Crossy

Ah. It was long ago but IIRC the single door units that were available were taller (or maybe I just didn't notice). In 12 years nobody else has asked the question ????

I don't have much in the way of photos of ours under construction and the cost wasn't broken out of the contract. The structure. Here it is ready for the granite. Base units completed. And 12 years later.

Let's do a quick and dirty calculation for a simple grid-tie system that's DIY installed. Your 2,000 Baht power bill would be about 450kWh so about 15kWh per day. A 340W panel will give you about 1.2kWh per day so you're looking at 12 panels = 4,000W system. Panels are around 3,400 Baht a pop = 41,000 Baht, a 4kW grid-tie inverter around 11,000 Baht. Add 10k for installation bit n bobs and you're gold for <65k.

They do, but the rate they pay for export is pretty dismal (even after a recent increase) and getting your system approved is "impossible" for a DIY installation. The vast majority of small domestic systems simply spin the regular meter backwards during export and get 1:1 on the re-imported units.

Ours went in exactly the same way (took a bit longer). Replacement electrodes are available but are definitely not cheap, we didn't bother and went back to conventional chlorination. This site says 2 year warranty https://swimmingpoolsthailand.com/en/emaux-salt-water-chlorinators/1481-emaux-ssc25e-chlorinator.html could be worth talking to Emaux themselves.

Yeah, it's built into every domestic-type grid-tie inverter I've ever come across. Anti-islanding is indeed the correct term.

Mirrors? We don't need no mirrors!

Yup, after the flooding had peaked and the bags were about to be removed.

Taken during the flooding, in fact I could nail it to a few days from the pattern of the sandbags.

Ours are Shera board, wood patterned but they're not wood coloured (painted the same colour as the walls). Nothing looks quite like real wood, but of course it comes with maintenance requirements.

Do keep us informed on what transpires. Our panels are all too visible on Google Maps, so if PEA get the urge, they don't even need to leave their aircon office.

I think it depends where the poles are located (public or private land) but I'm not totally sure. That's certainly the case when you "pay" for a new transformer, you would expect PEA to maintain it then of course.

If the poles actually belong to your neighbour it can't hurt to ask if you can piggy back on them (for a fee of course). There is always a risk that in future you might have a "falling out" with them or subsequent owners of the land and suddenly find yourself without power.

I suggest your first port of call be the local PEA office with the address and the meter reference of one of the existing meters (so they can accurately pinpoint where you are). EDIT A Google maps printout wouldn't go amiss too. They will tell you where they can install a meter, how big a supply you can have (important) and be able to point you at a "contractor" who can give you an estimate. I put "contractor" because most of the PEA offices have crews who will moonlight for jobs like this. Our poles were put in (on a Sunday) by a crew driving a PEA truck and wearing PEA uniforms, the poles are stamped "PEA". Pay the foreman in cash! I think we paid about 15k for 4 poles and 60m of single-phase wiring, but that was waaaaay back in 2011.

Our place is on two chanotes, we didn't bother but I understand it's not a mega task to link them. If your land office is crazy busy like ours, they may be reluctant and require a little "lubrication". Nobody said anything about our house which does actually overlap slightly, the second plot would need an easement to access it anyway so would never be sold separately in our case.

Feeding Hershey's to any living creature will kill it! Revolting stuff!!

"Storage damage" to three cameras? Yeah, right! Must have been a power surge! Back in the early noughties my digital camera actually did have a hard drive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive

Must have been brake failure

If they had body cams, they would be able to prove their innocence!

At 18.2mm2 I reckon you're good.

CGI and DeepFake skills an added bonus!

Look for flat blade ferrules, you may need to take a picture to your local electrical emporium.

Aren't those intended to interface Aluminium cables to copper rated terminals?

He did not however say that the batteries had to be charged and the devices turned on