the 13.2V battery level was 70% of the battery full charge (around 14-14.6V). At the end I concluded on 84% efficiency from the system .

But trust me, I wasn’t satisfied with my first experiment. Coupled with my curiosity , I went ahead to conduct another testing on a full charge of the system with my laptop (45W) and a 15W bulb and then later on my laptop and a 10W Dc fan. This experiment, to my utmost surprise (I was just shouting Wow Wow and Wow 🤩) consumed a total load of 509Wh in 9hours! My laptop was literally running for a complete 9hours! I played games and did all the necessary things on my laptop and even left movies playing so as to not keep the laptop idle.

The shocking part was that I was still left with 12.6V battery level (Although I believed this won’t take too long for the system to go off at such battery Voltage) because I had to step out of the house after the 9hours.

Wow. Just Wow. The sad part of it is that many may not believe this kind of person to produce a great system like that, especially since he is a Nigerian. It all started with a search on google “Laptop power bank Nairaland”. I saw Elvistech initially, but I was reluctant when I saw inconsistencies in his battery capacities (Elvis tech in case you ever use Nairaland search for your name, take note of this pointer). Not until I stumbled upon a post on Nairaland where someone was advising some other guy to try the Josh guy. This post was created many years ago. This was where my research started. The most important reason I went ahead was the fact that this guy has been there even b4 the so-called popular Solar Generators or power stations came into the lime light. He was always here but not so many of us knew. He had a solution but we didn’t believe or rather ignored because it was not branded the American or Chinese way. I feel sad in some ways because this could have been the guy we’d all be discussing. But such is life, the environment is not where he is supposed to be.

The cons of the system is that the battery voltage once full tends to float and goes back to 13.5V and somehow difficult to tell if it’s fully charged or not, but he said it’s fully charged at that point. If only he could use percentage voltmeter or something that makes it easier to monitor the battery percentage. Then the issue of connecting the polarity when charging (which I later figured out anyways). Also the max I get from the Solar panel is around 80W +or-5w (the Solar panel is so low in efficiency)

Overall, I will score him 99/100, I believe he can still do better.

ColdXAutoLtd:
can I get the contact of this josh guy or his profile?

Babatundehy:
First of all, I'm shocked the AFRICELL panel you got had that very low max output, are you certain it's not the placement? Mine has been too good.
Our Josh guy is sure something, I took my time to check his products, what I see on that website is 'truth', almost everything is stated just as is , A pwm controller, modified sine wave inverter, that's enough info for anyone to decide to purchase.
It's a fair deal for those who do not mind the set up, and the modified sine wave electricity, I see some of the products even come with 10 meters 4mm cable, the guy don try, make e run better ads on our local channels, congratulations bro.

twosquare:
Thought it's LifePo4... @ third picture. I can see Lithium Ion there.

fuckboys:
can I use a modified sine wave on a 43” Samsung smart tv?

BigDickProblems:
Today makes it 4 days after I bought it and guess what? All I can say is that Nigeria does not deserve that guy. I went for the 512Wh system that came with 180W Africell panel, charge controller, and a 1000W inverter.

I did my initial load test and discovered 300Wh out of 358.4Wh power consumption while assuming the 13.2V battery level was 70% of the battery full charge (around 14-14.6V). At the end I concluded on 84% efficiency from the system .

But trust me, I wasn’t satisfied with my first experiment. Coupled with my curiosity , I went ahead to conduct another testing on a full charge of the system with my laptop (45W) and a 15W bulb and then later on my laptop and a 10W Dc fan. This experiment, to my utmost surprise (I was just shouting Wow Wow and Wow 🤩) consumed a total load of 509Wh in 9hours! My laptop was literally running for a complete 9hours! I played games and did all the necessary things on my laptop and even left movies playing so as to not keep the laptop idle.

The shocking part was that I was still left with 12.6V battery level (Although I believed this won’t take too long for the system to go off at such battery Voltage) because I had to step out of the house after the 9hours.

Wow. Just Wow. The sad part of it is that many may not believe this kind of person to produce a great system like that, especially since he is a Nigerian. It all started with a search on google “Laptop power bank Nairaland”. I saw Elvistech initially, but I was reluctant when I saw inconsistencies in his battery capacities (Elvis tech in case you ever use Nairaland search for your name, take note of this pointer). Not until I stumbled upon a post on Nairaland where someone was advising some other guy to try the Josh guy. This post was created many years ago. This was where my research started. The most important reason I went ahead was the fact that this guy has been there even b4 the so-called popular Solar Generators or power stations came into the lime light. He was always here but not so many of us knew. He had a solution but we didn’t believe or rather ignored because it was not branded the American or Chinese way. I feel sad in some ways because this could have been the guy we’d all be discussing. But such is life, the environment is not where he is supposed to be.

The cons of the system is that the battery voltage once full tends to float and goes back to 13.5V and somehow difficult to tell if it’s fully charged or not, but he said it’s fully charged at that point. If only he could use percentage voltmeter or something that makes it easier to monitor the battery percentage. Then the issue of connecting the polarity when charging (which I later figured out anyways). Also the max I get from the Solar panel is around 80W +or-5w (the Solar panel is so low in efficiency)

Overall, I will score him 99/100, I believe he can still do better.

fuckboys:
I got his 768wh system yesterday with 2 units of 190w solar panels and 1000w inverter. After they installed and left my house around 8pm I used it from that time till 11pm when it went off.

I had these appliances on within 3hrs frame with 13.2v charge on the battery.

Airtel 5g router 24W

Desktop charger with 4 charging ports charging all my gadgets at once. 65w

Qasa Ac/Dc ceiling fan 27w

Qasa Rechargeable standing fan ( charging only not working) 10w at most.


