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Brit here. My youngest lost mates in Helmand province in IED attacks (another is minus legs) and got wounded himself and invalided out. He was in the RN supporting the RM Commandos (servicing their rotary wing aircraft). I won't relate his response to this, <deleted> would appear rather often.

Looks like an on-grid inverter, not a name I've come across. 17 * 670W = 11.4kW, that should be well within the capability of a 10kW inverter (you never get the rated panel wattage anyway). Spec. here https://www.thaisolarsystem.com/product/1156/inverter-on-grid-tmda-%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B8%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%99-sun-10k-g03-%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94-10k-3p-ct-%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99-10-%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%B5 says it's on the approved lists. I would encourage you to get a hybrid inverter so you can add batteries later, unless you intend selling energy back to MEA/PEA in which case you will need an inverter on their approved lists.

The panels/batteries provide DC and DC doesn't have "phases" so it's effectively all in one lump. The inverter(s) then convert the DC to 3-phase AC, same voltage for each phase but the energy is divided between the phases as required by the load each phase sees. Generally one tries to keep the phase loads roughly equal, it's not vital but will keep your inverter happy.

Yeah, that's the general idea, to get the roof back to the colour it was when new (15 years of Thai sunshine has faded it significantly). In fact the colour I picked is actually called "reddish brown". The scaffolding means nobody will have to walk on the actual roof.

The contractor brought a couple of sample tiles painted with our two possibilities. Neither of them look remotely like the colour swatches, being several shades lighter! The one I liked looks like the output of a very sick dog! He's gone to get a darker shade of sampler, we can choose once two coats are on the sample tiles and have dried.

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There is no phrase more dangerous or deceiving than "fancy a quick pint?".

I just keep thinking of this chap ... Fetching my coat!

I have no idea whatever how the youtube algorithm pointed this at me, but ...

I just paid our latest PEA bill of a massive 37.09 Baht most of which was the standing charge. We do actually use about 3kWh each month to keep the meter moving, I don't want PEA to think it's broken and replace with an electronic one. A mate recently had his MEA meter replaced because "his bill was too small", I believe he had been spinning the whizzy-disc backwards, maybe he got spotted, I don't know. Anyway he now has a shiny new digital meter and has bought more solar batteries. I have a plan, if (more likely when) PEA replace our meter we will stop using any grid energy at all, let them think it's busted!

Our contractor is moaning that the pigeons have shat all over the nicely cleaned roof. He's gone out to buy bird netting. I'm pretty sure the teak will be oiled, that's how it was originally. Madam asked me to "help" choose the roof colour pointing at 3 slightly different browns on the colour chart (existing is brown). The look I got when I pointed at a fluorescent pea-green finish (which would probably constitute a hazard to air navigation) should have turned me into a pillar of salt. We had already agreed that it would remain brown so I got a hard punch on the arm when it clicked that I was joking.

I definitely would!

About three seconds’ worth—right up until my finger twitches, a post vanishes into the luminiferous aether, and I achieve "administrative enlightenment.”

An 18-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up and appeared before Allah. He said, "Oh, Allah, I did your bidding, but I have a request. Since I'm only 18 and spent all my time in terrorist training school, I never was with a woman. So, instead of 72 virgins, who also won't know what to do sexually, can I have 72 prostitutes?" Allah regarded him for a moment, then replied, "Actually, 72 virgins are here in heaven because bastards like you murdered them before they could experience the pleasure of sex. So you're here to service them. Since they're virgins, they're quite sexually ravenous; and, frankly, you'll be on constant, exhausting duty." The bomber responded, "Well, I guess I can live with that. How hard can it be to keep 72 women satisfied for all eternity?" And Allah replied, "Who said they were women?"

Yet more bamboo goes up.

Yeah, it's going to be on TLC which I can't get here. I'm sure (ok, I hope) it will turn up on YouTube.

Yeah, it starts easily and stops equally easily, great if you're only doing one load of whatever but otherwise one must keep re-fuelling. Meanwhile, the boys washing the walls etc. carefully covered our IP65 outdoor light switches and lights with plastic. Unfortunately, they didn't do the same with the lighting controller which was then pressure-washed. Said unit was not IP65 let alone IP68, it also now appears that it's no longer a lighting controller either. Grrr. So, the 15 year's worth of pigeon carp that was on the roof is now on our patio, they're going to re-wash tomorrow ready for roof paint. No action yet on the teak re-finishing!

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