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Make una dey fear God oh, una post go hurt una one day.

In all your doings, do it right to avoid stories!

isangjohnson:
Bros, you had time for these explanations.....
Just as I earlier said, I didn't want us to go deeply into the fraudulent activities of most Chinese lifepo4 battery Vendors.
Our guys selling lifepo4 batteries here should be mindful of the information they drop here as most of us are well informed.

So most Nigerians are same as naija politicians abi?

We should apologize to Felicity and Martins that sells grade B cells.

I think one edge @Valto has is that his batteries packs are stated capacity!

Justice629:
@bassdow
I gbadu your inputs here well well but as I no be keyboard warrior I say make I maintain for corner the look many of them do called solar pros here.
Little piece of advice- when you ready to go lithium no make mistake of buying from naija vendors because must times na worst grade cells them dey buy from China, my own experience still the pepper me for body now.

Abeg share your experience, so others go know the name of the vendor

adebayo3449:
Thanks for you suggestion, is this inverter rugged, I mean to constantly power fridge etc.

3kva 24v Zinox iPowerPlus

adebayo3449:
Good evening
Please I’m planning to buy a 24v 5kw felicity lithium battery but I’m not planning to buy solar panels yet. I want to be charging the battery with nepa pending the time I relocate to a new apartment. Here is where I need help, what brand of 24v 3kva or 2.5kva inverter with low idle wattage will you suggest, also how can I charge the battery effectively without consuming too much electricity.
Please help
Thanks

Bro, you are better with 24v 173Ah battery from @Valto.

It will give you better ROI compared to felicity battery.

samir101ng:
Okay. Another recommendation will be the Onyxline of inverters. Checkout the Grovolt Amuma Hybrid Pure Sine Wave Inverters
https://onyxline.com.ng/product/grovolt-amuma-hybrid-pure-sine-wave-inverters/
It has 95% efficiency with 90A charging capacity with a built in transformer. Don't know the low idle power consumption and price currently.

Lastly, you can also the Must Energy Power EP3000 PLUS Series (4-6KW)
https://www.mustpower.com/product/ep3000-plus-series-4-6kw/
This also another low frequency inverter with inverter efficiency of 95% and power factor of 1. 35A charging current with idle consumption of 100W(+-20). Wishing you good luck.

Thanks for always helping out.

The idle consumption for must posted is no go area.

The Grovolt Amuma spec is a bit confusing, 95A is written, but in the specs section, 21A is written for the 5000kva/4000w variant as the AC Charging.

Please do you know if 5kva Zinox iPowerPlus has transformer?

Would you recommend zinox over this Must & Grovolt?

samir101ng:
Okay. Another one to look at also is the XtraPower LF Series Hybrid Inverter XTLFH1-6KW
https://www.xtrapowerng.com/xtrapower-hf-series-hybrid-inverter/
However, it has a lower power efficiency rating 85% and no data on idle consumption. But it has local support and warranty.

Thanks, I contacted them last month and was told 400+, efficiency is low and from research I did on similar inverters(Via Google Lens scan) was 100w idle.

samir101ng:
Checkout the TBB Power Nigeria RIIO 5kva Inverter Charger. I think it ticks off everything on your list except maybe the price which you will need to confirm from them.
http://nigeria.tbbpower.com/products/RiiO-Series-Inverter-Charger

Thanks, they don't have 5kva Riio/Riio Sun for a long time now, even chatted them few days ago.

Below are the current prices and it's out of budget for now.

3kva-24v Riio(Non-hybrid) 459,000
3kva-24v Riio Sun(Hybrid) 584,430
4kw-48v 760,000

FEGEITOK:
Hello house,

I tracked down a wire burning smell to the electrical plug adaptor that my inverter is charged by the mains.

I then touched it, and it was hot so hot it could burn if the fingers were left there for a considerable length of time.

What is the best way to resolve this issue?

Thanks, in advance!

Additional point: The wire itself is not hot, it is just the plug adaptor that is hot

I am highly convinced this is due to the numerous fake 13A socket sold.

I went to purchase some electricals yesterday, this includes two original A & B tech 13A socket.

During purchase I asked the man to tell list of various prices, it ranges from (400, 600, 800 & 1000) respectively.

I went for the highest they have 1000(A & B tech), because it will be installed in Electric Hot Plate location.

