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Looks like storm Trami has turned south and is fizzling out (famous last words) 🙂 There's another to the east of the Philippines (Kong-Rey) but that's forecast to move south-east with luck.

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As soon as it goes below about 21C Madam gets out the polar gear, I put on a T

Alien Invasion on Halloween by Charles Addams, 1954.

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PowMr is towards the low end of the Chinese manufactured gear. It tends to work OK but lacks the features and, important to some, support and repair network. Do be aware that the unit you link to is stated as an off-grid hybrid so check the spec. carefully, it may or may not do grid-assist (draw grid power to top-up the solar is necessary). GroWatt and Deye are more towards the middle of the range, we have three 5kW Deye hybrids running in parallel. The Deye units have the useful feature whereby you can hook grid-tie inverters to the "Gen" port and they will generate even when off grid, of course this means you can continue to use your existing inverters if you desire. We got our units from Lazada, with vouchers just under 35k each.

Do you have a Non-immigrant visa and a couple of k Baht? Walk into a bank and ask to open an account. Sign endless forms. Walk out of bank with bankbook and ATM card. It really is that easy. If your first choice says "cannot" just try another bank or even another branch of the same bank.

Anybodys guess to be honest. At least you only have two choices. Hook it up, if it runs and pumps you got it right, if it doesn't run or runs and doesn't pump you got it wrong, it may not matter either way.

Some of us, hopefully a majority, still are 🙂 It only takes one bad apple ...

Yeah, my sentiments exactly.

It tripped, but it didn't protect! Tripping during lightning is purely a by-product of the surges. The mechanism is an order of magnitude too slow to actually protect from the surge which will have been, done the damage and gone before the breaker opens.

The RCBO is there for electric shock protection not lightning surge protection. Set it to 30mA, you will be equally safe. I never really understood the logic of these adjustable units, they take up space without adding any real value. A fixed 30mA unit will take up 2 slots rather than the 5 or 6 the adjustable one uses. Anyway, for surge suppression you need something like this; - https://www.lazada.co.th/products/chint-surge-nu6-ii-f-and-g-low-voltage-surge-arrestor-i1639828951-s9345611300.html? If your system is MEN (as it should be here) then the single position one would be fine, if your system is TT (older place) then you need the 2 position one.

Do you have surge protection in your Consumer Unit (distribution board)? If not, I suggest you get some installed. If you don't know, post a photo of your board with the cover open and we can check what you have 🙂

Yeah, it depends which way it ends up going and how much it dumps on Thailand's north. https://www.hurricanezone.org/tracking/pacific-w2.php

At least there won't be any ants in there 🙂