Kenny202

Well good news our tech got back to us its the backlight, said it looks like it blew up. 3000 baht total to fix. Still p$$es me off on a 14 month old device but better than 6k

Agree. Last TV Samsung and wasnt great (had little issues) but worked reliably for nearly 8 years. Where it fell down were all the little led covers were slowly falling off. Washing machine great too. They have just become very greedy and arrogant

What really annoyed me when I bought this was I spent at least 30-45 minutes to get the thing hooked up and workable as it is mandatory to set up an online Samsung account, register everything, trying to type in crap with the remote control....go through all this rigmarole that in no way benefits / effects or is required for the usage of the TV in anyway. Only benefit is to Samsung so they save on advertising sending me around 4 advertising / spam emails everyday.

I forget which device / devices it were but weren't apple recently outed and lost their final appeal for building obsolescence into some / one of their devices where it would intentionally slow down after X amount of years? Big class action which they have a judgement against them involving 300-500 million US$? Maybe that what they are referring to

Yes, like everything is programmed to self destruct these days. I remember my mum had a Rank Arena and a Phillips colour TV in the 70s/80s. Both were still in the home and working well both over 30 years old

Thanks for the reply mate but not every Westerner in Thailand lives in Pattaya lol. We are up north. Looks like the service / repairs are all co ordinated through HO in Bangkok. or so my missus says anyway. We have a Samsung office here too but not for walk in repairs. In any case the local Samsung office were the ones who called us. According to missus we have to call Bkk and they farm the job out to their techs here. I asked her why she wasn't talking sternly to Samsung as the machine is only 14 months old, and why didn't you take them to task on how they know exactly how much the TV will cost to repair (6000 baht + 7% VAT) without even seeing it? Like talking to a brick wall. This sort of TV has about 5-6 PC boards in it as well as connectors etc and could be anyone of those things. There are 20 you tube videos saying this model had a PC board connector problem and can be fixed in 15 minutes. We do know a private tech who I use to do my music stuff amps etc and he told us he does TVs too. I would have called him first but 2 months out of warranty you would think Samsung would at least come and check first. The private tech guy usually honest and ridiculously cheap but I heard my missus telling him Samsung quoted us 6000 baht (even though she denies it) so who knows what is going to happen. Hes picking it up today. As for Samsung, yes that the end of them for me. Reading a story about one of their phones they released just over a year ago...same thing just out of warranty and people getting lines on their screens etc. Samsung not only not offering to repair cheaply or free but milking it quoting ridiculous prices for replacement screens. Had a similar issue with LG also so they are off the Xmas list.

Anyone had any dealings with them here? We bought a brand new 50" TV from Lotus just over a year ago....thing is a couple of months out of warranty. This morning for no apparent reason lost picture but still have sound. Called Samsung service...got the local agent call us back on the phone to announce "oh this problem 6000 baht to fix (+7% VAT) lol", without even seeing it. And not taking into account the thing just out of warranty. The repair would be 60% the price of the TV we paid!

One other thing, I notice when downloading apps for the app store, whether free or not it comes up "processing payment". Is there actually a warning if you are really going to be charged for an app?

Latest version OS 18.01. Just googling it seems there are no gestures for universal back button. Just whatever the app provides which is a big stretch to the top left of the screen. Probably ok if you are holding it with 2 hands

New to Ipad and cant for the life of me find a back button or back gesture to go back a step or previous screen. Used to Android where they either have a back button or swipe left. I know the home button clears everything and takes you back to home page but how can I swipe in an app to just go back one step? Any help appreciated

The reason I haven't got into Wifi details too much is the router hard to get to without a ladder and we have had True out here 3 times over speed issues. Been down that road already and according to them its as good as it gets. The router is only 6-9 months old. The tech actually showed me he speed test on his laptop near 900mbps if that is the correct terminology. I still reckon he had a screenshot saved on his laptop use for just such a demo. Anyway, that being said I am only interested in comparing devices. Good or bad internet connection will an older device be noticeably slower on a live stream (internet wise / not system wise) than a newer model? If we are only talking nano seconds, not full seconds I wont worry. Thanks for all the advice 🙂 I don't really know anything about this stuff and probably talking nonsense

The router is hard to get at to check but from True and under a year old. They changed it when we complained about speed last time. Most of the pages we view that is time critical is live so not so concerned about speed of opening new pages....just receiving the ongoing live broadcast faster if possible. So all things being equal you are saying the actual internet speed of a newer / better tablet will be pretty much the same? Just the overall performance of the tablet will be better?

