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Couple that with the return to pre-covid credit card minimum payments which rose to 7.5% of outstanding balance this year and will return to the full 10% of outstanding balance next (or maybe the year after) and we have a potential issue! The unofficial loan people will step into the breach and then ...

Both my UK onshore banks will only send codes to UK numbers

Isn't that exactly what early Punk was?? Singing is fun and should be enjoyable for those performing and (optionally) those listening I can't sing for toffee (I was in the school choir, mainly because I actually did sing), but myself and a couple of mates did the "band" thing, we even got paid a few times (no, not to stop playing)! There is (was hopefully, my Korean ex. had it) a karaoke tape of me duetting Wild Thing with the marketing director of Pfizer Korea!

Or this one, which looks suspiciously like your photo https://www.lazada.co.th/products/tertran-95-i3359641058-s12464549776.html

Lazada search for "smoke free ashtray". https://www.lazada.co.th/products/-i4678670836-s19263673882.html Or use an empty Chang can!

Absolutely nothing to do with Thailand.

Since it's a rental I would do nothing DIY!! Get the landlord involved. If he tries DIY and it all goes wrong you are off the hook.

This ^^^, easy to get to by MRT too. There's also a place in Zeer Rangsit. It looks like one of those "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it" kind of place, I feel my wallet emptying just looking through the window. Take the Red Line to Rangsit then jump a taxi to Zeer. Reverse the process to get home.

Yer 'tis

@Muhendis do you think there's any mileage in adding a smear of a silicone-based grease to the O-ring before mating??

On an "unknown" system I pull the main breaker and still check dead at the fitting. It's not unknown for circuits (water heaters seem to be particularly prone) to be hooked to the incoming supply because it was convenient!

A while back one of our arrays of DIY solar flood-lights stopped being able to last all night. The battery pack simply didn't have the oomph. Charging the pack with an actual charger "fixed" the issue for a week or so. The (simple and cheap) charge controller said all was fine and the pack was charging when the sun was awake. It was only when I actually started investigating that I found that the charge current was in fact, minimal (but not zero). The issue was traced to a bad connection inside the junction box on the back of the 100W solar panel which had evidently been fizzing away for a while. I did a thread IIRC.

Update for 26 Feb 2024. Please refrain from posting "Instructible" type threads regarding "energy saving" or "improving" <insert type of device here>. These instructions, which often appear on YouTube and the like rarely have any sound engineering basis, are relying on false premise or simply don't work, and are often just plain dangerous! If you feel the urge to post something along these lines, please PM myself with your proposal. You may wish to include some tangible proof that it does what you say it does. Unauthorised threads of this type will be removed without warning. Note that this rule doesn't apply to "how to make your own extension lead" type threads.

Possibly a bad connection/connector been fizzing for a while and finally failed.

Enough! EDIT I'm also going to modify the local forum rules to prohibit further threads of this kind. If you want to post something similar, please PM myself with your proposal.

Local wildlife maybe?? Or just crappy MC-4 connectors.

Warning Will Robinson. Warning. IF you are going to try this you MUST use mains-rated capacitors, not just any old cap salvaged from who knows where!!! A good source of suitable low-cost capacitors are the fan run capacitors sold all over. Also note That my posting here is in no way an endorsement of this technique, any and all consequences are purely the responsibility of the reader.

You put two wires in each connector hole. Before (slightly different connector, but the principle is the same) During (twist the wires together) After

2,166 Baht! Dual-pricing is alive and well in India it would seem

Just connect the two wires to the two wires in your fitting. You can often poke the cap through the hole in the ceiling so it doesn't cast shadows. In this application they should last pretty much forever.

I believe the agent did the translation.

No this can't be fixed at the switch No increase in energy consumption, no real hazard to the user, but sparkies who are less than careful may get bitten. You could try adding a capacitor at the fitting, just connect L-N. The 1uF variant of these would do the trick and easy to wire in. https://www.lazada.co.th//products/i4822968210-s20050874277.html

I think we can conclude your switch is in the neutral Are all your lights on the same breaker? It MIGHT be a reasonably easy fix. Much depends upon how the neutrals have been arranged / borrowed.

Last time I used an agent, my pink ID was accepted as proof of address.

No need to disconnect anything. With the power on (light lit) you should get neon on both wires of the switch. That you are getting nothing suggests that the switch is in the neutral Can you verify that with the switch OFF (light not lit) you do get neon on one end of the switch and not the other.