tomas557

10 hours ago, Crossy said:

If the lamps are lighting at all then they are polarity insensitive so it's unlikely to be the issue. Of course you could flip the ones that are "wrong" and see if it improves matters.

 

It's actually only 1 light that has reverse polarity, and I had 4 lamps dying in the past 30 days.

They came from China, you think that could have any influence on the failure rate

I had the local tv repair guy check one of the lamps, as I thought it might be the capacitor that failed, but he said that some of the led's were shorted.

I have a circuit of 12 - 24VDC led lamps, but get many failures, which of course can be the lamp quality.

However I measured and while it measures 23.5V at the lamp socket, the polarity is reverse to what it should be.

Could this be the cause of the failures?

6 hours ago, does said:

12 hours ago, tomas557 said:

 

How about, because it's your job?

Ah, such certainty!

 

Imagine, just for a minute, that she hasn't left the country yet.  If that turned out to be the case, will you promise you'll be back for a comment...

I'm not gonna make you wait any longer for my comment.

If she's still in the country my first post still stands, because after all it was Prawit who gave the order to follow her, so it is his job to know where she is.

Just now, jeab1980 said:

Typical stup respo se. Enjoy your boring life pal

Well at least I don't have to resort to getting pissed at home, as you suggest, so I doubt my life is that boring

Just now, jeab1980 said:

 

Ever thought of buying the bottles at 7/11 and taking them home?

Ever thought about having a life?

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

"How should I know?" was Prawit's response to reporters

How about, because it's your job?

6 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

i presume you mean request bail; whomever in the 'court system' that is responsible for accepting/rejecting such applications/requests must be very busy; reapplication after reapplication...and piles up revenue for the applicant's lawyers

No, I was talking about policemen sentenced to death been freed on bail.

http://t2.thai360.com/index.php?/topic/58387-kalasin-killer-cops-free-on-bail/

Five policemen convicted of murdering a 17-year-old man from Kalasin were released on bail Tuesday by the Criminal Court.

A key witness, the teenage victim's aunt, said she would seek to extend her enrolment in a witness protection programme now that the convicted killers have been set free.

Pikul Prohmchan, one of three key witnesses in the murder case, said she would petition the Department of the Special Investigation (DSI) because the release of the five convicts - three of whom were sentenced to death - could put her life in jeopardy. "I'm afraid that we might be killed before the convicts receive the capital punishment," she said.

 

9 minutes ago, mstevens said:

He should plan for a worst case scenario which includes a major drop in the value of his currency against the Thai baht AND minimal or even zero returns on his capital AND inflation above historic averages.  If he pumps numbers from such a scenario in to a spreadsheet and the spreadsheet shows that he will still have money left over at what would be a fair guestimate of the end of his life expectancy then he has passed the retirement in Thailand financial stress test.  If his finances don't stretch that far then he has a few decisions to make such as working longer, spending less etc. or simply taking the risk.

As I'm not  Brit, this doesn't actually affects me, but you want to say that in let's say 2006 you took in account that the pound would be 42 to the Baht today?

5 minutes ago, mstevens said:

I reckon you'll see 25 before you see 75.

Here you have proven that you're just an other wanna be financial expert, who has no idea what he's talking about.

2 hours ago, inThailand said:

Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyaphirom’s lawyer will try to seek bail for his client again.

 

After your convicted and sentenced to 42 years and to repay billions, your allowed bail? So you can do a runner? 

 

In Thailand you can get bail after you are sentenced to death for murder.

Ask the 3 policemen in Kalasin who got bail the very next day.

6 minutes ago, Craig krup said:

 

The one thing I would never, ever do is "dabble" in the stock market. But when Murray International Investment trust went from 1200p to 830p - a massively diversified, bog standard, international investment trust - I did my tank. At 1200p it was ludicrous: you were paying 10% more than the underlying shares were worth. At 830p it was a opportunity (perhaps once in a lifetime) to buy when the underlying shares were worth more than the investment trust shares - a discount. Now the *******g things fell to less than 770: I could have puked. But I held on, and now they're way above 1200p About ten days ago I got a big dividend. Tasty! Now I'll never sell, I'll just keep taking the divis. Never dabble. Never trade. Pick something straightforward - City of London Investment Trust, perhaps - hopefor a complete market meltdown, and - if it happens - get in at a decent price and hold forever. But this is just what I'd do, and have done. I'm not recommending it for anyone else. 

Great that you have only winning stocks, you must be unique.

I've been in the stock market for about 30 years, stopped investing in it about 6 years ago, and today I still hold stocks that haven't recovered from the 2007 debacle.

Oh and before you start, those were highly recommended stocks that the time I bought them, and some of them have become worthless as well.

Glad your portfolio consists of winners only.

4 minutes ago, Craig krup said:

in a country where a decent condo is 6,000 or less, and big bottles of beer are 80

6000 for a DECENT condo?

You must be joking, an yes a big bottle of beer can be had for 80 Baht, but not everyone fancies drinking at the concrete tables outside 7/11.

But when I looked at your previous post I understood already that your not talking out of your mouth.

4 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

if research history & planning was done by retiree's wanted to stay and live in Thailand then it shouldn't be a problem.

