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I'd go for the wood strip on the wall, a nice piece of dead-straight hardwood would do the trick and look ok too. Pack behind it where your wall is less than straight.

This is what 28kWh of DIY solar storage looks like. That's 16 series sets of 2x280Ah cells in parallel (2P16S) for 48V x 560Ah. The empty space top left with the small burn mark is where my 5A "flying-capacitor" active balancer was until it emitted the Magic-Smoke. New unit on order.

Yeah, embassy websites are often out of date or simply wrong. According to Washington DC - https://washingtondc.thaiembassy.org/en/page/visa-exemption US citizens only get 15 days visa exemption by land ...

Could you post a link to an embassy site or two that make this statement please? With no credible source it's just unsubstantiated rumour.

OK I stand corrected. The best option would be to remove all doubt and extend after he returns as @Liquorice suggests. He would have to ensure the officer at the airport does stamp him for the few days. Last time I did something similar he noticed and asked if I wanted 2 days or a 30-day exemption, but you never know.

My understanding is that the "Under Consideration" period counts as a new extension and so invalidates the existing Re-entry Permit. I've been wrong in the past mind. So, whatever his dates are he will need a re-entry permit for the under-consideration period. Of course, you can guarantee that, if you ask your immigration office and they say "no need", you will meet an officer at the airport with the opposite opinion. IMHO it's worth the cost of a single re-entry permit to remove all doubt.

You can run at least 6 in parallel

You can only get export credit if you are on the PEA feed-in-tariff or you spin a disk-type meter backwards (naughty).

The inverter is able to export quite happily, whether PEA are happy about it or not is a different animal. PEA don't force the inverter to do anything, you can turn export on/off or configure just how much or how little it does from the inverter menus. I'm just about to order several of these units coz we've outgrown our 5kW Sofar hybrid and the Deye allows you to run parallel on the UPS output. .

All sorted The original issue was that my passport number had changed, I did try the old number but that didn't work either (probably because it had expired). Anyway, the usual hassle (and multiple photocopies) of changing passport numbers ensued, very helpful young lady in the branch sorted that. Then a different lady helped me set up the App. The process involves no less than 3 (three) one-time-passwords, your card number and PIN, setting up a username and password (which you will use once if you set up biometrics) and lots of "confirm" clicks. I probably would have lost it trying to get it going on my own. The App looks pretty much like the Citi version and seems rather faster.

When my nearly 40-year-old Thai stepson rides his motorcycle wearing a helmet with teddy-bear ears ...

I would not be at all surprised if rolling-blackouts (or just blackouts) were on the cards. Get your gensets serviced and/or your backup batteries (even simple UPS) checked and charged.

Possibly, but I'll bet there's a bunch of students out there working on a way to break in via even that closed door (if it's not already done).

It may be worth talking to your local PEA office to get some leads or even find a PEA engineer willing to earn a bit of cash on the side. As with many things, if you don't ask you will never know

I don't even get an OTP, just an "error try later". It may just be flooded. If not sorted by tomorrow I'm going to our "local" (20km drive) UOB branch with my "angry farang" head on! EDIT They evidently have my phone number as I get notifications of transactions on my card.

It If you've not already I would get all of the families with the same issue together hand head en-mass down to your local PEA office and ask to see the boss. You may wish to take a bottle of a suitable "lubricant" for the supervisor

Before shelling your hard earned $$$ on an AVR have you verified that it's your incoming supply that's dropping off? Check at your main breaker and at the meter. A drop of 20V with only a couple of kW load suggests there's something pretty seriously wrong here. Are you a long way from the village transformer? Unfortunately, many local PEA offices have the attitude "you have electric, so no problem". If you do decide on an AVR I'd suggest something around the 3kVA mark to supply just your 18k A/C.

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Yeah, I just plugged the power bank into the lappie, then plugged the phone into the power bank. Pling!!! And my phone data appeared on the lappie!

IMPORTANT - I just checked my el-cheapo (it may even have been a freebie) power bank which charges and passes power at the same time. IT ALSO PASSES DATA!!!!! So as a condom, it has a hole!!** ** Long ago the Bath Student's Union decided that distributing condoms to students was a smart idea. They stapled them to each issue of the SU mag!!

My el-cheapo one certainly does, the better more expensive ones don't.

This ^^^ A "charge-only" USB cable (it has no data lines) should provide sufficient protection from juice-jacking.

Ideally you should do something like this: - Each inverter has a means of isolation from the batteries, each battery can be isolated from the DC bus. How you do the paralleling is up to you of course, but as you've found multiple cables in one MCB hole is unwise. A nice, meaty, copper bus-bar is the ideal solution. I hesitate to post this, but I've seen this done in the past, slip some heat shrink over it, if you don't actually shrink it, you can see if the joint has been getting warm (the heat shrink will, er, shrink).

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