NewStats: 3,261,878 , 8,175,431 topics. Date: Friday, 30 May 2025 at 09:10 PM 5z1i6

Please someone should belp me on how I can complain to AE not to ever send my items to a particular speedaf agent ever again. There are two of them and the other one is very responsible & reasonable with delivery. It is also closer to my address. But that second one is annoying, would expect me to pay for ed items to be brought to my door and most times will want me to come pick them up.

As in? 690 usd? We're they dissatisfied with the services they got? Or did they ask for services that weren't delivered?

Could it be that some Nigerians in diaspora now want to play on Nigerian businesses the game that the law in the US and UK where they reside will never allow them to play on businesses there?

Ojuntana:

The school you attend taught you that Lagos to ILORIN is 40km

Is Google map also nairaland jobber?

It is only someone who has never transited that route that will believe that Lagos to Abuja can be 500km when Lagos to Ibadan alone is over 100km

Google map relies on existing roads to plot distance and transit time which in the case of the picture you ed has curves and bends, which will even be more than what we see in your picture if it is zoomed in. Travelling curves and bends add to transit time.

A new one is to be constructed. It may have been surveyed to march crow flies as much as possible by reducing curves and bends to less numbers than the previous routes.

Crow flies is straight line and always shorter than curves. I thought you did geography in your high school.

zukky79:
Oga, I hope Russia and her allies dey pay you well, if at all, for all these hatred for the West that you're posting upandan. If not....

Well, just know that at some point in time, Russia will invade the US with powerful war machines, assisted by China and some other allies. By that time, Europe will be so powerless and they can only look on.

Like now for instance, US has damaged Europe so much that even the giant of Europe () is sliding into recession.

We that are hoping to make money from Europe should do so as quickly as possible and be ready to dissappear so as to not get caught up with conscription and drafting into the US army to defend the US against Russia invasion.

Zelensky

We all know the guy was a professional stand up comedian before he got drafted by the WEF to carry out their agenda of "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

The moment he became president, the popular electoral promises of "neutrality and do no harm to ethnic Russians" which he rode upon to become president was jettisoned and he began to romance US and the West, who needed a proxy for their war of attrition on Russia.

The agreement by the US after the breakup of USSR was that they (the US) thru NATO will not expand an inch eastward to wards Russia. But knowing the US for who it is, it was to break the promise in order to keep maintaining her hegemony and also with the fact they the US wants to occupy Ukraine because it the many rich mineral deposits in the land, but would want to do it after kil-li_ng off more than half of able-bodied men in Ukraine.

Of course everyone in the west are waking up and are beginning to vote out WEF stooge (Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, Justin trudeau, Rishi Sunak, Keith stamer, Emmanuel Macron of who is currently holding on for dear life)

MadamExcellency:
And you believe her. This hardly happens, slap may not be the cause unless certified by medical extermination, this remain assumption.

Traumatic Ear deafness is a thing.

Even listening to loud speakers in a noisy environment for sometime is enough to make you go deaf, let alone the pressure enough to puncture the tympanic membrane that can be gotten from sudden slaps like the one being given to the boy.

This bitnob people are not serious ó. I'm happy say I no even get card with them sha.

Just imagine the n0n5ense they're talking. If no be Naija Government wey dey dó frapapa with our debit cards and bitcoins, wetin I wan go find with bitnob?

Mstcheeew!

Incredible128:
Hello, pls how does one go about paying using the opay naira card?

I have not been able to use Opay facilities in AliExpress purchases. I have also not been able to successfully add my opay virtual card

But it seems it is quite easy to use with new registrants on AliExpress as most of them see the "Opay" option that pops up at check out and are able to add opay cards. So as a new , it may work for you.

If you have an Opay virtual naira card, you can also add it to the list of cards you use at checkout.

Go to your "profile" on AliExpress. There you'll see the tab for "cards"

mctfopt:



Lol

Lmao!

The annoying part is that Jumia dem have also been doing this. I go just look dem say dis pple think they're smart.

I fell for that n0nsense years ago when I just started to shop on AE, and I jonzed wella for about three consecutive promo sales on AE.

