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On 2/28/2024 at 9:39 PM, lom said:

Electric cooking is free, cooking gas is not.

As one has already noted, not the run-of-the-mill result considering what the cost is dust to dust.

What you fail to recognise ( why I don't know as it is so obvious) is the initial set up costs.

Then come any repair/ maintenance/ replacement costs.

Then, which will probably come as a real surprise to you, the future cost of disposing of any spent / worn out/ no longer operational sections of the installation. 

Even now there are countries with stockpiles of used buggered solar panels with no idea where to dispose of them. One can bet you as a consumer will fit the bill. Bit the same as your old worn out car/truck tyres.

Then after 20 odd years, it all starts over again from scratch.

Inshort, no such thing as a free lunch.

Well, another dilute raving on.

One thing many LED fittings will not sustain is reduced mains voltage levels.

There are dimmable LED fittings out there but the technology behind the dimming process is not just wack a cap in series and close the cover.

If it were that simple, manufacturers would have been all over it years ago.

Best thing the Op can do is post on "instructables" where the rest of many wakkos reside.

Too many in here watch too much and take litterally whatever Macguiver has to offer.

Green/ yellow trace is the regulation colour code pretty much world wide. Use of any other conductor colour for any earthing conductor in the high voltage is prohibited.

Reason is obvious as all other colours can be used as active /neutral/sw wire ....colour and designation dependant on country of use.

As a side note, just because light may have metal structure does not automatically mean it is required to be earthed.In fact, if double insulated,earthing renders it as an illegal connection.

Arrived for a month again yesterday...Wife said "AIS there" as we came through airport. I told girl there I wanted a sim for phone and text only...no internet. Internet I can get through the broadband at home or the wifi at the hotels. To which she pointed to a 999baht 30 day unlimited "promotion". That'll do ...or so I thought.

Tried sending messages last night and again today without any luck. Thought maybe just bad phone range within hotel.

This morning dug deeper and " found" numbers to call about credit etc. Hash star hash whatever..... ....mmmm...a list of messages a mile long saying "could not send messages" and final said  to top up as I have zero balance for messages...a further message said I have unlimited until 21 March....curious if a visit to another AIS shop in the city will make things clearer.

Think the usual " oh sorry...misunderstand" ....we'll see I guess.

Safest way for you as a dilutie (non-qualified, learned by word of mouth) would be to simply fit RCD combos to all the circuits and forget about the earthing.

Chances are you will end up connecting YOUR earth returns to metal which has absolutely no reference or a high impedance to ground and fry some other poor bugger during an earth fault.

If there is a good proven earth cable found by standard proven methods(not building reo by the way) no MEN connection would be necessary nor would it be recommended as the main supply and other sub-boards are within the same structure/building.

My wife's niece and nephew come with us all the time, no questions asked.

Main thing is to have their name on the ticket "exactly" as it is on their ID card.(applies to everyone )

Not uncommon (in our case) for one sibling to have their surname spelled differently from the other.

Mismatched spelling means "new ticket please" at the extra cost.

2 hours ago, harleyclarkey said:

Thailand survives on tourism so mending a few stupid idiots who arrive with no insurance is a drop in the bucket

Well, you have the first part correct but....let the boofheads sort out their own problems.

Why should Thailand foot the bill?

These wankers are well aware of what can happen and what the consequences are for not being covered and not following the law.

Too much of this bs goes on now as it is.

As with many would be magical figures, many quoted are simply not feasible.

What is often forgotten ( or never really known) is the charge figures are never linear, nor are they reliable day to day, and Thailand does get a lot of cloudy /rainy days, together with the "forgotten RAC's and bath heaters."

Factor in about 50% derating might get one nearer the requirements.

Don't get me wrong, greatest thing I ever did was install solar but definitely not batteries.

Just a heads up....tried to reply to DIY housing query(cracked walls)  but nowhere to either quote  or reply to the subject.

So either been locked out or something is amiss.......... ??

Signed in and all looks normal otherwise.

12 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I think I remember Thailand wanted to make sure every tourist has a health insurance.

