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Second day of the "big" tides, reducing from tomorrow. Level down somewhat on yesterday 🙂 Pathum Thani Pak Kret

High tide today, tomorrow is the same tide level, then we go down. Well up on yesterday but still not really worrying. Pathum Thani Pak Kret

I do quite like quiet.

Yeah ^^^, it's a massive "it depends" ... We are 150m from our local wat and it must be occupied by church-mice There's the "wake-up" drum at silly-o'clock pretty brief, roll over and go back to sleep, or get up if the urge takes me, late morning "come to the cookhouse door" drum and there may be a "lights-out" drum but I've usually got my cans on by then to drown out the Thai soaps that Madam watches. Like aircraft noise you get used to it and the brain just filters it out. Maybe two or three "noisy" days a year, but they actually have a decent sound system so, unless you really hate the music, it's not really too bad. Village speakers only get fired up when puyai-baan has something useful to say and that's not every day. To be honest we get more noise from a nightclub a couple of clicks away over the river and that's really only when the wind is wrong.

The first of the "big" high tides, the biggest are tomorrow and Monday. Not at all worried. Pathum Thani Pak Kret

One positive of a Trump win, after 4 years he won't be able to run again (assuming we're not all glowing piles of dust by then) Either way, win or lose we will still have to put up with him:- Win - he will gloat until the cows come home 😞 Lose - he will whinge about another misappropriated election 😞 As a Brit, I have no horse in this race (other than not wanting to be a pile of glowing dust), I just want the circus to be over.

The "ant powder" is very good at discouraging the creepy-crawlies and it lasts pretty much forever. I doubt you'll stop the really tiny ants (they seem to adore electric fields) from getting in even with foam in the conduit and outlet stoppers.

This post is meaningless without photos!!

Thanks. Any indication of what the units of "Load" are, is it peak, average, something else? Where did you obtain the detail of what that line means??

Could you post an image of your bill please? Redact and personal identifying data of course.

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There's really no limit to how far you can go, you just need to size the cable appropriately. From a volt-drop perspective for 400m on a 15/45 meter you're looking at 120mm2 in aluminium cable (copper would be astronomically expensive and would tend to wander off in the night). Definitely talk to the local PEA office, they may have a limit as to how far from the meter (which would be on their pole) they will let your home be.

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I've seen some US energy bills, the smallest amount being for the energy used! You don't need to worry about balance, unless you have massive loads relative to the size of your village transformer (most unlikely). That said, spread your single-phase loads across all three phases anyway, then if you lose a phase you still keep 66% of your lights and outlets. The meter bills you for the total energy used over all three phases. Unless you are a factory you don't need to worry about peak-load or power factor. Here you get a standing charge (based upon your service) and a usage charge based upon your usage (a sliding scale, the more you use, the more per unit you pay). Then there is the fuel tariff (ft) which is actually a convenient way to vary the per-unit rate without an act or parliament, and VAT on the total. EDIT By the way, just to confuse, the supply voltage in the MEA service area is 230V vs 220V in the PEA service area.

Not really much going on, the river level has been scarily stable!! Puyai Baan has been on the speakers, any homes that actually have water (photos needed) can get flood aid (food and $$) and sandbags if they need them. Big tides over the weekend, hopefully they won't coincide with greater releases from the dams.