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I would clasify that as not a fifth way but the very first way. You have solar panels and an inverter and an ATS but that system only wortks during sunlight hours. If you want you can add charge controllers and batteries so you can have stored solar electric for night time use. All other systems are based on this and quite neatly put into a single box which is wrongly, in my opinion, called an inverter. Variations on this "inverter" are quite popular with a grid connection which does away with the ATS and can even alow feedback into the grid which PEA will stop you doing if they find out.
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Tragic Brake Failure: Truck Crash Claims One Life, Injures Two
Muhendis replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand News
Seems like the brakes did not fail otherwise why the screech of tires? Modified truck well overloaded and out of control. -
Nice pun.
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Ha. You can say that again. It hastened my solar installation which I did within a few weeks of moving in. Because our temporary meter was 1km from the house and well beyond direct observation, uncle Tom Cobley and all were trying to "borrow" our temporary 'lectric. The temporary power and the temporary road gave us the feeling of being comfortably well away from the smoke and noise of the village.
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In our village we have a dog looks just like that. His name........Covid. Poor b'gr.
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I hate being a pessimist but it took us seven years to get put on residential rate. Mind you there were plenty of ready reasons for PEA to hide behind. The main one seemed to be that there was neither road nor posts for the PEA to run their cables from the last post in the village to our house. A distance of 1km. We also had to have at least 5 other houses needing supply along the 1km route. Not a problem for me because I had 8kw of off grid raw solar power which only required two sets of batteries in that time and, because of the temporary supply rate, payback was within the first 5 years. When PEA eventually ran our supply on their posts along the new government road to our house. I recovered all the old cables (2km Al 25mm²) and got a good price for some scrap and some resale to some of the villagers. It was a bit of a pain getting some of the cables out of the trees though. Trees do have a habit of inconveniently growing around them.
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Some people are just born lucky.
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Bangkok administration to tighten up controls on selection of contractors
Muhendis replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Bigger "slices of the cake" coming for the building inspectors methinks. -
That's all good stuff but don't forget your thyroid and kidneys need to be working properly. Exercise and good diet go a long way to keeping the internals bits in good condition but sometimes things like kidneys need a bit of medication. Regular, annual blood tests will reveal many small problems that are correctable by life style and/or dietry changes.
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No bodies mentioned Top Charoen yet. Why not? I have a pair of excellent bifocals with titanium frames and scratch resistant lenses from them. I didn't go for the transitions (sunglasses effect) because I had it before and didn't like it so much. They measured my eyes and selected the right lenses which are different in each eye and the result is very satisfactory. 6,000 Baht well spent.
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I bought a jet wash from them. It must have lasted about two washes. I would never buy anything from them unless for single use.
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That doesn't look like the international pensions department email address so there may be some runaround to be anticipated. You sould go to the international DWP website. I pasted it earlier probably on the first three pages somewhere. Yep, page three.
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In that case the whole Thailand must be "out in the sticks".
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Looks like you've had a bad experience there phetpeter. Hope things are looking up for you now.
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If you use tracking international you might find this useful. It tracks end to end. https://www.parcelmonitor.com/track-thailand-post/
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Land ownership
Muhendis replied to KayDeeDee's topic in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership
How so? This is a discussion about the man's hypothetical problem of land ownership After His Wife has Died. It would be spiritually scary if the dead wife were to ask the court to do anything......???? -
Land ownership
Muhendis replied to KayDeeDee's topic in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership
It is indeed, but the contract is between the land document and the person named as the usufruct. Should the owner (wife or whoever) sell the land the usufruct carries on until it's termination either by expiry time, by the named person giving it up or by the named person dying. -
Land ownership
Muhendis replied to KayDeeDee's topic in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership
Nice idea but no. The land office will recognise the relationship between the company owner and the deceased owner and will say that this relationship is too close and likely fraudulent. Best thing is to get a usufruct on the land so that if your wife dies you can sell the land and the new owner will have to honour the usufruct. Alternatively, get a new Thai wife and sign the land to her name.