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Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Love800(m): 3:11pm On May 22, 2025
Wow!

I understand now. Thanks.

I want to ask.... To install a solar system that will carry almost everything in the home, every essential thing whether it requires high energy or low, what capacity of solar will one be looking at? And can you state the amount in naira too?
Thanks.
thesolutions:
If you can not afford to install solar powered inverter of 7 to 10kva, you might not be able to use your usual home appliances that requires more energy to power. You would have to ration appliances usage or else you damaged the inverter system. You would switch off some appliances when you need to use some appliances with high energy demand and that is not convenient. To avoid this, you would have to switch to low energy variants of those appliances to be on a safe side.
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by highchief1: 3:30pm On May 22, 2025
sonssyo:
its not an issue bro, I will give you update by November as pre planned if i remember......we are few and my brother spent so much to train me in school, I will reciprocate without thinking twice...family over anything....
why God no go bless I with such mentality.Thumbs up girlie
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by ozome15(m): 3:59pm On May 22, 2025
bestman09:
Good information but 90% of us know this, except if this is a sponsored post, even my grandma knows
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Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Konquest: 4:25pm On May 22, 2025
chinexbest:
Credit: Elvistech
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by November24(f): 4:50pm On May 22, 2025
Zocalite:
Solar can't carry AC fans?

What of for charging phone, laptop and bulb only? What's the cost please
315,000
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by November24(f): 4:51pm On May 22, 2025
Mistersolar:
no.. you wont spend up to that. not even close
Baba,no sugar coating.
Nor be chocho
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by AllLovingGod: 4:51pm On May 22, 2025
How much did you get it for?
Thank you.
Zealoy:
Am using sunking power play pro in my sitting room to power my TV, home theatre, decorder, Wi-Fi router, fan, charge laptop and charge my phones, and i also have sunking home 500X in my bed room that powers my pedestal fan and all the bulb in d whole house, sometimes i also use it to charge my phone, honestly for the past 1yr I've never regretted it for once
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Mistersolar: 5:09pm On May 22, 2025
if you need solar installation, mail us and let discuss your budget and location.. a trial will convince
November24:
Baba,no sugar coating.
Nor be chocho
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by meobizy(m): 5:10pm On May 22, 2025
All facts. I am a testament.
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Skyfornia(m): 5:18pm On May 22, 2025
SeleniumTeck:
Is your battery brand Star Plus or Super Speed?
Superspeed

Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Zealoy(m): 6:03pm On May 22, 2025
AllLovingGod:
How much did you get it for?
Thank you.
power play pro #925k cash,
Home 500x #297k installment

Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by nickae: 6:27pm On May 22, 2025
Seems your battery have issues, have been using mine for over 6 months, yet to fill it.
Skyfornia:
You are right, but remember maintenance, though it's still cheaper.

I fill my inverter batteries with inverter(Distilled) water every month and it cost me N5000 to N10,000 monthly.

I don't know if there's anything I can do to reduce such.

Any advice from the professionals here will help. Thanks
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by 3kay945(m): 6:30pm On May 22, 2025
Mistersolar:
if you need solar installation, mail us and let discuss your budget and location.. a trial will convince
If I want to install Solar for my mum, to use :
1 32inch TV
1 small fan of 45wat or so.
And energy saving bulbs

What will I need and likely cost?

Thanks bro
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Hezzyluv: 6:32pm On May 22, 2025
Mistersolar:
a little on top and we will install a budget friendly ones for you
Like how much? Can it carry an AC and 2fans and a freezer?
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Mistersolar: 6:36pm On May 22, 2025
the type of AC depends on ur budget...fans and freezers are small thing...
Hezzyluv:
Like how much? Can it carry an AC and 2fans and a freezer?
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Mrexcell(m): 7:24pm On May 22, 2025
kingviny:
For your solar system consultation, supply or Installations kindly call/Whatsapp:- ...

Momentum Vinay Technologies, Lagos.

08109946200
How much is it going to cost me for a solar system that can power my flat I use 1 hp ac, one fridge, 5 fans, one pressing ion, one water despenser and 2 tv sets?
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Mrexcell(m): 7:35pm On May 22, 2025
kingviny:
For your solar system consultation, supply or Installations kindly call/Whatsapp:- ...

