Muhendis

Your meter is doing what mine did after the village "expert" reconnected my power ever so slightly incorrectly. PEA would have spotted this if they had thought about it. The problem is that you have 1km of 25mm ali wire which is effectively running from the meter live to earth/neutral at your house. Taking into account the resistance of that 1km wire you are running about 4kw continuously. Meter very happy with go fast stripes. Swap live and neutral at the meter or the house isolator and all should be well. PEA were trying to help. They simply didn't first consider the obvious. I had problems explaining my similar miss-connection to them. They insisted on checking the cables artistically draped through 1km of trees from the meter to my house which, of course, were quite faultless. Like all engineers, including me sometimes, they were looking for a more interesting and complex problem.

With regard to UK banks, that goes without saying. Exchange rates with UK banks are inordinatly high whereas Thai banks are much more reasonable.

Brilliant Well done Anutin It's not true what they say about you

Sorry to jump in here. The alternative is easy and plentiful. you could get a low frequency inverter* which runs off a 48v DC supply.. Solar charge controlers and batteries to give you your 48v supply. * An inverter in this instance is a device which creates a mains AC voltage from a lower DC voltage.

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.

Seems like the brakes did not fail otherwise why the screech of tires? Modified truck well overloaded and out of control.

All this off road garbage is rarely ever done in real life. Let's see some proper off road stuff with a tonne of rice in the back and plenty of muddy potholed cart tracks to negotiate.

Nice pun.

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.

In our village we have a dog looks just like that. His name........Covid. Poor b'gr.

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.

No but his father may have been a king? Oh bum. Someone already got there first

Some people are just born lucky.

Bigger "slices of the cake" coming for the building inspectors methinks.

A hail stone traveling at 150 mph couldn't give a toss about going through from the front or from the back. Best defence is to use my new, almost patented force field which can form a shield over each panel or the larger size which can be used to protect up to ten panels.

What type of batteries were they? Lithium? Lead acid? Primary cells?

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.

Not so gory if the body is frozen first. So I'm told

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.

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.

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.

In that case the whole Thailand must be "out in the sticks".

The action involves a sharp shove on the fan blades in the right direction to get it started. A politician would likely try to form a committee to address the legalities of such action before trying to start the fan in the wrong direction.

Looks like you've had a bad experience there phetpeter. Hope things are looking up for you now.

If you use tracking international you might find this useful. It tracks end to end. https://www.parcelmonitor.com/track-thailand-post/