Na when exchange rate began to increase small small at later years under GEJ and significantly under PMB I come dey do serious scrutiny. That's when I discovered the tricks.

So many eye-opening discoveries you can make when one is short of funds. Lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZiHzflKMY?si=CI6ou-19AO3kEnIs

Your LFP doesnt mind being charged to full. Li-ion may have that issue though cos I recall my Samsung phone has a battery protect setting to limit charging to 85%. With that, the charging will never reach 100% full, only stops at 85%. I know Li-ion is used in cell phones.

ask4bk:


Hi, a lithium charger that charges to max 14.6v is destroying the lithium battery fast.
It's not good to charge lithium that high, and that's what many don't know and they killing their battery like that and it won't last for years as expected. It's tubular and gel that can go that high.

For lithium, it's advised not to go higher than 14.2 (which is even till high). Best voltage charge setting is 13.9v or 14.0v.

True your lithium won't charge full, but you are sure your lithium will do 15 - 20 years with that. If your battery has editable bms, you can charge it so that 3.5v (which is 14.0v) be 100%.

This is an info many Nigerian lithium dealers and installers don't know.

mctfopt:


I keep skipping this meter when I see it. The reviews of the ones I saw wasn't too grear. Is it rugged enough?

Can't tell yet. I'm just 2 days into its use. I guess time will tell.

But sha, it's a new product, apparently not more than 2 months or so that it was produced and introduced intk the market cos I just saw it on AE this month.

bsideangel:
My yield seems to drop significantly during the dry season compared to raining season even though there's an increase in the amount of sunlight. Please what could be the reason for this?

From my own experience, dust is doing a serious number on s during the dry season especially if you are in a place where there is untarred section of a busy road.

Once before, dust build-up on the s have reduced charging output by as much as 30%.

Then there is this issue of hot sun in dry season, at temperatures which exceed the optimum operating temperature of those s.

À well ventilated (on the underside) installation can help mitigate that heat-indicted drop in capacity

So I got this Tuya DC meter to test out it's functions. I'd been angry with dem Chinese for not thinking out a way to make a DC meter that works on Tuya platform despite the numerous smart add-ons that they have on that platform.
. I present to you, the Tuya Smart DC meter.

Second and fourth pictures are screenshots of some of the functions as it is on my mobile.

Even though with felicity hybrid I use, I can have some online monitoring capacity. But this Tuya meter appears to pack some punches.

saky18:


Just add the opay card. You won't normally see opay there

I added opay virtual card going through the "add new card" option in my profile, but it just gave "error, card could not be added" or something of that sort.

Me I no dey even do much wàhálà. What I just do is take screenshots of certain items of interest in my cart or at check out with their prices (which also includes the shipping/no shipping prices) at select times. The moment 11/11 comes, I compare the new prices of the items in my cart with the old prices in my screenshot.

Of course the price always goes up at 11/11 or black Friday.

They should just shift their 11/11 to 9/11 so that we should kúkú know that they're doing 419 for us or terr0rising us with price hikes.

Olamak1:



Very true!

Here's is my confirmation:
I discover that some stores have made moves to reduce the prices of their products in anticipation of the Black Friday sales as compared to what they were on the 11.11. How did I know that?

There's this mobile phone I planned to order during the 11.11, but because of the high price, I decided to wait till the last moment of the sales to know if I'd eventually order it or not. So, I made sure the phone is moved to 'unpaid item' list , hoping to compare the price to that of Black Friday's, and to pay for it later if the price is more favorable than that of the later sales.

When the Black Friday warm-up popped up yesterday, I checked the price of the phone, only to discover that it has gone down by $4.

Mfunkynation:

You should have complain to them for them to do the needful and charge you properly.
I make an order @1606... Unfortunately the seller didn't ship the order after 6 days, so I was refunded.
I was shock to discover that the refunded me at 1500, I immediately lay my complain, them quickly looked in it , deduct their yeye refund and credit me back at 1604... Which is far better.

Abeg I discovered that return/refunds for defective items received no longer have options for buyers to choose "not to return". Is this the new trend on AE?

It's being a while I received a defective item and I'm used to keeping the defective one while the seller either sends a new one or refunds me.

