Crossy

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.

The RCBO is there for electric shock protection not lightning surge protection. Set it to 30mA, you will be equally safe. I never really understood the logic of these adjustable units, they take up space without adding any real value. A fixed 30mA unit will take up 2 slots rather than the 5 or 6 the adjustable one uses. Anyway, for surge suppression you need something like this; - https://www.lazada.co.th/products/chint-surge-nu6-ii-f-and-g-low-voltage-surge-arrestor-i1639828951-s9345611300.html? If your system is MEN (as it should be here) then the single position one would be fine, if your system is TT (older place) then you need the 2 position one.

Do you have surge protection in your Consumer Unit (distribution board)? If not, I suggest you get some installed. If you don't know, post a photo of your board with the cover open and we can check what you have 🙂

Yeah, it depends which way it ends up going and how much it dumps on Thailand's north. https://www.hurricanezone.org/tracking/pacific-w2.php

At least there won't be any ants in there 🙂

It "should" just need a re-program of the meter, but you can bet they won't do that on-site so a meter swap it will likely be 😞 Were the PEA chaps aware that you already had a digital meter? Maybe they were pricing for a replacement of a spinning-disc unit.

High water today, definitely on the way down. Is it too early to say there's no risk of further flooding in our area?? Pathum Thani Pak Kret

Mid-late 70s, so end-of-life (rust) Beetles with good running-gear were cheap-as-chips. Several co-apprentices built Beetle-based beach-buggies. I was a hairy biker with a pony-tail and zero interest in cars, until I discovered that not all girls liked the ton-up out in the wind and rain

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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