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Mobil1 5W40 or any other engine oil that I have left over

166-246-390-387-448-325 ... but don't read a lot into that because we had away periods in most of those months

Out of interest what was your actual maximiun generated kW reading ie highest instantaneous reading of kWs. Just wanted to know your relationship between max gen kWs and installed kWs.

Our system ... https://aseannow.com/topic/1274669-another-diy-solar-project/#elControls_17662832_menu ... has been running for about one month now. The meter man comes every 16th of the month. Since 16th October we have been running NO EXPORT. Since then we have generated 216kWh and imported from the grid 48kWh. So in total have used so far this month 264kWh. Expect this month our usage to be IRO 80-90kWh. We have charged the car up a few times but most of the usage has been air con which was the reason for putting solar in anyway. We have had quite a cool house, so much so that the mosquitoes have had trouble walking, nevermind flying. Cooling the house during the day has resulted in using less air con in the evening.

The air conditioner is also probably not that efficient. Buy a new inverter air con unit ... you would be amazed at the reduction in your monthly electric bill. We bought Daikin FTKM18SV2S not the most quite on the market but cheap to run.

We have a PHEV ... but the battery is only 6.2kWh. I ran a new 2.5mm twin and earth cable from a 20A breaker to a new wall socket adjacent to when we park the car. It charges at about 9A. The car has a 6A charge setting, but it won't set at that. Actually is at the dealers now to find out why. Seems that the software will not select that setting ... dealer is asking the tech dept why, also looking to see if its the same on other 2019year cars ... will let us know result tomorrow. 6A would, at times when the sun is not so strong be an advantage.

I sometimes use 'Find My Mobile' if I want to see where Mrs J is. I dont like phoning when she is driving as she quite often forgets to connect her phone to the car. I just log in with her google details and it shows me where she is. Think I google 'Find my Samsung Phone' or something close to that. Recently I see that she has got a lot better and connects her phone before she drives off. Amazing ... its only taken her a few years for the advantage of doing that to sink in .... She tends to put her handbag on the floor behind her seat ... phone inside!

I use Skype, cheaper than either of the options above I believe.

Have you considered a spray mop. You only use a small amount of water ...Lazada have them. but I can't see the one we have on there now. Best to get one with a swivel head as you can go in and around chair legs etc. Don't buy a really cheap one Just found it … Rubbermaid Reveal Spray Mop 1M15 999Baht

How you thought about bonds. There are quite a few companies wanting to run on Bonds. They just keep churning them over. BBB+ reasonably safe. My wife has just done a couple ...one for 1yr and 2m and other I think is for 3years. 4.25%/4.5% something like that. She gets offers from CIMB as we both have accounts there. Bangkok Bank have a couple on offer at present 2Yr 3.65% 3.5Y 4%....BBB+

I try and visit Nonthaburi IMM only once a year. I think that they are quite organised and get a time and date booked for annual extension.. Always use on-line reporting for 90Day, as for me it's a 20km drive each way.

Good idea to dry off as will help reduce deposits from the water. Maybe not the best idea to use a Chamois though. Microifiber towel would be somewhat better.

If you were to be given a ‘no export’ meter…how many units (kwh’s) do you think you would have to pay for in one month?

Nonthaburi always ask me to provide proof of the last 13 months of pension transfers when I go for my annual extension …

Cost me 20Baht in 2002 … though it was a bargain at the time ……….

Still working OK for me. Did a transfer Thursday evening UK to Thailand .. said it would be in my account on Monday and it was at 14:01hrs International Transfer

Generally yes. I have used mine for renewing driving licence, buying a car etc. However you might meet Mr Difficult who wants to apply his own version of the rules ...

Your first question is straight foreword to answer…and you can easily price the main bits yourself. Hybrid Inverter ……….48Kthb LVTopsun Battery …..65Kthb Cells ……………………….58Kthb All other bits … rails/fitments/cable/switches/extra steel etc ….11Kthb Because we have …. more than enough cells for the present situation …. the fact that we can export ….the fact that we have a battery I can make, over a period, the import from the grid match our usage or even go negative PROVIDED we have a reasonable amount of sunshine. There is a topic discussing what sort of usage may not attract the attention of PEA/MEA. So at present it seems that we can use as much electric as we like. We leave the aircon on when we go out. I don’t ask MrsJ anymore why she fills the kettle when she is only making one cup of coffee! I suggest that she does the washing and ironing during the day so that in the evening the battery is full. Hope this goes someway to answering your question. But I would still change to Grid-Tie if someone would buy our battery and inverter.

