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| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by mctfopt: 10:09am On Sep 25, 2025 |
favouredbymercy:I doubt they have any. This is why most buy from dealers that can at least offer small warranty. |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 1:48pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
bkuranga:well thy LORD would have to deny your request as thy LORD sees this as a malicious attempt to silence thy Lord. |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Tdoctor(m): 2:48pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Please, can anyone explain why tubular batteries are almost as expensive as LFP batteries in Nigeria, whereas outside the country, they are mostly one-third the price of LFP? Is there something I'm missing or am I looking at misleading data? 1 Like |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by ksmart027(m): 3:54pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Tdoctor:It's expensive because of the likes of the bros above who dont want to embrace new technology. Many installer recommendeds tubular for their customers instead of lithium. And the funny part is this customers don't make research there self to know which is better. 12 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 5:03pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Tdoctor:Currently even using Ritar, and Genius. Funny enough, they are neither Tubular nor Lithium batteries. Another very good brand is Quanta |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by abuzz33: 5:39pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Tdoctor:Shipping cost due to weight. A 220a 12v tubular battery weighs around 70kg. A 200a 12v lifepo4 battery weighs around 20-25kg. 4 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 8:34pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
abuzz33:what a reasonably sounding Response BUT... |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by mank1234(m): 8:49pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Demand and supply. |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 8:55pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Tdoctor:I think it would be more helpful if comparisons are as close as possible e.g between Quality Lithium vs Tubular vs LeadAcid batteries or between LOW-Quality Lithium vs Tubular vs LeadAcid batteries |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by GloryJoyeux: 7:55am On Sep 26, 2025 |
Hi, I think the quality of this forum has drastically deteriorated. It has just become a forum of arguments of inflated egos and based on who will be the one to have the last say. Hardly any new inductee into the RE space on this forum, it's also been a while any one posted a solar setup, criticized critically or praise a brand, shared knowledge regarding findings on the future of RE etc Just three full pages of banters by many who don't even have nor are currently using a bi-facial panel against. No practical experience, just AI slop and assumptions. No installer here is even talking about client's feedback especially after installing solar this period of poor yield and is it's affecting the rate at which installation gigs are coming in. Nothing to learn here in the last 3-5 pages, even tiktok is now serving better RE content and information compared to a forum dedicated to it. Now that's quite a shame! 14 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Penuelseun(m): 8:06am On Sep 26, 2025 |
GloryJoyeux:True talk, someone with no practical experience using AI to form guru here 5 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Obnoxious2001(m): 8:18am On Sep 26, 2025 |
favouredbymercy:No service centre in Nigeria yet. But it can be fixed drop your location I can refer you. Now speaking of inverters, while there maybe a price war, I actually think it's very important you look out and purchase inverters that are fixable. Warranty period is just 1yrs, after which if there are damages, you will likely be focused to get new one. 1 Like |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 8:40am On Sep 26, 2025 |
You actually right @GloryJoyeux . It's over 2-pages of no room for Adverts and sugar coated evidences. As per AI or whatever you choose to call it, I leave you to it. My own be say, make una no dey too BoBo us here. Even person wey wan sugar coat talk (Lie) suppose respect the audience small, no be to dey yarn like say the audience no get reasoning of their own at all. |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 9:10am On Sep 26, 2025 |
At end of the day, whatEver the figures your Solar setUp cost you, you need (at least try) ensure you not just getting value for your Money BUT also you not overSpending so much that being on National Grid becomes way Cheaper. Personally, I try ensuring before my batteries every reach their end of Life, I have gotten back (at least close to) the equivalent cost had I been paying NEPA Bill. Gone are the days when I ensure everything must be 100% brand new; I try to save on costs as much as possible while also ensuring I don't end up shooting ma self on the foot. you're better off with USEd quality item, than a brand NEW rubbish. What I have learnt doing is ensuring most of my heavy loads run during the day when the pressure is more on the Solar panels, than battery and at Night, I only need non-essentials