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If you have some silicone based lube (won't attack the rubber) a bit between the nut and the crimpy bit may help.

I put the end onto the tap first, always awkward to get at, if the hose wants to turn I let it. At the (hopefully easier to get at) other end I hold the crimped connection with some water-pump pliers whilst tightening the nut to the wall. Do ensure you have the rubber sealing washers in place of course.

Please do NOT post his details here as that would be against our "Missing Persons" rules. You could try FaceBook or even LinkedIn to see if he's registered.

Khlong Luang - getting just a little close to home, hope they didn't "return it to nature" in our direction!

E20 was 30.24 on 5th Jan 2022 now it's 39.04 a significant hike (29%) ???? Data from https://www.bangchak.co.th/en/oilprice/historical Our OP seems to have had a 60% increase on cost to fill up, maybe he should find an alternative station The Fiesta has a 43L tank - so it should have cost 1,300Baht to fill in January or 1,678Baht now (from totally dry of course). A splash of journalistic licence here methinks. If you don't want an EV then get something with a diesel engine. B7 was 29.04 on 5th Jan 2022 now it's 29.94 a less significant hike (3%). Of course the diesel price is capped by the government, just how long they can maintain this price is debatable. Madam is again pushing for an EV, I'm happy to continue clattering along in one of our diesel beasts until the government confirms their EV subsidy, then ...

Time for a replacement plug then ????

Yeah, that's only about 100Ah's worth, but you do seem to have an iffy cell in that pack which is well worth replacing. With only a passive balancer that cell won't be compensated for ???? Which seller did you use?? Mine were from lifepo4shop on Lazada. We're getting about 11kWh from 200Ah of the CALB cells + 100Ah of "unknown" cells (which we know are only 50Ah)

By far the best type of active balance would be the "flying-capacitor" kind, these can move charge between any pair of cells rather than just dumping it. This can compensate for a "weak" cell at least partially. With used / unknown cells well worth the $$$. I have one of these on my larger pack, seems to work well. https://www.lazada.co.th//products/i2547693090-s9060712387.html

Ah yes, "covid" the universal excuse! But I agree that swapping the main board would be the way to go, but try to get an agreement that if it doesn't fix the issue then no charge (and put the not dead old one back). Good luck! (in the style of The Great Escape)

Yeah, 60 litres which is just about a full tank on the Mu-X (65 litre tank) is 1,797 Baht at today's rate, about 41 Squid for 13 imperial UK real gallons. We shall see how long the oil-fund can keep diesel below 30 Baht as promosed by you know who. Madam is again "strongly" in favour of getting an EV (and more solar to fuel it), of course Muggins here will be shelling for it.

Yup, would be great, then you get some numpty trying the phone the GPS numbers ???? We are in a village, but our gate is set back from the road and isn't really visible behind the greenery, we've had drivers call for directions whilst actually sitting outside I came across one delivery service which had a slot for GPS coordinates (Canaio IIRC), didn't help, driver still couldn't find us ???? Madam tells lost drivers who have found the village to ask for "Baan Farang" or "khun David" the whole village knows us and where we live. Unless you know it's there, dead easy to whizz past, even easier if I've not trimmed the bushes recently. The restaurant is a good landmark, but they put the sign away when not operating.

I now need to get tea out of my keyboard!!

Are you sure it's set to "cool" (usually a snowflake symbol on the display)? If your remote has some sort of master reset button, press it to restore default settings.

The DEA system for our beasts of gates was about 25k installed. BUT. That was in 2012, I doubt things will have gotten cheaper. Swing gate systems seem to be considerably more costly than sliders.

Indeed, and I wish to remain married ???? A mate (sadly now passed) had an "automatic" gate in K.L. He had a wireless doorbell remote in the car, when he pushed it the Burmese maid came running out and opened the gate. She did moan (well I think she moaned, it was in Burmese) if it was raining.

We have a DEA NET230N controller https://www.deasystem.com/en/accessories/control-units as the LOOK actuators we have are 230V. BLT are the local DEA agents in Bangkok https://bltassociates.co.th/

When it's hammering down tropical style, opening manual gates gets old very rapidly, even once a day ????

Actually on-topic ???? Our gates are stainless with wood infill, I'm not sure of anyone is doing aluminium gates, there may be strength issues. Our gates are pretty heavy but the DEA actuators and controller have no problem opening and closing the beasts. The gates, I'll hunt out the specs for the actuators and controller. EDIT We have DEA "LOOK" actuators https://www.deasystem.com/en/product/look-the-automation-for-large-sized-swing-gates

Charlie, can I have some of whatever you've been smoking please, must be some really good herb ????

Terminals are certainly "tight" with the recommended 6mm2 cable, the alternative 10AWG being slightly smaller (5.2mm2) should fit pretty easily. I ended up using 2x2.5mm2 on the panel connections (one per terminal, it has 2 terminals for + and 2 for -) and 4x2.5mm2 on the battery side (two per terminal). Connection from the solar MCB to the MC-4 connector is 6mm2 and from the battery MCB to the battery is 10mm2. All cables are copper VSF which I like because it's reasonably flexible. The SCC is also lifted off the back plate on 12mm stand-offs to allow some air circulation around the back which is where the FETs are mounted, the fan doesn't actually seem to blow air over the heatsink area at all.

We have an Electrolux 4 slot beast, does reasonably well on makro sliced. I'd like a pukka industrial one but we really don't make enough toast.