Moonlover

Yep that's in accord with my own ball park assessment. I run my laptop plus the modem/router and a small desk top lamp off my Zircon 840 watt UPS. With a new battery it will run for about 30 minutes, although it's aging now and will need replacing soon. Batteries are readily available through Lazada. This is the main reason that I use a UPS. I was getting fed up with the short blackouts knocking my internet connection off-line.

Probably the most important thing you can do for your partner @giddyup is to reassure her that to you, it is not important. That she is still the same gal that you fell in love with when you meet her and that you'll continue to love and support her no matter what happens on top. Try being light hearted about it and stroke her ego a little bit.

Wise decision.

Ok, so it's either it's the shop that's got it wrong, or your power monitor is telling porkie pies. Which one to trust. The simplest way to establish which is to find out the current flow. Can your monitor display the voltage and the current drawn? If it does then it's a simple matter to calculate the power yourself. Volts x Amps (P=V x A) Let's know how how it goes.

Why do you ask, don't you trust it?

This is the most misleading and ill-informed answer I've seen on this subject for a long time. Fortunately, most people are aware that it's complete rubbish.

insurgent noun UK /ɪnˈsɜː.dʒənt/ US /ɪnˈsɝː.dʒənt/ Add to word list [ C usually plural ] formal someone who is fighting against the government in their own country: A perfectly legitimist use of the word, whilst 'jihad' is probably the most misunderstood and misused word in the world. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/what-does-jihad-really-mean-to-muslims

It's always somebody else's fault!

Indeed. You can buy it in the UK anyway.

What? The police doing their job properly, leaving no stone is left unturned thereby ensuring that they have all the facts. Remind me. Isn't that what the police are supposed to do and indeed what they do do in most countries?

No we're not taking about dicks, but you're certainly talking like one!

Wrong.

Thailand does have juvenile detection centres, as reported right here It took me less time to discover that than it did for me to type this post. Can't you use Google search?

You cooked this for her, she didn't eat it and you're surprised! My Thai wife certainly wouldn't thank you for it either. Wake up man, this is Thailand. That's just about the most boring meal you could place before a Thai, or me for that matter. Anyway, it's been almost 24 hours since you posted and there've been 73 responses. How come we haven't heard a single word from you since your original post? I'm beginning to think all this is all a wind up.

You might noy be interested in why an animal should die at a relatively young age, which this one has, but environmentalists and marine biologists usually are, hence an autopsy.

I get reminders daily thank you.

I live in a village surrounded by poverty. I need no reminders of its affects thank you. None of them have A/C, few have fans and I haven't heard of a single case of death by heatstroke.

That's a bit dramatic isn't it? Folks with 100 THB bills are certainly not basking in A/C for most of their day. It fact most. most of them probably don't even run a fan. 100 Baht will just about get them some lighting!

Yes there have been scams related to electricity bills reported on here recently. Delete the message and forget about it. Our bills comes in on the 21st/22nd of the month and gives a 'due payment' date 10 days thereafter. I don't always pay strictly on time, but I don't leave it for much longer either. It's a hard lesson for the good folks of Trang, but the word will quickly get round. Pay up on time.

Well he'll be in good company in Thailand then won't he.

Well if he's the same guy that I've found on Linkedin, he certainly seems to have his smarts about him. Better qualified than I ever was. Former President of Reading University Kickboxing Society | Bsc. Economics graduate from the University of Reading United Kingdom. He doesn't strike me as the sort of guy who'd just strike out without having some sort of game plan. Good luck to the young fella. I hope Thailand delivers what he's striving for. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/riyan-ruparelia-279b99172

Having lived here for 10 years now, my observations suggest that most of the moaning and groaning emanate not from those of us living our quiet, contented lives in the villages, but from the farang infested ghettos of Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and Chiang Mai.

I use my Krungsri debit to pay a regular subscription to a vendor in the USD, in the USA and have always found the exchange rate to be quite acceptable. So where do you get this information from?

To get into Thai Watsadu in Sakon Nakhon you have to cross a segregated cycle lane that was laid down during the cycling frieze period. Remember 'Bike for mum' and Bike for Dad?' A while ago whilst crossing the road to access the entrance I had a very close encounter with a motorcyclist, riding against the traffic flow and in the clearly demarcated cycle lane. One in which I don't think I've ever seen a cyclist by the way. And this was in quiet, sleepy Issan, not on the frantic streets of Bangkok. In Holland, cyclists have priority on the highways. Our well meaning Dutch friends have a lot to learn about the mindset the average Thai road user if they ever hope to introduce their ideas here.

Just did it yesterday. Payment arrived in my Krungsri account in about 10 seconds.