NewStats: 3,261,535 , 8,174,283 topics. Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025 at 02:38 PM 3l4h10

Born2conquer:
We've gotten to the finishing stage of our project, please, I need the service of a very good Tiler In Abeokuta.

I've worked with several tilers here before but it seems they're always more in a hurry to conclude the work instead of focusing on the neatness and alignment of the tiles.

Please, if you have a very good and creative tiler, kindly recommend asap (could be in my.mail) for immediate contract

naijacreativeha?

9icetoo:

at the bolded.
I do long distance regularly. Just came back from a[b] 450 mile round trip though not driven spiritedly[/b]. Now i am all about MPG not SPG.
Well, if i ever come to abuja, i will surely use that boroscope of yours to see whats going on in this engine of mine.
No performance issues at the moment but i can bet nigerian fuel has done a number on the pistons. How much is the liqui moly by the way?

Same day?

Several days?

Would you rather save MPG or arrive before nightfall?

There is something dangerous about allowing nightfall to catch you on Nigerian interstate routes unless you have a mind and heart of steel.

I love long distance drives but that we don't have the peace of mind one has driving interstate routes in a place like the USA is a big problem

Hybrid600:
🤣🤣🤣.
You're a smart man.
That was very fast thinking. Many that are not savvy with connections wont attempt this out of fear and while the savvy ones may not think to this direction of waking the battery up.
Good thing the battery showed itself while you was still home.

Has the battery misbehaved since after you led its life? 😁

No it hasn't. I think the battery got issues from being stuck in traffic for 2 hours with full AC and headlamps. I maybe wrong

Piyke:


Lol. Even in Abuja it's not as easy. I was doing those spirited stuff Saturday mornings. I leave at 6am. By 730 - 8am my preferred stretch would become clogged. At that point I shift to a different lonelier road to finish.
Come to Abuja and pull the head, then I can send you the pistons. Lol

On 5 treatments, I guess it's to do with the level of build up in the first place. Also I think if I were doing like a 500km trip, it wouldn't have taken 5 tanks.

On the bolded. I found a kindred spirit.

bigrovar:
Around Q4 last year. I upgraded my solar s from 9x 335 Yingli s to 9x 600w Canadian Hiku7 solar s. Bought from techland.

Here is a short performance review.

Installation. The s are roof mounted with a 21 degree tilt. They face South East at 123 degree Azimuth.

The s are paired with a 100A / 150v Victron smart solar charge controller. Total capacity is 5.4kw.
9 s are connected in a 3SP3 arrangements. There is a 10mm2 shielded and UL listed cable between PV and charge controller. Cable length is about 10 meters.

Overall the system performance has been really good. I get an average of 4.5kw output which represents over 80% of PMAX.

One thing the is really good at is how it handles heat. It has a heat co efficiency of 0.34% and this shows in the performance. Yesterday ambient temperature (as pulled from my personal weather station) was as high as 43C, yet the was able to produce (consistently) north of 4400w.

During cloud edge events the has produced close to 110% of output which is 5.8kw of 5.4kw PMAX.

I attached 2 centrifugal fans to the Victron solar charge controller to help handle heat since I am using the controller close to it's limits.

Beautiful.

When I grow up I want to be like you.

Take home lessons.

You didn't wait until you could buy top of the line of equipment before setting up.

You started with what you have and upgraded along the way.

I plan upgrades to my setup by June 2023 and stories like this are very helpful.

I use Jinko s by the way and I agree that if you have top of the line s you can exceed nameplate in certain conditions

The other day my car died on me. It read 12.2 V on the multimeter.

Initially wanted to borrow or pay for another battery to jump start the car. Was too early for that.

So I switched off my solar s, disconected the inverter batteries from the charge controller.

Connected the car battery to the charge controller. Switched the connection of the solar s to the charge controller back on.

After about 10 to 15 minutes disconnected the setup took the battery to the car and it started right up.

Of course I had to reconnect the inverter battery back after I had returned.

Just sharing a story from the trenches.

Kabawhat:



Good evening house am trying to buy PowMr 60 Ah MPPT solar controller from this my OGA =odimbannamdi and making an upfront payment


Abegi who has done business with him in the past ooooh

Go ahead.

EgunMogaji2:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/675238407692695?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=0NULKw

The comments are something else.

Thanks for sharing.

We all need to be safety conscious all the time

ubreeze:
Thank you so much for this project. It is almost impossible to read through the entire thread and asking questions that have already been asked will meet with being ignored. Your project will be a great help. Please start a thread for it.

