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4 hours ago, eisfeld said:
BTW the micro inverter you posted in the other thread had only 1 input as far as I could see and 2 panels might provide too much voltage for it since you'd need to put them in series which would easily generate 60+V and I saw in the specs of it a very narrow voltage range of 30-40V.
It takes 2 in parallel.
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14 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:
Nonsense. The baht is at least 10% stronger against any major currency, literally meaning every single Thai export product is now 10% more expensive compared to alternatives from other countries. It's a complete no-brainer that this is the reason Thai exports are suffering. And now with China devaluing the Yuan it'll just makes things worse.
As another thread pointed out
Thai Hom Mali rice $1,200
Viet Hom Mali rice $550
Who's daft enough to buy the Thai rice?
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45 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:You got to remember the subject of the OP thread was nearly 80
once you get older you spend far less, he went to bed at around 9pm most nights
I also go to bed at 9pm most nights.
But I get up at 6am, and am out cycling or hiking by 7:30 or 8am.
Whats the point in missing the coolest part of the day?
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Assume you will get between between 1/2-1 unit a day per 330w solar panel (2m x 1m).
(I get 1/2 but another poster thinks he get 1)
Then work out how many units you use a day to calculate the number of panels you need.
Panels cost 4k, grid tie inverter cost 4k and can take 2 panels.
You can buy more expensive GTIs, but the costs remain fairly constant.
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1 hour ago, watcharacters said:What's your secret to traveling so much as you report on just 40K a month?
Buy cheap tickets, stay in cheap guesthouses, use the bus to get around, fill up evenings with 50c beers.
Don't waste money in coffee shops, limit yourself to 1 a day, take 3in1 packets of coffee and a mug to use in your hotel room and at the airports. All the Viet chain coffee shops (Highlands Coffee) sell coffee plus baguette for $2.
$30/day including room is enough.
July long weekend (5 nights) to Da Nang cost 7,000bht including plane tickets.
April trip (12 nights) to Siagon and Phnom Penh went over budget 12,000bht (due to illness I just flew back)
January to Siem Reap (8 nights) cost around 9,000bht as I went by bus.
I try to keep every trip below 10,000bht.
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Yes, the venom will kill you in less that 20 minutes.
You have 11 minutes left to live.
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How about some L-gohol ........
And a nice love song from Burn Batumrat .......
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11 minutes ago, SteveK said:
Really? I seem to remember my MIL paying quite a bit for x-rays to diagnose her kidney stones at Ubon hospital.
100-200bht for a foreigner in my local hospital.
Were you asked to contribute to your MiLs x-ray fees by any chance?
Should have been totally free if it was her local hospital.
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4 hours ago, Fex Bluse said:I've been all over the world. Like some of east Asia (Japan in particular).
Thailand is not the worst, but it is, I think, the most detached from reality.
Bangladeshis and Pakistanis know their countries are imperfect. Thais on the other hand...
Yes, I actually was invited here.
I always assumed it was to do with the extremely low average IQ, nearly the lowest in the world.
Then they have their incredibly poor rote learning school system, with dance, sports & worship being more important than any other subject. (Cambodia had to cull the intelligence out of their nation to get it lower than Thailand)
My sig. says it all.
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55 minutes ago, DaRoadrunner said:The girl's exact words were "retirement visa." However, in this country anything is possible. I will be surprised if it does not happen as the Ministry of Health is fed up with Farang doing a runner on hospital bills.
She was speaking in English or in Thai?
She sounds a bit stupid, so likely her English isn't so good.
More likely the conversation only happened in your imagination (where everyone speaks the same language).
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Broken finger usually just gets straitened and taped to the next finger.
Less than 1,000bht in a government hospital.
(90Bht doctor fee, 200bht x-ray, 50bht foreigner fee)
No need to explain anything, they don't care how you did it.
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12 minutes ago, eisfeld said:
Try to put it in a place with as little shadows as possible and angle it.
There's no shadows because there's no sun.
