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I assume you arrived on 28 October 2024 🙂 Yup, get a single re-entry on the way out on the 29th to protect the 60 day stay.

I would suggest that it's a fatigue failure of the adhesive from the temperature cycling (or other environmental changes), eventually it just gives up.

It's called "tenting" for fairly obvious reasons. Over the years the expansion space that was (should have been) left by the installers has gradually been used up due to natural movement of the structure. The stress in the tiles builds up until the adhesive can no longer keep them is place and lets go, often with a loud bang. It took 50 years for the ones in the bathroom of our place in Rome to pop, scared me witless as I was on the can at the time You need to get a man in to lift the tiles, hopefully without damaging them, and re-lay.

I have an SCB card that does that, "Cannot perform this transaction with a chip card" (or something like that). Cardless ATM works just fine in the same machine immediately after (machine not empty). Card also works just fine in other banks machines. One day I'll get my backside in gear and go to talk to the nice ladies at the bank.

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.

Headline - Thai taxi drivers now offer free fat reduction surgery

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.