cbx1000

I guess you can laugh at electrical issues because you know next to nothing about it...

like I said, I did for my A/C, after 40+ years in the industry I guess I know a bit...I'm home for 3 months of the year..I have to get people to do jobs which worries me. how about this then...a pipe split under my home and a local came to fix it, when I got home to see what he has done he had wrapped a bicycle inner tube around the pipe...so no need to say I know it all, maybe others know f....k all

I live in Chiang Mai, originally from the UK, I've been in industrial refrigeration for over 43 years, did my apprenticeship in commercial refrig and A/C. I installed all my AC units in my home because I have seen the extremely poor workmanship in Thailand and didn't want these cowboys in my home. We had a house built and I specified that all the rooms have a separate power supply with a breaker for the A/C units. I work overseas most of the time off-shore, so when I got home I checked the wiring.......i also have an electrical license. As others mentioned...no earth wire on any A/C power supplies, their comment was "we don't use an earth wire on A/C units". I said you do in my house but they cleared off and I had to pull in new cables myself. My neighbor had A/C installed and the cowboy charged her for special cable to join the indoor to the outdoor units. Then installed the condensing unit in a very awkward place, he said it has to be there because that's the length of the copper pipe and if he extends it a meter or 2 then the performance will decrease..... On the plus side my wife's cousin is an A/C engineer and he is very good, can forward the details if anyone needs his service. We mustn't paint all techs with the same brush...but it's hard not to!! On a different note how about this: A falong and his Thai wife came to our house, he was looking for the power supply to our home, he asked me where is the cable...I said it's under ground, he said that his electrician told him the cable must be in the air otherwise he will lose 30% of the power.... Work that one out!! How about this...we had 4 houses built, each house has a 3 phase supply, the Chiang Mai electrical techs connected the 3 phases to the houses from the cables in the street. In one house they connected a phase to the neutral so we had 415 volts on single phase sockets and lights, lights exploded, cooker hood went crazy. danger!