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The boys are shining them up as we speak! Got to have nice clean tanks for the world's press to photograph.

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No way José Somchai. 😞

Waiting for the English press to catch up.

The only reason we have a "gap" is to access with the cleaning thingy.

If he should withdraw (in reality I think his ego is just way too big) would he be allowed to run again in the next election having miraculously recovered?

The chickens have been electrified. Currently only 6 x 340W panels since we ran out of mounting hardware, will expand to 9. Large hole in the roof was caused by my step-son standing in the wrong place (hyper-cheap tiles), the smaller hole was caused by my grandson. The roof on the far side of the panels is actually the next-door place.

I never realised that the Google Family lived in Sellafield!

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@bob smith why are you still here??? Of course, the grass is always greener ...

If you have access to the building steel it is certainly an option, it is by no means ideal as the steel isn't intended to be used like that and any interconnection is purely coincidental. Our roof steel actually tests better than our ground rod! This stood us in good stead when we took a direct hit to our roof not long after we moved in. The only damage was to one of Madams teak barge boards and two ridge tiles 🙂

How big (Watts) is your pool pump? A small grid-tie system that can supply enough oomph to run the pump without exporting energy to the grid shouldn't break the bank.

We never really intended to go off-grid, but I got a great deal on a stack of panels and batteries from the estate of a mate who sadly dropped dead (ok he drank way too much). His widow just wanted rid of the stuff that he'd acquired over the years so she could sell off their house in Don Mueang. No, I didn't rip her off, I'm not that type of guy, we agreed a sensible price for "new old-stock" on cells and panels. It just so happened that I had just ordered 28kWh of new batteries from China so we've ended up with rather more generation and storage than I'd anticipated. Of course, Madam has designs on an EV and to enclose our large downstairs living area which will require A/C. I've long since given up on any idea of ROI, I'm an engineer doing what engineers do (keeps the little grey cells active (c) Hercule Poirot).

We are rather limited by our battery capacity since we don't export and are operating basically off-grid. A sunny day after the batteries get depleted would be the ideal situation. The long weekend will be a test as we have family here for 3 days so all the A/C will be running. Hopefully we won't need to import.

Applying heat-shrink to your long metal tools is a smart move, reduces the possibility of an exciting splat!!

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You can never have too many panels!! Do watch your PV input voltage, the Deye (we have 3) has a maximum PV input voltage of 500V, the total of the Voc of your panels must not exceed that. If Voc of each panel is less than 50V then you'll be good to go with 10 per string. Obviously check with your particular inverter manual. As to sunny/vs overcast, we can vary between >70kWh on a nice day to <20kWh on a damp and miserable day (we have 18kWP of solar, you do the sums).

Luyuan are well respected on several other DIY solar forums, never heard of any scams involving them. Delivery is by road, IIRC it took a couple of weeks after actual dispatch. Payment is via Alipay use Yuan or USD (get a small discount for Yuan), several options, I use my UK credit card. I did have to talk to the fraud department in order to authorise the first payment but since then no issues. Warranty is, I believe, 1 year, but verify with them, you have to use chat to sort out all the options and agreed price.

As any user of certain "establishments" would know, buffalo are very valuable animals