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How does it affect the lifetime of lead-carbon batteries if you only have an hour or two of absorption time before starting to discharge them?

A week ago I had a transfer delayed by 24hours or money returned to the ource if I didn't reply to their question which was "please explain further the reason for the transfer"

I replied to them saying that I had selected "for living expenses" as I had done for my last 10 transfers, so what is it you don't understand about living expenses?

They transferred the money with the 24 hour delay.

I'd guess that they either didn't have enough THB in their Thai account or they just wanted to wait for a better exchange rate for them.

I didn't give them any information in my reply that they didn't already have.

3 hours ago, edwinchester said:

Anyone know if this is any good or not worth the money?

It is an ok inverter for the money, it is a cheap inverter from a known company.

The price diff between the 4.2KW/24V and the 6.2KW/48V is so small that you should buy the 6.2KW version.

Edit: The inverter can not export power to the grid.

Sorry Crossy

4 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Why not?

because production is dependent on usage, if you not utilize the panels to 100% then you will get a flawed solar hours value.

I utilize my panels to 100% until 1pm, then batteries are charged and remaing production goes to consumption only.

My 52-54 KWh daily production  from 14KW of panels would be slightly less than 4 solar hours but I have full production from 7.30am covering the consumption then consumption+ battery charge from 8.00am to 1.00pm  and then until 5 pm covering consumption.

I have been up to 70KWh of production when I tested grid feed-in which would give 5 solar hours according to your calculation.

5 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

2 hours and 16 minutes full solar power per day on average.

How do you get that number? You can't take the production and divide by panel capacity and deriver solar hours from that.

I assume Crossy doesn't have any batteries, his ratio between produced and bought power is about the same as I got the first month I test ran my system before batteries arrived. 

On 2/28/2024 at 1:36 PM, cmike said:

Would 10Kw meet our needs?

No, you would need  around 25KW of inverter (3 x 8 in parallel would do) , the same amount of panels and 75 KWh of batteries

to make you self sufficient.

Do you have enough roof space to accommodate 48 panels?

1 hour ago, Pink7 said:

Even I have solar i must admit that we still use gas for cooking. Most my life I used electric stoves but after get used to gas for cooking its not easy turn back to electric.

My big family has learnt to get back to electric for boiling (eggs,fish,vegetables, and such) but they use gas for frying.

They are actually great at saving to our electricity bill by using higher current drawing appliances during daytime when we

have more solar energy than we can use.

16 minutes ago, NativeBob said:

Third: Electric ovens. Its a luxury, shouldn't use in Thailand. Use gas instead.

Electric cooking is free, cooking gas is not.

8 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

They vary between 6 and 30 minutes

That can be much longer if you have to charge while travelling and have to queue for charging.

It is an infrastructure problem of mains power availability at the charging stations, a problem we

saw in Germany and Austria during last years winter sports holiday.

Customer had to wait 1-2 hours before getting access to a charging post which sometimes were 

of limited number due to not enough mains power in the area.

It will take many years before we have the infrastructure for a guaranteed  quick charge of EV's on the road

so an EV owner has to plan forward and take responsibility for his own charging.

Best way in my opinion to do that today is to buy a hybrid if you are travelling long distances.

Will the problem be gone in 5-10 years time? I doubt it, infrastructure will surely have improved

but will it ever be able to cope with a growing fleet of EV's?

25 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

Book time at the embassy now...

There's two slots left in the end of March, else it's going to be in April.

You be lucky to get your new passport in June 

I don't think it is that simple, you'll have to have a very good reason for replacing a 5 year passport that today has more than a year remaining of validity.

Only 6 month left - ok, no pages left - ok, need in order to get a full year extension - no I don't think so..

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yanks use red for earth. 

So did we Europeans in the 50's before yellow-green became the standard.  The phase and neutral colors that @OneMoreFarang  listed became standard at the same time and red was removed from use because it could be confused with old earth color.

1 hour ago, jvs said:

I mean straight from the solar power cells into the battery.Fast chargers are DC anyway so why can you not just have a few solar panels feeding the right voltage straight into the car?

Fast chargers are able to detect the cars DC battery voltage (200 - 800V) and adjust itself to match that voltage.

In theory you could set up a solar panel array matching your cars DC voltage but I think you would at least have an MPPT in between in

order to get most out of your panels.

There is a reason why V2L/V2G/V2H/V2V is AC, it can be connected directly to the consumers regardless of what DC voltage the car battery has.

The inverter in the car is 2-ways, converts incoming AC to DC when charging the car and converts DC to AC when delivering to an external load.

Since the inverter is made for the car then it is made for the specific DC battery voltage of the car.

Correction: Rapid charger  (Level 3) is the direct DC charger that can adjust itself to the car batt voltage.

If you are using passport number + the magnifying glass to pull up previous data then check dates in the report before submitting it.

I had my last report rejected because "visa stay expires" was an old date, I've never had to update that date before, had always been done by immigration office when applying for a new 1 year stay (retirement).

Beggars can't be choosers..