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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 5:07pm On Jun 26, 2018
For those of you who want to power ac with batteries, this is exactly what happens when you are enjoying the ac

Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Barezzi(m): 6:14pm On Jun 26, 2018
Step up to 48v dc, and the current is halved... 34A dc.
On a 600Ah battery bank, that draw is negligible tongue

JUO:
For those of you who want to power ac with batteries, this is exactly what happens when you are enjoying the ac

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by kiekie1(m): 6:19pm On Jun 26, 2018
JUO:
For those of you who want to power ac with batteries, this is exactly what happens when you are enjoying the ac

Haba shey that your AC na old model 2hp wall unit brand grin ? My AC dosnt take up that amps but I always emphasize more on Oversizing PV array & a well sized battery bank to AC users especially those who run theirs at night wink .. Cheer's !

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by kiekie1(m): 6:21pm On Jun 26, 2018
Barezzi:
Step up to 48v dc, and the current is halfed... 34A dc.
On a 600Ah battery bank, that draw is negligible tongue


Haha that's massive Bro smiley .. #Millions ! If the cash ain't any issue, then carry on , we supply all wink !!
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by pranil(m): 6:51pm On Jun 26, 2018
Saipro:


Oga Pranil ... making sense since 1914

smiley Thanks

This video is very interesting where the guy clearly explains why wind turbines don't work for home use ( or rather they work but not cost effective)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3buUnynN5M?t=5m47s
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 9:15pm On Jun 26, 2018
kiekie1:


Haba shey that your AC na old model 2hp wall unit brand grin ? My AC dosnt take up that amps but I always emphasize more on Oversizing PV array & a well sized battery bank to AC users especially those who run theirs at night wink .. Cheer's !
only 1.5hp submersible water pump
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 9:16pm On Jun 26, 2018
kiekie1:


Haba shey that your AC na old model 2hp wall unit brand grin ? My AC dosnt take up that amps but I always emphasize more on Oversizing PV array & a well sized battery bank to AC users especially those who run theirs at night wink .. Cheer's !
only 1.5hp submersible water pump
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 9:18pm On Jun 26, 2018
Barezzi:
Step up to 48v dc, and the current is halfed... 34A dc.
On a 600Ah battery bank, that draw is negligible tongue

only 1.5hp submersible water pump.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by surrogatesng: 7:52am On Jun 27, 2018
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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by babaegun(m): 8:28am On Jun 27, 2018
bigrovar:

Second reason might be typical network issues..
Either way I needed a ensure the network is restarted once it has died.. took me a while to fix this but I think I have found a fix.
setup a daemon service which monitors the network process file and pings my server. if after 300 seconds it can't ping or the network process has stopped, it initiates a restart. I implemented new process watch this morning so let us see if it works.

@bigbrovar,

Had the same issue with my raspberry pi uploading to emoncms website too. At first, it was difficult tracing why it happens but i was able to pinpoint it to services stopping abruptly. I noticed as soon as you do a reboot, it starts uploading again. So what I did was to setup an autoreboot in crontab to automatically reboot the Raspberry Pi at at least 5 times daily and this solved the problem. I have since reduce the reboot time to once a day (12pm daily) and have not experienced any downtime since.

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 9:46am On Jun 27, 2018
Power your fridge, freezer, AC with solar during the day and public power at night when available. Don't kill your batteries with huge load. Price is 16k for 63a

Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by earthrealm(m): 10:14am On Jun 27, 2018
babaegun:


@bigbrovar,

Had the same issue with my raspberry pi uploading to emoncms website too. At first, it was difficult tracing why it happens but i was able to pinpoint it to services stopping abruptly. I noticed as soon as you do a reboot, it starts uploading again. So what I did was to setup an autoreboot in crontab to automatically reboot the Raspberry Pi at at least 5 times daily and this solved the problem. I have since reduce the reboot time to once a day (12pm daily) and have not experienced any downtime since.

llooking for a similar solution for my cctv internet, i intend to power the internet with a glo 4g sim in a mobile phone-hotspot, but hv experienced this sudden outage that requires a phone reboot to resolve and restore network. the rebooting and restoring hotsopt isnt possible on most phones/apps, what do you reommend i use?

how easy is this raspberry pi?, i gat 3/10 IT programming skillz grin, DO U THINK i can handle it?
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by dgr8truth(m): 11:08am On Jun 27, 2018
I'm going the route of DIY powerwall, and thus far I'm pretty impress with the result.
It's a 7s100p setup of 190ah. I intend to crank it up to maybe 7s 300p/400p.

