Harsh Jones

2 hours ago, vinny41 said:

A trickle charger is not designed to charge a drained battery

 

 

 Your phone charger isn't designed to charge your phone battery after you run it dead either. But obviously it does happen and if the battery is in satisfactory condition, the charger will bring the battery back to 100%. The same is true for car battery trickle chargers. (the same was true until these new abortions) 

A dumb trickle charger will bring a drained battery back up to charge, everytime. And it is the method battery manufactures recommend. 

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

"I can tell"

Really?

It's more like you imagine something and you are sure your imagination must match reality. But maybe it doesn't.

 

And about that charger: Have you spend maybe a minute or two with the question why the smart charger does what it does?

Someone designed the charger in the way not to charge if the battery is very low. That function wasn't an accident, it's a feature.

Many devices have features to protect all those users who don't read the manual and who don't think about what they are doing. And the features also protect connected batteries.

If you connect a charger with too high voltage to a lead acid battery, then not much will happen. Do the same with a LiPo battery and maybe that thing will explode, and your house is on fire. That is why such smart chargers exist.

 

Maybe there should be a warning on the box: The user of this smart charger should be at least as smart as the charger.

 

You have that backwards. The "smart" charger has features in it for stupid people. 

Most of these "chargers" won't even start charging a battery that is below 10.x volts. If you think a battery below 10 volts is garbage, then again, you probably haven't wrenched on anything in your life. 

1 hour ago, Dan O said:

Perhaps the problem is not the Trickle Charger but your understanding of what it is and how it works. Trickle chargers are not meant for charging a dead battery, they are intended to maintain a charge on a battery that is used very little or in a vehicle that sits for long periods of time without use to keep the batter at a full state of charge.

Nope. That's called a float charger.

A properly working dumb trickle charger is perfectly capable of bringing a battery back up to charge that has been drained because some lights were left on or something.  And that is the method battery manufacturers recommend. And I have done it a million times. Maybe you haven't.

17 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Thanks for sharing your experience.

You showed us that you have no patience, are aggressive, like to call things bad names, etc.

You are certainly in the group of people who nobody should ask for advice.

My advice: Relax, RTFM, and if you don't know what you are doing think twice before you publish that information.

Sorry if my piece wasn't politically correct enough for you. Back to your safe space. 

I can tell you've never wrenched on anything in your life. Shop rage is perfectly normal. And the info presented is 100% correct. A smart trickle charger will not charge a drained battery.

A man lit himself on fire in front of the court holding Trump's trial.

On 4/8/2024 at 4:54 AM, Goat said:

Sorry everyone.

I got caught in the moment.

How much extra did the LB charge for that

23 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Almost everything has become progressively worse since then....but perhaps that was a joke?

Ah yes. The good ol poverty and squalor in the 80's was great. 

Never understood the idea of ketamine in a party setting. I always did it by myself chilling at my place

20 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

There's a lot of good, decent Chinese people.  Unfortunately, the bad ones catch the headlines and creates the prejudice against all.

Same reason why so many Thais think Brits are a lot of fat, pink, male pattern balding, drunken, whoremongers.

 

 

 

 

According to this place, all Thai and Chinese are reprehensible and all Anglos are fine citizens. Even the ones that take dumps in shrines

57 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

That's the custom in Thailand. It sounds a bit draconian, but they are held responsible for their carelessness. That is why, often, someone will count the money several times in front of you in a shop or restaurant or bar. There are positives in that, I suppose. Teaches staff to be careful and being responsible in their job.

They do this in Canada too. 

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Personally I'd rather buy an old trailer in an RV park in Florida with monthly rent of approximately $500./mo.

Yeah and most of those places are overrun with homeless and drifters. You'd have to pay for a premium spot to get away from them and you'll be way past 500

On 4/17/2024 at 4:12 AM, mfd101 said:

It's what happens when people from a cold climate & regimented culture come to a hot climate & shambolic society:  Off with their clothes and everything rushes to their head.

So this is Thailand's fault too eh. Pathetic 

On 4/17/2024 at 3:59 AM, KhunLA said:

I'd still be serving my life sentence if charged with all the times I've had sex in public, discreetly as possible.   Well, to the naked eye, usually.   Sure I've been captured on CCTV more than a few times 

Sick weirdo 

On 4/10/2024 at 5:26 PM, Korat Kiwi said:

Yep,  that would put a dent in your holiday. 

 

Partially why I stick to Agoda or Booking.com.  Haven't been scammed yet! 

