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On 11/4/2022 at 8:57 AM, mockingbird said:

 

 

People here doing jobs that a Thai could do, without a work visa...eg bar staff, English teachers or as evidenced in my gym, personal trainers.. that's an entirely different story.

 

This is exactly what I was reading from this website: https://www.thaiembassy.com/thailand/thailand-digital-nomad-visa-and-work-permit

As long as you aren't taking away a job from a local, they aren't interested. 

Thanks for your replies. 

To give more details, I left HK and moved to Thailand to take a break. 

My previous employer proposed to take me back and work 75% in Thailand and 25% in HK.

So the company isnt imposing that I work in Thailand, just proposing as they know I don't want to move back to HK full time. 

I can't seem to find an answer for this. 

I recently arrived from overseas with a marriage visa. 

The company I was working for overseas has asked me to work remotely for them in Thailand. 

The business is all overseas with products and customers overseas, salary paid overseas. 

I read that remote work is forbidden, but I also read that a work visa is not required as long as you aren't taking a job away from a Thai person. 

Anyone know the right answer? 

I have these patches on my lawn. It looks like paper and actually cracks when you walk or pull it out. 

Any idea what it is and if I should get rid of it? 

58 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

thanks for the explanation, I thought there had to be a reason for it. Houses dont generally have 3 phase supplies.

In my residential development we all have 3 phases. Not sure why.

On 4/2/2022 at 5:50 PM, Crossy said:

Note that there's an important difference between it running backwards (ours does) and it being seen going backwards by the meter reader (ours isn't).

I havent understood this. How can you run backwards without it being seen?

On 4/2/2022 at 12:29 PM, 007 RED said:

Has your installer fitted and connected a CT (Current Transformer) device to the inverter which is connected to the supply line connected to your meter?

I havent seen anything like this.

For now I was just going to manually stop sending back the last week of the month. Though as you mentioned it's a pain going through the settings with that one button. Also inputting PIN and then setting the reflux to 0.00. And I need to do that x3 ????

I noticed the country code on the inverters is set to 22. Should I change this to 40 (thailand PEA)?

14 hours ago, Crossy said:

What type of inverters do you now have just to verify??

I have 3x SOFAR 3300TL-G3

I have seen they are on the PEA approved list.

My 3 single inverter is definitely working much better now.

I do have one last question though.

If I disable antireflux, I will be sending excess back to the grid. My installer says that this can also be dangerous for PEA workers as can cause sparks.
I havent understood it all, but guess he is referring to the anti islanding. THis should be separate from the anti reflux right and anti islanding shouldnt be available as a setting to be switched on/off?

54 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

How much did you pay for this system?

200Kbht?

yeah 210k

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

I have no direct experience of exporting into a 3-phase meter. But knowing how the conventional disc meters work I would suggest that exporting 2kW into one phase whilst importing 2kW from another should result in zero movement of the meter

I have read in a few places that indeed there will be a net zero to the grid. I will explore this solution for now as would be the easiest.

3x inverters would mean I would need to check all the phase loads and would need quite a bit of playing around with. (and I ve lost patience with my technician...)

Thanks all again. Will keep you posted on how things pan out.

At this stage I would rather not send anything back at all to the grid if there is another solution.

Sofar replied the following:

While we have had a new firmware to support unbalanced load. Buy electricity for a certain phase and sell electricity for a certain phase to achieve the maximum power generation.

For example: Load Power 2.5K/1K/2K  --------  Reality output of inverter (2.5+2+1)/3=1.833KW : 2.5K(1.833+0.6..)/1K(1.833-0.833)/2K(1.833+0.167)

So my understanding in the case above, as Im not sending back to the grid, I would only get 1.8*3 = 5.5kW total.

My goal is still to be able to reduce my day time grid consumption to 0 and still really cant see how this is possible.

If I use 3 single phase inverters, i guess it will be split 3 * 2.5 kw. So if one phase requires 5 kw, I will again be pulling 2.5 kw from the grid. is this correct?

What is the best solution to be able to use the full solar capacity I have?

Thanks all for your replies. 

I indeed have 18 panels, so must be 18 panels of 400W.

My installer is trying to swap my 3 phase inverter for 3 single. 

I just wanted to check the forums to see if this was correct. I indeed think my installer doesn't know what he is doing so prefer to be sure now, before I install 3 inverters and discover it still isn't the right solution. 

The explanation I got from the installer for the 3 phase inverter still sounds crazy. 

I have just installed a 7.5 kwh solar system in my house.
The house has a 3 phase system.

The technician installed a 3 Phase Sofar inverter. After a few days of use, during daytime, Im only getting 4kW total per day from the solar system, and still 30kW from the grid. (7 hours of full sunshine) My consumption without solar was around 30kW during day time.

The technician explained that the way the inverter works is that is always takes the lowest producing phase, and applies this power to the other 3 phases.
So while my AC is consuming 4kWh on Phase 1, the fact that Phase 2 is only pulling 40W, means that the inverter will only produce 40W on each phase.
This seems quite incredible, and can't see why a system would be designed to work like this.

The goal of the solar system was for me to reduce my daily consumption to close to 0.
The technician tells me that the only solution is to replace my inverter by 3x single phase inverters.

Is this the only solution? Also, I have been told that PEA no longer allows excess solar power to be sent back to the grid to reverse the meter. Is this correct?

Happy to have found this thread. Was shocked to see the annual dues had doubled after already doubling the previous year.

The mandatory carts on lakes course to supposedly speed up play is a joke.

I ve been battling with the club myself to get answers.

The committee has been suppose to get back to me for over 4 weeks now but nothing. The club secretary has been extremely rude every time I call.