The lowest cells are 1500mah and the highest cell is 2500+mah.

I used repackr.com to group the cell

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by pranil(m): 11:31am On Jun 27, 2018
JUO:
Power your fridge, freezer, AC with solar during the day and public power at night when available. Don't kill your batteries with huge load. Price is 16k for 63a


I need a 100/125 amp 3 phase ( TPN) mounted in the outdoor box if available for my office - pls. email me quote anil_ghatikar (at)yahoo.com
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 11:51am On Jun 27, 2018
dgr8truth:
I'm going the route of DIY powerwall, and thus far I'm pretty impressive with the result.
It's a 7s100p setup of 190ah. I intend to crank it up to maybe 7s 300p/400p.
good move how do you intend to construct the bms? I want carry out research on this also
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 11:53am On Jun 27, 2018
pranil:



I need a 100/125 amp 3 phase ( TPN) mounted in the outdoor box if available for my office - pls. email me quote anil_ghatikar (at)yahoo.com
I will contact you
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by dgr8truth(m): 12:00pm On Jun 27, 2018
JUO:
good move how do you intend to constructthe bms? I want carry out on this also

I planning on manually balancing them once in a month.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by NiyiOmoIyunade(m): 12:37pm On Jun 27, 2018
Perhaps you can bottom balance them - drain individually to cut off voltage and then charge back up - set your cutoff voltage above the minimum for the weakest cell and put to use - monitor frequently for the lowest cell voltage so you can recalibrate the system if required.

dgr8truth:


I planning on manually balancing them once in a month.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by babaegun(m): 1:56pm On Jun 27, 2018
earthrealm:


llooking for a similar solution for my cctv internet, i intend to power the internet with a glo 4g sim in a mobile phone-hotspot, but hv experienced this sudden outage that requires a phone reboot to resolve and restore network. the rebooting and restoring hotsopt isnt possible on most phones/apps, what do you reommend i use? how easy is this raspberry pi?, i gat 3/10 IT programming skillz grin, DO U THINK i can handle it?

I think it is not advisable to use a mobile phone for hotspot since the use will require the phone to be perpetually ON for a very long time. Also, the phone can also get hot with time. And schedule reboot in mobile phone is not that common unless you get a third party app.

Why not get a mini, micro-router or pebble. With that, you can then connect your cctv camera with wifi or network cable. A raspberry pi is just mini pc so that may not work for you. In addition, other forum members can also share the experience if they feel it will work.

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by OnePunchMan: 2:59pm On Jun 27, 2018
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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Penuelseun(m): 3:41pm On Jun 27, 2018
dgr8truth:
I'm going the route of DIY powerwall, and thus far I'm pretty impress with the result.
It's a 7s100p setup of 190ah. I intend to crank it up to maybe 7s 300p/400p.

The lowest cells are 1500mah and the highest cell is 2500+mah.

I used repackr.com to group the cell
Following closely
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by earthrealm(m): 5:12pm On Jun 27, 2018
babaegun:


I think it is not advisable to use a mobile phone for hotspot since the use will require the phone to be perpetually ON for a very long time. Also, the phone can also get hot with time. And schedule reboot in mobile phone is not that common unless you get a third party app.

Why not get a mini, micro-router or pebble. With that, you can then connect your cctv camera with wifi or network cable. A raspberry pi is just mini pc so that may not work for you. In addition, other forum members can also share the experience if they feel it will work.

challenge is..the cctv only has lan input, a modem with sim input and lan output would be my best option, but am yet to see that, so intend to do cellphone hotspot to modem with lan output grin
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by mrmachine: 7:33pm On Jun 27, 2018
mrmachine:
Good evening house, please I need to fix a 5kva cyberpower inverter. If anyone has idea or person that can do it, please get in touch with me.

Good people, can somebody please advise or say something. I know I am not pranil or Niyi.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Ativ: 7:48pm On Jun 27, 2018
earthrealm:


challenge is..the cctv only has lan input, a modem with sim input and lan output would be my best option, but am yet to see that, so intend to do cellphone hotspot to modem with lan output grin

They are many modem routers with Sim input and LAN output. All the internet companies in NIGERIA including the GSM ones have various models. You can also get on AliExpress.com. Tplink has 4G modems with this functionality.

