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On 6/24/2021 at 1:05 PM, Neeranam said:

 

I thought of adding and extra wall around one room, to soundproof it get rid of the dogs.

 

 

This is not sufficient. The sound just flanks through the ceiling. What you describe is a room within a room, but you must do the floor and ceiling too otherwise it's pointless. You also have to pay attention to the sockets, light fittings, everything, to prevent sound flanking.

Our house is no where near any other house, closest is around 100 metres, and the village is at least 300 metres away, we're surrounded by fields and woods, and my cats are very quiet. . . but the village occasionally has a party and the bass boom-boom-boom drives me insane, so I actually took this route with my office. . .

I soundproofed the walls floor and ceiling and installed triple glazing. Each layer of glass is a different thickness so that it has a different resonance point, so that no single frequency can evade all layers the glass. Outer layer of glass is 10mm thick, middle 6mm, innner 4mm.

The ceiling is three layers of triple thickness gypsum with 12 inch spaces in between. The floor is solid concrete with a second layer of 12 inch space and another layer of gypsum below that. The wall of the office were already cavity wall, so very heavy double layers.

The door is an airlock system (this room is also HEPA filtered because of the smoke season) so double door to office plus another door in the corridoor before getting to the 'unsoundproofed' part of the house, so this arrests any sound from that route too.

The advantage of all this is when I'm in here my wife can't hear me scream.

17 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I would have ripped them down... forcefully made someone to come out and sort them out.

I wouldn't advise that. Yes, these are fibre optic cables, but it's not unusual for the steel sling wire to be energized with electricity due to being in contact with electricity cables, possibly many miles away. Don't touch them, you could be electrocuted.

4 hours ago, jomtienisgood said:

Translucent.... I have turned on and off both laptop and router numerous times......

It's more likely you have a carrier grade NAT IP, this is very common in Thailand now. Most ISPs will give you a public IP instead if you call to ask them. Basically with a carrier grade NAT, you are assigned an IP from the 100.64.0.0/10 IP space, and then you share a single public IP with hundreds, thousands, maybe more, of other customers. This enables ISPs to 'economise' on public IPs, which are in short supply in the IPv4 space.

Overall, the problems here in Thailand are that the entire Thailand IP space is a cesspool of malware. I can't remember the figures, but one study released some years ago suggested that more malware on zombie computers exists in Thailand than any other country, which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. So, you will often find individual IPs, or entire blocks of IPs, on the various blacklists. . .

This causes all manner of problems for the casual non-technical user. Maybe one day your access to Facebook might be blocked. Another day, you might have trouble sending an email. . .

I operate our own company mailservers (among other types of servers) in our offices as I prefer to keep our hardware on site in our own server room. We have 4 separate ISPs load balanced. Previously we had static IPs, but to save costs, all 4 ISPs are just consumer grade lines. However, due to the way in which I have load balancing set up via our pfSense gateway, the effective reliability is better than a leased line. In order to deal with mail deliverability issues, we route all out outbound mail (from our mailserver) via a VPN tunnel to a static IP in a rack we have in Singapore. So, even though our mailserver is in Chiang Rai, it appears to the world that our mail is coming from a single IP in Singapore. Therefore, we can carefully manage the reputation of that single IP (the source of all our outbound emails) and we have a 100% deliverability rate.

None of this helps the OP of course, but I can tell you that Thailand's IP space is pretty much screwed. This is one of the reasons to get a static IP from your ISP (or set up something similar to what I describe above) in order to manage the reputation of IPs you have fully under your control. As I said above, this is what we used to do, but static IPs in Thailand are cost prohibitive, so I now use other lower cost means, such as renting IPs from Singapore and tunneling specific traffic via that route.

Unless you're specifically paying for one, you won't have a static IP address, so just turning your router off and on again will get you a new IP. However, if your package is on a carrier grade NAT, you might end up using the same 'public' IP and nothing will have changed.

Clear as mud right?

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

In the 90s I worked in a Saudi hospital that was built by both US and I think French contractors who put THEIR electrical system in. Working with both 110 and 240 v plugs on the same ward was difficult as some equipment was 110 and other equipment was 240. We had a pile of transformers so we could plug equipment in to a different voltage, as there were never enough plugs of one sort in a room. Built long before every IV had to go through a machine and some patients had 4 or 5 IVs.

Be careful here, hospitals are a special case. They usually have completely different electrical systems due to the nature of the site and the medical equipment used. Flammable gases, oxygen, explosive situations, complex medical imaging equipment. This is a very specialised area of electrical engineering.

Thailand is an earthed system. We essentially use the Australian system (broadly similar to the British PEN system). Many older houses just don't have a grounded installation and only have 2 prong sockets. The usual solution is to just cut the earth pin off any 3 pin plugs. MAI BPEN ARAI !!!

Overall things are improving but very slowly. For example, RCD protection is now a legal requirement on any new installations.