I believe most naija would go for 400 category.

Also bought two 2P 100A Knife Switch (I already have two A & Bt quality change over installed but these are for my solar project) they brought these categories 1500(Orange color), 2000, 4000, 5000 & 6000 respectively.

The 5000 is good but rated 380v, while the 6000(D & GT) is better and rated for 600v, I went for 6000 category.

Most Nigerians would go for the regular orange color (1500).

Most times it's better to buy once and forget about buying in the nearest future.

Meanwhile am still looking for good 5kva hybrid/non-hybrid transformer based inverter with Idle consumption less than 50w, efficiency up to 90%, AC charging current b/w 40-60A and less than 450k.

kristien4:
2weeks here... 1yr plus.. another location.. same inverter..same nepa charge no panels.

Nice

JUO:
Lithium batteries
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230ah 3.2v Eve 100k minimum order 8pcs
230ah 3.2v Rept 95k minimum order 8pcs

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60A-12v-60-150v
80A-12-60v-150v

Blue solar
50A-12-24v-100v 110k
30A-12-24V-100V
Model with inbuilt display
50A-12-24v-100v 95k
30A-12-24v-100v

Available 080-987-337-09

Put prices for your Flexmax

kristien4:
the 48v hybrid inverter is the Zinox ipowerplus hybrid...was thinking it has inbuilt equalization or something.. hence i didn't test the individual state of charge..

How long have you use this inverter?

What's the size of your panel?

Do you use it with separate controller or inbuilt CC?

IYGEAL:
Wasn't as pricey as it is today when we bought them.

Not everyone can easily afford it as at when you bought it.

The increase in price is due to instability of foreign exchange.

IYGEAL:
Deye 5KW

Big boys inverter

IYGEAL:
The depth of my well is within the same range as yours. I use 1.5HP. You might consider that as well if you don't use it for commercial purposes.

I had a similar problem with the old pump of same 1.5HP capacity. My cable is 2.5mm. It is not ideal but marginally better than yours, but the old pump was consuming about 2.3KWatts. I use a 5kw inverter too.

When the pump died, the new one (Astral) is significantly more energy efficient. It consumes about 1.6KW or so. Also, the power draw is stable.

When the old pump (I don't remember the brand) was in use, its power draw fluctuated (as seen on the inverter and BMS) a lot, ranging from 2000 to 2300 Watts. So I guess the excess power draw may come from your pump as well. That said, you also need to increase your cable size.

I use Astral 1.5hp, 2.5mm comester, with depth of 177.5ft and Amps draw fluctuate between 8-11amps.

Which inverter do you use?

isangjohnson:
Mine was displaying error code 06 on Felicity inverter and light was still entering the house.
I called their repair center and I was told to send it and I was about to send it to their Abuja office before I decided to try my diy luck by opening it.
I later realized one of the temperature sensor cable was bad, I change it and the error code disappeared.

Sometimes it's good to know some theory about RE, as they can be handy when issues like this arises.

How did you detect the bad cable, was they any sign of burnt?

earthrealm:
Just seeing ur msg.
Unfortunately, i dont know any sound installer...i would recommend to work unsupervised.
Unless you are knowledgable and just need raw labour..i can link you to a couple of installers....but if u need a highly skilled installer ..u may hav3 to bring them in from outside benin.

I recall one of the installers i gave someone for a hf hybrid.8 panels.
The installer with over 8yrs experience just did 3-3-2 connection and turned around to say the hybrid inverter isnt working

I had to go physically to direct him on what to do.
E no bother read inverter manual or spec sheet....and who even does 3-3-2?

This installer na football manager, maybe him think say na football field him dey and decided to use 3-3-2 formation by giving two players automatic red card.

dollarnaira:
80k each without bms.

Oh I see, that amount is for DIY guys.

Those who need battery pack should consult @Valto to know the amount

dollarnaira:
If your total load is less than 1000w 12v system is bae. 173A LifePO4 is roughly 320k if am correct o.

You are not, the last time @valto posted it was 400k.

Abi price don come down?

zeestone99:
This warranty thing, we need to educate Nigerians, warranty doesn't cover all kind of fault (only manufacturer error). I have seen people abuse their inverter (overload , bad input voltage, short circuit etc) and claim warranty all in the name of customer always right.
I have experience with many brands. I have one soelix that they can't even find the board for more than 2 years now.
However some brands can charge u double price for their products and may or may not tend to certain kind of faults.

