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Check your actual meter reading against the bill you received, mistakes do happen. As others have noted, turn everything off at the main breakers and check the meter is not moving. If it is start looking for "leaks".

For the IPC chaps you will likely need a specialist electrical place, Lazada have many but all ship from overseas. These are the cheapest I've found. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/hyteewa-jccsec1-95-2-main-line-16-95-mm-no-peeling-cable-insulation-piercing-connector-piercing-connector-clamp-cable-clips-connector-i5061005058-s21388575942.html?

I would be quite happy branching off the incoming supply with a couple of "vampire" (insulation-piercing) splices, no need to strip the incoming cable! Get one of these https://www.lazada.co.th/products/safe-t-cut-4-smart-life-f1-4-i2417866062-s8314215061.html? baby consumer units to go in your sala (the 32A one would be more than adequate). It will need a weatherproof box. I'm sure smaller ones with just the RCBO and one or two breakers are available. You may be able to find an actual weatherproof unit with a bit of searching on Lazada. Bang in a local ground rod, you could use the sala itself, but without actual earth testing kit I'd use a new rod. Bond your sala metalwork to the new rod. EDIT Is the supply on the poles fed from the main building box or is it the incoming supply from the meter??

Somewhere near 13.795940398240466, 100.51760824064324 I would guess

All good stuff thanks everyone. My main worry was that they would want to see an international deposit which would mean exporting and re-importing the $$$ from which the Thai government have already had their pound (and a half) of flesh, and them asking for more tax on the imported funds!

Pretty dumb question. I'm having to change my funding for my marriage extension due to a change in my work arrangements (I've been using local salary). So, does to 400k have to be tagged as "overseas", I have the $$$ but it was earned locally.

Simple question. Where will the hydrogen come from?

Plantnet thinks (61%) it might be a ficus lyrata "Fiddle-Leaf Fig".

Madam is forever taking in waifs and strays, luckily, her penchant is for plants rather than dogs and cats. So today she was given this plant, she's no idea what it is and neither did the lady who gave it to her. Any ideas? Is it fruit, flower, triffid? Likes sunshine or shade or ... The leaf shape should be an identifying marker.

I have zero experience of lappies with USB-C "charging" ports, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work in the same way as the USB-C port on my phone which works with the charger and/or external devices. If it doesn't do what you want you can always send it back

Some years back a mate died of a heart-attack, which surprised us as he was the youngest of our small clique. The autopsy showed he'd had multiple small attacks previously (scarring on the heart) and his demise was likely accelerated by the use of the blue pills (he probably didn't actually O/D). The ironic part is that when we were both working on a project in Seoul (mid 90's) one of our drinking buddies was the marketing manager of Pfizer, Korea who told us they were testing out a new heart drug that had an "interesting" side effect Caution is advised if using this stuff.

I suspect this is why there are large stocks of red, black, white flexible. My only rule is that green or green/yellow can only ever be ground (no over-sleeving).

I would get some green heatshrink/sleeving and sleeve the red. That at least keeps Black = Live and White/Grey = Neutral per Thai (and US/Canada) convention.

I agree 100% on your sentiments on the RCD/RCBOs, essential! Of course, if there is actually a pukka ground in the cabinet of course it should be used, we have to assume our OP's sparks has failed in his quest to find one. Running Class-1 appliances with no earth whatever is unwise, even if we consider they are safe by being fed by and RCD/RCBO there is still the matter of "functional earth". Equipment with switching power supplies or inverters (pretty much everything these days) will have a mains filter many of which have capacitors between L and N and E. These form a high-impedance voltage divider putting the E (and any metalwork) at somewhere near 50% mains. The available current is tiny and of no hazard in itself, but it may give a significant "tingle" to the user which can be disconcerting to say the least. Even a poor earth (building steel) will kill the tingle, it would probably also provide enough current to trip the RCD in the event of a L-casework fault. As an aside, the roof steel of our house actually measures as a better earth than our pukka 2.5m copper-clad steel rod (we have a lot of 16m driven piles). Ufer or concrete-encased electrodes are much better earths than many would expect.

I would definitely NOT do that; the system may well provide an earth but there are likely all sorts of "stuff" in there too. Building re-bar or a metal water pipe (but NOT the fire system) would be much better.

A couple of argumentative posts have been zapped! Let's play nicely, shall we??

Courtesy of Gemini IA (The AI formerly known as Bard). Whether any of these are available here is another matter, also check the spec. of the local variant. EDIT The TP-Link TL-MR100 looks promising https://www.lazada.co.th/products/tp-link-tl-mr100-300-mbps-wireless-n-4g-lte-router-sim-router-network-hitechubon-i1086618841-s2460982891.html Yes, there are several SIM (mobile network) routers that have port forwarding or a DMZ feature. Here are a few examples: Netgear Nighthawk M1 (supports both port forwarding and DMZ) Opens in a new windowwww.netgear.com Netgear Nighthawk M1 mobile router TP-Link Archer MR600 (supports both port forwarding and DMZ) Opens in a new windowwww.tp-link.com TPLink Archer MR600 mobile router Huawei B818 (supports port forwarding) Opens in a new windowwww.amazon.co.uk Huawei B818 mobile router Teltonika RUT955 (supports both port forwarding and DMZ) Opens in a new windowm.indiamart.com Teltonika RUT955 mobile router Peplink MAX Transit Duo (supports both port forwarding and DMZ) Opens in a new windowwww.peplink.com Peplink MAX Transit Duo mobile router

Like a naughty dog, tech absolutely "knows" when people are looking into issues and behaves impeccably Long ago when I did field-service all would be just fine until I left the customer site then it would all go wrong!

There possibly is, but it needs an adaptor which may or may not have come with it. Yup, but most of the kit here is on wired connections (except phones and tablets of course). Agree, except we still don't know if you have a channel conflict with a recently installed neighbour. EDIT You need to have a bunch of evidence to give to your ISP or they will just brush over your issues "you have internet, no problem"

I'm beginning to suspect the router too, it's odd that after WiFi "vanished" the tech reset the router and it's all OK again. Channel conflicts/interference are also still on the board, but our OP will have to do a WiFi survey to check.

Which notebook do you have? The LAN connections aren't always immediately visible (it took me longer than I'm willing to admit to find it on my latest Dell).

Our ToT provided Huawei HG8245H is 300Mbs on wireless.