Wouldn't do any good anyhow as write up suggests he was not wearing a helmet.

Whether or not he was licenced to ride a bike would come further down the list.

Easy to fix.....throw him out and mark passport never to return.

14 hours ago, Encid said:

we only experienced noticeable voltage drops when our 4.5kW electric water heater was being used

Well that is how voltage drop comes about.

The more current one tries to drag out of a cable, the more voltage drop.

The "amount" is easily calculated and well known as are the "applied limits".

750 metre run for mains is quite simply crazy.

Not only the required cable size, but the fact you even entertained the idea of running a high current demand of 4.5kw.

21 hours ago, brianthainess said:

It was one length of about 10m from the pole just outside my property to the power board so no crimps needed. my electrician  had used normal alum cable underground, which he had always used on many builds before and PEA had passed, one month after his last build, they had changed the law. 

 So what is this all about.....???

On 1/31/2024 at 8:52 PM, brianthainess said:

the short run of underground cable changed from alum to 'proper' underground copper wire

One thing said one minute, entirely different the next.

If it means you changed the whole run in one piece I guess it makes sense but it can read either way.

On 1/31/2024 at 8:52 PM, brianthainess said:

changed from alum to 'proper' underground copper wire

Are you aware this requires the use of dedicated bi-metal crimp links ..??

16 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

I think Thai Smile cancelled the senior discount?

Not Thai Smile but Thai Airways after the takeover.

Just did some bookings for domestic flights and nowhere was the usual concession rate for the wife's mum.

Always was before.

In Aus I see they have resumed flights to Perth in WA.

Waiting for them to resume to Brisbane in Qld.

Currently we have to take extra domestic flights within Aus and stay in hotels just to get a non-stop flight to Bkk as we did previously.

Extra $1500.00 ....ouch!!!!!!!

Flights from Brisbane were always full so no idea what is going on there.

Contacted them but only answer was " no current plan to resume Brisbane-Bkk flights".

On 1/19/2024 at 11:47 AM, BenStark said:

An AA battery as what is available is a 1.5V Alkaline battery, and averages around 3000 mAh

It appears you are of the opinion the Ah rate is infinite, when in fact it is dependant on charge/discharge rate as appropriate as I have already described as the "C rate".

Best you read the whole specs from batteryuniversity.

Useless layabouts...chuck them out of Thailand and mark them as never to return before they do some real damage with their aggressive nature.

On 11/28/2021 at 1:10 PM, beaufoy said:

it also has four lights to each room all lights being in the corners of the room.

Are these switched in pairs or perhaps independently...?

With downlights it is possible to access the ceiling space and add additional cabling and re-do the switching arrangement to allow for the fan BUT it depends as someone has already commented, on how it is constructed.

The fans are not that heavy (usually, these days) so attaching to a timber ceiling batten would be no drama.

If steel battens were used, different story. They are usually thin as paper and not worth a crumpet unless additional timber is applied above.

Might be one of those "use floor pedestal fans" scenario......

BTW, qualified lecky here. 

17 hours ago, BenStark said:

and that an AA battery on average is about 3000mAh.

I seriously doubt that............. it depends on just what AA cell you refer to.

A dry or zinc cell is around 500mAh and 1.5v PD.

Whereas a NiMh can be 900-2000mAh ...some may be advertised at 3000 or more but it's crap.

Then, the mAh rate depends on the discharge rate given as the C rating. The higher the discharge rate, the less the total capacity.

Also remember these are only 1.2v per cell.

Batteryuniversity website explains all about every type of battery known, best take a visit there.

https://batteryuniversity.com/

14 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Depending on the color a typical LED has a voltage drop of 2.0V up to 3.5V.

Red LED is typically 1.7v with yellow, amber , green and blue going up to around 3.2-3.4v.

Running the LED on even 5mA will , in many instances, be sufficient.

PWM the LED will allow even longer battery life but then you need to power the pwm driver circuit.

Reduced current would be your best approach.

Note that the 9V battery will be bugger all capacity and should always be kept for it's purpose, meters or smoke alarms, that's it.