What do you think?

twosquare:
How sure are you that the Airtel 5g router is 24w?

fuckboys:
output is 12v 2A

fuckboys:
output is 12v 2A

twosquare:
Okay, I think that is really close sha. Is it the type that came with UPS? I can see 37wh on the battery.

fuckboys:
. Yes, I have it unlocked using all sim.

twosquare:
which service did you use for that, or is it DIY? Mine is still locked sha.

fuckboys:
I got his 768wh system yesterday with 2 units of 190w solar panels and 1000w inverter. After they installed and left my house around 8pm I used it from that time till 11pm when it went off.

I had these appliances on within 3hrs frame with 13.2v charge on the battery.

Airtel 5g router 24W

Desktop charger with 4 charging ports charging all my gadgets at once. 65w

Qasa Ac/Dc ceiling fan 27w

Qasa Rechargeable standing fan ( charging only not working) 10w at most.


What do you think?

Babatundehy:
This is what I do, run my refrigerator from morning until sundown (6pm), I'm left with 100 percent, have the TV on until maybe 11pm, left with about 70 percent after that, then i program the power station to run the whole house for two hours (whole house but only the refrigerator and 11 watts dc fan are on) and shut off, in the morning, I wake up to see like 35+ percent left, then i repeat.
You won't need to run your refrigerator 24hrs a day, it will not run for 24hrs a day even if you have the refrigerator connected (defrost cycles etc). With your refrigerator out during night time you can go for the river 2 pro or Delta 2, what's your refrigerator power draw? Is it an inverter type?

snezBaba:
Hi, I appreciate the nuggets you have been dropping on this thread

I have a river 2 pro which i've been maximising by using type c port to draw dc output. I would like to know which dc fan you are currently using. Mine is currently an AC powered one which kinda sucks

Also, do i need anything else asides from mc4 to xt60 cable to connect the station to solar panel?

fuckboys:
I got his 768wh system yesterday with 2 units of 190w solar panels and 1000w inverter. After they installed and left my house around 8pm I used it from that time till 11pm when it went off.

I had these appliances on within 3hrs frame with 13.2v charge on the battery.

Airtel 5g router 24W

Desktop charger with 4 charging ports charging all my gadgets at once. 65w

Qasa Ac/Dc ceiling fan 27w

Qasa Rechargeable standing fan ( charging only not working) 10w at most.


What do you think?

snezBaba:
Hi, I appreciate the nuggets you have been dropping on this thread

I have a river 2 pro which i've been maximising by using type c port to draw dc output. I would like to know which dc fan you are currently using. Mine is currently an AC powered one which kinda sucks

Also, do i need anything else asides from mc4 to xt60 cable to connect the station to solar panel?

Babatundehy:
I only use my AC motor fan with the grid electricity, the very inefficient ox fan consumes over 75 watts at top speed, almost the same power draw with my refrigerator, makes a lot of noise, I figured I'd need to get something much more better.
The fan I use I got on JUMIA, you can find it in street stores too, CLOUD ENERGY AC/DC solar fan (non rechargeable), I got it for 40k, this fan is the answer, very little noise, can be remotely controlled and at top speed it consumes only 11 watts, it runs almost 24/7, and the motor housing never gets even warm, it is a super fan lol, it comes with a DC cable, and also an AC adapter.
Yeah you'll need an extension cable from the solar panel ( on the roof) to your apartment, where you connect its ends to that of the mc4 to xt60 cable, the MC4 to XT60 cable I got was sent defective, the MC4 female connector was broken, the solar guy who installed for me just cut the ends of the mc4 Part of the MC4 to xt60 cable off, and connected it to the extension cable coming from the solar panel with the use of a 63 amps change over switch, i didn't need the ends after all, the extension cable i got has a diameter (thickness) of 4mm ( double core 4mm flex), distance from my panel to the power station is about 10 metres, so i got 11 yards.

Hydronium:
And here I was thinking my delta 2 is limiting current because I cut off the MC4 part of my xt60 cable... I'm still getting max of 270watts from the 550watts panel.

BigDickProblems:
Hello Bro,
How did it go? Did you do the load test as recommended? If yes, how did it go?

Babatundehy:
How many meters was the cable you got from oraimo? And what was the thickness 10awg or 13? I've been looking for the cable (currently out of stock on oraimo website), and I don't know what length i need.

KingGeedorah:
Good day Bro

The cable was 3 meters, i will need to check for the thickness

Try checking on Jumia

Babatundehy:
Chai, even now? What about one HR ago? My electrician checked mine with a multimeter yesterday at about 1:30pm and we got 265 watts (a 300 watts panel), even now I am getting like the maximum solar input power the river 2 pro can handle.

fuckboys:
I'm currently in total darkness as we speak. My inverter got burnt yesterday afternoon.

I called josh and he said it probably got burnt from excessive current from the solar panels.

They're getting me a replacement today, so I'm still waiting for them.

Babatundehy:
That's definitely not the reason your max solar input is that low, I even played with mine a little, I took out the car charging cable ( one with the xt60i connector) and then plugged it into my river 2 pro, I then took the wires coming from the solar panel and connected it to the terminals of the part thats supposed to go into the car's cigarette lighter port, it worked and I still got the same max input of 220 watts (after changing the DC mode from car charging to solar charging), I think the xt60i ,that extra pin, just tells the power station hey you could be connected to a car don't draw more than 100 watts.
Check what your panel is actually outputting using a multimeter, that's how to be sure you have a good panel.

Babatundehy:
Thank you, it is all done now.

Hydronium:
You're probably right that its something to do with the panel. Incidentally the multimeter I have can only measure AC current. but the top voltage I've measured from the panel is 37V when the power output is 250W. So I calculated the current to be around 7A. I guess I'll be needing a new panel soon as my average load during the day is around 350W.