BritManToo

I thought mozzarella was made from buffalo milk.

They can say what they like, but I never listen to foreigners.

Zero problems in the past 10 years in a middle class Thai only moobaan, neighbours quiet, dogs not allowed, zero noise ..... although the birds are tweeting a lot this morning, and sometimes a buffalo bellows in the distance. The only neighbour problems I ever had was when I rented in a 'farang' moobaan 13 years back, the white foreign husbands were both dodgy and the wives were both tatted up mouthy bar girls.

Can't you do both? (before you negatively comment, my wife is my bed friend) Now you've made me think of drinking, so time for a wine cooler. Not sure about the grandkids, I'm nearly 70 and my son is nearly 13, so I have a long wait for grandkids.

I bought the cheapest 5.5Kw hybrid inverter I could find direct from China for 13kbht (Mr. Power aka Y&H aka many other companies). It's worked faultlessly for 3-4 years, switched itself off once when a teen managed to short out the output with an extension cable. No damage to teen, cable or inverter. Can't get much more reliable than that!

430w x 12 panels = 5 units/hr. 5 units/hr x 6hr/day x 365 days = 10,950 units/year Sunsave (you quoted) is a UK company ........... Would suggest yearly average output in the UK is significantly different to yearly average output in Thailand.

5Kw of solar cells x 6hr/day x 30 days/month = 900 units. As you didn't post your calculation arriving at 416 units, we can't point out your error. I have 3Kw (340w x 9 panels) of solar cells (shaded after 2pm so zero output after that) and they produce around 350-400 units a month. Reducing my electricity bill from 1800bht to under 250bht/month (40-80 units from grid). I don't have my cooker, air-con, shower heaters, kettle or oven on solar but everything else (including my E-mountain bike) draws no grid power unless 2 wet days in a row. Don't really care about saving money, do care about losing lights/Tv/PC in the frequent power cuts (at least 2x a month, sometimes only seconds, sometimes for hours) that is Thailand PEA/MEA.

Had my solar going 4 years, in that time my niece shorted it out once, turn all the fuses off, turn all the fuses on and everything working again. Not that difficult!

Payback time ..... 3-4 years without batteries. 6-8 years if you have batteries. I've been 80% solar for the past 4 years, best part is no more power cuts. Also solar reduces my grid consumption to the cheapest rate of 4bht/unit.

Never bothered me, Thais have their gardens at the front of the house, western people hide at the back of their house. I Think the Thais have it right, and we're the secretive ones.

Used to mix with old folk back in my UK town as part of my voluntary work. Isolated, lonely and desperate is how I would class most of them. The high points of their week would be Friday drop-in at the town hall for warmth plus coffee and biscuits, or me coming round their big empty house to change a light bulb, more coffee and biscuits.

Don't really care about the burning season, as long as the weathers dry enough to go cycling, I'm happy.

Loads of mushrooms around at the moment, I cycled past locals coming out of the forest with baskets full of the big white ones yesterday.

This is different to running a pig farm?

Similar to me, Up before 6am, let the rabbits out and give them a snack, cycle for 25km, then back home for a yoghurt and granola breakfast. Then laze around on the sofa for the rest of the day reading novels.

Weight of a real 18650 cell =47gm 30Ah = 130 cells 130 x 47 = 6.1Kg If it weighs less than 6Kg it's fake. PS. I suspect your 20ah battery is also fake and at best 17ah as I've never seen a casing that will take more than 65 cells (13s x 5p, so 5x 3400ma= 17ah) If we examine a real advert .... https://shopee.co.th/♛สำหรับจักรยานไฟฟ้า-48v-20Ah-28Ah-40Ah-58Ah18650-Li-ion-Battery-Pack-13S2P-1000w-and-54.6V-2A-Charging-i.845819876.25850441781 Says 18650 cells 13s2p so in reality 2 x3400ma = 6.8ah at best if using genuine Lithium batteries. But they're probably using fake 18650 batteries claiming 9000ma (which only really have 1000ma capacity) so 2ah. Not to mention the fake batteries usually only last a few charges and not the 800-1000 charges of the real batteries.

Don't hit the curb/potholes or drive through a deep puddle ........... guarantee void plus a 300,000bht repair bill.

They're fakes.

That's great but my Nissan bigM diesel pickup is 27 years old and still works well.

No real lithium batteries for evbikes sold at under 6kbht on Lazada. My evMTB takes a 48v lithium battery, cost of the 65x Panasonic 18650 cells it's made from is around 5-6kbht, but so many fakes to sort through. Just do a quick search for 18650 batteries, they can only fit 3400ma in one of those, anyone advertising a higher capacity is selling fakes that usually don't work for more than a week.

Link to any lithium battery that will run a evBike for 2k2bht please. Cheapest I can find (that actually works) is 6000bht. Lots of fakes around!

No, she was second hand.

My wife, a bargain at 100kbht for 15 years of her life. Obviously there's additional running expenses but that's the same with anything that floats or flies!

Don't think the property owners give a flying one. There's allegedly not many of them, they're super rich and own entire streets free and clear They are happy to just sit and wait for the land prices to inflate. Supposedly Niman is owned by 2 families, Loy Krow owned by one.

CM In town rents are so high now it's hard to see how the bars could make any money no matter how many customers they have or how high the beer markup is.