Yes ... that was my work bench ....

With help, technical and other, and am very grateful to a friend, we installed the system on a flat south facing roof. I also had the help from a couple of guys to locate the panels on the roof. I am just too old now to tackle that job. So ended up with One … Sofar ES5000 Hybrid Inverter One … LVTopsun LV48100 5kwh battery Seven … 450W Mono Panels. Kerry lost one so only six installed at present Seven … 340W Poly Panels. Bit of a mixture but bought bit by bit. The system has been up and working for a couple of weeks. Some delay was caused by LVTopsun sending the wrong battery to the company from which we bought the battery. Our minimum load is very low ie one fridge/freezer. However we have a PHEV with a 6.3kwh battery and several air con units, computers, TV’s, Coffee m/c, kettle, microwave, oven etc. Three of the aged air con units were replaced, very recently, with Daikin KTFM18WV’s. These considerably lowered our electrical usage. We are now running two units downstairs all day. Also put the bedroom one on mid afternoon, if we have spare generation. Our bedroom is at the front of the house. The weather hasn’t been great since installation. The highest daily generation has been a little over 18kwh, actually no idea if this is good or not and highest max instantaneous being 4.11kws. Sofar have a comprehensive monitoring system such that when you input your ‘Plant’ details you can access and download an amazing amount of info. It downloads straight into excel which is very handy. The only oddity found so far is that the inverter gave more output when PV2 input was changed to be the seven mono cells. On the face of it, this doesn’t make sense. When we finally install the last 450W cell I’ll swap the inputs over and see if it is still the case. That is basically the reason why the PV1 and PV2 wires have, as yet, not been boxed in as it is much easier swapping the dc inputs at the breakers rather that at the inverter. What have I learnt/would do differently …… Yes you can install solar yourself and it would be much easier the second time. Isn’t it always the case? Would probably have bought the inverter and the battery from the same supplier, more likely to help if had a problem. Could have bought direct from China. I have a Chinese speaking friend who would have sorted for us, but wanted to avoid hassle with customs etc. It could have been somewhat cheaper that way. Should have understood better how to locate the rails for the panels as installation was delayed because of the need to add extra steels under the roof. Fortunately, due to the roof design MrsJ and myself managed to ‘slip in’ what was required but not without some difficulty. We put in 25mm2 galvanised pieces. That painting galvanized steel using the wash with white vinegar first method isn’t always successful. When buying steel there is in spec. and there is not in spec. What is called ‘one inch’ can come out at about 20mm. and we needed 24mm-25mm. square. Had to buy twice. Went for Hybrid as was concerned what would be the effect of in the future being given a no export meter. Now looking at all the data realize that we would have been much better installing a Grid-Tie system. We just don’t get power cuts, well very infrequent. So if anyone wants a Hybrid inverter and 5kwh battery we would sell. PM me if interested. It’s not that we are unhappy with the system, it is working well, just that the payback would have been shorter. I would certainly stick with Sofar though. Can see the space for the last solar panel...when it eventually arrives Additional Roof steels...painting failed Boxing of wiring still to finish PV1 and PV2 input wiring reversed going to raise the battery also DC Switch Box Some system info from today ...generally thinish cloud..a couple of times not quite so thin

Yes, ours would do 20km/l on a run. The Merc we have now came on Primacy RFT's. The ride was harsh and noisy. Thailand doesn't have Primacy in conventional tyres in the size that we wanted. So went for PS5 (conventional)...and the ride and tyre noise was like night and day.

Primacy should give you the softest ride …also very quite. You could also consider Pilot Sport 5 … 5S will give you a more sport like ride My wife had the Civic RS for a couple of years … tyre noise was really bad … NVH not good at all … the car has gone now …

I think if you check 3*20,000thb transfers cost more than 1*60,000thb transfer maybe nearly £5 ...still not really worth bothering about though... is it I didn't have any problem doing my monthly 65,100thb transfer from the UK this afternoon..

It’s telling me that I cannot send more than 20k thb. (from UK) …my usual is 65,100 each month to keep IMM happy. Lets see if things change later today or tomorrow

Michelin Primacy, if they do them in your size, would be my first choice. They give a soft ride.