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Are the "cores" solid? It's difficult to tell without scale but it could be a phone line.

He will certainly need to watch his step.

Posted at 17:10 ????

Do you really want a 5/15? That's a shed sized supply. Most homes would go with a 15/45 which is good for the "average" home. I'd size the cable with that in mind anyway. For a 15/45 to keep the volt drop in order you're looking at 50mm2 copper ($$$) or 75mm2 aluminium (far less $$$ and it will have less chance of wandering off in the night). If you are really having a 5/15 then 16mm2 copper or 25mm2 aluminium would do.

18k BTU A/C plus a few lights, say 2kW max, 2.5mm2 would be OK, I'd actually pull 4mm2 and protect with a 32A RCBO breaker at the supply end. 1. If going underground you need NYY cable https://www.bangkokcable.com/system/product/file_upload/211102_450!750V 70C NYY_1-4core_Rev04.pdf Should be available in 50m lengths, check Lazada for by-the-metre suppliers. 2. Although NYY can be buried direct I recommend the black polypropylene conduit for extra protection. 3. Wiring to a trailing 32A Commando socket (remember it's a live end) is a smart idea. 4. I would NOT use the main building ground, run 2-core cable and bash in a local rod at the container for a TT island. Bond your container, the rod and the container electrical ground together, we don't want any voltages vs the ground you're standing on (site workers have died getting hold of a container door handle!).

What size meter??

It actually sounds pretty OK. You have some rather long runs so you need to ensure that the cable is sized adequately, do you have an actual cost breakdown of the job showing exactly what will be supplied? EDIT What size meter will you be having, 15/45 or 30/100??

In other words the ATS connected as shown in your earlier linked video ????

NO NO NO!!! You must NEVER EVER have both sources in your breaker box without some, interlocked, means of switching between them (that would be the ATS). Do NOT rely on "remembering" to move breakers in the correct order, you will forget one dark night. A member on another forum I use forgot, it cost him US $3,000 worth of inverters!! Connecting, even briefly, inverter out to the grid will send your inverter into low-earth orbit! Just run your breaker box from the inverter output and take grid to the inverter input going nowhere near your box (via a suitable MCB of course).

Task A is to go along to your local PEA office with a Thai speaker. Take along photos and a decent map (Google maps will be your friend) of what the current position is and what you want to do. Take a photo of the existing meter (they will want the reference number). They will tell you where they can/will place the new meter. This may not be where you expect depending upon the actual ownership of the poles on the (now public) road (they may actually have reverted to PEA when the road was adopted). Anything that happens after that meter is on your coin. Although you will likely be able to get a moonlighting PEA crew to do the job. Our poles were installed on a Sunday by a crew driving a PEA truck, wearing PEA uniforms, the poles are marked "PEA". Pay cash to the supervisor and everyone goes away happy.

Not if you have connected your ATS correctly. This is why you MUST draw out what you want to do. Even if it's pencil sketch on the proverbial fag packet. The ATS will only ever connect one of the inputs (grid or inverter) to the output (breaker box). It can never connect both inputs at the same time (and thus to each other) unless some deliberate sabotage in in play. You just hook up the ATS as shown in the instructions but connect the inverter to where the generator would go.

The original 2-pole ATS would handle the breaker-box to grid/inverter just fine with no risk of the grid and inverter output being connected together. You would need an MCB on the inverter grid input anyway, so just turn it off and your inverter is isolated both ends.

That's a 3-phase ATS. Maybe you could draw what you intend doing. We wouldn't want anything to go bang.

Yeah, he has an off-grid (or on/off-grid) hybrid which has separate input and output connections, you need the transfer switch in order to bypass the inverter to keep the supply on if the inverter fails. With an on-grid hybrid there is no need for the transfer switch as there is only a single connection into the electrical system. If the inverter fails then the grid is already connected.

Ya think??

I second the over-watering and compacted soil. Meanwhile Madam's plants are going great guns on slightly shaded sunshine, home-made compost mix (well-rotted garden waste, chicken droppings, coco and sand), along with tap water. I still don't know what's she's going to do with them as neither of us fancy smoking the stuff, it will probably end up in her DIY "herbal" tea (mostly mulberry leaves at present).

I believe there are a number of shippers who do it, I've only ever asked just for "Thailand Special Line" some have never heard of it and are not interested, others are no problem.

I will say that having manual gates gets old, very, very quickly in the rainy season ???? Sit in the car and press the remote, or send Madam out in the rain?

Electric or wife/maid operated??

"The doll is being kept by the police in case the owner wants to reclaim it." I wonder what they will charge him with if he does actually turn up

Becoming a ThaiVisa (as was then) Mod and having to deal with the tripe that some posters produce. No names of course, they know who they are

Slightly on-topic anecdote. Some years ago (last century) we were working in KL. The senior management were staying at the Hyatt, we minions were in the Hilton (this was in the days when projects actually had a budget!). One of the regulars at the Hyatt bar was a very passable ladyboy, of course we all knew her, chatted, bought her drinks etc. etc. Then there was the "new guy", so of course she came on to him (with theatrical winks to the rest of us). There was of course some, er, "encouragement", from them as knew (it would have been rude not to). He thought he'd scored!! Later in the evening, after a lot of lady drinks they both vanished at a "discrete" interval in opposite directions. Shortly afterwards the boss's mobile rang "<insert surname of boss>!! There's a man in my room and it's not me! Click, brrrr.....".

My bold. Herein lies a much more fun thread ...

Yeah, it's gone all PC, "don't offend anyone or you'll be cancelled", so now the only ones to be offended are those actually paying to watch this drivel.