How would a British retiree who arrived here more than 5 years ago been able to research or plan for the current situation?

8 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

I have only checked the length of the tube so far.

I'll try to measure the total length later.

But from a quick glance you seem to be right that something is wrong with 1900m.

 

EDIT: it's roughly about 1100 m between the arches/ramp accesses.

No idea what they added to get 1900m.

Maybe total lenght of construction work, whatever.

So a 400m tube grows to 1900m in Thailand

I measured the tunnel this evening with the car odometer, from entrance ramp to exit ramp is 950 meter.

1900 meter takes you from Exit of the highway to almost at the u-turn past the tunnel, to be exactly opposite the Mc Donalds.

2 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

No secret if you refer to the lenght of the actual "tube" which is about 400 m.

The 1900 m includes the whole length from the very beginning of the access ramps.

The arches are at the access of the ramps, so if you drive 1 minute and 2 seconds, at an average of 65Km/h, what distance you have travelled then?

Answers on a postcard.

8 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Dashcam video uploaded yesterday.

First passing northbound and then southbound.

Ok, it's not spectacular

 

 

From this video you can calculate the distance between the arches at the entrance of both sides of the tunnel, and it is FAR less than 1900 meter

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

“You have to understand that the border is long and there is natural border route,” he said.

And how is the above related to the way she fled by ways described below? I didn't know private jets used land borders to exit Thailand, nor that they depart from other locations than those that are expected to have high security,.

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The source, who is well placed in the security hierarchy, gave a detailed description of her escape, saying she took a private jet from Thailand to Singapore and on to Dubai, AFP reported.

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Meanwhile, Colonel Winthai Suvaree, spokesperson for the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said yesterday there had been no security meeting to address Yingluck’s escape.

Which says everything about what really happened.

5 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

There's no conclusive proof she has left yet.

 

All speculation at this stage.

 

One, yes count them, only one un-named source (usually media speak for pure conjecture) has said she is alive and well in Dubai.

 

Wait until we know for certain. 

I know you have already at least 10 times insinuated that she's abducted, or even killed.

Don't you think Thaksin was in contact with her every hour of the day the last few weeks, and that if he hadn't heard her voice in the past 24 hours, that would by now be on every news channel in the world?

5 minutes ago, samuijimmy said:

Yes fibre for sure: I watched them use a special splicer to add to the router.

 

Quite honestly no better than the ADSL line I had b4, which was never a problem, just will save 200 baht or a month. I've not gotten around to testing the wifi signal range...yet...

 

3BB told me 10 days to install, but did it in 5 days of ordering.

 

So your 100/30 Fibre connection is not an improvement over your 18/1.8 ADSL?

Says a lot about the quality of 3BB.

Can't wait for the next news story that brags that Thailand has the best and fastest internet network in the world.

5 minutes ago, halloween said:

Sure. But let's get this measured to scale, are we talking the multi-billions of Shinawatra corruption or penny-ante stuff.

Yes, we are talking the same sort of crime, but getting robbed of $10 hurts a lot less than getting robbed of $10,000.

Difficult to know which amount we're talking about if not allowed to investigate, isn't it?

And if we were talking about peanuts, I think there would be no need for a a blanc amnesty for the junta

10 minutes ago, halloween said:

12 minutes ago, Becker said:

Don't know. The junta leader has warned off anyone trying to look into the finances of himself, his family and his fellow junta members.

 

(Man, that was easy!)

So you just make up BS. Really easy.

No he didn't.

Everyone has to declare assets, except Prayuth and cohorts.

When some journalists asked some difficult questions at the time he sold the land for hundreds of millions, he warned the journalist to stop investigating.

All this is well documented on this forum and elsewhere

35 minutes ago, steven100 said:

The law is the law ....  he got his just deserts.

Yingluck is lucky she got outa Dodge.

Khun Prayuth is going after those thieving scoundrels.  

 

Good job PM ....  

 

If he really wanted to go after thieving scoundrels, he could make a good start with some of his close family members.

Remember the case of his brother and nephew?

I still remember, but everyone else seem to have forgotten.

1 hour ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

1 hour ago, Tharathorn said:

i like how farangs on here think that the junta are the bad guys and yingluck the good guy.

yes they are not officially elected but do you think yingluck or thaksin were :)?

you know how many people commited suicide cause of the rice scam?

since the junta took control,crime and corruption has been reduced.

in the early days most cases connected to powerful people were swept under the rug.now its much harder.

Great comedy for a first post.

 

Looking forward to many more rib-ticklers.

Anyone seen Steven100?

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I'm still recalling the lady murderer who was declared dead in a Thai prison, only to be found years later living happily in her home town.  She wasn't even that wealthy...

You have a credible link to that story, because I don't recall it?

2 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

He has applied for bail and will probably get it, they want the main players out, don't want them talking too much,could be embarrassing. 

Did you see that in your crystal ball?

1 minute ago, wakeupplease said:

Someone else who cannot read just google it

Why don't you give us the link?

Yingluck was invited by TWO Euro pm's to visit Europe, but was denied leaving Thailand.

None of the Euro pm's ever came visit her, and for sure not 52 of them.