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49 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Not to nitpick, but the inside condenser is called the evaporator.

Unless its a reverse cycle AC the it is an evaporator in cooling mode and a condenser in heating mode.

12 minutes ago, johng said:

In the latest aircon adverts they advertise as a feature "anti geckos"

I wonder (only very slightly) why they don't "pot" their circuit boards

(pot is to encase in a waterproof resin as found on many automotive components)

10 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

They have to minimize the cost. 

The later ones I saw in Oz were. This causes a problem with heat dissipation.

On 10/15/2024 at 10:26 AM, brianthainess said:

Yesterday afternoon, there I was just trying to get my 'power nap'...the whole room suddenly flashed blue with an immediate massive BOOM ! of Thunder, beep beep off goes the A/C, light still on, louver still open,  I re-started it again after a few minuets, beep beep off it goes again, I tried it on all settings no cold air, turned it off/on at the mains , re-start same same, I looked at the unit outside it was not working at all. The inside unit will run on 'Fan' only but that's it, the A/C guys can't make till late afternoon today if at all today. So I was just wondering what could be stuffed, at this moment in time I'm thinking the motor's magnet has been shot from the lightning's magnetic force ?? R/C didn't trip, and there was a 'clack' in my ceiling space when it first happened. Any Thoughts ???

Oh and when I opened my laptop after, there was strong storm warning for my area that I have never seen appear before.

Inverter units are very susceptible to electrical spikes. When they first started being sold in Australia they were also found to be very susceptible to geckos and mice running and peeing on the unprotected circuit boards.

13 minutes ago, Surasak said:

And I am 14 years your senior, and yes it is easy to scan for payments. However, I still like to be sure the scan is not a scam and take the appropriate precautions wherever possible. Some older and some younger cannot get their heads around these cashless payments, so this headlong rush to cashless should be delayed or proper training be implemented for the less competent among us.

I used to be a genius, but am much better now.

Heard this before, wait till us oldies die out. News flash, oldies never die out. And they don't want to train us too much as we might understand their ultimate plan.

Not really aheadlong rush. Been planned for years. Bitcoin was the physical start of things.

7 minutes ago, harryviking said:

THIS IS VERY BAD NEWS FOR THE COUNTRY! Totalism on its way to take full control of every person in tha land. Thailand will not be the place you should even think about retiring to! This is sad. It is also dangerous. Imagine a collapse of the net! Also, I hate staying in a que where people using cards. Takes like for ever to do the damn payment. STOP THIS DAMN NONSENSE!!! 

You think Thailand is the only country doing this?

And you are in Thailand but hate the queue when other people paying with cards. Supposed to chill out. People now so impatient now and in a hurry to get home to watch TV.

4 hours ago, ignis said:

this Bar Code  Scan me things is beyond me....  friend set me up on my Smartphone, long ago + instructions,  cannot work it out 

 

friend set me up with ''Line'  also long ago + beyond me, no matter how often over the past years have tried just cannot get past or make the scan me Barcode work.

 

Seeing as most people of all ages have there head buried in the phones, amazes me how long some take to try to make the scan me payment at Makro

 

going cashless = NO, is OK for the younger people that understand and can remember what to do,  

 

 

I am 69 and use "scan" most of the time now, very easy. I also use Line to chat to most people, again for easy for me at least.

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh don't be so morbid please .

Coming from the person that started the thread.

I am not a big coffee drinker but someone gave me a pack of We Coffee which is 23 in 1 and I quite like it so it is now my morning beverage.

I applied at Bangkok Bank. Had to do a fixed deposit for the amount of "credit" I wanted. Not so bad as it earned higher interest.

The bank gave me 2 cards , one of which was an AirAsia card which earned points with AA, and a few other benefits. But that has stopped since covid.

So I still keep it as a "just in case".

6 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Your hoping for 83?

 

Hoping for longer but from sibling trends 83 seems it.

I was going to send my dog back to Australia a few years back. A very long complicated and extremely expensive process. Rabbies is the issue as has been completely eliminated from Australia and they take no chances of it returning.  She is still here with me.

Mum - cancer. Not sure where as I was only 12 when she was diagnosed. Given 6 months but lived another 4 years. I was 16 and I think she was around 60 when she died.

Dad - Heart attack at 67. Retired 65. I was 21 when he died. I was getting married on a Saturday. My sister and he drove 1000km for my wedding on prior Monday. He died on the Wednesday so honeymoon was organising his funeral and travelling back to my home town for it.

I have had 1 sister and 2 brothers die at around all around 83. 2 brothers left, one 78 and the other 81. I am the youngest at 68. Is I figure I have about 15 years left.

4 hours ago, alanrchase said:

Decided to give it a go. Downloaded an app and went through the verification. Passport picture, driving licence, visa/extension, face etc. Stumbled with the driving licence as it wanted both sides but wasn't giving the option to photograph the back side but it eventually gave the option. All approved so transfered some money into the account via mobile banking which was easy. Converted some of that to Bitcoin and decided to try an online payment using that. This is where the problem started. The vendor gives a page with the bitcoin amount to pay and the wallet address to send it to. The wallet on the app has boxes to enter the amount and the address, easy enough with copy and paste. Couple of verification steps and transaction is confirmed. What I didn't realise is the crazy way the transaction fee is taken. It comes out of the amount you are trying to send not out of your account. The app transfers the money but the vendor says the transaction was not completed. Vendor does not decline the transaction for being the incorrect amount and there is no way to get your money back. Seems you have to manually add the transaction fee to the amount you want to send to make sure the vendor gets the correct amount. I am out of pocket but both the vendor and crypto exchange have made money. Fortunately it was a small amount.