I will make time to answer you.

Gotta balance stepping in to help with making a living and taking breaks from the exertion at work.

I sympathize with how you feel.

dollarnaira:


True to 1000w limitations
But the truth is our energy need differs. For example I run freezer( major 4 to 6hrs daily) , tv, bulbs, fans, charging,etc all not up to 500w. All appliances still not running at the same time. too that 24v is not cheap. Battery price is not dropping anytime soon. Those who run applications beyond 1000w are welcome. Lastly, 12v is very easy to maintain.

Valid points

See the last paragraph of my picture again.

rotecch77:


Thanks for your comment

About painting of curb or Kerbs I can see that there is no strict standardization of colours used on pavements for road safety globally But brighter colour like, white,yellow red, can be used for safety on road.
This lead me to think outside the box 5 year ago in one of our project ( pics attached) by using matching brighter colour for the said project and the client love it,
Ever since then I don’t use black and white regular colour again.

Police kerbs use three colors: blue, yellow and green and they look good

Army kerbs use two colors: red and black

I found those a refreshing change from the standard black and white

I like this.

I hope others are noticing and will copy.

It need not be white and black all the time

EduTechTainMent:


If I may ask, why would you prefer a 24v to a 12v system? 24v means he would need to connect his battery (at least 2) in series. He is using 1 battery for now. So his 12v inverter is in order. He could look at the possibility of upgrading in the future though.

Agreed.

But he is condemned to less than 1,000 watts draw.

With 24 volts, he can exceed the 1000 watt draw.

Let me refer to a quote online that has put it more elegantly than I am ready to find the words at the moment.

osayuwamwen:
Installer, sofar it serve me all through the night from 4pm till presently, use TV for some hours with all my surrounding lights ON and a DC fan ON all tru the night, just 1bar out from a full battery bar it's already charging this morning and my refrigerator, TV and DC fan is on the battery voltage is at 12.2v but I was advised not to use the battery below 50%, how do I know when the battery bar is at 50% as the battery is not reading in percentage

Based on the attached at 12.2V it seems you are at 60% DOD.

You would be at 50% DOD if the battery level got to 12.06V.

Hope this helps.

I would have preferred a 1.5kva 24v system to a 1.5kva 12v system.

So please consider upgrading in the near future and please listen to my able brother samir.101ng's suggestions above.

dapotemi:


You and Erico submission fully captured my thought..This issue has been discussed here more than twice .. I have worked as an asst Facility mgr with a monthly budget of #60M and no one would approved a Kobo for anyone, whether you're Julius berger or baba lati to come and check a job and get paid transport...it's a form of 419 if you present such.

99% of guys here does B2C. But, from my pocket, I do give tips to workmen when I call them for an emergency work or sometime to quickly check and submit a quote and that is because getting those things done affect my KPI..The truth is, it's an individual thing. Not a rule of thumb..

But the biz guys here should calm down, you are the one that wants to get a job and earned , you are the one that needs to be humble

...those of us bringing the job here will also be humble when we get to where we make that money we bring here..Abi nau, I go humble for my oga for 30 days collect salary, I go come humble for you too because I want to pay you to to supply wood or paint, no nau, you sef reason am. I can give someone else... imagine if everyone gives someone else and not you, na you go humble last .. Well, I thinks it's a faceless forum tho, most of you don't act like this in REAL LIFE, atleast the ones have met

rmx:


Well said , like the being humble part

Not a one size fits all situation . The truth is that in the b2c space some businesses are well established with good reputation and patronage hence can introduce conditions such as asking for transport etc , others are more desperate for customers . As long as both parties agree , don’t see the big deal , no be by force to deal nah . Not all business/transaction is for you

All this discussion does not happen in the b2b space , can’t even begin to articulate costs i have incurred in this space without closing

There is an element of risk in all business

As for the bolded

When my company lost a long running contract....

A contract that I was so sure of (revenue which I banked on)

A contract that gave my company the majority of its revenue

The work that I had to do to fill that void

The time it took to go back to that level of revenue and exceed it that I realized that any money that comes my way is a favor and not as of right.

It does not matter how skilled your are, there are others similarly skilled if not even more skilled.

That anyone who plays a role in making me earn money should receive VIP treatment.

Also, once you have a name and reputation, you can set rules that no new entrant can set

When you are starting out, your clients will set rules for you

sharks776:
Hello good people and Solar Pros in the house. Please I need advice on this issue. I have 6pcs of 430w and trying to expand with 6pcs 450w s.