True, but some brands like Felicity & TBB offers warranty that covers human errors to great extent(This they did without even asking what damaged the inverter but proffer solution to it just to protect they brands.

I understand some users can abused inverters to utmost extent.

Maybe, you should have resolve the shortage of wire that wasn't replaced.

Bro, try to protect your image especially *ONLINE* eh get why.

Have you thought of why banks and well established enterprises *ALWAYS* try to pacifier customers trying to constitute nuisance in they premises?

See Mohbad matter for instance, Naira Marley lost thousands of followers even before people heard his opinion, also it will take something beyond human to revive his career, that he has built.

Internet matter too powerful, You fit dey come out for minister position tomorrow and your opponent go pay people to dig shit from your past.

Caution is needed to protect ones image.

Make una try resolve the matter peacefully abeg.

People are reading, without calling names, installers and marketers, ALWAYS do everything humanly possible to satisfy your clients.

Even if dispute are resolved, the internet never forget indeed!

To all users out there, for inverter if you don't have the funds for big brands like Victron or Deye, and you are keen on warranty, go for TBB(Far better than most brands with 2 good years warranty) or go for felicity (same 2 years warranty).

Any other brand should be Zinox iPowerPlus (with 1 year warranty). This is Axpert clone which is also a good brand.

FEGEITOK:
Speaking of the value of knowing your stuff inside out.

I decided to update the BIOS of my main laptop on Saturday morning. It turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life. I bricked my primary workhorse and had to literally cancel all my schedule for Saturday and Sunday.

I have been updating BIOS all my life. But this one went south. The laptop would not come on again. To be more specific, it would turn on, but only into BIOS. It would not boot into windows. I tried every trick in the world same thing. I downloaded and created a USB based Windows Boot disk, but it would not load. I downloaded recovery ISOs and used them to create a USB stick that can allow me access the system, no luck.

I then assumed I have a bad USB stick and went to a repair man and he gave me a his own, same thing. Guy was stumped, referred me to someone else who was busy. I went home, kept trying all of Saturday and all of Sunday then luck smiled on me towards evening.

Then something occured to me. As a matter of practice and principle, I try to duplicate how enterprise networks are run at home. It means that I standardized on a particular laptop brand (Lenovo), a particular series of that laptop and that I have several of such laptops at home. I have Thinkpads X series several generations. I have more than one of each generation. X240, X250 and X260

So I said, when I bought this laptop, I swapped out the 250gb SSD for the 1TB SSD from my retired laptop. What would happen if I put back that original 250gb SSD. I tried it and the laptop would come on. So, the problem was with the drive and not the motherboard.

I took it out and returned the 1TB SSD same thing.

I then recalled that they said that X240 and X250 are literally the same internally. So I took out my X250 that I rarely use from storage and it would not come on, the power button would blink and make some noises and then go off. I removed the external battery, same thing. I removed the internal battery, same thing. I disconnected the BIOS battery, reconnected it, reinstalled the internal and external batteries and it came to life. I then removed the SSD that came with the X250 and inserted my 1TB SSD and it roared to life.

If I did not know my onions, I would never have resolved this at home and all by myself.

This story also illustrates for those IT guys who have never operated in an enterprise environment why enterprises always standardize infrastructure. It makes troubleshooting a lot easier. It also explains why you must duplicate the enterprise environment if you want to relate well with your peers inside.

In my days as a hardware and software guy. I was not that guy who fixed a bad PC by formatting it. I never did so. I always repaired the OS. I was very adept at those tools. Which guy would you prefer? A guy that does the easy fix or the guy who tried to understand what went wrong and then fixed it. Who knows the technology better? Who would you want in your corner when you got into IT trouble? I did not mind how long it took.

Even before repairing, I would use Antivirus Boot CDs to throughly disinfect the system because the primary cause of those failures was infection from human error. I would even replace the corrupted operating system files.

