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  1. The oldies are the best ... Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates. "In honour of this holy season" Saint Peter said, "You must each possess something that symbolises Christmas to get into heaven". The Englishman fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. "It's a candle, he said. "You may pass through the pearly gates" Saint Peter said. The Scotsman reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, "They're bells." Saint Peter said "You may pass through the pearly gates". The Irishman started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of women's panties. St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, "And just what do those symbolize?' The paddy replied, "These are Carols." And So The Christmas Season Begins......
  2. Ouch. How old were the panels? Big name manufacturer?
  3. Modified the thread title for clarity.
  4. Yeah ^^^, low-frequency inverters do tend to be more robust when it comes to overloads etc. Sadly they also tend to be rather more expensive than their high-frequency "transformerless" cousins. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/inverter-hybrid-off-grid-psmart-3kw-24v-toroid-mppt60a-i2273814730-s7639523207.html
  5. It is my intention to live forever. So far, so good The Big-C got my father (smoking) and both my uncles (mum's brothers). Mum is 90 this year ????
  6. Seen on a motoring forum:- What do you do if you get rear-ended? If you know it is coming? Lube. If you don't? Preparation H.
  7. Already a running topic. Let's continue there. RIP Darren
  8. Yeah, neem is what Madam uses although she adds some of the local tobacco to the "tea" she sprays on the trees (nobody in their right mind would actually smoke the stuff).
  9. To be honest, this worries me, although I have completed my business with them. I had a mate killed in the Phuket One-2-Die crash, his business just vanished and his wife had to go into hiding from his somewhat miffed clients (she knew nothing about the business). RIP Darren, you did the job for me no problems.
  10. You clean your lappie??
  11. You need to do something like this, contactors are shown in the earlier linked thread.
  12. It is of course entirely up to you, but IMHO the risk of accidentally connecting two phases together via your transfer arrangements is really too great. You have no control over what and when PEA do any work in the street. The resulting bang isn't going to be small. In fact, it will be potentially explosive, leading to the destruction of your contactors and very possibly your meters. I've not actually measured it, but the transfer using our interlocked contactors is sufficiently fast that none of our kit objects, there's barely a flicker of the lights.
  13. Warning Will Robinson! Warning!! Be very careful. If your meters are not on the same phase some pretty major bangs will result. Even if they are on the same phase NOW it's always possible that PEA will come along and move one of them to a different phase to balance their load. Break-before-make every time when switching supplies. EDIT I would also use electrically and mechanically interlocked contactors, have a look at my 3-way transfer switch thread for examples and source.
  14. I did post the installation instructions for the BYD Good-Cat charger, but of course now I can't find them on AseanNow or the BYD website ????
  15. Yes, but that's the actual station NOT the CU it's fed from! You need Type-B RCDs too for proper protection. The installation instructions for the EVSE should have all the relevant detail.
  16. Sadly, gone now, but I used to drive past a place near Guildford - "W. Plummit & Son. Winches" And the classics "Siemens, Staines" and "Otis, Reading" (the town Reading is pronounced as redding).
  17. No problem with grounding, all your grounds are referenced to the common neutral in a TNC-S system. Oddly enough I was thinking along exactly those lines. One could adapt the ESP8266 internet timer that I'm using to control the export system on our solar to operate the transfer switch. Give it a calendar file as well and it could set up for holidays as well as weekends.
  18. IIRC PEA are offering a 15/45 supply for the EV charger. That said, the electronic meters are all 5/100 rated and effectively "universal".
  19. It will have no effect upon your EV charging. I'd go for it and get cheap power for your washer.
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