Q1: can I mix the two
Q2: can my fangpusun 60a handle it?

Note: the 430w has high Voc and low Isc, while the 450w has low Voc and higher Isc

How can I help you? I saw your attempt to connect with me ?

gabbytabby:
It’s not a crime you fit take your mouth ask for anything when requested to provide a quote
1) Transportation
2) Stipend
3) Full day pay
4) Your children school fees
5) Your wife hair weave .

We meet those who have no logical sense of reason and call people evil for not meeting their thief demands. The mature minds will not take request that they are unable to meet and keep it moving.


no

See the tweet below. Tweet above provided for context.

chris81964:

Thanks with Schneider it is hit or miss. It does not seem to matter where we buy them.

Go to their website, use their distributor locator tool or their live chat.

Buy only from the distributor and you should be good.

Mine works. My RCB even tripped when there was a fault at the local transformer and I was very pleased with that.

GloriousGbola:


as an aside, i am seeing multiple elements of poor design here

1) there was no fire alarm system
2) the is too much flammable material used in the room . wood should not be part of a battery room. better for all these items to be on steel frames
the room should also have a see through door, maybe even be see through windows [all fire resistant] fire resistant wall ing, and a fire resistant ceiling [that is called fire compartmentalization]

i would say there should be an fm200 fire suppression system put in place, but i have read that lithium -[not lipo4] batteries are extremely hard to put out when they catch fire

has a proper post mortem been conducted to confirm exactly what went wrong? from the picture it looks like the cable started burning. if so it means the dc breakers on the cable [assuming they were provided] simply started ing the current .

also what make is the actual cable?

we had a case yead back where for a month running we kept getting our fm 200 system in a server room triggered. after taking the whole place apart we found one ediat ac installer had ed the cables for an ac rather than do a straight run. so the t kept heating up and burning the insulation.

we had an issue of this nature on a recent project. the installer ran cables to mppt direct from the s. we advised that they get breakers. getting original breakers was another long story. but it was eventually sorted.

you also need to confirm if the manuacturer has a recommended spacing for safety.

YOU DID NOT GET LUCKY.THIS IS A WARNING

in investigations following major incidents, it always turns out there were precursor events. when you do not act on your precursor event, the next event is always larger= until you have death or significant asset loss.

i hope someone on your team is paranoid, and that the ogas at the top are willing to make the necessary financial commitments.

That was intense.

Thanks for sharing.

I hope others with large installations are following.

twinskenny:
For the lovers of wall lights

Lekki projects

# lighting

08035153923

Well done

FEGEITOK:


I even gave the last but one transport to come and work for me. I gave him several modus of rice (enough to feed his family twice a day for at least a week) when he was going in addition to paying him for his services. I also gave him one of my dress shirts I no longer felt like using. He had complained that he had no food to eat (and I happen to know that he is married) and did not have transportation. But to my chagrin this guy stole money from me. I kept some cash in a drawer and he touched that drawer and the money was gone. Can you imagine how I felt to have discovered that someone I did the above for did that to me? I know because I confronted him and he confessed after he had returned home. One more thing, this guy I allowed him to sleep over a couple of times in order to save some of the money he would have spent on transport back home and back to the site the next day.

By the way, the guy I said took money from me above is now asking for my number to pay in the money that he doesn't wish to touch the money.

I just saw the SMS now.

I am sure he knows what he was going to miss and wants to forestall it.

erico2k2:

Im seriously struggling to understand your post

I am summarizing my post, the post that you quoted.

I am telling you that the bolded which was copied from the original post you quoted says the very same thing you are saying.

GloriousGbola:


Some people will be complaining when favor is knocking on their door because if the noise.

I was taught never to beg a rich person for money, but to instead show them how useful I could be to them.

You will get the money you wanted form such a person and much more.

erico2k2:

Bross I think you are missing the point here, Help is deferent but when one demands it's a claim of self entitlement. ofcos you can cook from home and give to your workers on site, I done that on my build, but note they never demanded for it.

This line above makes the point you are making.

Fourthly, no one owes you anything.


I included the rest of the story to show that one can refuse to agree to a claim of entitlement and yet kind enough to assist someone in the position of some who carry on with a sense of entitlement.

In short by being entitled, they may be missing out on more.

