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15 minutes ago, mateusz1945 said:

 they can run in parallel? that is a great news because i left  exactly half of roof space open. i feel like a genius now.

You can run at least 6 in parallel

21 minutes ago, mateusz1945 said:

I wanna be able to export to keep my bill close to zero.

You can only get export credit if you are on the PEA feed-in-tariff or you spin a disk-type meter backwards (naughty).

15 minutes ago, mateusz1945 said:

Has zero export feature. My question is a feature or is it forced by PEA so you cannot export?

The inverter is able to export quite happily, whether PEA are happy about it or not is a different animal.

PEA don't force the inverter to do anything, you can turn export on/off or configure just how much or how little it does from the inverter menus.

I'm just about to order several of these units coz we've outgrown our 5kW Sofar hybrid and the Deye allows you to run parallel on the UPS output.

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1 hour ago, Misty said:

 

Hope the local UOB branch can help.  Phone calls (when I can get through) just result in being told that someone will call me back in 15 min.  So far no one has called, and I conclude they are overwhelmed.  No time to go to a branch today, but will do so tomorrow if this remains unresolved.

 

It's good you're getting notifications of transactions, so at least you can see if there's card misuse.  I'm not getting those types of messages, although one UOB person was able to to confirm my phone number.

 

Hopefully the risks are low, but if data was compromised this period would be ideal for fraudsters.

 

 

All sorted

The original issue was that my passport number had changed, I did try the old number but that didn't work either (probably because it had expired).

Anyway, the usual hassle (and multiple photocopies) of changing passport numbers ensued, very helpful young lady in the branch sorted that.

Then a different lady helped me set up the App. The process involves no less than 3 (three) one-time-passwords, your card number and PIN, setting up a username and password (which you will use once if you set up biometrics) and lots of "confirm" clicks. I probably would have lost it trying to get it going on my own.

The App looks pretty much like the Citi version and seems rather faster.

5 minutes ago, impulse said:

I did find some data condoms in Chinatown today, but they were made for kids, with shells that look like tiny critters and comic book characters.  So I passed.

When my nearly 40-year-old Thai stepson rides his motorcycle wearing a helmet with teddy-bear ears ...

I would not be at all surprised if rolling-blackouts (or just blackouts) were on the cards.

Get your gensets serviced and/or your backup batteries (even simple UPS) checked and charged.

12 minutes ago, topt said:

Could you not just change the default USB configuration in Developer Options to No data transfer - depending on Android version and software......?

Possibly, but I'll bet there's a bunch of students out there working on a way to break in via even that closed door (if it's not already done).

It may be worth talking to your local PEA office to get some leads or even find a PEA engineer willing to earn a bit of cash on the side.

As with many things, if you don't ask you will never know

23 hours ago, MRtommyR said:

Any Citi credit card holders able to successfully register for the UOB app since the migration yesterday? I complete my passport number and date of birth and successfully receive an OTP, but the next screen asks to confirm my credit card number and then rejects it. Same issue when trying to connect with them on LINE

I don't even get an OTP, just an "error try later".

It may just be flooded.

If not sorted by tomorrow I'm going to our "local" (20km drive) UOB branch with my "angry farang" head on!

EDIT They evidently have my phone number as I get notifications of transactions on my card.

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9 minutes ago, zlodnick said:

Thanks crossy neighbors have same problem  250 meters to transformer

If you've not already I would get all of the families with the same issue together hand head en-mass down to your local PEA office and ask to see the boss.

You may wish to take a bottle of a suitable "lubricant" for the supervisor

Before shelling your hard earned $$$ on an AVR have you verified that it's your incoming supply that's dropping off?

Check at your main breaker and at the meter.

 A drop of 20V with only a couple of kW load suggests there's something pretty seriously wrong here.

Are you a long way from the village transformer?

Unfortunately, many local PEA offices have the attitude "you have electric, so no problem".

If you do decide on an AVR I'd suggest something around the 3kVA mark to supply just your 18k A/C.

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17 minutes ago, impulse said:

I'll test my cheapo power bank with my laptop, at my Chinatown hotel.

Yeah, I just plugged the power bank into the lappie, then plugged the phone into the power bank.

Pling!!!

And my phone data appeared on the lappie!

IMPORTANT - I just checked my el-cheapo (it may even have been a freebie) power bank which charges and passes power at the same time.

IT ALSO PASSES DATA!!!!! 

So as a condom, it has a hole!!**

** Long ago the Bath Student's Union decided that distributing condoms to students was a smart idea. They stapled them to each issue of the SU mag!!

Just now, Woof999 said:

Do power banks allow incoming / outgoing charging at the same time? Not sure mine do.

My el-cheapo one certainly does, the better more expensive ones don't.

Ideally you should do something like this: - 

Each inverter has a means of isolation from the batteries, each battery can be isolated from the DC bus.

How you do the paralleling is up to you of course, but as you've found multiple cables in one MCB hole is unwise.

A nice, meaty, copper bus-bar is the ideal solution.

I hesitate to post this, but I've seen this done in the past, slip some heat shrink over it, if you don't actually shrink it, you can see if the joint has been getting warm (the heat shrink will, er, shrink).

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6 hours ago, kwak250 said:

You use more on some days that some people do for the month.

Is that all solar?

A big chunk of that is used by Madam's koi pond. With their filters, air pump and UV light along with their special koi food those ruddy fish get a better life than I do!

We've just added (yesterday) another 6 panels bringing us to 15.3kWp on the car-port, that should give us around 45kWh per day.

Our aim is to be grid-independent (rather than off grid) so we will retain a grid connection for backup purposes.

There's 56kWh of storage currently in boxes waiting for me to actually assemble battery packs. In order to use all that energy I'm going to have to upgrade our inverters probably to 3 x Deye SUN-5k-SG05LP1-EU running in parallel

https://www.lazada.co.th//products/i4978816678-s20977309094.html

Madam has designs on an EV and enclosing (and air-conditioning) our large downstairs living space so even more panels are in the plan.

All good fun (and $$$).

6 hours ago, lom said:

I know exactly what you're experiencing, I have two grand children living with us and they have each their own room..

Me: Not a degree below 27 on the remote or I'll cut down on your candy and your school money!

My UK grandkids just went home.

Down to a reasonable 60kWh/day total usage (Thai grand-daughter is still with us or it would be 30kWh/day) from >>90kWh per day whilst they were here.

29 minutes ago, Pink7 said:

Nice progress. Waiting to see more on your battery building.. Quite a upgrade you are on.

Luyuan have an assembly video for their kits (complete with cheesy music). 

Meanwhile we installed the last 6 panels that will fit on the car-port.

In the end we manhandled the box from their pickup into ours so we could unpack at our leisure.