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Resort Owner Shocked As Power Bill Soars Over 700,000 Baht
Crossy replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand News
Fixing a leaky pipe for Madam over-rides all other tasks! -
Resort Owner Shocked As Power Bill Soars Over 700,000 Baht
Crossy replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand News
I've not done any research other than a quick look on Lazada, so I can't really recommend any particular unit. Sorry. -
Resort Owner Shocked As Power Bill Soars Over 700,000 Baht
Crossy replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand News
It would come back on whilst you were feeling around for the light switch In these days of interconnected everything I'm sure some enterprising individual could come up with a "smart" system with interlinked door and window sensors, occupancy sensors and a time of day reading, throw in some AI to make an educated guess as to whether there was someone in there or not. -
Resort Owner Shocked As Power Bill Soars Over 700,000 Baht
Crossy replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand News
Occupancy sensors work pretty well https://www.lazada.co.th/products/220v-800w-microwave-sensor-pir-occupancy-body-motion-detector-light-switch-i2653378457-s9541413294.html To work an A/C this one would need a contactor, but not difficult or expensive. They do have some downsides: - Many moons ago an engineering company decided that they could save on energy by fitting occupancy sensors in the lavatories. These would turn out the lights when nobody was in there. Unfortunately, the time out in the men's room was just a little too short and sometimes the lights went out when you were in a stall. The solution was to open the stall door and wave at the sensor. All fine and dandy until one fateful day the elderly lady cleaner happened to walk in just as a young engineer was waving at the sensor with his trousers round his ankles. The cleaner survived the experience and the sensors were disabled. I wonder who that young engineer was -
Resort Owner Shocked As Power Bill Soars Over 700,000 Baht
Crossy replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand News
Our "usage" remains pretty constant, but the actual energy consumption has whizzed up recently: - The red column is our total consumption, up 30% since February. This is purely from A/C and freezers working harder during the warm weather. -
Resort Owner Shocked As Power Bill Soars Over 700,000 Baht
Crossy replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand News
700k Baht would be about 150k units or 5000 units per day! Finger in the air would need nigh on 1.8MW of solar! This is serious solar-farm stuff, probably 2 rai of space. Plenty of commercial roof systems in Thailand that big. Our local Global House could probably help ???? Or something a little more affordable.- 112 replies
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That would work, you have to press the + and - switches together, it would be better to find a 2-pole switch. Alternatively, just have single-pole breakers to the inverters and retain 2-pole from battery to bus-bar. OR Get 2 x 50 ohm resistors and put one of them across the -ve side breaker, then you could use your single existing switch. There are many ways you could do this. Throw in a few 10A diodes and you could have one switch pre-charge both inverters.
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PEA and Solar how low can you go?
Crossy replied to MJCM's topic in Alternative/Renewable Energy Forum
Then, 4.77 to 4.70 : - I really have no idea what the rate will be for us at the next bill. ???? -
Yeah, the ranges are not necessarily interchangeable within the brands let alone cross-brand ???? Pop out the switch and take it along to the store to ensure you are getting the right thing. You may have to order online (Lazada etc.) ????
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Yeah ^^^, it's likely less costly to give 10k to everyone than to means-test the handout.
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Not us as we never use COD, but others have reported similar issues. It works something like this: - The seller moves the transaction outside the Lazada system (not difficult if they are COD and "seller to deliver") and an unsuspecting buyer pays COD and receives junk. Lazada are not interested as the transaction is outside their system, buyer is out xxx Baht ???? You may score by giving them what they want but ...
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Not if it's fuel injected ????
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UK Emergency Alerts service test - 23 April 2022
Crossy replied to OJAS's topic in UK & Europe Topics and Events
Yeah ^^^, that's my understanding too, it is supposed to trigger even foreign mobiles that are connected to the tower. -
"Carb-cleaner" works in the absence of Easy-Start.