Jump to content

Muhendis

Advanced Member
  • Posts

    3,988
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Muhendis

  1. That may be true, but it is also true that some brands are grossly over engineered and could be a whole lot less costly yet still perform just as well. There are plenty of less costly inverters, charge controllers and BMS's which perform just as well as the higher priced items, but I'm sure you know that already. There are also plenty of thieves out there who conceal their bad products behind false advertising claims.
  2. Those figures work out to just under 29kWh at 40% dod. Looks like you have things running at optimum best for a good long life. I use Lead Carbon 36kWh at 30% dod which in theory will give me over ten years longevity.
  3. Yes the position of the sun in the sky does vary a bit doesn't it. What chemistry batteries do you have and what is your normal nightly depth of discharge (dod)?
  4. My panels are on a flat (and leaky) carport roof so access is easy from the house balcony without a ladder. I also have a walkway between the two rows of panels. I gave them a good clean only this morning which is both good news and bad news. I noticed some flaws in three of the panels. They were cheap from China ten years ago so they're moving up my todo list for replacement next year. The good news is, they still get my 36kWh battery charged by lunchtime. Forgot to mention. I use a drop of car wash 'n wax liquid in with the water.
  5. That's an interesting statement and something to which I hadn't given any consideration. So I googled to learn more. My search parameters included IP ratings and this is what came out of the woodwork so to speak https://thedriven.io/2018/12/04/is-a-battery-electric-vehicle-safe-in-a-flood/ I often wordered how driver and passengers keep warm in an EV. Now I think I know.
  6. Visiting? Going to collect their remuneration more like.
  7. Yes that's partly true Farmer sells his paddy rice to the mill for 13B/Kg This is equivalent to 21.6B after milled. Mill packages and sends rice to export co. Export co. repackages into supermarket bags Asda in the UK sells for 154B/kg Asda makes something like 5% on food so Asda probably pays 146B/kg Packaging and shipping costs could be in the order of 20B/kg So 126B/kg is split between mill, middle men and export company The farmer could easily be paid a higher price for his rice and the mill, middle men and export company would still be wealthy
  8. Adjust the Fx back to 72 Baht to the £
  9. There are many useful tables on the internet. https://www.rapidtables.com/calc/light/watt-to-lumen-calculator.html As people have already said there is no direct correlation between light, wattage and the amount of light you get from your light source. If you want to go a bit deeper then you could look up candelas on google. They are the earlier units of light measurement. I would start off thinking big and go for anything over 1,200 lumens that should just about be adequate for a well lit area with the light 4 metres high.
  10. And have a story ready about being incapacitated for some reason. It might work. I did something similar and mentioned a hospital problem. Fine 200 Baht No receipt.
  11. Entertainment value 100% (not sure if that's a plus or minus) Factual accuracy 20% I don't enjoy reading their posts but they do serve to remind me that education worldwide is in need of improvement.
  12. That is so cheap. My system was installed over ten years ago and is of suspect quality. It's tempting me to go for replacements in the new year. When does your crystal ball predict the price to start rising again?
  13. AAC blocks, being much lighter, are a lot bigger than "normal" blocks. Fixing things to them like shelves requires a bit more thought and anchors designed for the purpose. I went for pillars with double skin walls and polystyrene insulation in the 50mm gap. The walls are clay bricks and really cool inside. The whole thing is marginally more expensive than AAC. I also built a small external room for my solar inverter and batteries using AAC blocks. That's cool too. Builder skills are readily available for AAC blocks where I am. Double walls and ants is an old wives tail. The humidity is also a non-issue.
  14. Like it...... Can you play bagpipes too?
  15. Yeah. The worrying thing is there are enough people of similar intellect to put Trump back in the White House.
  16. Aah. So you must be the Trump supporter.
  17. So if you're feeding solar back into the grid you could well be a beneficiary of this price clamp.
  18. That's been tried already. Some time ago the rice growers in one province got together and refused to sell at the low prices offered. In response the Mills/middle men initially agreed to pay more but they also became more critical of crop condition. The result was the growers ended up no better off.
  19. For whom? Certainly not the farmers.
  20. I find the reporting gaffs more interesting than the substance of the story. The Jurassic period ended about 145.5 million years ago. Of course the reptile's extinct.
  21. We will never know because defamation law always takes precedence which precludes the reporting of any outcome.
  22. Turkish embassy has slowed down a lot. A few years ago when my wife needed to get a visa from them it only took about 4 hours.
  23. You could divert to the Surin Elephant village for a few hours. https://www.tourismthailand.org/Attraction/surin-elephant-village
×
×
  • Create New...