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Looks great. Sadly not local to us 😞

Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was admired for sweetness and kindness to all. One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea. As he sat facing her old pump organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl sitting on top of it. The bowl was filled with water. In the water floated, of all things, a condom! When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and he could no longer resist. "Miss Beatrice", he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?" pointing to the bowl. "Oh, yes" she replied, "isn't it wonderful? I was walking through the park a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and that it would prevent the spread of disease. Do you know I haven't had the flu all winter!".

I must try Shopee again, I had a bad experieince a couple of years back, although I didn't actually lose money getting a refund was like pulling teeth. Hopefully things have improved 🙂

I don't really have a "favourite" store per-sé. Few places have everything anyway, to the point of having to buy nuts from one source and matching bolts from another 😞

Yup. Not really complex. Hardest part was getting the old one out of the base (large hammer and wood block). Make sure you get the right length, although I got longer struts being a lanky (but fat) chap. I will say that they really don't last well with a fat-farang as a load, they start going down under load after a while A piece of 1" PVC pipe slips nicely over the top part and doesn't move. OK no adjustment but once set who needs to move it? Of course you could just do this anyway if you're a cheapskate (paint it black and no-one will ever know) 🙂 EDIT I've not seen a welded-in one and my chairs aren't exactly top class ones.

Sometimes, but rarely on the larger panels, they tend to be included in small panels intended as battery maintainers or similar applications. The problem is that every time a diode is introduced into the circuit there's a volt-drop of around 0.8V (power schottky device). With 10 panels in series that's 8V that's not getting through (80W @ 10A). Some do advocate adding a single blocking diode to each string and they are also sometimes included in the combiner box. As always, there are many ways to skin a cat.

I'm with @JBChiangRai unless your "combiner" actually combines two or more strings into a single output. in the case of multiple parallel strings each individual string should have a suitable fuse, then all those fuses feed a single breaker. The reasoning is thus. If you have, say, three 10A strings in parallel then in the event of a failed (short) panel in one string (reducing its output voltage) the other strings will push current "backwards" through that string possibly resulting in a hotspot and conflagration. I suspect the fuses in the "not actually combiner" units are simply a result of just taking out the extra strings from a real combiner design without really understanding what's going on.

Yup. The cars were Ford Zephyr and Ford Zodiac, dad had an old police Zephyr-six as a mini-cab long long ago.

Let's not forget Bergerac with John Nettles later of Midsomer Murders. Anybody remember The Expert with Marius Goring?? How about The Chinese Detective with David Yip? And, not a police show but a private investigator, Shoestring with Trevor Eve later in Waking the Dead. And for the really ancient, Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner) "evening all" and Z-Cars (many famous names) "Z victor one to BD". Softly Softly a Z-Cars spin off with Barlow and Watt followed by Task Force!

Yup, and Minder.

I finally got my backside in gear and went to our local private hospital. OPD/ER doc said it was "just a mole" and nothing to worry about, would I like it removed anyway? 40 minutes later I was minus 1 mole, plus 1 neatly stitched up hole and an appointment for Friday to have the dressing changed. It actually took longer to pay the 8k bill than to have the job done. The bill was less than I paid at the vets yesterday with our two Chihuahuas If nothing else it made Madam happy (most important) and will stop my mum bugging me every time we speak 🙂

We've found them in makro in the past (frozen), but plenty on Lazada both natural and collagen casings.

It can never hurt to have more protection 🙂 Don't forget you will need a Type-B RCD/RCBO on that circuit as well.

The Deye unit works just fine with no BMS comms, many people like to run "open-loop" like this because it give them "more control" over the charge parameters. Personally I run everything "closed-loop" (with comms) which allows the BMS(s) to control what the inverter does. Each to his own. I'm pretty sure the Deye will talk to the JK BMS (you will need to verify which protocols are supported by each). Note that our Liyuan boxes have Seplos BMS's I was running for a while with several non-communicating packs in parallel with ones that communicated. It worked just fine in both open and closed loop.

For those unaware. Section 12, subsection 2, of the Thai Immigration Act, B.E. 2522 (1979), states that aliens are excluded from entering the Kingdom if they have "no appropriate means of living on entering the Kingdom." This means they must be able to financially support themselves while in Thailand. It's the catch-all "insufficient funds" reason.

The ferrite rings are a new thing, only my latest inverter came with them. They are supposed to reduce EM (electromagnetic) interference, I admit mine are still in the bag What communication protocol is supported by your existing batteries??

Dumb question. Why did you change passport?? Is your name likely to have been confused with someone else?

Moved to the right forum.