hence not trying to force my battery bank's capacity match my entire load capacity. That way I spend less on batteries because except faults develop, the Battery is mostly what experiences frequent wear and tear. A lot of us are still tenants unComfortably struggling to afford rent, despite the inconveniences of staying in a rented apartment, yet spending millions on Solar setUp; funny enough, a lot of us don't even spend much time at home during the day, and even when we home (at night), we so stressed out we just wanna sleep and maybe watch the TV for a few minutes. But we go come here, follow people wey don build house dey drag price tag (probably due to peer pressure) hence the marketers and so called professionals sees an opportunity which they wholesomely utilize. Initially was renting Generator (for 5,000 naira a day) to pump water BUT switched to using my Solar during the day BUT right now, thinking of going back to using Generator so I don't stress out ma battery. Yea I could easily buy a Generator BUT it's much cheaper renting and here's why - I got the following a. 1pcs 5,000 litres GP tank b. 2pcs 3,000 litres GP tank c. 1pcs either 2,000 or 2,500 litres GP tank hence I got a total of approximately 13,000 Litres of water tank storage which when filled, lasts me at least 3.5 to 4 months and during the rainy season, I might not even use up to 2,000 litres finish the entire rainy season. now renting Generator at rate of 5,000 naira a day means I only rent generator just 2-times a year and that's a Year's worth of using Generator, without burdened with maintenance of any sort, not even to buy or change oil. All I do is buy fuel and that's it. Of course being frugal, doesn't benefit those whose major means of livelihood is centered around you spending money. Funny enough, still planning on acquiring at least 2pcs of 5,000 Litres tank; don't bother about costs, I bought them all USEd and they are the quality Rubber old GeePee types. That way, mayBe generator rentage would drop to once a year. Would have to give my neigbours who don't have boreHole free water so long they got their own tank - that way, story no go dey say I no dey too pump water na wetin make boreHole misBeHave. My Solar panels and charge controllers, (except the SRNE) are all brand new BUT if I were to buy any today, I would go USEd so long I get good ones which are many in the market. As for batteries, except I know it's health, i mostly go for brand new ones. This thread should be more about saving costs, not maxing out your 2 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by GloryJoyeux: 9:37am On Sep 26, 2025 |
It's like we will leave this group for Ba ss do w (lol), sometimes it's good to read the writing on the wall. You are so unnerving bro, and the worst part is that you sit down and type hundreds of characters. Some people have setups with over 150kWh storage etc, some also have smaller setups of 8kWh. It all depends on their needs. But you, you are just here, telling everyone all the time of why you do your frugality and why everyone should do frugality like you or see reasons to applaud you in your frugality. Its like you are even so comfortable and content in whatever phase of life you have found yourself in and then you are projecting it on others by force. Do you think your frugal lifestyle is anything to be proud off? Fine, we agree contentment is great gain, covetousness is sin. But stop glorifying your frugality and stop projecting it on us. Some spend millions on their setups not even based on their power needs, but because they have the money to. You don't see them here gloating about that either! Just imagine knowing someone that always gloating about his/her 2001 camry, nobody is saying you should not be content or happy with it, but not to project it like he/she choice and decision is best and better than even the one that splurges on the recent model camry. It have do please. Also, it is not written anywhere that marketers are not allowed on this forum, I don't even understand your hatred for markerters. I agree there are dishonest ones, but there are also honest ones. Its not by being online, some dishonest marketers also have shops in plazas, would you also go to the plazas and pursue them? Everyone should simply make research before buying anything and simply learn from others. I complained along with many others about Cworth product being overated yet are under-capacity, but, have you ever seen cworth marketers here? Even with their horrible products, they are not here. So what's then your peeve with the few that are here? Especially some that have good reviews from their customers? You can as well purchase from the marketer and do your independent review on such products! It is well shar. Characters dey for this world. 21 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Darey00(m): 10:32am On Sep 26, 2025 |
I chatted @Dam5reey privately on whatsapp about using a 585w Jinko Bificial panel alongside a mono of the same rating and he assured me its no problem, this was after I made my theroritical enquiries from GPT. I installed the bificial on Tuesday making it a 1,170w system and the performance hasn't slowed down or anything. I've briefly seen a maximum of 970w on my controller ( it has a limit of 1040w for 12v) so I may never get the max rating. Got it for 112k on jiji so zero losses made if i got a mono. For the weight, it is slightly heavier than the mono by a few kgs. Frankly I don't give a toss about the 30% extra just putting it out there for anyone who wants to buy. 6 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Nobody: 11:15am On Sep 26, 2025 |