I am also making the point that someone can be favored who did not show signs of being entitled, but they can go ahead and scuttle the opportunity given to them and the opportunities that might have been given to others but for their mistakes.

dangoteinlaw:
That is what they call wisdom in their book, wasting people’s time in the name of “getting a quote”. That’s how one fool made me mobilize a POP guy to his site at the end he didn’t get the job. What pained me was the pop guy left his tape rule at home and i had mine but i urge the pop guy to be a professional by getting his own tape and he spent 3k at that spot to buy a tape all because he relied on my word that the guy in question will surely award him the job. Honestly I wasn’t worried about myself becoz I knew the pop guy has been home for months because job traffic was slow. Inside my car his wife was even calling and praying for him that he will get the job and it all turned out he was just a pawn to one fool who thought he needed to “get a quote”. That is why illiteracy scares the shit out of me because for this life if you happen to be at the bottom of the food chain u go too suffer oh, your life will be used as a game of chess and you might be sacrificed as a pawn to save a knight.

First, business is not a charity.

Secondly, running business on sympathy is not the best way to go about business.

Thirdly, no one will win 100 percent of all the jobs he bids for. This is why we spread out tents very wide so that they will have a greater tendency to catch something.

Fourthly, no one owes you anything.

Now about your sob story.

I have been there. I understand the feeling. I treat my artisans well.

I even gave the last but one transport to come and work for me. I gave him several modus of rice (enough to feed his family twice a day for at least a week) when he was going in addition to paying him for his services. I also gave him one of my dress shirts I no longer felt like using. He had complained that he had no food to eat (and I happen to know that he is married) and did not have transportation. But to my chagrin this guy stole money from me. I kept some cash in a drawer and he touched that drawer and the money was gone. Can you imagine how I felt to have discovered that someone I did the above for did that to me? I know because I confronted him and he confessed after he had returned home. One more thing, this guy I allowed him to sleep over a couple of times in order to save some of the money he would have spent on transport back home and back to the site the next day.

My motto in life is that one must treat those he can gain nothing from as well as those he can gain something from. That to me is the true test of character.

The last one that came gave a quote I considered was too high. So I gave him 3 times the amount he spent on transportation to come and dismissed him.

I lent my plumber money when he was served court papers to pack out of his existing accommodation. He came back just last week to ask for more money to the tune of half a million to roof the house he is building, that one I am not willing to give though.

Some of us treat artisans this way because of the bad experiences we have had. But everyone is different and should be judged for who he or she is and not based on what others have done.

But you cannot blame us for refusing to act on sympathy all the time, it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. And people are out to take advantage especially if they feel you are better situated than them.

They think, let me chop from him small, he get plenty. He no go feel am.
Opportunity will never be distributed equally, some people will do better in life than others.

Even Jesus said we will always have the poor with you at Matthew 26:11.

So if I can help someone, I will help someone. Like I have said above, several individuals liked me at some point in time and stepped in to help me make the money I have made, and the position I have attained, so if I can, I will be helpful because I know that everyone is fighting one challenge or the other.

GloriousGbola:
Google tender processing fee for starters.

Some govt organisations charge you to submit tender bids.

My old place was formerly a govt organisation, which may have been why every tender bid came with a non refundable fee of 100k. They eventually stopped this, but you get the idea.

More importantly being invited to tender for a project requires you expend energy and time in conducting review of the documents provided, getting rates for items, calculating your profit margins. You may have to print and bind documents. And send them by dispatch to the client. This is also a cost. And you may not win the bid. So if you receive an invitation to tender for a project will you ask the client to pay you for filling the boq or preparing the estimate?

It is an inevitable cost of doing business.

One time I called an electrician to come to our site. The guy was referred to me. He immediately told me he would need 5k for transport to the site . I thanked him, hung up and never bothered calling him back. That demand was (for me) a sign of a difficult contractor. A nickel and dimer. The person who referred the guy to me was also suprised at the demands.

But if you scale through those hurdles, you are going to make 10x, 100x, 1000x, 10000x, 100000x, 1000000x times if not more any expenditure.

And those processes can take a lot of time, and the company is paying employees for the time they spend perfecting those documents even when they aren't sure of winning the bid.


Like they say nothing risked, nothing gained.

Also the greater the risk, the greater the return.

Bet big, win big.

lilkech:


It has nothing to do with the brake fluid. Your brake discs were simply overheating.

Race cars come standard with properly ventilated brake discs for this exact reason.

Thanks. I thought it was the brake fluid.

That is why one has to be careful racing a street car without modifications.

