Muhendis

I find it a bit disconcerting that all we ever seem to hear about is the tourist industry in Thailand. I believe that is 20% of the economy. It would be interesting to know what the other 80% is earning for Thailand and a few success stories to go with it.

All solar panels that I know of have diodes in their junction boxes on the back. These are bypass diodes. They are there so that if a string of three panels has a failure of one cell on e.g. the middle panel, there is a current path through this diode to allow the remaining panels to continue functioning after a fashion. the solar panel itself is little more than a whopping great big diode. This is why, on the face of it, you don't need blocking diodes. But solar panels are not designed to be blocking diodes and so additional protection of diodes in the combiner box is considered to be necessary.

I have never heard of any that don't have blocking diodes. Why would anyone build a combiner box without diodes? Mine has 25A Schottky bridge rectifiers cunningly connected to accept two inputs each.

There are things called combiner boxes which allow safe connection of multiple, parallel strings. These boxes also have lightning protection and fuses for each string. Otherwise it can be regarded as a junction box. The output goes to the solar input of the inverter. If you do this using the combiner box there is no need to worry about different outputs from each string as they are effectively isolated from each other. The output from the combiner box will be a balance of the panels best outputs and none will be dragged down by it's less capable pals.

Full article here........ https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1941251/great-wall-of-china-crowds-viral-tiktok This is a tic toc image recently taken, of the great wall of China. Coming to a phuket near you soon.

And why not? This is Thile-land after all.

Those figures look a bit low to me. I demand a recount.

Don't those trucks have a handbrake? The poor woman must have been scared out of her wits

If the picture of the beach scene accompanying this report is what tourism is about, I will stay here in Isaan. Sorry for the plight of hotels but I won't be booking.

The owner of the global convenience store chain 7-Eleven has received an offer from a Canadian rival to buy the company, in what could be Japan’s biggest ever foreign takeover. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/19/owner-of-7-eleven-stores-receives-buyout-offer-from-canadian-rival I thought 7-11 was an American company. We live and learn.

I doubt if Trump will ever be listed as one of the best but apparently he has been granted the privilege of the rudest according to the late Queen in her memoirs.

Now I can understand why 7-11 is being taken over. I wonder if that delightfully useful shop is partially owned by a Thai family............

Suddenly, all those shops who signed up to the scheme have lost their guaranteed customers and all those eligible for the 10k handout are left wondering why they only got 9k plus an IOU for 1k. How does this scheme help the Thai economy? In my opinion it will be a disaster for Thailand.

Free drinks all round if you ring the bell.

South Korea is a good place for dog schnitzel, or stew....................

Training dogs is easy. Training humans is a lot more tricky.

That might not be advisable since the food may now be contaminated.............

Ooooh! Ouch. They may be the next incumbents on Capitol hill. Given a choice of either, I think I would still prefer Goofy over Donald Duck though. Having said that I would not wish either on the American electorate.

Depends how well you cook them first. All toxins dissipate after ten minutes boiling.

Donald Duck & Goofy

John Wayne

Start trawling the money trail. I wonder how many land officials would get caught in the net.

So it would seem that the powers that be have now given up on educating their own people and will import intelligence from elsewhere to claim the tech hub award.

Quite so. The schengen system works in Europe because of free and borderless travel between countries. That is highly unlikely to ever exist in Asia. Once again. a politician has made a statement which is his fantasy idea and nothing else.

The answer to that question is "neither". The tourists trusted their guide who has an intimate understanding of caves and rainy seasons.