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At the moment, any unauthorised connection to the electricity grid, including home power generating systems, seems to be perceived as a grey area by people who feed back into the grid. Just because an inverter can do this does not give the inverter owner any rights to so do. In the case on this thread, it was made very clear that PEA officers considered it to be theft. The following is a blog about what happens in the UK. https://www.endesa.com/en/blogs/endesa-s-blog/light/illegal-electricity-connection#:~:text=Illegal connections are considered an,connection%2C it should be reported. Making power for home use is not and probably never will be illegal but making an unapproved connection to someone else's power supply is absolutely not permitted. Also there may be a case for licencing electrical engineers and fitters in Thailand although that is probably another topic entirely.

Interesting. Everything I've read on the subject of back-spinning meters and digital meters has so far been about digital meters being fitted to prevent feeding power back into the grid. I guess it makes sense to allow and monitor power feed-in ready for the time when we can all, legally, feed our excess power back into the grid and get paid for it. 🙂

Would that be Power and Quality? Regardless of the technicalities, I'm sure you all realised when you started back-spinning your meters, you were doing something that is not allowed and probably regarded by the electricity companies as theft. The reaction of the companies is quite predictable and will, sooner or later, land you in trouble just like the example case posted here.

He is Not exporting. He has a new digital meter. PEA may be able to monitor his AC export attempts but we are talking about monitoring his SOLAR output. Not possible. For those that are unaware, solar is the power fed from the solar panels to the solar panel input of the inverter or the charge controller(s). This is the bit that varies depending on time of day and quantity of sunshine. Monitoring the inverter output with another chanel? Tell us how this might work. Meters have an input and an output. Direction of current flow can be detected so what is flowing in each direction can be separately metered. I think I just answered my own question. Does this guys meter have a dual meter display?

I find that difficult to believe. How do you know they (PEA) are monitoring his solar output? The solar output is effectively isolated from the AC side of the inverter by loads of electronic components. Sound like a silly story to me.

Dangerous? In what way?

That looks an incredibly useful product. I was looking for it some years ago. Thanks guys.

I've only ever sent one telegram in my life...........

I bow to your intimate knowledge sir.

I read the first line Then I read the last line Brilliant article.

It's a flesh market

In a word. Covid. Many companies lost a lot of money due to lower retail footfall. Those losses can only be replaced by jacking up prices. Public companies have no choice in this because of maintaining share value. Smaller businesses have possibly borrowed from banks etc and need to repay ASAP.

There are all sorts of different "inverters" to choose from. I placed quotation marks on the word because, for contributors on this forum, the inverter encompasses an off the shelf all-singing-all-dancing easy but often expensive solution to solar power. Inside the "inverter" will be a charge controller or two to which the solar panel array is connected. Output from the charge controller is suitable for charging batteries (generally 48v) and feeding power to the inverter. Some "inverters" can accept input from PEA et.al. for the purpose of running the loads when there is not enough sun and maybe charge the batteries. Also some inverters can export power to PEA et. al. via this connection. The output of the inverter section is 220 or 230vac and capable of delivering power to the house electrical circuits. The inverter section will be capable of short duration overloads of double the normal power for several hundred milliseconds. So. The inverter consists of three sections all in one box. 1. Charge controller(s) 2. PEA et.al. input/output. 3. Inverter to convert DC charge controller output to 220/230v. There are other ways of achieving the same with separate units which could cost a lot less.

Bearing in mind that all politicians are deeply involved in money for one reason or another, I would suggest they have an excellent understanding of how an independant Bank Of Thailand works. I would suggest it is in the interests of many of them to try and take control for personal enrichment rather than for the betterment of the country.

In Turkey gambling is not allowed except in some hotels. The clientele have to show their passports to enter the casino. Locals are not allowed in.

With Visa free trips to the EU Schengen countries coming up we may soon find ourselves handling Euros instead of Baht and satan Satang..........

You could get a job in Thai Tax dept any day thinking like that. ☹️

That magical word "crackdown" is what it's all about. Between each crackdown, time and motion ceases to exist. Police are in a state of limbo.

What makes you think planning is involved? It's knee jerk stuff as always, Next will be import duty which is currently only collected on goods over 1,000 Baht

Many of us are relieved to know that.

Yes, it's a crazy system that allows each person to have only one address.

A totally insignificant update on the new solar panels. Last night I had the bedroom aircon. running all night. At around 10:00 am I had a look in the ESS room and, to my amazement the batteries were showing 100% full. I was pleased but not to put too fine a point on it, The charge controllers are from China so that would be a Chinese 100% Be that as it may. The batteries and solar panels seem to be performing almost as well as a Pattaya bar girl although I have to say solar has fewer options (or so I'm lead to believe). I needed to do a bit of rice milling today. My mill motor start current takes quite a big chunk of electricity for a few tens of milliseconds or there abouts, so I normally switch over to PEA to do my milling. Today I forgot............. I remembered about 10 minutes after I had started the milling machine. Well I didn't go into a complete panic but the thought crossed my mind that the milling machine didn't awt to have started. I quickly switched over to PEA and carried on The new solar panels gave me more than the old ones did that's for sure. A quick mention about the mill motor. It's a single phase with start and run circuits and something in the order of three horses which is 2.24 kW when running under normal load conditions. I don't think I will be relying on the solar to run it though because in normal use, the motor occasionally stalls and when it does it is for more time than the start duration.

Hom Mali (jasmine) rice at 1 year old is good. At 2 years it is a bit dodgy, At 10 years it is dead and fit only for chickens. The army is absolutely right to demand quality control.

All this has absolutely nothing to do with the beach. You might just as well include walking street in the list if "party and lifestyle" are the measure of how good the sand is.

What's the difference between massage and physiotherapy? Quite a few years back, I had pulled a muscle in my back in the shoulder blade to spinal waist area. On Jomtien beach, I had a massage specifically for that problem and the woman was brilliant. I came away from that treatment with the muscle problem completely fixed. Now for the fly in that particular ointment. As a goodbye gift she grabbed my right arm and bent it to an extremes position which hurt. Apart from that it was an hour well spent.