That quest to understand the underlying technology and understand how things work and fix the problem instead of just refreshing everything made me extremely knowledgeable of operating systems and led me to such tools like Winternals amongst others. Knowledge that I have sadly rarely ever used since I switched camp. Winternals was so good that Microsoft ended up buying the company and absorbing its founders, I can never forget Mark Russinovich. How much sadness I felt when Microsoft said they would discontinue that line of products. How many hardware and software guys knew that such tools existed? Their solution was to get pirated CDs and reinstall Windows. I never did that.

Neither can I forget The PC Upgrade & Maintenance Guide by Mark Minasi.

In the event that that had to be done, I would extract all the license keys from the installed software before ever formatting. So that the user would not lose his or her investments. I invested so much and found out that private individuals cannot pay for the labor that I put in. They were always willing to pay for hardware but never for the brains that did the work.

I would also save the user's data. I would ransack all corners of the hard drive and I would even take notes of where I got what data from so that at the end of the day, when I was done, the PC would be the same as it was before the trouble.

Then I plotted my pivot from that sort of business and thank God I did. Where I am today and where I was then is literally as different as the night is as different from day.

This is me back then, when I do all sort of stuff for guys willing to pay.

Used some UNIX distros(Sun Solaris, Puppy linux, Slax, Slack, Mandriva Red Hat, Ubuntu etc) to troubleshoot issues and do basic client-server networking.

The beauty of UNIX based O.S is that you are not perturbed with Virus. When the dreaded Raila Odinga virus came, I remove it like I was sending it to hell!

isangjohnson:
This is Nigeria and our things are always done in a peculiar way.
Just like every other sectors, it will take us years to meet up with other countries in energy sector.

Peterlove11:
Inbuilt CC

Nice

Peterlove11:
My panels are average panels. Had them installed Dec 2020. Total of 2440watts in pv. Still generate this. That's more than 90% instantaneous pv generation after 2yrs of use. I feel it can still do more. Maybe average panels ain't that bad as we think.

Do you use inbuit CC or separate CC?

Valto:
EPEVER 48V 5KW HYBRID INVERTER(UP-HI)
6pcs prime 380w /4pcs 370w Canadian solar (3760W total PV)
48V 280AH LIFEPO4 LITHIUM BATTERY(EVE)
10KVA TBB POWER SERVO STABLIZER.

Thanks for your response

Valto:
u mean the one i use personally?

Yes please

Valto:
no be my fault see the present price, where i bought from.. 250.59$ x 920=230,542naira
and i quoted 220k

@valto, please what's your inverter model and brand/series?

samir101ng:
Here, Fixed it for you guys. Enjoy !!!

CANADIAN 670w AVAILABLE !!

Canadian 670w solar panel now available.

Price : N197,657


For further enquiry & purchase;
Contact,
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CALL LINE: 08179464060
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Your post fit put some people out of business oh, abeg post RICCO PLUS datasheet

kiekie1:
RICCO PLUS & GROVOLT PRODUCTS AVAILABLE!!!

RICCO PLUS
2.5KVA 24V .......... 185,000
3.5KVA 24V ........... 245,000
3.5KVA 48V ........... 240,000
5KVA 48V .............. 400,000
5KVA 24V .............. 405,000
8KVA 48V .............. 685,000
10KVA 48V ............ 785,000

GROVOLT
1.5kva 12V ................ 120,000
1.5kva 12V hybrid .... 145,000
2kva 24V .................... 182,000
2kva 24V hybrid ........210,000
3kva 24V .................... 220,000
3kva 24V hybrid ........ 250,000
5kva 48V HYBRID .......... 450,000
10kva 48V HYBRID ........ 810,000



CHARGE CONTROLLER
MPPT 40A ................... 75,000
MPPT 60A 12/48V ..... 95,000
MPPT 80A 12/48V ...... 170,000
MPPT 100A 12/48V .... 190,000


For further enquiry & purchase;
Contact,
Smartcell global services
CALL LINE: 081-350-31951
WHATSAPP::: http://.us/w/?c=a46ea5

Can you post datasheet for these:

3.5KVA 48V ........... 240,000
5KVA 48V .............. 400,000

isangjohnson:
Ivem

Thanks

isangjohnson:
I don't even know how real the loads % of an inverter is, though the reading is based on the capacity of load applied.
I loaded 1hp AC with few house loads on my 5kva inverter and I saw about 21% and when I added 1.5hp AC, I saw 31%.

Please what's the model of your Felicity inverter?