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  1. Is there an outlet nearby where you could pick up a neutral?? Is the switch box grounded (it should be). You could use the ground instead of the neutral in the L1 design . The leakage is small so it shouldn't affect your RCD/RCBO (it's really no different to having a mains filter). What value is the capacitor?? Note that this really isn't recommended particularly when there's an easy solution at the light itself.
  2. The AOT site says ID card is sufficient https://www.airportthai.co.th/en/which-documents-are-accepted-for-domestic-travel❓/
  3. Yeah, soy seems to be in short supply, acres of palm oil, we only use these oils for chips/french fries which we don't eat often so palm oil it is ???? Madam insists on rice-bran oil for shallow frying if she's not got her home-rendered pig lard which along with eggs from our free-range chooks, makes the most delicious fried eggs ever!
  4. The automatic gates that have been being installed for what seems like aeons are now live. There are also QR/Credit Card readers attached to the regular booths but I'm not sure if they are active yet. New automatic lane readers are much faster than the old ones used on the expressway, no need to actually stop whilst it does its job ????
  5. But it is, you can see right through it! It doesn't come more transparent than that
  6. The lastest version has "EU DCC scanner" top left on the main page, says it "checks" EU certs, whether it actually adds them ...
  7. OK, adjusted again. Are you intending building a condo block or renovating one or do you have a place which you believe breaks code?
  8. 30mA is an international standard for 230V countries chosen as a happy medium between not killing most people and not tripping at those inconvenient times (like when you're away and didn't put your freezer on an un-protected outlet). Actually, a 30mA unit will trip anywhere between 15mA and 30mA, it doesn't take many PCs leaking via their mains filters to get into the tripping risk zone. If you have an adjustable unit there's no reason not to set it as low as it will go without going off when you don't want it to. It's worth noting that the RCD/RCBO doesn't actually limit the shock current, that's determined by your body resistance, it just (hopefully) disconnects the supply before you die (the 30ms) if it detects MORE than 30mA going where it shouldn't.
  9. 10mA are available, but then you are into the realms of "tripping when you don't want it to". In reality to 30,30,30 rule (30V, 30mA, 30ms) is arbitrary anyway and is non-lethal to 95% of healthy adults, the elderly, very young or infirm are much more suseptable to death by shock. By far the best defence is the prevent the possibility of shock by good grounding, MEN implementation and proper design, the RCD/RCBO should be your second line of defence.
  10. I agree. But if you have nothing now and are on a limited buget ...
  11. 2M at 240V is about 120uA so any 1/4W resistor would do the trick. Since this is intended to work on the mains I suggest using 4 x 220k resistors in series, most resistors are intended to work at these voltages, but one can never be too careful. Lazada is your friend here, if you need 100! I would visit your local TV fixing man and ask if he has. They are tiny money! But there's no reason why you couldn't use a capacitor in the same place is the resistor. Make sure it's a mains rated one. You might want to post a sketch of what you intend doing so we can tell if it will actually work!
  12. This ^^^. Absolutely! Exporting of the TNC-S "earth" has become a hot topic in the UK, not because of pools (few have them) but the similar issue relating to EV charge points. It is essential that we avoid letting someone get between the TNC-S earth and true earth, there could be a significant potential between them. Galvanic corrosion is not the same as rusting. It's a massive problem with DC powered railways, stray current from the traction return going via the structural steel can literally cause it to dissolve away leading to the inevitable. The rails which provide the return path for traction power are not actually "earthed" they are isolated to prevent stray current. Anyway, we are way off topic here.
  13. Yeah, it blew up a row of cottages in the UK a few years back when the neutral current returned via the gas pipe! The idea of all those earth points on the neutral is to keep the touch potential down to safe (ish) levels, it doesn't always work.
  14. An off-topic attempt to de-rail the thread has been deleted.
  15. ATK kits are available all over, even 7-eleven have them (have to ask). Any pharmacy should have them, from about 60 Baht a pop. Those would be self-test of course. EDIT If you need an "official" result then your local hospital is first port of call. If you have the mor-promt app installed click on the "station near me" for locations.
  16. Yes, that's normal in 3-phase except under very particular circumstances. Switching the 3-phase neutral is pretty rare and it needs a special 4-pole breaker which closes the neutral first and opens it last when operated. A broken or open circuit neutral can be very (very) bad news in a 3-phase system. In single-phase the power just goes off, in 3-phase you could end up with up to 380V phase-neutral which your 220V appliances really won't like.
  17. Great news that they are doing Pfizer walk-ins. I get automagic SMS notifications when the next jab is available so can use entrance 2, no paperwork needed other than the vaccine consent form which seems to be needed every time. Follow everyone else and show the QR to the Dr's assistant at the jab-desk. All very well organised and easy-peasy ????
  18. But it must be made with fresh gypsies Now Manchester Tart is a fond memory from school dinners ????
  19. Important Note :- The Thai implementation of MEN takes the incoming neutral to the ground bar first, then another link of the same size goes to the neutral bar (or the N side of the incoming breaker for single phase). I don't have a 3-phase drawing, but this is how it's done for single-phase (PEA drawing, my translations). In reality it doesn't actually matter for a 3-phase installation, incoming neutral to either the N or E bar is safe. BUT What IS a problem is that if the incoming N is on the left and our OP is measuring 7A in the MEN link! That means 7A is going down the rod. Why?? An open incoming neutral is the likely reason!! (a phase-neutral swap would be a lot more spectacular, ask me how I know ???? ) If the incoming N is on the right (where I would expect it to be for Thai MEN) then the 7A in the MEN link is just the normal off-balance neutral current and nothing to worry about.
  20. And yet, sooooo many tourists seem to like being called that by their rentals
  21. I'm 63, on a marriage extension. If you are retired immigration would rather you did retirement as it's less paperwork for them.
  22. That's why Babe, Honey, Sweetie (but not dahkling) should be in the vocabulary.
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