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My youngest in the UK (a keen trial and off-road rider) wants to know where it is so he can go. Looks like an old railway bridge that's been "re-purposed". Views would be spectacular on the way down! He gets his madness from my side of the family, my sister is fitness crazy (actually totally crazy), she doesn't run marathons because "they aren't long enough"!!

Yup, your EV charger should be a TT island unless the charge point (and the vehicle) is within the house equipotential zone. Loads of discussions on this subject in various electrical forums but generally giving it its own rod is pretty much guaranteed to be safe. Then along comes a user who plugs the "granny lead" into an outlet in the kitchen ...

For intial prep, run a 10kW (50A) circuit in 10mm2 to a junction box near where you want to put the charger. The charger itself will have the relevant instructions as to exactly what you need to put between the charger and the supply. Also ensure you have a 30/100 meter (the installers won't install your home charger on less). EDIT PEA are apparently offering a second 15/45 meter for dedicated EV use where a 30/100 isn't available. EDIT 2 The home charger installation instructions for a GWM (Great Wall Motors) charger, Thai of course. So installing to those requirements should be good to go for most chargers. home-charger-installation-gwm.pdf

Now running in News Let's continue there.

Merging with existing topic. A terrible loss to the world of cricket ????

Yeah, did that with the manual to get the beast set up, never bothered with the logs and stuff.

Yeah, I needs steps too although the regular 3 step kitchen thingy does the trick. My GTI menu is in Chinese so never bother looking at it (inverter is a mainland China only version).

We always knew that the Thai Parliament is all wet!! https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40012996

At least they are saving on running costs with the solar lights.

Which Sofar app are you using? I have SmartClient which logs every 5 minutes or so, but it definitely misses short duration dips. The only thing you see in the log is that the inverter status is "Wait" whilst it sorts itself out. The hybrid has a local log at the inverter, but I don't think the pure GTI has.

Yup, looks like it's behaving as expected ????

Our koi mansion is concrete and tiled. Tiles applied using pool tile cement and waterproof grout. If you just render you can get an additive to make it waterproof (ok less leaky). For concrete with no liner you will need a lot more re-bar than you think, the simple mesh isn't enough to prevent cracking, hence my comment below! If I was doing it again I would use a liner.

Yeah, opening your incoming breaker would be the simplest way of checking that your GTI does indeed cut off in the absence of a mains supply. Of course, if it doesn't cut off you have a potential issue! Both of our Sofar inverters are pretty enthusiastic about dropping off on grid disturbances, the current favourite being "under frequency". Check the inverter logs on your app, you should be able to see the power failure and when the juice returned.

Didn't Apple already get caught out slowing down older iPhone models to "encourage" users to update??

Actually, when I first move to Seoul and reading zero Korean I did like the lemon scented shampoo our local store had. I later learned that the label said "Sunlight"

I would lay odds that there's a back-door (or 10), I'd say a dead cert! Some years ago I worked for a UK company that made some prototype equipment for a German client. There was a relatively "secret" manufacturer menu accessed by a 6 digit code. The first version access code was 191418 - The client discovered this and for some reason wasn't very happy Version 2 used 193945 - Prompting a rather "cool" response. V3.0 used 421966 - By this time the client had either given up or failed to understand. Yes, we did get that manufacturing contract but the production equipment used a different code.

Which of course comes with its own set of "problems"

Yeah, the earliest our meter chap ever comes is the 16th (always February), the latest the 19th. So we are set to not export on those days every month. If he comes before the 19th I can manually let the brake off. We are lucky that he usually rolls up about 7AM before any significant generation has started, but ...

BTS to start tours of historical nightspots around Nana and Asoke stations

Now if they could just program the EVs to spontaneously combust in the Kremlin basement parking ...

The electric car chargers along one of the most important freeways in Russia are all down Monday after the Ukrainian company tasked with building the main components in the chargers used backdoor access to hack them, shut them down, and program anti-Putin/pro-Ukrainian messages to scroll past on their screens https://jalopnik.com/russian-company-outsourced-the-main-components-in-ev-ch-1848603252

Numbers for February, a short and variable month with a low daily production of 15.7kWh and a high of a very satisfactory 43.9kWh. Total solar for the month is 759kWh whilst we used 228kWh from PEA.

Or at least accurate as-built drawings (which are about a common as unicorn droppings). Not, I hasten to add, one of my jobs, but someone cut a very expensive core!