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Many of these lights are sealed for life, when they fail it's time for the landfill ????

It all hinges on who owns the road. If it's actually a government road PEA should have an automatic easement to run power. If it's not government, then you will need to obtain an easement to run the poles. This would likely entail talking to every owner. Starting point should probably be your local land office (maybe kick off with a chat to your village puyai-baan), they may have a procedure in place to set up easements "easily". It's not like this is a unique situation. Or maybe PEA can help, aided by a little "lubrication" These problems are rarely insurmountable and those plots are likely to need power in future anyway.

If correctly installed and grounded there's no risk from an internal L-E short, the MCB will open. They are not portable so no trailing cable to cut. This assumes your system is wired to the required TNC-S with MEN earthing (a N-E link in the distribution box). If you are TT (no N-E link, just a rod) then everything needs earth leakage protection to be 100% safe.

The "up to 150kWh" (low usage) tariff which applies only to those with a 5/15 meter, it is of course perfectly possible to go over 150 kWh in a month without overloading that meter, hence the rates for higher usage. Those (most) of us on the "over 150kWh" tariff don't get the more graduated rates below 150kwh.

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Your TOU when it comes will likely be an electronic meter, they are all 5/100 so no problem upping your incomer.

Consider which circuits really need an RCBO. Don't worry: - Inside lights Inside outlets that aren't likely to feed stuff used outside (bedrooms etc.) Aircons Do worry: - Outside lights Outside outlets and inside outlets that might get garden tools etc. plugged in Outlets in wet rooms and the kitchen (but consider having an "unprotected" circuit for the fridge / freezer) Water heaters The Shed Pool stuff

1) For preference I would use the Bticino ones, around the same price as Schneider. These are the units guaranteed to fit and will maintain any type-approvals. Nano and Chang are both low-cost alternatives, I've not used their plug-in units but the DIN ones are fine. Schneider / Square-D are, of course, a well-known, decent quality brand. 2) Do you have your permanent supply meter? If not don't replace your incomer until the inspector has been and gone. What size meter do you have? I wouldn't go over 65A on a 15/45, it's not going to explode but the accuracy falls off at high current, bet it won't read low! Is your incoming cable copper or aluminium? 16mm2 copper should be good for 90A in free air, aluminium 70A. As always, Up2U.

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Ditto. Mildly annoying but if that's what they want what can we do?

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I must admit I've often wondered just what they are looking for, but definite respect for at least one now ????

The general Thai guesstimate for A/C sizing is 600-700 BTU per m2. It's horribly basic and tends to over-size but with modern inverter A/C over-sizing isn't much of an issue. Your 16m2 bedroom would come out at 9,600 - 11,200 BTU, I'd look at the smaller end of that with a well-insulated room. The 32 m2 lounge would be 19,200 - 22,400 BTU, again well insulated would tend towards the lower end. Like many things, you can calculate to the nth digit and then have to pick from a limited range of available values. Definitely go for inverter units for energy savings.

Some units will refuse to heat if no earth, but I've not seen one here. It's possible that your national regs. require this function.

No, that will be fine, easier to get into your pipe ???? Rating is the same as the solid.

Sounds a bit odd, if it's a government road the PEA should have an automatic easement to put up poles. But if you need to place poles on a non-government road you will need to obtain an easement from the property owners. I expect PEA will want to put your meter at the main poles, so the second will apply ???? For clarity could you include a sketch map or Google maps snap of the location (remove any identifying data for privacy). Maybe a little "lubrication" at PEA would smooth the flow

I'll bet it has none, just a simple capacitor dropper, at these power levels they work well. Of course, it means that the internal electronics is potentially at mains voltage, but with no interface to the outside world it matters not. Note that this unit may be rather cleverer as it's dual AC/DC power supply (there are some dead clever PSU chips around these days), but I bet it's still not actually isolated. PMP20182 - Ultra-wide Input Range (10.8V to 264V AC or DC) Bias Power Supply https://www.electronicsdatasheets.com/manufacturers/texas-instruments/reference-designs/PMP20182

If find Bard much more useful. Probably the only sense to come out of a @GammaGlobulin thread ????

At 04.30! Frosties!! I need the sugar hit to prepare for a nice stressy morning of moaning at contractors. Real full-fat milk. And, as a Brit, tea of course (no milk or sugar). Lunch will be in the office canteen, rice and two sides - 35Baht. Dinner will be whatever Madam has prepared and a couple of cans.

Who is the pretty???