I am currently using a cheaper Tablet, Huawei about 3 or 4 years old. It works well but chugs a bit after a while. Use it mainly for surfing and online auctions where internet speed is important. I want to get something a bit better hopefully faster but don't want to spend huge money as most of my internet stuff done on the phone or PC. I wont be using it for banking apps, games or such. Looking at maybe a used Ipad Gen 8, Gen 9 (release date 2020 / 2021) seems to be in my price range. Look like the support life of these might finish next year or year after that. Is that going to be an issue for me? I am pretty sure the general performance will be better but will my speed on the internet re bidding live online auctions improve much? I notice when I look at my current tablet side by side with my PC, when viewing a live broadcast my current tablet lags by a second or two and this also means my bids will be a second or two later. Any advice appreciated

I normally buy from Thailand / locally if possible. Usually don't have time to wait for delivery from China etc. I noticed about 3 months ago when searching I lost the option to search by location "local". Really annoying. Most of the items come up from China but at least you could see in your results where the items where being delivered from. I see the last week or two location of the product isn't shown on the search page until you actually click on the item and the search seems to favor items located in China first, where before the first few pages where items avail in Thailand. Now nearly 4 or 5 pages in until you get to any items available in Thailand. I don't have any filters set for cheapest etc and like I said no option to search by location unless you want to tick every town in Thailand which takes forever as it refreshes every time. I laugh when I see headlines about a company (Temu?) flooding Thailand with cheap Chinese goods. Surely they can't be worse than Lazada. I am guessing this is propaganda peddled out by Lazada / Shopee or people being sponsored by them. Shame because Lazada were great. Now nearly unusable

Sounds like a normal farang / Thai household? Screaming, tantrums, refusing to leave...30 minutes of negotiations a bit light on though. Can go on for days 🤕

Was about 1700 baht, google the watts for yourself 🙂 I did check out the other cheaper tower fans and they didn't have everything I wanted, most importantly to remove the turbine easily for cleaning. You will also find some of those cheaper ones not very tall, would barely get over the height of your bed if you were using it sleeping.

Can highly reccomend the MI Tower fan. Its so quiet often forget to turn it off 😂

Shouldn't be too quick to condemn as everyone did with the Swiss guy kicking the "doctor" on the steps at Phuket. Admittedly it didn't look too good for the guy at the time but the court threw the case out the other day. Turns out her injuries weren't actually seen or examined by anyone and her PTSD claims were rejected as fiction. Not sure what the guy did or how bad it was but apparently nothing like she claimed and certainly not enough to have someones life and reputation destroyed and possible deportation and loss of ones life style / property. The court said the video proved nothing and there were no signs of physical aggression. If you have ever had a car accident where the other party was clearly in the wrong for eg: driving on the wrong side of the road, 15yo, unlicensed of course,with an unregistered vehicle, and admitted to having his phone in his hand whilst the accident occurred.....then have to endure the whole family with theirs grubby paws out for a payout.....you would realize often we are sitting ducks here. An easy mark.

The problem in an AC motor at low speed is called hunting. They just aren't designed to run at low speeds... there is no torque. Combined with that the motor shaft can usually move forward and back in the fans even with decent bearings. That's where the noise comes from. This is why they have start / run windings on AC motors that are working any sort of load. One winding simply cant do all speeds. One winding for low speed / torque to start up....the other for cruising once up to speed. And a Variac wont solve the problem. A Variac is basically controls the voltage through resistance / electronics...like a fan control or dimer. Will be exactly the same effect on the fan (noisy) as using a cap across the supply or any other voltage reducer.

I got the MI (Xiaomi)tower fan. So far delighted with it. So quiet I keep forgetting to turn it off lol

Swear buy it. Use it every day. If it died today even after only a couple of years (I have flogged it to death) I would be out tomorrow to buy another. No downsides at all to mention and nothing yet failed on it... And believe it or not Im not usually a Tefal fan

Got it this morning and set it up. So far very happy with it if it stays this quiet. No remote control in the box, only via the app on the phone. At first I couldn't install it said only avail in mainland China so on the app set location to same and good as gold. This one was around 1700 baht and Xiaomi which is usually a good brand. There are others a lot cheaper for around 600 baht may do the same job. My main concern was ease of cleaning (I know our air con fans usually start losing efficiency after 4 or 5 months / need cleaning) and low / quiet power and this one seems to tick all boxes 🙂 Be excellent for night time and sleeping and has a few smart features like timers (to turn off / on after a while if required), sleep mode, oscillates side to side of course. Other maybe a small thing is a small foot print. Kids are always brushing past the fans and knock the heads in the wrong direction. This one just tall and slim

Usually when you lose speed control its a failed capacitor. Sometimes in the wall controller, others have the cap in the cowl over the fan motor. Normally one screw to loosen and cowl will slide up and out the way. Make sure you turn the breaker off of course. Sometimes they switch the neutral and there is still an active wire there. Usually a little black square block looking thing with two wires on it. Easy to get and easily replaced. That's if they still use capacitors these days and not some electronic wizardry

I already bought the other one but send me the link if you have it please. Might be able to use it somewhere else. You sure its 16"? That's a biggish fan. No guard? Is it rechargeable or direct connect?

Called an orbital fan I think. Theyre great. Are they slower than a normal pedestal fan?