11 hours ago, fdsa said:

if you are an web consultant then you should know that blacklists are not only an email issue, and that "Access Denied / Reference id: ..." is a typical WAF response to either bad browser settings/behavior or to IP address blacklist.

 I didn't say that it's only an email issue. I said it's 'less likely' to be related to blacklists, which are invariably compiled to prevent spam propagation. Different blacklists, different purposes, different motivations for their creation. Where I wish to control access based on country, I simply poll a country database and when a visitor is denied present them with a UNIX timestamp and a reference. I don't need some rinky dink Cloudflare account to script that.

I would never buy a used vehicle in Thailand. Ten years ago we sold my wife's old Honda Jazz for some crazy high price to a dealer, way more than I expected to get. To my amazement, he'd sold in on in a week for an even higher price. The price of used vehicles is so high here you might as well just buy new. You also don't know how the oil has been treated. Full service history is pretty much meaningless. My sister in law never changes the oil on her Fortuner, she just drives it and drives it until the engines seizes, pays for the repairs, and then repeats the process.

We presently have a 2015 Honda City since new. It's inexpensive to maintain, runs on E85 and hasn't missed a beat. I can't remember what the odometer is at, my wife schedules oil changes, but I think it's over two hundred thousand kilometres.

9 hours ago, fdsa said:

 

 

the first part of your message is very correct, however the second one is...

 

 

google:// what is WAF

google:// why cloudflare is showing me a captcha

google:// waf custom blacklists

I don't need to Google it, I'm an IT consultant. Personally, if a website presents me with a captcha, I'll click away and never visit the site again. I despise being forced to click the boxes with a fire hydrant. This is what clueless server admins set up. Geoblocking when you don't want overseas visitors on the other hand is an entirely legitimate and reasonable practice.

On 6/15/2021 at 1:25 PM, bankruatsteve said:

Anecdote:  About 6 years ago, our local voltage began going into the 240-250V range to accommodate a new water purifying factory.  At 250V and above, my smart TV would shut down, my AC wouldn't start, fans on steroids, and my refrigerator made abnormal noises until it finally died.  (Easily fixed after the local guy replaced something.)

 

Anyway.... That's when I bought my first AVR(AVS) and no issues since.  Now, the mains voltage stays in the 230's but the AVR's maintain between 218-224.

Something similar happened here a couple of years ago, I fell asleep in my office and then woke up to the sound of my AC going crazy, the UPS on my computer going bonkers. I went outside to investigate and there was a dead snake bridging between one phase of the high tension side to the low volt side. There would have been thousands of volts coming into the house. Everything survived (except for the snake), it could have been worse if not for the good voltage clamping I have installed, but it's just an example of what can go badly, badly wrong.

It's also easier to snag and damage the insulation, causing those impossible to trace RCD trips. I tend to deploy VAF in conduit, and ignore those that tell me it's against the law (it's not). I'll downrate the circuit where I do this.

On 6/20/2021 at 8:38 AM, Robin said:

 

I have also found that it is impossible to get twin+earth cable in Thailand (Can somebody prove me wrong?)

 

HomePro stock it but they're more expensive that your local supplier. I also get the "Thailaaaand no haab" line on a regular basis. Ignore that, BangkokCable and Thai Yazaki manufacture it. I have thousands of metres of it in my store room. When they tell you "Thailaaand no haab" what they're really saying is they can't be bothered to order it for you and they want you to buy what they have on their shelves instead.

On 6/23/2021 at 5:51 PM, Sheryl said:

Be forewarned, if you are on retirement or marriage extension, that some Imm offices (mine for example) insist upon a bankbook. Bank statement and bank letter not enough, must have a physical bankbook and it must show regular updates.

 

After a lengthy fight with Immigration just this  morning I had to close my fixed account (forfeiting interest)  and create a separate savings account because they were unhappy that the fixed account did not allow updating of the bank book (except once a year). Absolutely insisted that a bankbook, and only a bankbook, is required to prove that one has kept the required balance.  In vain did I point out the one year statement, dated as of today, attesting to an unchanged balance for the past 3 years.

 

Nothing doing. "must have bank book and update every 3 months".

 

The problem wasn't that they didn't know I had the required money, untouched.  They know my finances as well as I do, maybe better, and they understand it is a fixed account. But they have been told that there must be an updated bank book, and they take this very literally.   So just keep that in mind before deciding to go paperless.....

 

 

This happened to me a couple of years ago at Mae Sai Immigration. They would not accept certified bank statements, wanted to see my bank book with regular updates. The problem is if you don't traipse to the update machine every few weeks (who does that now in this mobile banking age) it's too late and the updates are aggregated into one entry. This caused me and my wife enormous problems and wasted time. In the end, after looking at the IO in the eye and saying "Look, there is no way for us to obtain what you ask for. No way. All we can supply are these official, certified monthly bank statements" they accepted them and the extension was granted. What I describe never happened before, and didn't happen in the subsequent year (this one) . . . but it's just another grade A example of how retarded the entire immigration system is.