The purchase protection for the item runs out in three days. And I've communicated with the seller with video evidence ed,but the n0nsense dude replied me with only. "okay". Soo I decided to escalate and n0nsense AE is telling me to "head over to post office to drop the item". I was like are dey madt ni? Shey they don't know how much it's gonna cost me to send a 6 USD defective item back to China using nipost?

Please make Una help me quick o.

By the way the item was delivered via speedaf. Reason for the quick delivery before expiry of purchase protection.

noobody:


Payment failed,not in our dictionary..

We dey checkout and deliver.

AliExpress checkouts always available
Legit funds with full refund in case of dispute.

Still putting that smile on your face smiley

How do I get the item delivered to my address if you pay for it? Does it mean I'll provide for you the details of my AE for you to pay?

Threedoorsdown:


Correct. Just correct her and resolve your problem internally.

Except if it's a skit else, he didn't do well

Ńa wá o

Hybrid600:


Them say na 240ah sef. But the brand name though, e go really cause confusion to newbies...

This is exactly the reason behind the name. Neophytes that don't know about the various battery chemistry will hear that lithium battery is good and lasts much longer than LA, then rush to go buy "Lithium battery". And true true, na "Lithium battery" he buy, so why should it not last long.

There are many ways to increase sales of a product, but this here is one bad way to make sales - tricking ignorant buyers.

Baker77:
Please, can I use 4 units of 475w jinko with 60A Powmr?

2s 2p will still work for a total of 85v Voc

And I think that PowMr CC has higher than 80v Voc for 24v system. Check the manual.

Valto:
. no be small thing. marketers can do and undo... lithuim tubular ke!

Lol. 😂😂

And dem still put "Lastino" for the name. As in ńa tubular battery ó, but the thing go laaaast so tey, e go last reach lithium battery.

Reminds me of a dry cell which was branded "Austino". I just talk say our brother Austin don enter China ask them to do watered-down battery that he ca import into Nigeria.

May God epp us.

Submissions have been apt on this. A hybrid inverter in place of felicity standalone (even 7.5kva felicity hybrid inverter is still okay) and a badass 48v LFP pack within your budget is the way to go. The moment I saw 2 tubular batteries in tbe lineup from your installer, I just made up my mind about him

606thearena:
Good evening everyone, pls guys I want to get a 5kva inverter system , my installer is giving me 3 m quotation plus installation with 7.5kva feleicity inverter . He said I should just get the 7.5kva felicity inveryer since I plan to use my A.c 1.5 inverter later on . That I will not regret it .
This is what he is offering
8 s of 250 watts s
7.5 kva felicity inverter
2 tubular batteries 220amp luminous
SMS charge controller .60amp.

ojesymsym:
If you can control the remote itself with HA or Node Red, then it does not need to have a timer na

With Tuya smart life app, the timer can work for instance on "turn off" or "turn on" times. Also for dusk (sunrise) or dawn (sundown) but this dusk - dawn option is only available on select smart plugs, not all smart plugs.

As for the Tuya Infra Red remote, it doesn't have those timer options available on its app UI.

I don't know much about node red sha.

swagifted:
i have never successfully used it to control dstv decoders fully...have you tried?

No. I use it for Startimes. And it works fine especially for all the major buttons/functions.

NB: I retired my DSTV decoder years ago and adopted Startimes cos of the shenanigans of the former, plus I'm not a football guy, so I don't think I'm missing much. I also have similar aversion to using MTN 😁, though thankfully other alternative networks are good on location.

bbally:


I did look at the cables, it happened that a the negative cable which I had celotape but the celotape got weak and water got into it and it was grounding with the frame and as soon as I moved the cable away from the everything picked up.
Thanks guys for the contributions.

Bare negative cable that was cellotaped?

Just a question. Did you cut off the MC4 plugs on your solar ?

Trippledots:


Where did you get that battery monitor from please?

From AliExpress.

durodee:

Interesting! In one of my sites in Oyo North, we have not smelt IBEDC at all in my area this year. The area was notorious for low voltage, so early last year or so, I got a 15kva servo stab . Now the thing is gathering dust on the wall.
I heard the whole town seems to have been forgotten by IBEDC for months now.
Because of charging opportunity in my place, you will think a community meeting is holding always.