Darey00:The thing here is that, did you beat the purpose of buying the “Bifacial panel”? Did you utilize the two faces of the panel? Clearly the answer is “capital NO”. You had your reasons which came from the seller here like you just admitted, and probably you wanted to know how far with it which is still fine. You would have helped us a lot more with the figure you got when using the Mono and the new figure you got when you added the Bifacial. Now I am beginning to believe that this narrative of Bifiacial panels being better bla bla bla, is as a result of it being cheap and it’s likely what most of the sellers here/ghost sellers here lols, have in stock. Modified: I’m still on the fence separating both arguments so far and I still haven’t moved. 1 Like |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Darey00(m): 11:22am On Sep 26, 2025 |
BigDickProblems:I couldn't find any mono of the same rating anywhere, my only option was the bifacial so i had to ask. My major goal was to avoid mismatch issues which was why I asked after doing my findings on ChatGPT, I also asked my installer to be double sure. I didn't buy the panel from Dam5reey. 1 Like |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Nobody: 11:34am On Sep 26, 2025 |
Darey00:Yeah, I totally get you. And so far, you have no issue with the Bifacial which is also fine. We can also agree that the Bifacial works just fine like the Mono from what you said. But are sellers shoving the Bifacial down our throat with sugarcoated words? Because they don’t have the MONO? Or are the buyers buying it to use the two faces of the panel? Think about that. 2 Likes |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by durodee(m): 11:52am On Sep 26, 2025 |
Good day house. I got this locally assembled pack ,designated as 48v 6kwh, about 3 years ago connect to a 2.5kva Felicity inverter and a 60amp CC. It was a standalone off grid system connected to 1800w panels. I was called that the system just shut down about a month ago. It will not take a charge but still kept the CC on. The display on the battery indicated 38v and the CC automatically reverted to 24v and was displaying OVER VOLTAGE disconnect. I was not able to get to the location until two weeks later. By that time the battery displayed 17v! Unfortunately, I had lost some pictures taken before opening the box but kindly see some pictures.
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| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by durodee(m): 11:57am On Sep 26, 2025 |
More pictures . The BMS was burnt and had refused to connect earlier by Bluetooth BUT the balancer connected!!! Also 14 cells has absolutely no means of identification while two with identification seemed to have been patched on to the pack
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| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Nobody: 12:02pm On Sep 26, 2025 |
durodee:Your best bet will be to contact the guy who built it. He will appreciate it too. 1 Like |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by durodee(m): 12:10pm On Sep 26, 2025 |
Some cells were reading 0v, some read less than 1v and most between 1-1.5 and one read about 2v. I had only a 12v 6amp charger available. The charger had repair mode for lead acid batteries and was forced to use it. I broke the pack down to 12vs and connected the pack to the charger without BMS just to see if there is any hope for the cells. The charger will not initially charge but the repair mode woke them up and I have the four packs at about 12.3vs over the next 6 hours. I have since disconnected the charger and will see this weekend if there how much of charge they are able to hold 1 Like |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by durodee(m): 12:19pm On Sep 26, 2025 |
I had sent the pack back to him 3 times before. Within a week of getting it. It did the same thing, I sent it back. A few weeks later, same issue. In one occasion, I even sent it back from the motor park because the BMS will not come on!!! From the motor park o!! Later the guy started giving me attitude and made up my mind not to contact him again. I have since moved on and getting packs I need from other people. Recently got 3 packs from Valto, no issues. I have gotten 5 from him without issues BigDickProblems: |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 12:19pm On Sep 26, 2025 |
durodee:First you already observed the BMS is burnt, that alone is good start towards figuring out the issue. Now how I fix things such as this is - you either try figure out the exact issue OR you try reBuilding it by utilizing existing parts. BUT Before anything, try ensure the current health of the batteries are worth the stress. 1 Like |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bassdow: 12:22pm On Sep 26, 2025 |
durodee:hope cost of all this wayBills + rePairs does not exceed cost of replacement. |
| Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by HeavenlyBang(m): 12:45pm On Sep 26, 2025 |
GloryJoyeux:Thread has just gotten tedious. Steep decline from what it was months ago. 1 Like |
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