Momentum Vinay Technologies, Lagos.

08109946200
kingviny:
For your solar system consultation, supply or Installations kindly call/Whatsapp:- ...

Momentum Vinay Technologies, Lagos.

08109946200
How much is it going to cost me for a solar system that can power my flat I use 1 hp ac, one fridge, 5 fans, one pressing ion, one water despenser and 2 tv sets?
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by obitobe: 7:51pm On May 22, 2025
so all this you have mentioned is a case of not doing a proper energy audit and system sizing. I have been fully off-grid for close to a year now and it took me back to the drawing board to do a proper energy and system sizing, I can confidently tell you that i power every appliances normally being powered by NEPA with my Solar energy system, come rain come sun i am having 24 hrs of power in my house.

nurudeen181:
But it doesn't work like that, it can be better though, the important part of a solar system are the panels, everything else are a waste of resources but maybe that's what we have now. Solar today is inefficient, it's not replaceable to nepa light, yes nepa light is costly and not stable or reliable but we need stop making people believe solar can replace nepa light now because it cant.
1. When there's no sunlight, no power for you, when sunlight is poor, no stable power, when sun is at it's peak, there's limit to what you can power and the duration it can power you appliances.
2. Affordablility, how many familie can afford a solar system that will power the electronics in their house the way nepa light does even if they'll have to use some at a time and others at other times.
3. Efficiency, the panels are mostly doing great work but the charge controllers and the battery is nothing to write home about. Charge battery the whole day and at night, the charge is down and they tell you that you should have reduced load or put it of during the day...
4. Improvement, i thing a good solar generator should be able to produce sufficient power without the battery connected so that the solar generator can produce power during the day while the battery is charging and the batter can take over at night when the sun is no more. My take
And mind you, solar is not environmentally friendly. The batter is destroying the environment. This is a hard truth. The panels are fine but the batteries, no way. To make 1mah battery, a lot of destruction of the environment has happened not to talk more of making batteries in kwh. The resources can not sustain the demands. Goto germany, go to drc, china and see this effects
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by osayuwamwen(m): 8:16pm On May 22, 2025
My battery is 2year and 2months and I have only top it with water 3 times am using luminous tabular battery, you don't need to top the water until it get to the red line at the bottom of the gauge
Skyfornia:
You are right, but remember maintenance, though it's still cheaper.

I fill my inverter batteries with inverter(Distilled) water every month and it cost me N5000 to N10,000 monthly.

I don't know if there's anything I can do to reduce such.

Any advice from the professionals here will help. Thanks
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by osayuwamwen(m): 8:26pm On May 22, 2025
Lol this yr setup they cashout for yr head 5kva inverter and 5kwh for 2.8millon even if it this year you did yr installation
COMPAQ:
I have 5kva inverter with 5kwh lithium battery.

Everything in my house except washing machine, AC's and oven are connected to it. i even use my microwave with it for short times - like 5mins to warm food or electric kettle to boil water for tea, which is just few minutes.

But things that are on always are fridge, freezer, water dispenser. lights, fan and TV are used as required. Basically I dont think twice about using anything....I just use as I need it and it lasts me about 10hours, so roughly I consume about 0.5kwh every hour.

it cost N2.8mln. I installed this in October 2024. No panels.
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by mp3ree: 8:31pm On May 22, 2025
November24:
Fans must be DC fans and AC inverter ACs

8kva at most.
10 panels

5.3m
This your rough quote na gbajue
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Ofekongsk(m): 8:56pm On May 22, 2025
That would be millions in today's market
jimmyolasun:
One of the things I invested in back 4 years ago and will forever be grateful to my neighbor then.. he was the one that forced me to patronize his business even tho I was reluctant then. But today I still pay him dues indirectly for giving me this opportunity. I did a full 10 panels and installations for less than 500k
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Klare(f): 9:46pm On May 22, 2025
jimmyolasun:
One of the things I invested in back 4 years ago and will forever be grateful to my neighbor then.. he was the one that forced me to patronize his business even tho I was reluctant then. But today I still pay him dues indirectly for giving me this opportunity. I did a full 10 panels and installations for less than 500k
Omo 500k is a steal!!!
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by IJEYdiamond(f): 2:03am On May 23, 2025
Skyfornia:
You are right, but remember maintenance, though it's still cheaper.