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Getting back to the OP, my son was dealt an electric shock in Mae Hong Son a few years ago, he would has been around 4 years old IIRC. It sure traumatised him, he just grabbed the handle of a Roti vendor's cart while we waited for our order. The cart lighting was bootlegged to the street lighting. My son was fine fortunately but it's one of the few times in the last 20 years I've lost my rag in public, the dumb bitch who had the cart just brushed it off as nothing and barked my son should be more careful. I was incandescent at that. You have to protect yourself here, there is no enforcement of regulations to protect you. None. The story in the OP is just a fraction of what get's reported.

On 6/17/2021 at 7:31 AM, worgeordie said:

2 wires good ,three wires bad ????

I'd adjust that slightly. The third wire is a vital safety feature in any sane culture. Here it's just seen as a waste of money. They just can't see the point of it, electricity is just a form of magic to them.

You experience this problem because the server administrator actively blocks IP subnets by country. If 99.999999 percent of your site's visitors are local, why expose your server to the cesspool that is the entire internet? (rhetorical question). Of course, that doesn't help the other 0.0000001 percent. No one cares. Use a VPN.

It's less likely to be related to blacklists. It's more 'complex' for a server admin to poll private blacklists. Blacklists are an email issue, not website access, that's invariably done by country.

My diagnosis is anxiety. A cup of coffee maybe.

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Except for the fact it's happening.

About the reference to the Airport Link being talked about for decades... Now the airport link exists, no?

8 hours ago, connda said:

With BASE you pay your money and you takes your chances. 
There is definitely something be said about the thrill that makes life worth living.
Never was my cup of tea but I can understand the allure.  RIP.

You might as well say you can understand the thrill of riding prostitutes bareback. Stupid in either case IMO, like wing suits, they call it flying, I call it falling to the ground and hitting it.

I've been offered the Sinopharm vaccine privately and my employer is bankrolling that for a number of our key staff. Should happen in the next few weeks. The reason being our northern project need to ROLL and roll soon, and it will be completely impractical for us to quarantine as we move between provinces (Bangkok - CR) and work along the borders. I obviously wanted Moderna or Pfizer but being pragmatic any of the vaccines will keep me out of hospital and with that in mind I'll take what I can get. It doesn't seem like a very effective risk management strategy to turn your nose up at a vaccine and choose to leave yourself with no protection while you wait for maybes...

That's worth repeating... Any of the vaccines will keep up you out of hospital (i.e. highly effective at preventing serious illness)... That's all you need to know.

On 6/11/2021 at 1:02 PM, Neeranam said:

Yes you can, in fact homeless(stateless) people can get them

I'm only responding to this for the benefit of anyone reading that might that be misled by the above comment. Historically these ID card we given to stateless people and they came with onerous restrictions attached to them, certainly not something anyone reading this would want. Nevertheless, I'd be amused to find out what would happen if any farang went to their Amphur to ask for a pink ID on the basis they are stateless. While it might be technically possible, I suspect they'd be laughed out of the building. . .

Tabien Baan first, Pink ID second.

On 6/11/2021 at 2:25 PM, Neeranam said:

AS you say, it helps and worth getting. Just not as useful as some make out. 

My accountant told me a few days ago I should start using my Pink ID number in place of anything else when making large purchases with a tax receipt as it will help her to reduce my tax burden. The fact you are not experiencing any of what I describe not withstanding, for the last few months it's been coming out of my wallet every week pretty much. Certainly, SOMETHING has shifted this year but I don't know what.

The OP went quiet, last visited June 8th. I hope he didn't blow himself up.

I have a large electrical project in the north of Thailand beginning in a few months. The project is expected to last around five years. Me and my team probably won't be able to cope with the work, so I'm hoping to put together a short list of electrical engineers that might be able to work with me. I don't mean some gimp that can pull cables through conduit, I can find them anywhere, I mean qualified engineers with a full understanding of high, medium and low voltage three phase distribution systems, with scrupulous standards of workmanship. If you have someone in mind please PM me or discuss it below. We are a Bangkok company, we have an office in Chiang Rai and the site office will be in Chiang Saen. Would be grateful of any names and numbers. I know there have been such recommendations on this forum before but I can't find them. . .

The full route map us here. Enjoy...

T_0043.PDF

Here is the pump controller in my swimming pool pump room. You can see the phase protector next to the 3 x contactors in the middle. This is where phase protection should be, NOT on the main incomer as is the case at your place. . .

I'll also post some pics of my main incomer, see also my comments further down. . .

Our business is presently in mothballs due to covid, so the ammeter barely registers anything, but I want to highlight that the ammeter, like yours, would need to be sensing high currents before the needle moves, so that doesn't necessarily mean it's not working. . .

Also, please take note of the Perspex screen in front of the coloured bus bars. This exists to protect from accidental contact, for example, a screwdriver falling onto the bus bars creating an arc flash. In your installation, this, along with some of the plastic phase guards on the breakers, is missing. PLEASE be cautious when opening your panel, it really is a dangerous thing you're doing.