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I know you're looking for good PB in Pattaya, but here's a picture of two brands to look for. These are sold at Rimping in CM in 1kg bags. Tida's Bears is the better tasting IMO.

Most money transfer services are required to notify the government's anti-money-laundering agencies on larger transactions that don't have obvious provenance. Their requirements for reporting are unlikely to be less stringent than SWIFT's.

Use SWIFT transfer for the amount you want to transfer. For large transfers (20k - 22k US$ and above), Wise fees quickly erode any perceived benefit from a slightly better exchange rate. Based on Wise's estimate of ฿ received for the amounts of $1,000 and $2,000 USD, the Wise fees are .625%. SWIFT fees are fixed and will be about 1,300 - 1,500 ฿ per transfer accounting for the fees charged by the originating bank and the 500 ฿ fee by the receiving Thai bank. The above figures are based on US$ transfers by SWIFT and Wise.

You probably mean MIT rather than Harvard. When I first moved to Vegas I had a roommate that was one of the grunts on the MIT blackjack team. His girlfriend was as well. I met several of his teammates and the founder of that particular MIT team (there were several teams over the years). They all liked to play poker as well. It was great to have well educated and friendly people in the same business to talk to.

This company http://www.cmag999.com/ just installed our electric gate opener. They also added WiFi links to our garage door and gate so we can open them remotely if we need to operate them while away from home. Each WiFi module cost about 1200฿. The installers were knowledgeable and efficient. Equipment is brand new so can't comment about it's reliability.

We're doing everything by the book. Our installation requires and will have a permit to attach to the grid. Plus, our 3 phase meter is the new smart one that doesn't turn backwards. The best I can hope for is a relaxation of the rules on size of solar installation. Our inverter does have export capability.

You only talk about paying tax.... there's another side to taxation and that is receiving payments from the government which are funded by tax revenue. Does that not seem relevant to you? The percentage of tax paid that the average Texan receives back from the federal government in benefits is much higher than what the average Californian gets back. That is the bottom line! After considering the entire picture Californians are subsidizing Texans.

You should re-think this a little. TX gets back 83c for each federal tax dollar, Fl gets 77c and California gets 65c. Does that sound like TX and FL are subsidizing CA?

They can force Pence to talk by threatening to lock him in a bedroom alone with a woman that is not his wife.

I'm not quite tall enough to get this next shot... I stole it from the contractors FB page. Only 22 panels up at this point. Final count is 25.

That's my installer, Sean. The video I tried to link to was by another foreign owned solar installation company that referred me to Eyekandi Solar.

At least two of his Thai workers lived and were trained in the West as electricians before returning to Thailand. I talked quite a while with them about their experience of living in the West and then back to Thailand.

Sorry about the private link to the video. Try this one to the solar contractors FB page. Currently the video I linked to is the first one listed on his page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/300126774329850/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=931140141228507 @Crossy we don't have a carport type roof available, same problem on garage as main roof The ATS for backup power to selected circuits:

Apparently PEA doesn't allow solar system over 10Kw to feed into the grid.

You say we.... do you have a Thai wife? My Thai wife wired funds to our joint account in US with no issue. When asked the purpose she just said "expenses".

I went to OLT and started an amendment to my 2022 return to see if I can add rental income. OLT does show it supports Sch. E

Here's a short video by a different solar contractor in Thailand. The installation depicted is almost exactly what we have. I had contacted the contractor in this video but he doesn't work in CM so he referred me to the contractor I did use. https://www.facebook.com/561102171/videos/1275039493075446/ Our contractor was: https://eyekandi-solar.com/ I'll get some more pics but here's the panels close to completion.

Total was 709K฿, of which 60K was for labor and permiting, 61K for mounting hardware and cabling. There was some extra cabling required because both houses have consumer units for their own breakers. I'm not sure what pictures you would like to see. Open the consumer units? and the box with the ATS and volt and amp meters?

Are you in Thailand or US? If you're in Thailand AND you have a Schwab debit card, you can go to a Bangkok bank teller and get a "cash advance" for up to 15K US$ a day. There are absolutely no fees and generally you get a slightly better exchange rate. If you're still in the US and don't have a Schwab debit card, get one! Check out this thread: https://aseannow.com/topic/1284703-schwab-wire-transfers-to-bangkok-bank-new-york-domestic-versus-bangkok-bank-in-country-international/

Pics of the installation. The last two pics are the panels in the second house, main panel and UPS'd panel.

We have two connected homes on one plot in CM. Each house has their own breaker box and also the circuits with UPS function in another box in each house. Two 8.2 KWH batteries provide storage and backup functionality. The panels, batteries, inverter, AC and DC breakers and voltage and amperage meters are all installed in one of the houses. A local solar contractor finished the installation in early January. Equipment: Alpha SMILE T10-HV 3 phase Hybrid Inverter 10kW AC output, up to 16kw input ADL3000 Smart CT meter 2 X Alpha T10 High Voltage Battery 8.2kwh 25 X Longi LR4 72 HPH panels Automatic Transfer Switch CB2M DC panel protection, AC inverter protection 3 phase, Grid Tie AC breaker 40amp The houses are not yet occupied as cabinetry not yet finished. The A/C is installed already so I decided to run a heavy AC load for 24+ hours to test most of the system. Here's some graphs from the Alpha ESS monitoring software. There are 5 charts. The first 4 are the individual of the inputs and outputs for the last 14 hours. The 5th chart is just the first 4 combined into 1. There is a gap around 11AM because I noticed the timezone was set incorrectly and when I fixed it... the charts just jumped ahead an hour.

@Andre0720 often my wife is right even if it sounds sort of dodgy. She has always told me that the spices in the pastes are strong enough to inhibit bacteria. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4861189/#:~:text=Chiles%2C onions%2C black pepper%2C,of common food borne bacteria. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1998/03/food-bacteria-spice-survey-shows-why-some-cultures-it-hot https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01394/full#:~:text=Spices can also exert antimicrobial,et al.%2C 2010). We lived in US until late 2020 but would visit Thailand almost every year, sometimes more than once. My wife would buy several pastes in the open market, divide them up into thin blocks in plastic food bags and then freeze them. When headed back to US they were put in another layer of plastic bag and packed in our luggage. On arrival, they went back into the freezer. The paste would last us until the next trip to Thailand. We never had a problem with spoilage in the 15+ years we did this.

Does PEA have the same TOU rates as MEA? What factor determines which of the two rate schedules (under 12kV and 12kV - 24kV) is applicable? We have a 3 phase hookup rather than single phase because it's two households as one service. Is that the determining factor? EDIT: I see on our bill that we paid 24.62 service charge so that tells me what rate we would get under TOU

Yeah... I've seen that happen. I knew that True was somehow interceding in my connection. I was thinking that they were doing it through some temporary DNS trickery. I agree that True would get reprimanded if they were under FCC (USA) licensing regulations. Thanks for the discussion about the bumps that will occur during a change of routing when a failure of the primary internet connection occurs.

You copied that ingredient list from here: https://importfood.com/products/thai-curry-paste/item/instant-tom-yum-paste My wife assures me there is no sugar in any of the prepared curry pasts (about 10) that she keeps on hand. Your ingredient list is from a canned version that bears little resemblance to the product that most Thais use. She buys them from the big paste merchants that you find in the large open markets like this one: https://goo.gl/maps/EDwbNWt9fDhgTruh6 You can watch them make it if you're interested enough to go. Here's the merchant: