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@Digitalbanana which country were you trying to connect from?

They call it rubber splicing tape just to confuse, search for "Scotch #23" Also, at any good electrical specialist outlet.

And don't call me Shirley! 43 years ago for flips sake!!

The hinge mechanisms will be happy with a good squirt of an aerosol grease (not WD-40) unless they are actually busted. For the locks, pop one off and start visiting hardware stores, many will know where to go if they don't actually have them. The old girl in our "Magic Shop" knows everyone. Turn up with a thingy-doowaddle and if she hasn't got one hiding out back, a man will arrive shortly on a motorcycle with the relevant article.

There are some really (really) nasty back and yellow chaps here. Your local village office will have the name of the local wasp/snake/crocodile/elephant wrangler who will dispose of them for a nominal fee.

You can gift the $$$ to your wife and she can do with it what she wishes. You may (or may not) be asked to sign a document at the land office stating that you have no interest in the land purchase. I have never been asked but that may have something to do with the fact that Madam didn't take my name when we got hitched (she swapped back to her Thai maiden name). Madam is one smart cookie (she married me of course). When mum died, she sold off the family land and old wooden house, bought a similar sized parcel slightly further from the main road and built a nice steel and concrete family home on it. She still had change for the monks and party!! Love her to bits!

@JAS21 has a pack that definitely works. We are using Seplos BMS's but their packs are not cheap, they do sell kits of a box plus BMS ready for you to install Eve cells from your favourite Chinese seller.

I'm amazed anyone still uses T/Cs in the 21st century, last time I used them was in the mid 90's, have you actually tried to cash them here? Open a local account and get a Visa or MasterCard ATM/debit card. Of course, this assumes you can transfer from your home bank to a Thai bank without having to visit your home branch.

You're only slightly over the max power, provided you are well within the voltage maximum you will be fine as your array will never get to rated power anyway. Do verify that your packs will talk to the Sofar inverter.

I would certainly place an RCD at the feed end of your cable to avoid the danger of death if you run over the cable with the mower. Personally, I would route the cable to avoid the risk of damage. Plug-in ones are available or get one of the low-cost RCBO devices and a small box for it and stick it on the wall next to your outlet. Something like this (cobwebs/spiders not necessary) : -

Yes, a N-E bond in the distribution board / consumer unit is correct. It confuses many but in reality, many other countries do the same. In Aus and the US the links are visible, in the UK the link is in the service head and not accessible. The diagram below came from this PEA document (my translations) Groundwire Mk2 book-Manual.pdf Note the routing of the incoming neutral via the ground bar, this is the Thai implementation of MEN (Multiple earthed Neutral). This connection must be before any RCD/RCBO devices or it will cause them to trip constantly. If you require an electrical inspection this is how the inspector expects it to be done. Have you included RCD or RCBO devices in your revised system? Wikipedia has a good description of the various earthing systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthing_system Thailand is generally TNC-S with MEN.

Assuming it's a decent micro-inverter then payback would be 6 years ish. You should easily be able to do something similar for half the cost.

Ouch!

Sounds like an excellent reason not to do the washing up ???? I'm not allowed anyway as I don't do it correctly apparently.

Do you have a link to the item itself?

Many of them would disagree with you on that subject ???? https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Undead

I've edited the thread title to include the forum name, evidently there was some confusion over my original heading.

A comment on moderation and some off-topic posts (which I actually agree with) have been removed. Let's try to keep it specific to the subject of the poll shall we ????

Now why did I never think of that? Asean Now for all your DIY tips!

Madam already has a significant collection of bladed tools (and keeps them razor-sharp), no zombie with any sense would attack!

A number of members have expanded their solar posts to include things like rainwater harvesting. I wonder if we should expand the forum scope somewhat. I'd like to keep to the "techy" side of things, keeping chooks and growing food is well served in the Farming forums. So, your thoughts and ideas are welcomed, the poll headings are really just ideas rather than a fixed list of options. Please go ahead and add your own thoughts. Or tell me I'm an idiot and not to mess with something that's not busted

Yeah, the beasties really love the wood composites ???? We installed a termite-system when we built the house, the little blighters bypassed it and got into the ceiling void above my workshop! New ceiling time ???? Luckily, they remained confined to that space. The route they used is now closed and the termite-man knows to top up the extra feed point.

So, an outdoor kitchen ???? Some like to formalise the outdoor space, ours is much like yours but it has a roof to keep the rain off Madam when doing the cooking ????

3M Amalgamating Tape would probably be the stuff. Done right it will last forever.