When it's raining it generates 0W/hr.
In full daylight but no sun it generates 60W/hr.
In full daylight with clear sun it generated 230W/hr but that happened at about 9:30am just the once.
I'm theorising that the 4 months of smog will get me 60W/hr.
I'm amazed you're getting 1 unit/panel on a rainy day, when I only get 1/2.
I only paid 7k for my entire 1 panel system, what did you pay?
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9 minutes ago, androokery said:
Really? Self defence? It looks like he shot someone who was running away.
After the someone tried to knife him.
Which is shown clearly in the video.
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50 minutes ago, eisfeld said:
Your single panel should give you more than one unit per day. The cheap inverter will eat quite a bit of your output, According to its specs it has a max efficiency of 89% which is far from great. Real world loss maybe even more than 15%.
Only been getting an hour of sun (with shadows) a day. been overcast the whole week, with rain.
Been like that nearly 2 weeks now, no drought here, monsoon in full force.
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11 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:
With the drought conditions, banning the launch of twenty thousand incendiary devices makes sense1
It's been raining heavily for the last two weeks.
Everything is soaking wet 24/7.
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3 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:So no punishment for getting caught.Does this apply to falangs?
Cambodia no longer appears to care much about cannabis.
My trip earlier this year, bars were selling joints to smoke in the bar, pizza shops had it as a topping, and guys on m/cs were selling it on the street in the evenings for $10/bag (they ask for $20 but haggle down to $10).
The only warnings were don't smoke it in public places, but out of sight in bars restaurants and hotels no problem. The guesthouse I stayed at had a special sala outside by the pool for all the backpackers to smoke their weed. I was quite impressed, they had managed to source western quality varieties, bags of weed openly on all over the tables. We They smoked all day.
I also had a pizza at a street-side restaurant, nobody examined the toppings.
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1 hour ago, eyecatcher said:He said to wife "If we dont save money with this panel, I will hang myself"
Hes getting ready....
Just finished the drilling ........ too scared to start welding.
It was my first time cutting box section with an angle grinder, not as frightening as it thought.
Sparks started burning my legs when I wore shorts, had to put jeans on and sweat.
The 45 degree cuts were a bit exciting.
Power generated, 4 units in a week, bloody rubbish!
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3 hours ago, Tagged said:
but the older I get, the body need more rest, and can not be as active as I used to, and thats when I am get restless and bored.
Learn to read.
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Been working hard this afternoon cutting out a frame with a 4" angle grinder.
350bht for a lump of steel box, 50mm x 25mm x6m and 2.5mm thick.
Tired now, leaving the drilling and welding for another day.
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6 minutes ago, Don Chance said:
The sewage should be treated then disposed of. Septic tanks under a house is crazy, it mean the toxic sewage gas and mold is going right up into your building! It is why most building have a toxic mold problem.
Never seen a septic tank under a house.
Mine is in the back garden and vented, the grey water is piped off and treated by the moobaan.
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36 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:Many farangs married to Thais don't spend time bar-hopping or playing golf.
Thai wife/gf still expects to be paid though.
My gf charges me 10k/month (that includes the house electricity and my 8yos food).
OK, I know, I'm the only one that has to pay a woman to live with him, yours are all different.
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Just now, Jingthing said:The question would be more interesting if it was 20k including rent.
Easily if I dumped the gf and kids.
Almost all my spending (40k) goes on them.
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On 6/28/2019 at 3:28 PM, RAZZELL said:
I went into the bank to start preparing and they made up my bank book.
When I got it back they had deducted 400 baht for the yearly ATM charged - which took me down to 399,600!
Fairly foolish to have exactly 400k in the first place with no margin for error.
Why didn't you put in 410k in the first place?
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Posted · Edited by BritManToo
Off topic but not true.
There's no world shortage of food (or anything else), it's just some people can't afford to pay for it, and farmers don't work for free. As for population levels, many countries have falling population (including Thailand), it's just some countries that need to fall.