Guess a good way to try it but seems a waste of money for small transactions considering exchange and blockchain fees.

I assume you are short vendors cost by the blockchain fee? Why cant you just send this amount to complete transaction? Obviously fees on that too. Some transfers via blockchain deduct total amount including fee but others do what happened to you where they transfer the amount you say and fee is taken from that.

I have done a few transfers from exchanges to cold storage to exchanges, etc. Bitcoin fees a little high and from the limited amounts I have done with Etherium they charge ridiculous "gas" fees. I mostly have the triple X rated coins, i.e. XRP, XLM and XDC. Their fees are very very low and extremely fast. Transferred some from my cold wallet to Australian exchange other day and there in less than a minute.

I don't think I have actually bought anything with crypto.

58 minutes ago, connda said:

This time of year?  I barely use it at night.  Cool the room before going to bed then turn it off. 

It's called acclimatizing.  Live here long enough and you'll get use to the local weather conditions and adapt.

I been here 11 years and still need AC most nights. I cant acclimatize.

But everyone is different. If we were all the same life would be boring.

15 hours ago, scotty1286 said:

Never seen this type, would be incredibly expensive to keep cooling hot outside air to blow into a cool room, that's why they recycle the cool air already inside the room. You would also need a good size air ducting from the outside to the indoor unit for the outside air to get to the chiller section.

I think he is referring to the older style  through wall/window mount all in one units. Everything is in one box and no piping needed. Just needs a very large hole through the wall. I had a couple back in Oz before splits became cheap enough .They usually have a damper that can be set to open or closed. Closed the air recycles in the room as per a normal split unit, and open it lets some fresh cold air in from outside.

Pretty rare now but I did a quick search online and can still be purchased.

1 hour ago, DD86 said:

So, it is a FAN. Thanks for the lesson.

Welcome. Any thing to help out.

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

But does it matter if the radiator fan or the outdoor AC fans are dirty? Not really, as long as the air still flows through it and the heat exchange works.

Well I must have imagined that my AC was not working well and had to drop temp setting lower and lower. Thought maybe low on refrigerant. Got someone to come check, a husband and wife team, checked refrigerant levels and ok. So cleaned indoor and outdoor fins. Lady called me out and showed me how dirty outdoor fins were. 

Amazing how well it worked after that. But, according to you, I must have been imagining it because it doesn't really affect it..

1 hour ago, DD86 said:

Never had my outdoor fans cleaned. The ac guys don't even bring an extendable ladder.

It's the indoor fan; like your simple floor fan the blades collect alot of fatty dirt. The performance will decrease as well.

Maybe terminology but the fan in the indoor unit is a barrel or axial fan (and probably other terminology as well) with a lot of closely spaced fans which do get dirty. The out door fan is a large, usually a four bladed fan which collects a little dust. Its the condenser fins in the outdoor unit that get very dirty and degrades performance as can be seen in the video I posted.

So many posts on threads on here I read people neglect the outdoor unit cleaning and if my video doesn't convince people then nothing will. 

The outdoor unit often gets neglected.

This video shows how dirty the outdoor unit fins get here in Chiang Mai. It was professionally cleaned one year prior.

1 hour ago, DD86 said:

It's the fan that gets cloacked

Which fan? There are 2, a barrel fan in the indoor unit and a standard bladed fan in the outdoor unit. The outside fins (condenser) can get very dirty especially here in Chiang Mai and needs cleaning yearly. 

See my next post.

On 9/20/2024 at 11:52 AM, BKKKevin said:

Have them all done annually... Complete spray clean and gas topup.

If done properly you should never need a gas up. And if you do you should have leak located and repaired.

I had AC in my bedroom for 19 years back in Oz and NEVER needed a gas up. I changed it for an inverter type and the old one  went into shed and worked ok, although rarely, without a top up.

1 hour ago, Mentors65 said:

No Honey, more Money i always say. 

Be careful on here, you will have other members saying things like "Who cares if you're saving money but missing out on the most important thing in life?"😉

10 hours ago, StandardIssue said:

Just curious, but what are doing holding onto a bar of silver? for it to be worth anything I would think you'd need like 100 pounds of the stuff. I think a pound is worth around $500 USD right now. None of my business but if I was going to buy precious metal it would be gold and probably buy it as an ETF rather than hold physical metal. To each his own.

Never heard the saying that silver is the poor mans gold? Silver is used in industry far more than gold.

I had 100kg pool allocated in Oz. most of purchases doubled in price. I am happy with 100% ROI.

Some people just not happy.

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

 

What else are you going to spend your money on? 

Who cares if you're saving money but missing out on the most important thing in life? 

 

Ever heard a thing called a joke? I guess not. People who can't take a joke are certainly not important in my life.