Bros. Touch somebody's life today. Uplift the needy in your midst. Sow your 15kva servo stab into a needy's life today. Like me for example. 😁 I'm a needy.

God bless you as you do so. 🌞

ojesymsym:
It turns out that there are controllers one can configure to make any AC become a smart AC that can be controlled remotely and I reckon that one can use Home Assistant with them in the process.

Actually I just thought about something now as you mentioned this. One of my tuya devices is a remote control that I use to operate the TV, sound system and decoder from the phone. You can programme almost any remote, and I mean almost any remote, to it and control it on your phone from anywhere in the world. It's just that it doesn't have facility for timer.

twinskenny:


in that enviroment yes it is

1500 per block multiply by 260 blocks per day

Pray tell. Are these ice block making machines the ones manufactured using Air conditioners? Do they use the flash-freeze mechanism where you can get your ice block ready in less than 24 hours?

I have an ice block set up too, but it is with regular 317L freezer and it takes like 3 days for things to freeze over. It's just a means to channel the excess power generated into something worthwhile.

helinues:
Toh

Another ants infested wood palava.

Why should it always be cart before the horse? Huh

helinues:
Toh

Another ants infested wood palava.

Why should it always be cart before the horse? Huh

The government actually put the horse before the cart by stationing security to maintain order and protect civilians on the said "Biafra day". But the aggressor (which was also being protected by the civilians) decided to murder peace by killing the horse (five men and their trucks burnt).

So sadly, now the military will not again consider putting the horse before that cart for fear of getting the horse killed again. For now, the cart should be in front, protecting the horse which is at the rear, from slugs. Once the threat is taken care of, the horse can resume its position in the front.

To mitigate the collective reprisal, the civilians can help to identify the culprits (which they know and live among them) and report them to the authorities, not necessarily to the army who may understandably sentimentally be unfair in metting out justice to the criminals.

The government actually put the horse before the cart by stationing security to maintain order and protect civilians on the said "Biafra day". But the aggressor (which was also being protected by the civilians) decided to murder peace by killing the horse (five men and their trucks burnt).

So sadly, now the military will not again consider putting the horse before that cart for fear of getting the horse killed again. For now, the cart should be in front, protecting the horse which is at the rear, from slugs. Once the threat is taken care of, the horse can resume its position in the front.

durodee:

Update on this review:
I recently installed 2 more of this CC : one for my use and one for a friend. Both CCs behaved different from previous installs.
1) They get much hotter than the older make. I suspect the fan speed. The new ones have fans that are very silent but not as efficient as older variants. Temps of the new ones got as high as 65°C despite the fan being on!
2) The temperature sensor gauges differently on the old and new variants ans could be off by almost 5-10 degree
3) On a good note, harvest seems better than the old variants
How do you know which one you got? The OLD variants had a light that constantly blinks in the fan recess in front.

I have six of these, the first of the six procured almost 4 years ago. The last one was about 2 years ago. The lights you described blink in all.

Even when I bought a barebone PowMr variant CC (all the components excluding the metal case & screws) to DIY a mobile all-in-one power station, it still has that blinking light.

I wonder why the removed the light in their new iteration. And even with weaker fans. Shrink-flation maybe.

MakeSkyBlue was turning out to be an annoyingly expensive offer before PowMr came out and they had an online tug of war (imitation etc) for a while. I think it has died down now. I have a unit of MakeSkyBlue and the coming of PowMr was Godsent affordability when the former was getting unbearably expensive.

There is AI mode on the remote which is the mode I select to achieve the power saving. It senses the room temperature and appropriately ramps us condenser to cool it further or remain constant as the case may be.

As for the integration to determine consumption through state of charge of battery, that one na something wet I never sabi.

Maybe any of our guys here has an idea sha.

ojesymsym:
Do you think this your AC can be hooked into Home Assistant or controlled with node red?

@Adrusa and other automation experts, are there ACs that one can regulate the temperatures based on the state of charge of the batteries? So that as the sun is going down, we can start increasing the AC temperature and reduce the cycling time.