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I'm not a great enthusiast either, although I don't see it as much of a safety hazard, it's an increasingly common "feature" on modern vehicles and of course hybrids do it all the time. That said. In the >5 years we've had our Mu-X (which has auto-start) I've never managed to make it actually stop the engine. Even deliberately trying to make it activate. The list of things which prevent the engine from stopping is quite extensive and includes the A/C compressor and whilst I don't have it set to "Arctic" the A/C does tend to be turned on There's a switch on the dash to turn off the facility anyway. Now if I could turn off the automatic door locking I would. In the UK always liked to drive with my door unlocked, secure in the knowledge that if I wrapped it round a tree someone will be able to open the door and get me out. I know the doors are supposed to unlock when the airbags deploy but that's one more thing to fail. But in modern times the risk of somebody carjacking possibly negates that desire.

Even our chihuahuas plus the geese are effective noise makers if anyone untoward (or the postman) is in the area. Lights and noise are the burglar's enemy. With the current water level they would need a boat too ????

Making them Class-2 (double-insulated) is normal and is fine for normal use, that great lump of metal sticking out the front is protected from becoming live my at least two sets of insulation. Most power tools are now Class-2 no earth required. Cutting the wire is not normal use hence the recommendation to use an RCD which will (probably) protect you from a fatal shock if you do touch a live wire in the cut ends (or will kill the juice first if the end actually touches the ground).

Got it. I don't recall a member installing 3-phase solar ????

Yeah, the hedge trimmer is the only corded garden appliance we have, everything else is either cordless or petrol. SiL used to cut the cord on a regular basis until I showed him how to feed it over his shoulder without strangling himself ????

Very possibly, going on its way to the other pole via the blade, to the MCB that would look like just a regular load and not a big enough one to trip it. If it didn't go to ground there was nothing for the RCBO to detect. If the beast tripped on the test button all is well.

Just bare wires won't trip anything, current actually has to go where it's not wanted.

Yeah, that main breaker probably should have tripped. Press the Test button. Did anyone actually get a shock or the cut end touch the ground? It's possible that just a bit of sparking didn't cause enough current flow to do much.

Please post a photo of the board you have. It does sound like you don't have any earth-leakage protection, but we will be able to tell more with an image.

A little worrying. Still a way to go before actual "Worry" level.

Only if you ask for it. Thailand LV distribution is 3-phase 4-wire, a normal single-phase supply (which >90% of us have) comes from one phase plus the neutral. Of course, if you have a big place and can't get enough energy from a single-phase supply then request a 3-phase meter and supply. But once past your main breaker still treat it as if its 3 x single-phase supplies. @carlyai What are you actually trying to do?

As above somebody needs to do a factory reset, if it's not already on the way back call Samsung and tell them to do that. It will allow them to do whatever "tests" they intend doing without compromising your personal data.

U mean 3-phase inverters etc? When it comes to 3-phase in Thailand my advice is always "treat it as 3 x single-phase installations" be it automatic voltage regulators or solar inverters. The single most common failure on the 3-phase network here is loss of one phase. A 3-phase AVR or GTI will trip out and you will get zero, if it's 3 x single-phase units two of them will continue to operate.

I would definitely avoid changing meters, but a 15/45 will power an awful lot, it won't just explode at 46A ???? With the solar helping it along I'd expect it to be just fine.

It doesn't go anywhere it just never gets generated, if anything the energy just goes into warming up the panels as it would if they were just the roof.

Yours too?? There's a new place going up opposite us, I will be watching closely what kind of meter they get.

Here you can see our PEA weening process. Overall usage is the red graph, peaks in May 2020 and May 2021 when it was hot and I was WFH (with the A/C blasting), nothing this year as I wasn't. Green line is PEA usage, steady downwards trend. The difference between May 2020 (1,704 kWh) and May 2022 (140 kWh) doesn't seem to have raised any flags. Yet. Our total daily usage seems to have stabilised at around 30-35kWh so we could add a bit more solar (I have space for 6 more panels).

We "weened" PEA on to lower meter readings over some time (actually by gradually installing more solar). Whether I really needed to I don't know, but a sudden reduction in usage could raise eyebrows. My records don't go back to before we had solar but our bills were regularly 5-6k Baht per month. Now we are around 1k or less. The critical point (as informed by the PEA supervisor) is not to let your meter reader actually see the meter running backwards.

We survived the 2011 flood on the 10th floor of a Bangkadi condo surrounded by flooding, baby genset on the balcony. There were 4 condos that remained occupied throughout. The lady next door moaned about the noise of the genset, she was silenced with an electric cord It was actually more than 6 months before we got permanent power back due to both the transformer and the diesel being located in the basement and got totally destroyed.

Just measured at 50cm below "worry", access to my usual measurement point is somewhat "boggy" and parts of the garden are flooded. Sandbags are supposed to arrive today. Tidal effects are becoming significant, we are about 6-7 hours behind the Bangkok tide table. https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Bangkok-Thailand/tides/latest Luckily no particularly high tides over the next couple of weeks although there's a period of "less-low" lows which will limit the drain rate. Our peak today will be around 4PM. Fingers are crossed.

Yeah, we really need to know what passport you travel on, you could get from zero to 60 days.

Here we go with the September numbers, a pretty crumby month overall, not helped by the hybrid being out of service from the 22nd leaving us at about 6kWP of active panels.

The problem is it's coming our way down several rivers ????

Tesla's are certainly ok, "almost amphibious" according to Mr Musk. Others ... A mate has a hybrid Panamera which does quite well in the floods but apparently "a lot of lights come on" but go off again after exiting the wet.