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by DMerciful(m): 8:10pm On Jun 27, 2018
Get inexpensive BMS from aliexpress even the ones with Bluetooth such that you can monitor system performance up-to individual strings on your android phone
dgr8truth:


I planning on manually balancing them once in a month.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bigrovar(m): 8:25pm On Jun 27, 2018
babaegun:


@bigbrovar,

Had the same issue with my raspberry pi uploading to emoncms website too. At first, it was difficult tracing why it happens but i was able to pinpoint it to services stopping abruptly. I noticed as soon as you do a reboot, it starts uploading again. So what I did was to setup an autoreboot in crontab to automatically reboot the Raspberry Pi at at least 5 times daily and this solved the problem. I have since reduce the reboot time to once a day (12pm daily) and have not experienced any downtime since.

Actually trying to see if I can avoid having to reboot every once in a while.. This is due to the write limit of SD cards. The RPi operating system is configured in read only mode and process that requires file writing like logs are mounted to Ram. Reboot causes the OS to write to disk..

Another reason is once I reboot I loose buffered logged files. Even without Internet logged files are kept in system ram until there is an Internet connection when there are not retroactively uploaded with appropriate time stamps. Rebooting would mean me losing every monitored data captured and stored between losing the Internet and before the reboot took place. I am making some progress and I am confidence that the issue would be resolved.. Eventually.

earthrealm:


llooking for a similar solution for my cctv internet, i intend to power the internet with a glo 4g sim in a mobile phone-hotspot, but hv experienced this sudden outage that requires a phone reboot to resolve and restore network. the rebooting and restoring hotsopt isnt possible on most phones/apps, what do you reommend i use?

how easy is this raspberry pi?, i gat 3/10 IT programming skillz grin, DO U THINK i can handle it?

RaspberryPi essentially requires a bit of Linux skills. You can get by sha because they are tons of guides online if you are ready and willing to learn.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by NiyiOmoIyunade(m): 8:57pm On Jun 27, 2018
Ah Oga! Nor be so o. I do not have a solution to this problem so I kept quiet waiting for someone who can help to talk.

The thing is as far as I know that CyberPower is a very very old system and Prag discontinued support for it long ago. Few if anyone would have boards or spares for it now.

Perhaps KieKie on this forum would have or know someone who can help you fix it. He still has an ancient cyberpower 3.5kva he uses to carry his heavy loads grin

If you are unable to fix it it or the cost of fixing is prohibitive then it might be time to get a more modern replacement.

CC KieKie



mrmachine:


Good people, can somebody please advise or say something. I know I am not pranil or Niyi.

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by dgr8truth(m): 9:40pm On Jun 27, 2018
DMerciful:
Get inexpensive BMS from aliexpress even the ones with Bluetooth such that you can monitor system performance up-to individual strings on your android phone
I thought of it, what actually put me off was the balancing current of 0.5a,it will take forever to perhaps bring the whole string to almost equal voltage.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by bobojoshua(m): 12:12am On Jun 28, 2018
Good morning guys.
My 20 Amp soeur battery charger stopped
working last week. The problem I have now is
lack of fund to get another charger
and my 100AH battery has been drained below
70% D. O. D. I need someone who resides in
Ilorin to help charge the battery as I intend
keeping the battery fully charged until am able to
afford another battery charger. I don't mind
paying for this service too. Thanks.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by NairaBaba: 12:42am On Jun 28, 2018
Dear house, I have joined the solar water heater experimental group. It was installed yesterday, I will post details and review later after test run.

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Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by mrmachine: 2:21am On Jun 28, 2018
NiyiOmoIyunade:
Ah Oga! Nor be so o. I do not have a solution to this problem so I kept quiet waiting for someone who can help to talk.

The thing is as far as I know that CyberPower is a very very old system and Prag discontinued support for it long ago. Few if anyone would have boards or spares for it now.

Perhaps KieKie on this forum would have or know someone who can help you fix it. He still has an ancient cyberpower 3.5kva he uses to carry his heavy loads grin

If you are unable to fix it it or the cost of fixing is prohibitive then it might be time to get a more modern replacement.

CC KieKie




Thanks sir. You are always helpful.
Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by JUO(m): 3:41am On Jun 28, 2018
earthrealm:


challenge is..the cctv only has lan input, a modem with sim input and lan output would be my best option, but am yet to see that, so intend to do cellphone hotspot to modem with lan output grin
you can get a small D link router with USB input for USB modem and lan output that should solve the problem

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