I fill my inverter batteries with inverter(Distilled) water every month and it cost me N5000 to N10,000 monthly.

I don't know if there's anything I can do to reduce such.

Any advice from the professionals here will help. Thanks
A/c.. water can be used its distilled water
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Eleph(m): 3:48am On May 23, 2025
Why not just ditch all these outdated and cumbersome technologies and go for a more advanced one like the EcoFlow Solar Generators powered by lithium ion batteries. This is what I use and I can recommend it to anyone. 08055532556
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by jimmyolasun: 5:29am On May 23, 2025
Klare:
Omo 500k is a steal!!!
He does installations and all for companies and homes. So reason he "begged" me then to do it. Because he had all needed laying in his store

So i reluctantly did it thinking I was helping his life by patronizing his business. Now I am grateful
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by klbakare(m): 7:37am On May 23, 2025
Pacesetter123:
Which is like how much?
let me help you a little. think of 15000watts battery bank- battery bank varies depending on how much you have; but due large capacity, it's best for you to use a 48 volts system; lets say a 24v 220ah battery x 4 which will give you around 20kw (good for you because of less sunny days). then you now think of solar panel which must be minimum 25percent of the battery capacity- think of around 5000watts of solar panel array; maybe a 500watts panel x 10 assembly, a 120amps charge controller, and a 15kva 48v pure sine inverter. other accessories include; panel mounting accessories, DC circuit breaker, DC wires, battery rack, AC wires as maybe necessary etc.

Battery bank(tubular) - 1.5m max
panels - 1.2m
charge controller - 300k(not sure)
Inverter - 1.2m(varies)
other accessories plus labour 1m (varies)

Approx. Total - 5.2m
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Pacesetter123(m): 9:00am On May 23, 2025
klbakare:
let me help you a little. think of 15000watts battery bank- battery bank varies depending on how much you have; but due large capacity, it's best for you to use a 48 volts system; lets say a 24v 220ah battery x 4 which will give you around 20kw (good for you because of less sunny days). then you now think of solar panel which must be minimum 25percent of the battery capacity- think of around 5000watts of solar panel array; maybe a 500watts panel x 10 assembly, a 120amps charge controller, and a 15kva 48v pure sine inverter. other accessories include; panel mounting accessories, DC circuit breaker, DC wires, battery rack, AC wires as maybe necessary etc.

Battery bank(tubular) - 1.5m max
panels - 1.2m
charge controller - 300k(not sure)
Inverter - 1.2m(varies)
other accessories plus labour 1m (varies)

Approx. Total - 5.2m
Thank you, this is very helpful.
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Benekkk: 9:40am On May 23, 2025
osuofia2:
smiley
Instead of talking on how we will have 24/7 energy, you guys are driving us to Solar. Just like the Cabals in the generators business made sure Nigeria didn't have electricity, the Solar Importers are now doing theirs. If we keep depending on those sources of Energy, stable electricity will forever be a dream
You're right no doubt but who's going to tackle the mafia that has a chokehold on NEPA? Do you think you can try?
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by DarkJeddi(m): 10:35am On May 23, 2025
osuofia2:
smiley
Instead of talking on how we will have 24/7 energy, you guys are driving us to Solar. Just like the Cabals in the generators business made sure Nigeria didn't have electricity, the Solar Importers are now doing theirs. If we keep depending on those sources of Energy, stable electricity will forever be a dream
Even in countries with the best of electricity supplies,Solar energy generation by individuals is becoming the in thing.
Instead of trying to discourage the adoption of a clean and environmentally friendly source of energy..
It would be best to advocate on how the excess energy generated can be tapped in to the national grid.
Re: Benefits Of Using Solar Panels At Home by Kcee001: 10:35am On May 23, 2025
OlawaleBammie:
2 medium freezers
4 ACs (1hp each, inverter)
4 fans



How much do I need to install a solar needed to power these.. please experts.
15kilowatts lithium battery
12panels 550watts
120 amps charger controller
10KVA INVERTER
this can serve you well
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