You could easily get scammed on one of those. There are ppl who sub rent small hotels. They run them legitimately for awhile and build up reviews. Then at a busy time of year , they they exit scam. They can rig the booking so that there's an unlimited amount of rooms. So ppl keep booking and booking. Then when they get to the location , the place is locked up and nobody's there.

And then the scammed people try and phone into the booking agent to explain what is going on. And the agents don't even understand and the booking ad stays up. 

This exact thing happened to me on Expedia. The scammers had an add on Booking .com as well 

It was just a one night thing. I didn't lose very much money. But the frustrating part was how dumb the Expedia agent was. He could not understand what was going on. 

3 posters hit the laugh emoji.

Yeah so funny! Cretins. 

5 hours ago, mikebell said:

They didn't go to great lengths to hide what they were producing.  No wonder the local Plod managed a collar.

It isn't illegal 

That's a shame. For many men living in total squalor , the drug business is profitable enough to give them purpose. The govt should just turn a blind eye. Drug prohibition is pure madness brought on by the US anyway.

Now the govt ruined 14722 lives. And they have to pay to charge and incarcerate them. For what ?

On 4/16/2024 at 11:47 AM, EdrigoSalvadore said:

Similar thing happened to me in Pattaya by a Canadian guy. I sat down on the side of a pool and he came up to me and kicked me in the back of my head. He had to pay 20k fine, but my brain never felt the same.

Did you not notice him closing in on your personal space a bit before it happened ?

With this poor old fella, I guess he didn't hear or sense that the German mental case was closing in on him. 

Unless I am in a big crowd, I usually have a close account of who is around me and how close they are. 

On 4/15/2024 at 11:24 PM, JimTripper said:

Sihanoukville was the worst I saw in Cambodia. They call them 'deathpats'. People who have washed up in the last place that accepts them. Maybe they have been pushed along by now with the Chinese development.

 

Saw one room with bloody swabs all over on the pillow and bed when looking to rent a room.

 

They seem to be preyed upon by other expats and maybe locals as well. They just go down hill with booze and drugs and end up in a tiny cheap room, usually close to a grungy entertainment area like Victory Hill, or one of those places near the water where there is nothing. Not the same as Pattaya and similar, it's much worse.

 

Strange things blowing in on the wind there, strange smells, especially along deserted dirt roads. Could feel something in the breeze. Felt like...lack of hope, for lack of a better word.

 

Siem Reap and PP was Ok for me if you stay in a decent place.

Were you checking into the room beside them ? 

 When was this ? You should have made a video 

This idea that Chinese infusion of capital into a dirt poor place has "ruined" it is a bit of a contradiction. It doesn't sound like they ruined much if the development pushed some of the worst types of farang drifters along

On 4/14/2024 at 11:04 AM, pub2022 said:

The members of the lowest Thai social ladder can usually be found in the bars.

As with farangs there pub2022 

Kratom is not even a drug that kids or teens would find appealing. Its too subtle. Its an adult drug more akin to coffee

When I was young, me and some freinds got some kratom and got bored of it right away and moved on. This tactic of making kratom a boogyman for kids is wrong. A lot of adults with drinking problems, sleeping problems and chronic fatigue could benefit from kratom

1 hour ago, petermik said:

Wrong again...the only CCTV coverage available showed the gunman's car overtaking Neil's Scooter on the lane leading to his house nearly 2 kilometres away from where the incident first took place...it was a quiet and poorly lit area somewhere where the gunman thought he could get away with it yet it proved to be his downfall....it showed his Honda Jazz overtake then stop ahead followed by flashes of gunfire... four times he was hit... in his side, under his armpit and twice in his back.. whether the shots in his back came while he was on his scooter or after he had come off it and was laid on the road we shall never know only the killer does.

Perhaps in future when replying to sensitive topics on here you do so without speculating...it makes you look rather foolish.

 I was not speculating. I was stating the official record of what happened. What law enforcement have on record as happening. I wasn't the one opening it back up to speculation by pretending to not know what actually happened.

On 8/4/2023 at 3:11 PM, Prince77 said:

This video sums up the story so far pretty good with some additional background information:

 

Every person involved was gangster larper scum. They transferred just $52,000 USD out of his accounts to Cambodia. That is chicken feed. 

They couldn't even manage to get rid of the body in time before they all got caught. 

The victim seemed to have the most money out of them all. He could have laid low and lived easy. But that wasn't exciting enough for him I guess

On 4/14/2024 at 6:54 PM, Shocked farang said:

I did a dive master course there in the 2000's, there was a feeling of connection and friendship among the diving community. But things change fast in developing Thailand. That diving season actually ended with me catching dengue fever. 

But isn't there fighting over the business going on ? and lovers quarrels ?