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I do have this t-shirt although it was my employer who installed the bolt! I would have installed a proper 32A Commando socket on sensible wiring but, small company, no money, you know the story.

Generally, PEA is 220V phase-neutral, MEA is 230V phase-neutral. Of course, locally all bets are off due to compensating for overloaded transformers and transmission lines. In reality it matters little as all your kit should be happy with either voltage +- >10%.

NO! Because there is already 220V between any one of the phases and the neutral. If you look at the poles outside your house you will see 4 wires, three of them are the phases and one (usually the top one) is the neutral. If you trace the wires that go to your house (via the meter) you will see that they are connected to one of the phases and the neutral. No transformers or anything else needed, it's just the way 3-phase 4-wire works. Dead handy. 3-phase appliances just connect to the three phases without using the neutral, unless they have 220V control gear. What sort of power consumption would the lift be? Plenty of 3-phase off grid inverters (either single unit or three single-phase units running together). EDIT 2 A quick Google puts the lift motor at around 2HP, that's well within the capabilities of a single-phase installation, check with your chosen lift supplier to see if they offer a single-phase version. EDIT This diagram may help, note that it's for 230V phase-neutral but you should get the idea.

Phase to Neutral 220V your normal single-phase supply. Phase to Phase 380V which is what 3-phase appliances see. The apparent "weirdness" is due to the 120o phase angle between the phases, I'm not going to go into 3-phase theory here, but Mr Google or Wiki can be a lot of help in understanding.

Topics in the General Forum that are not related to Thailand! Off we go to The Pub.

Definitely in the "not at all worried" window. For now, at least.

You can tell a lot about a nation, by visiting the zoo.

Thailand is 3-phase, 4-wire (3 phases + neutral). Single-phase supplies take from one phase and the neutral. So, if you have a 3-phase supply to your home you can treat it as if it was 3 single-phase supplies. The "400V" (actually 380V) is phase-to-phase and only relevant if you have 3-phase appliances. It's very likely that your 30/100 isn't really capable of 100A, at least not whilst maintaining the 220V+-10% that it supposed to. Our 15/45 village supply drops about 25V at 50A so just about OK, but it doesn't take much load elsewhere in the village to pull it way down, the under-voltage trip opens at 165V which it does rather more often than I'd really like. If you are building a new place, I would wire it as if you are having 3-phase then use a "single-phase kit" on the incomer if you start off with a single-phase supply (as your construction supply will be).

Fixed it for you ????

HS-2 after the budget cuts.

I'm just imagining the furore back home if they did something like this. Blackface, cultural appropriation, the woke brigade would be having kittens! I think I saw the chap on some Robertsons Jam long ago ...

By the way kosher salt is not necessarily kosher, it actually gets its name from its use the process of koshering (or kashering) which is the process of removing all blood from the meat to make it kosher.

https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/salt-conversion-chart/ The stuff we get to put in the swimming pool is actually pretty close, pure sodium chloride, coarse grained.

10% over-voltage will likely be fine, but I'd try to find a pukka 100V transformer. IIRC the Japanese department store in Bangkok used to sell them (is it still even there??). BUT If it specifies 100V 60Hz rather than 50/60Hz I'd be wary of running it on 110V 50Hz.

John visited his 90-year-old grandpa who lived way out in the country. On the first morning of the visit, John’s grandpa prepared a breakfast of bacon and eggs. John noticed a film-like substance on his plate, and asked, “Are these plates clean?” His grandpa replied, “They’re as clean as cold water can get them. Just go ahead and finish your meal.” For lunch, Grandpa made hamburgers. Again, John was concerned about the plates, as his appeared to have specks of dried egg on it. “Are you sure these plates are clean?” he asked. Without looking up, Grandpa said, “I told you before, those dishes are as clean as cold water can get them!” Later, as John was leaving, his grandpa’s new dog started to growl and wouldn’t let him pass. John said, “Grandpa, your dog won’t let me get by!” Grandpa yelled to the dog, “Cold Water, go lie down!”

Three expectant fathers – one English, one Welsh, one Pakistani – are tensely waiting outside a hospital delivery room. The doctor comes out and says, “I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that all your wives have been delivered of healthy baby boys. The bad news is we’ve somehow managed to muddle them up, so we don’t know whose baby is whose.” “I have an idea,” says the Englishman. “What if we go in one by one to see if we can spot any physical characteristics that will help us determine which baby is which?” “Well, if it avoids a lawsuit…” says the doctor. So, the Englishman goes in and comes out 10 seconds later with what is obviously the Pakistani baby. “This one’s mine,” he says. “Excuse me,” says the Pakistani father, “I couldn’t help noticing that the baby you have chosen appears to share some physical characteristics with me.” “I know,” says the Englishman, “but one of those b'stards in there is Welsh, and I’m taking no chances.”

Check the manual of your inverter, many are actually grid-sync and will top up solar with the grid whilst still using what solar is available. Others will simply go into bypass mode. Of course, both these modes have a limit.

@bluejets did you mean single-width?? Single-width 2-pole (rather than solid neutral) RCBOs are certainly available, we use them in the BTS distribution boards, but they are not particularly common or cheap.

Since I do not wish to be "targeted" I hope one can opt out of this system.

But then: -

Also, nothing on my AiS Samsung (not bought via AiS).