Found a nice video on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKNmCqENIyE

erico2k2:

I think he is right however the 9ja mentality always come into play for fear of losing a Job and going home empty. Even FG of Nigeria only pay mobilisation once contract has been awarded. There are times where clients has paid Transport and workman went AWOLSo the question is, what's best practice?

If I told you how much I had to spend to get contracts, travels, several times, running 30 day proof of concept, calls, bringing my team to the site without even being sure of a deal.

So like I said before Sonnie is right. But for certain people, he is wrong because they operate outside the enterprise deal circle (B2B). They deal in the B2C market in which different rules may apply.

FG, state governments and even companies do not as a rule pay in advance of g the contract.

Until the dotted line is signed, you are spending your own money!

As a matter of fact, some have started sending a letter with the words: " Non-Obligatory Proof of Concept/Demonstration" when they invite you to come for the discussion.

These stories remind me of a guy who flew in state of the art Ricoh machines to NNPC to demonstrate and then NNPC did not end up buying.

This guy was literally in tears and reached out to me to help him sell them.

If you do enterprise deals, you will understand that even the decision to buy can take months or years, but then at the end, the deal is usually a very big one, so his ask was an impossible to fulfil one.

While I don't agree with everything that son.nie says.

After several state governments made me pay cash to travel to their capitals to solicit business and none of it came, I can understand how some artisans feel about paying to travel out of state from their pockets.

That notwithstanding, I have to make the point that even foreigners have paid flight money to come to Nigeria, hotel bills and more in pursuit of business that was not sure, sometimes it clicked, sometimes it didn't click, so I totally understand son.nie's point of view. That is why I spoke of the cost of doing business. Later I adjusted my strategy and concentrated on spending on travel only in Abuja. But I have been guests of state governments (obviously outside Abuja) since then with returning flight fully paid, and accomodation fully paid and meals fully paid. I even got sick onsite once and they covered my medicals.

That said, given that there are more people pursuing deals than people who can get the deal, I will agree with sonnie that everytime someone chooses to spend his or her money on you, he is doing you a favor.

My biggest deal was given to me after months of chasing it, but I got to be aware of a guy who had been pursuing the same deal for years, one istration after the other, they would discuss and they would be close to g the dotted lines but they never did. I met this guy several times and could see the frustration on his face from not getting the deal and learning that someone else got it.

Someone literally stepped in and insisted that they had to give me that contract. How can you say that is not a favor? And when the deal came did I not accomplish what I did not accomplish before that? We should be grateful whenever we get a deal because it might have gone to someone else.

sonnie10:

Somebody else came from Warri at no cost and got the job. That was almost #8M. Another sent someone from Nnewi and said he gave the person #5k for transportation, but he did not get the job because he didn’t have Tilcor which was my choice as compared to other roofing sheets.
It is the cost of doing business.

However my issue with this particular member here was the arrogance from demanding this transportation fee payment up front like it was an entitlement.

There is a cost of doing business, agreed!

As to your last paragraph, it goes to show something I have said before, people do business with people they like, so everyone cannot and will not be a client/customer, because everyone cannot like you.

Thanks for clarifying.

sonnie10:

One here told my people that they should pay him #25k to come down to East to measure my roof before he can give quotations. I Kuku respected myself and told them to look for people that are around.

I lost my engine in Edo State. After several days of trial and error, I had to waybill the top of the engine and pay for my technician to travel to Edo State and fix the car.

Sometimes, there is no way around bringing an artisan that you trust and know can deliver to wherever you need him to work for you.

After it was fixed, we traveled together back to Abuja.

sonnie10:

She is talking about a wall. If the wall was layered on the floor it would be L x B . But wall area always erect
So it’s natural for it to be L X H in square meter

No contest.

This sentence taking it literally is the issue:

they multiply the total sqm of the building with the height of the building

it is either L x B or L x H.

The bolded sounds like L x B x H

Unless Madam erred in her presentation.

Which is unlikely because her complaint was:

why is it more than the total sqm of the building

This implies that she has the square meters and the her calculations do not rhyme with the calculations of the screeding artisan

If you drive very fast and have done a series of very hard braking you may experience the brake going soft and flat and you and taking longer than usual to engage.

Does that also count as brake failure?

Happened to me a couple of times along the Benin-Abuja route.

I think the brake fluid boils and can no longer do its job, the remedy is usually to drive slowly and avoid heavy braking for a while. Once the brake fluid cools down, I think the brake behaves normally.

The recommended remedy is to import high performance brake fluid, then flush the one purchased from our markets to and replace with the imported one.