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Yeah ^^^, EMS is reliable, tracked and cheap. I've never had any real issues with Kerry, but 99% of my "sent" items are Lazada returns.

Ah!

Yup, no issues for us in Northern BKK, even got a registered letter delivered into my hands when the postie spotted us walking round to the restaurant for lunch ????

Nah, Apple don't get house room. I'll use whatever OS the job throws at me. Mostly Windows these days but Sun Solaris and several other Unix flavours, QNX for real-time. I run a machine with FreeBSD as a NAS at home.

I can't answer from experience, yet, not got our EV. Seems a bit odd, I suspect your local PEA have never done a dedicated EV meter. Try this: - Talk to MG and get their installer's details. Get him to organise with PEA. Do let us know how you get on; this is all pretty new stuff. At least here. If all else fails you can still charge at a couple of kW with the Granny-Lead.

As above, you can boot and run Windoze on an external drive. BUT What is the interface for the external, you may find things are really S-L-O-W ????

"Day 1" is your day of arrival so you really only get stamped for 29 days on a "30-day" visa exemption ???? It's just a different style of entry stamp, not all are the same.

Seen on another website: - On Cricket - “If I were to describe it to Americans it would be ‘what Einstein would do if he redesigned baseball while on acid’.”

Could he ask the school to enrol him early and offer to pay the necessary premium?

You should be able to go a lot cheaper by using a government hospital, some members are saying <10k! Recently paid 45k (colon only) at our local private (and definitely not cheap) hospital including a night's stay due to the procedure finishing late. Included a couple of very decent meals.

At OP request. @conndaif it all goes pear-shaped drop me a PM and we can re-open to continue.

Give it a day or so, these things usually clear themselves particularly as it's not something dutiable.

More a case of putting it off until the black looks from Madam become too regular ???? We had a leak on the water pump, just a drip. It started when I moved the pump during last-year's flooding! I fixed it in April. It actually only took 20 minutes!

Evidently my SpiderSense is functioning ????

@surreybloke add a neon screwdriver to you test kit, easy check of the polarity. For an isolator I would just use a 2-pole MCB in a plastic box (get here no problem), choose the current rating to suit the meter 20A for a 5-15, 50A for a 15-45, 100A for a 30-100. You should be able to find a local "sparks" who will install it for you either live or by pulling the tails at the meter (Meter seal? What meter seal?). Once you have that you can pull the breaker and completely isolate the system and work safely.

Yeah, there's an errant "1" in there, the last lot were 75 Baht ????

If it's going to take more then 15 minutes to diagnose and repair (it's not like there's a lot to go wrong) then it gets consigned to the "breaking for spares" pile (blades, cage, mouldings). What usually happens is they start to look too tatty for Madam's liking and so are shipped off to the family dwelling where they live out their twilight years ???? Or get completely wrecked and end up in the skip!

Seems like a pretty good deal vs 1,500 for a new fan. If most of his fixes are 5 Baht capacitors / thermal fuses he can carry the occasional 300 Baht replacement motor ???? I must increase the amount of beer required

@sometimewoodworker has some very nice (DC IIRC) fans which look like they will last forever.

Mitsubishi are (at least theoretically) a more "premium" appliance. But looking on Lazada for "Mitsubishi fan parts" reveals 102 pages of bits that look remarkably similar (ok identical) to the Hatari equivalent. You pay your money ... Most of this stuff comes out of a few Chinese factories anyway (even the Japanese brands, at least at the lower cost end) and then gets "badge-engineered" and a price hike. We are happy to continue with the Hatari ones, when the mouldings get too faded for Madam the fans get shunted off to family (who somehow manage to wreck them) and I end up buying a new one. At least I won't have to fix it for a while.

Bring your fan, and beer! ????

I'd change the run capacitor too whilst the lid is off. And use Singer sewing-machine oil from a syringe not WD40.

No swing, swing noise, fix it for 75Baht (swing motor), 3 screws and 2 wires, 10 minutes. Hatari are definitely not a premium brand, but for those who don't mind them breaking occasionally then ...

Middle of last week, funeral is today ????

Is there any marking on the drive case indicating what the PSU requirements are? It's likely 12V @ 2A which would be a readily available wall-wart supply (Lazada), but do check what the drive says.