idsolar:


My take in addition to earlier ones are:
1. Battery - pls add money to get quanta or to go Lithium.

2. Panels - use higher watts from 320w or higher by 6 or 9 for more juice. Make you batr happy and you will enjoy ur setup.

3. Use MPPT CC

4. Wire gauge 6mm upward.

ojeysky:
A few Sonoff basic R3 available for 6k each

generationz:

Lol, tell me na. I have no idea what's going on here. [b]It's been a year I came [/b]to this thread and the prices are confusing.

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kiekie1:


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eleojo23:


How efficient is the ECO mode on TVs? Does it really reduce power consumption?

eleojo23:


How efficient is the ECO mode on TVs? Does it really reduce power consumption?

olopan:
Very efficient, I have seen for a 70inch LG drop from 130W to 105W to 90W using just eco mode and drop to 70-60W on further reduction of brightness.

Even a conventional TV can reduce consumption by playing around with its brightness and all that.
Sound power consumption is a little negligible

zeestone99:


Mine can do 70w,50, and 30w depending on the level of eco mode chosen. Brand is Samsung.

earthrealm:


It has a semi adjustable/preset battery charging voltage settings.
Pls confirm if any of them would work for a lifepo4 bank

ojeysky:
This is for folks like me who are using axpert variants for their lithium batteries that experience a well known early float bug. The work around for this is to set bulk and float at the same voltage e.g 28v which is a high voltage to float lithium. In my case before now, I just manage with 27.4v float and wait it out until the battery get full. However with solpiplog running on my pi and BMV in the mix, I am now able to automate that as follows:

@>91% SOC set float at 27v
@<90% SOC set float at 28v

That way the optimal juice from my panels goes into my LFP. So if you have a way to achieve the above you will be able to work around the float bug.
Renewable energy is both the present and future!

Have a good week ahead!

ceaser:


I see you still shy away from the recommended 28.8v to 29v float for that LFP. I think I have to do a lil' more research on the pros and cons of my own choice sha.

ojeysky:


Sold

ceaser:


That's what the term "Eco" (Power Economy) translates to.

Some products use "Energy saving" in place of Eco mode.

TVs with that have a way to reduce consumption by sacrificing backlight intensity, connectivity or ambient lighting auto sensing
A Hisense 65 inches of 130 watts at full blast drops to 33 watts at 25% backlighting.



@bolded. I haven't really noticed that. I have tried out a number of TVs to know that "brightness" setting is quite different from "backlight" settings. The former alters the pixel intensity and has no bearing on power consumption while the latter alters (dims or brightens) the TV's source of light (LEDs) and effectively doing so changes the consumption.

This means that: If you can't find "Eco setting" or "Energy saver" in the menu, my brother do not purchase it. Run away from it. Even if it has those settings, you still have to go with a Wattmeter to confirm your findings.

I angrily sold off a 3 months used Startimes DBTV 43 inches LED TV because it does not have backlight adjustment. The crazy appliance consumes 73 watts while I helplessly watch on.

Recently got a 43 inches Infinix Smart TV that consumes 77w at 100 percent backlight full blast and 27 watts at 5% backlight setting. A teeny bit below some popular brands like Sony and the Hisense, but impressive performance for Infinix brand.



How many inches?

Barezzi:
Chai! Just when i don gather the money finish

ojeysky:


Lol.....I still have the CH4 that is still in its unboxed status if you want.

zeestone99:


43inches. samsung ue43mu6179

ojeysky:


It's not good to keep the battery at such a high voltage, it impacts the lifespan of the cells. Impact may not be very significant if you cycle it daily. I won't even bulk charge @28.8v talkless of a float.. You wonder why pylontech is able to give longer years warranty? Some of the reason is because their BMS is setup to maintain charging at low voltage and low C rates. An LFP will be fully charge @3.45v per cell so there is no motivation for charging at 3.6+v

ceaser:


Okay, you use the fixed three stage options eco (high, medium and low)

If it has "backlight settings" proper, then perhaps you can further reduce the consumption. The backlight settings usually have a gradation if 100% to 0%, but I think "dynamic backlighting" should be switched to "off" before that option becomes available.

Barezzi:
Chai! Just when i don gather the money finish

ceaser:


I have noticed it with an unknown brand with brightness and the wattmeter confirm my experiment, likewise a older generation of LG tv too reduce consumption but both didn't drop significantly like those with ECO setting did.



@bolded. I haven't really noticed that. I have tried out a number of TVs to know that "brightness" setting is quite different from "backlight" settings. The former alters the pixel intensity and has no bearing on power consumption while the latter alters (dims or brightens) the TV's source of light (LEDs) and effectively doing so changes the consumption.



Recently got a 43 inches Infinix Smart TV that consumes 77w at 100 percent backlight full blast and 27 watts at 5% backlight setting. A teeny bit below some popular brands like Sony and the Hisense, but impressive performance for Infinix brand.

What's is the price range of the Infinix Smart TV?

olopan:
What's the price range of the Infinix Smart TV?

ceaser:




Another downside is that it has no CI card, as much as I would love it to have that. But it was a good choice I made after having a bitter experience with one seller at the NL TV section who sent me one disappointing LG product which showed signs that it has been opened and worked on (repaired). I hope that would be the only time I would have to consider used TVs from Alaba.

ceaser:


Got it for 130k at a walk in shop. Although I later saw it on Konga and Jumia dem for 107k or thereabout, but I think I'm more comfortable with the walk in shop in case item gives issue during warranty period. Besides it has been my go to store for appliances.



Another downside is that it has no CI card, as much as I would love it to have that.

ceaser:


Got it for 130k at a walk in shop. Although I later saw it on Konga and Jumia dem for 107k or thereabout, but I think I'm more comfortable with the walk in shop in case item gives issue during warranty period. Besides it has been my go to store for appliances.

You'll be careful with the remote control though. It is thin and it broke in half when one of the kids mistakenly knelt on it while it was on the bed. The "volume up" button stopped working but I still use the phone app for full control for now while waiting for replacement remote from the store.

Also the android app version is kit kat, I think. Then I have had to do a full TV reset twice since one month use. It seems the ROM is low, so after a while of use, the "source" option (TV, DLNA, AV, HDMI) will not display and only the TV reinstall/reset restores normalcy.

Another downside is that it has no CI card, as much as I would love it to have that. But it was a good choice I made after having a bitter experience with one seller at the NL TV section who sent me one disappointing LG product which showed signs that it has been opened and worked on (repaired). I hope that would be the only time I would have to consider used TVs from Alaba.

But I have to agree, the screen pictures are beautiful and images come out with very punchy colours that threaten to rival my Hisense and LG. That's even for the fact that the TV (43 inch) is HDTV. I understand that the 55 inch (or is it 60 inch now) is UHD.

Also the bevel are so thin, lovely thin with an almost edge to edge screen expanse. Only the lower edge where the product name is has about 5cm bevel.

It also has Bluetooth on board which claims to connect to many BT hardwares including keyboards and mouse. I connect to my earphone, one of the reasons I went with that Alaba TV source in the first instance. It's for the bedroom and I wouldn't love to intrude wifey's sleep while watching TV.