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I'm conducting a "somewhat controlled" cleaning experiment with another member. Results here when we have something useful.

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Right now, things are on hold due to financial circumstances (waiting to sort out a new contract). Watch this space ????

If you give us a clue as your expected usage (with day/night split) and how much space you have for panels. We can give you a guesstimate. Can you go all week on one charge of your EV (top up from solar at the weekend)? Solar here does pay back, having a hybrid inverter with storage can extend the ROI significantly, using a contractor rather than DIY can make it even more expensive. If you can get on the Thai feed-in-tariff that could enable you to balance your TOU costs without using storage! How long do you expect to stay in your home? Once you have covered your costs the energy truly is free! Expect to break-even in 4-10 years.

Yeah, it looks like a mono-bob.

Echoes of Cool Runnings. Very well done young lady ????

Exactly ^^^, once we got rid of the floods the garden has been bone dry, barely a drip of rain.

I saw an Atto in the office parking last week, looks rather nice. Need to find out who it belongs to. I like the look of the BYD-e6 but you have to go to SATR as the importer (they import the BYD fork trucks, vans and buses) as it doesn't seem to be in the dealerships. A mate bought a BYD van from SATR earlier this year, his wife loves it so he still drives their MG ES. The Atto has a 60kWh pack, say 48kWh to charge 10% to 90% so about 130 Baht at cheap-rate TOU. BYD also use LiFePO4 batteries, which are less liable to go fzzzt than the Li-ion packs and their "Blade" batteries are easily serviced if a cell fails.

Pretty much. TOU timings and tariff are on the PEA website. https://www.pea.co.th/en/electricity-tariffs Nothing to stop you using a timed automatic transfer switch to move night loads over to the other meter, the car will be sucking up to 7kW (32A) so a 15/45 leaves you with around 2.5kW (say 25,000 BTU of A/C with lights and technology) to play with.

There's a rapidly increasing installed base, not just domestic but the big retail places have realised that they can offset their A/C (and the shading reduces the load too).

The choices from MG are good value, BYD of course. The GWM Good Cat is very small but not the cheapest. If you get a dedicated meter for the EV (talk to PEA) you can put it on TOU (Time of Use) and get very cheap power overnight! You can charge off a regular outlet (granny lead) at about 2kW. If you don't drive far that could be enough but I would get a "proper" 7kW charger. And, of course, get those solar panels up for truly zero emissions and free motoring!

I'm not a broker, nor do I play one on TV AN. Your broker can be useful when you actually have to claim, they know the processes and the pitfalls. I've not had to claim on the house insurance but I did have a good experience with a health claim (which can be really fraught) going via my broker.

Any reason this is in Mobile Apps?? Let's move to General. Can you let us know where you are for more directed input? 45 is the biggest size generally available (I'm a 45) but they do tend to be a "little" on the tight side ???? I got wellies in a 46 during the flooding, not really suitable for exercise ????

Ironing is "By Royal Appointment" ???? Madam is left most of the three ladies in blue and white uniform. You may recognise the gentleman left of centre in the back row Royal Thai Embassy, Rome (Italy), mid 1990s.

Gawd, mine's addicted to ironing! If we got a physical newspaper, I'm sure she'd iron it! We have a maid but Madam won't let her iron (she does it "wrong") and she's scared of the front-loading washer. Spends most of her 1/2 day gassing with Madam (which I suspect is the real reason we employ her).

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Wind really isn't viable for domestic here, turbines with a decent power output are $$$. There's lots and lots of sunshine and it's easy to capture.

The big panels are more expensive on a Baht per Watt basis than the regular 330W ones, they are also 'kin heavy. I have a couple of PowMr charge controllers that seem to work ok, but I have heard that their inverters like to be kept cool.

I like the natural wood look, so the rubberwood board is my go-to, it's 16mm thick. The HMR looks promising if you don't mind the finish. https://olhomemalaysia.com/what-is-hmr-hdf-mdf/

Argh! I remember woodwork too. Luckily, I changed schools and woodwork wasn't an option I think I did metalwork and tech-drawing instead. Modern finishes are pretty forgiving, just make sure everything is clean and dust-free and you're good to go.

More of a "mouse carpet" ???? Sounds interesting, you got a link to where you got the beast?

From the photos this https://www.homepro.co.th/p/1160950 looks like it has a full steel frame so the top would just unscrew. There are similar items not branded as "desk" which are rather cheaper too. https://globalhouse.co.th/Fillter/search/1?q=folding table The frame would prevent any sag in the middle where most of your load would be. The 35cm overhang on each end would likely be OK but there's nothing to stop you adding a glued doubler underneath (you would have spare material from the top) which would add significant rigidity. Extending the steel frame would probably be outside your scope ???? The chipboard/Formica tops just aged, the Formica started to look tatty and the chipboard got the damp in, chipboard really doesn't like the damp. I rounded off the edges with a router, but simply sanding off the sharp corners would serve. Finish with a polyurethane stain of a colour to your liking and the job's a good un. I'm not sure where one would get the material cut to size as I have the necessary kit to do the job. If you let us know where you are hopefully someone will have suggestions.

That Homepro metal framed desk/table you linked to could easily have a replacement top of the dimensions you want installed. If you can get a piece of 15mm rubberwood sheet (it's made of lots of small blocks bonded together), plywood or MDF cut to size then it's simply a case of sanding it and applying some kind of surface finish. We have a number of folding tables which had chipboard tops. Over the years these fell apart but the frames were fine. New tops using the above material and they are good for many more years (they look better too). This is the stuff https://globalhouse.co.th/product/detail/1219866900014