Muhendis

What a load of tosh. My wife loves me to objectify her regularly.

Naah. It's heaven on earth if you like that sort of thing.

Fine. What about the men?

Perhaps they don't care about their El Al planes being hit by rockets from wherever.

I doubt there will be a Gaza after this. The Israelis have been looking to take that land for years.

Poor old Buriram got left out again............????

I have my ATS set as follows. N Primary = Solar inverter R Backup = Grid Reasoning is that my house is completely solar powered but if batteries are too low at night then inverter will switch off 'till batteries are good again and ATS will switch over to GEC. Once the batteries are back up to something like full then the ATS will switch back to inverter output. I should point out that this condition has never happened in the 13 years I have been solarised. The ATS gets tested every time I grind my rice. I simply switch off/isolate the inverter output and over goes the ATS to grid supply. To revert to normal solar power I simply switch on/un-isolate the inverter.

That's the safest way. I also have a rice mill but only a single phase 2.2 kW motor. That's 10 amps running. My 8kW inverter is OK with that but, as has been said, startup current will see a short lived 50A or more burst which is 11kW or more. That's ok if the motor starts off load. The inverter will handle it. Trouble is, there have been a few occasions when things go wrong and the motor stalls. In those conditions the current is limited only by the resistance of the motor winding and that current is really high. I always switch over on my ATS to GEC (Greedy Electric Company) when milling.

Easy Peasy. Check out combiner boxes. These are boxes with fused input terminals for strings of panels which need to be paralleled. The outputs from the terminals are diode isolated from each other into a common connection. There will be a DC circuit breaker and a surge suppressor at the common output which then goes out of the box to your charge controller or inverter solar input. Just make sure the Voc and charge controller/inverter input power (less derating factor) is not exceeded.

But he was a member of the committee. So since he was ignorant of the fake nature of the bomb detectors and unquestioningly bought them, he was way too stupid to be a governor.

This is true. Before putting your battery pack to work you really should charge them first. This ensures all cells are at the same level to start with. After that they can be assembled into their working configuration. This is all well and good for a DIY pack but what about the preassembled units which are plug-n-play? Hopefully this was done before they were assembled but I doubt it. The problem is that delivering a fully charged unit is not good so the batteries are supposed to be delivered half charged. As has been mentioned above. Balancing needs to be done prior to putting the battery to use but first it needs to be in a fully charged state. First charge the pack second balance it. Third give the pack a final charge because balancing could possibly reduce the charge to less than 100%. Now the pack is ready for work. However, cell balance needs to be regularly monitored and balanced. Ideally the battery pack should be taken out of service for balancing so that charge and discharge voltages do not affect the balancing act. Please be aware that balancing is very important. If one cell in a 48v pack is fully charged but all the rest are still at around 80% or so. There is a danger that the already full cell will become overcharged as the charger tries to fill up the pack as a whole. With a good BMS and charger control I would imagine this situation is protected against in the preassembled packs.

His bill isn't much because power spends much time being not there also return on investment is probably low down the list of importance for the same reason.

I can't recommend a solar company being as how I'm a long way from Kho Samui, but I am curious to know why you want to go solar. What is your reason?

Which immigration office did you use? Buriram immigration office didn't require any forms or photo copies and did it for free when payment was discussed. As I recall think I was asked to sign something at the time. Perhaps they did their own copies. With regards to the letter, mine came with my (British) passport as a matter of course last January, and by the way, the UK embassy doesn't do passports. That's done by VFS at Trendy Tower in Bangkok. It seems we have variations on the theme depending on which immigration office is used.

Just "roll up" with the old and new passports. All the information required by immigration is in the old passport. You should also have a letter/note from your passport provider asking for stamps to be transfered but I don't think immigration ever bother to look at it.

That's definitely the highest solar panels. I am deliberately discounting space exploration and satellites on the basis that they are external to "the world" in which we live in.

Free at the point of use and aware of the limitations. Yes when using PEA we tend to do what we like with it without a thought for it's seemingly bottomless pit of available power. As soon as we start producing our own electricity, we become very aware of our power usage and tend to keep a more critical eye on things switched on..

Excuse me pointing out this slight discrepancy, but I think when you write kvh (kilo volt hours) you really mean kwh (kilo watt hours).

Or a simple inverter + ESS +ATS and forget about export. PEA then becomes your backup if ever needed.

Yes. As mentioned in the link, that lack of air is a problem but there is enough to give lift with that massive wing area. I would recommend you read the full article which I found quite fascinating. At an altitude of 65,000 feet there is virtually no turbulence and guaranteed sunshine for the solar panels which will give maximum power to the motors.

I think you're missing the all important word "informally" which I take to mean being paid cash in hand and undeclared income. Formal working is fine regardless of age because the government gets their tax.

In God we trust All others pay cash

Does it really matter? If things work when you switch 'em on You have achieved success. Well done.

Brilliant. Best way to do it. An additional benefit is when there is a dull night on TV you can spend a few hours admiring your achievement.

This is good and probably exactly what you want, but I was asking about your batteries. Your link is for solar panels.