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10 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

4 years old and relatively low spec, I'd say about Bt.5000.00 at best.

Thanks for that. I guess I would accept 5000.

Been trying to find a website (Thailand) to give me an idea on what my laptop is worth to sell but can't seem to find one.

Any one have an idea on second hand prices in Thailand? Thank for any help in advance.

I bought this laptop 4 years ago for 15500 baht for my girlfriend. This was a mistake as she can't read or write. She watched videos on it for about 2 months then gave up. I have had it at my place since and only used a couple times as I am a Mac man.

It is in excellent condition and comes with power supply, wired mouse and Targus (designed) bag. Original receipt supplied but I guess not much use.

Details are:-

Acer Aspire E 14  E5-473G-32ZB

14 inch screen

Intel core i3 5005U 2Ghz 3Mb level 3 cache

Nvidia Geforce 920M with 2 GB dedicated VRAM

4GB DDR3 L Memory

1000 GB HDD

DVD-RW

Windows 10 Pro installed

On 1/4/2020 at 5:50 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Big C Extra haven't got enough bag options, i looked earlier right the way along the tills and hardly any choice, typical really. I ended up just carrying the one thing i bought

Went grocery shopping at Big C yesterday, first time since bag ban. Luckily I remembered and took cloth bags but did see a few people trying to juggle arms full of stuff. I would have taken the trolley to the car park.

2 hours ago, Max69xl said:

At the same time last year, TW added a new reason for transfer: "Funds for long term stay in Thailand". This is the one you shall use. 

I have never used that reason and still get it as FTT except that one time but I will use it from now on.

32 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:

Sorry to say that Thailand Immigration are a law unto themselves and every Immigration office/officer like to have their power trip. They are the worst government agency in this country, This is why hundreds of expats are leaving for a better country without all the hassles. I believe even the Thai police are above them.

I like your coin avatar. Maybe I should use this one.

23 hours ago, pauleddy said:

Is that the general immigration website? I have a Mac. My 90 day is due next week. Like many of us, I have never ever been able to do this, and it costs me 500b to go to CW for 2 minutes or 2 hours.

I do mine on a Mac and works ok.

17 hours ago, LawrenceN said:

What I still don't understand is, how will I know in advance that the transfer will show the FTT code that Imm demands? I could jump through a lot of hoops and still be on square 1. It's still gotta be transferred into BkkBk somehow. How do I control which method the sending institution uses? As I mentioned above, the pension fund wire transfers the money, but they do it without meeting the ACH standard that BB requires.

Originally I used the Commonwealth Bank in Oz to transfer money to Bangkok Bank, always FTT. End of 2018 I read about Transferwise so started using them as I got a better exchange rate. For the first 6 months showed as FTT then about May last year came through as SMT (Smartnet). I contacted Transferwise and they said they had changed banking arrangements in Thailand but would mark my account as transfers must goto BB but said may occasionally fail. But since then Transfers have shown as FTT.

11 hours ago, CNXexpat said:

In the US dogs attacked a driving police car.

 

The dog thought he heard someone say there was pork inside so he just trying to open the can.

9 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Far prefer animals to most humans. We humans are a disgusting species.

Agree.

1 hour ago, Chazar said:

Hilarious,  I  guess  you are an animal  lover too.

And I guess you are not.

The Thai economy will get better if it doesn't get worse.

Well said.

On 1/6/2020 at 2:44 PM, geisha said:

Orphanages, who can then sell what they don’t need. All those little kids need all the donations they can get. People who live here should donate their toys, kids clothes, etc. All to help.

I will most likely be leaving Thailand in the not so distant future and my original plan was to stay here so have accumulated a bit of stuff. So I will try to sell some to try recoup a few baht but what I don't sell I will donate to an orphanage. I have already donated stuff a couple times to one in Chiang Mai.

4 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I take your point Steve, that if it was fused at about 5 A, then fine, but in the OP's post he was talking about 27 A and that was increasing!

 

So once that type of current was flowing to his place, that blade switch should have been replaced!

 

And in my experience, even cables which are tightly clamped, if way below the current rating which is flowing, can overheat and that overheating can cause a loosening of the screw/clamp – – sort of chicken and egg situation.

 

The good thing about my "old-fashioned" electrical experience is that I have seen so much, in so many different countries and industries, and which many people wouldn't believe, that it has stood me in good stead to understand what goes on in Thailand (well, mostly anyway!!!!!!).

I remember a friend telling me a story he was in some overseas country in a newly built facility. I can't remember what is was but I think like a technical college. He was in a classroom that had a lathe that had an emergency stop button next to it. The guide asked "what happen if you hit red button?" Everyone answered the lathe stop. He answered "No, lights in classroom 3 rooms down go out". Guess could have been thailand.

1 minute ago, Metropolitian said:

 

 

The reason what I always do with multi stranded wires is to tighten them, give it a good wiggle and then tighten it again.

The same wit one core wire but very important with the bigger wires.

 

And any good electrician should know that. But, hey, where are we......?

27 minutes ago, MadMuhammad said:

The breaker must have mis-sized for the potential trip current. The kA rating determines how much current the breaker will carry under fault conditions 

The breaker was sized correctly but if I remember correctly one of the springs that held the contacts together when closed was weak, caused arcing and welded one contact closed.

1 minute ago, Peterphuket said:

Sorry for my post, you mention this already.

why be sorry? Good to ask.

9 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

Buy a proper 100amp circuit breaker and not one of these knife switches. It is a lot safer with the circuit breaker.

Not necessarily if you need to work on a circuit. I have seen one phase of a 3 phase breaker arc weld shut so one phase was alive when breaker open. Could happen on single phase breaker. Luckily electrician working on the device checked all phases before working on it.

Circuit breaker to protect circuit, knife switch great to see fully isolated.

10 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

I asked a Thai neighbour who did a bit of elect work about shutting the power off to work on the main breaker. He handed me a pair of flip flops.

They work as long as not standing in water or you touch anything else.

I was having a bath a few months ago, soaking with hot water still running when there was several flashes and bangs from the water heater. Fortunately the circuit breakers disconnected it. It had also tripped the earth leakage breaker which I could not reset even after leaving the heater breaker off. I phoned the agent as I rent. Said probably can't get anyone as 5pm. I said I have a fridge full of food and no power. So he said he would do what he could. In the mean time I opened the heater. The main connection block was melted as so was some of the casing. Some of the wiring insulation was burnt. It appears as the connections were not tight and arcing gradually led to the failure. I cut the burnt wiring and pulled out from heater and managed to reset earth leakage so could get power back to house. Checked identical water heater in other bathroom and connections not tight in it either. These were new about 2 1/2 years ago.

At least chingmai331's post gave many of the keyboard warriors something to complain about.

22 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Flu IS NOT a bacterial illness. It is a virus, so anti biotics will do no good.

Stay in bed with plenty of fluids and paracetomol and it will be gone in a week.

Go to work as usual, suffer a bit, and it will be gone in a week !

 

If you let the flu run its course naturally it can take up to 7 days for it to be gone. But if you get treatment it can be gone in 1 week.????

5 minutes ago, White Christmas13 said:

I was being sarcastic, that poster hates every thing from over stayers to late reporting.

Some posters just hate anything anyone posts.

I was 9 days late at CM and was fined 2000.