JBChiangRai

Make sure you have good health insurance, eating unpasteurized dairy products in Thailand is extremely dangerous.

I can see the middle and HiSo classes switching to EV, but I doubt you’ll get the farmers out of their 30 year old diesel pickups belching black smoke. It would be so easy to start with motorbikes/scooters, everyone can lift out the battery and plug it in at home. I drive a BEV by the way. I’ll never switch back to ICE, it’s a far superior experience.

Central Bank Digital Currency can be tagged in any way a government wants it to, for example it can only be valid to be spent before a specific date, only spent in a specific store or on specific item types, could not be exchanged into other specific currencies etc etc You will only have the right to spend it how and when the Central Bank says so, it can also be removed/forfeited at any time. Incidentally, I just got my refund, it took 7 days, much better than they quoted, even so, I’ll be much more careful in future and wherever possible, support local merchants directly.

Expiring currency is one of the many drawbacks with the coming central bank digital currencies.

I ordered a new Yamaha Digital Grand Piano from one of the very few Yamaha Authorised Retailers.

Lesson learned, I’ll order high value COD in future. PITA going to the bank to get the money out though.

On Friday I ordered an item for 139,000 baht, the list price for the item in stock (last years model). Within 5 minutes the supplier canceled my order with “pricing error” as the reason. Presumably because this years model is 6,000 baht more. The next day Lazada approved my refund, but I have to wait 3-6 weeks for the money to be returned. I would recommend you don’t order expensive items from Lazada or order them COD. Actually, there is more to this story. I complained on Tuesday and they said they would try to expedite a refund with the financial time. This morning Wednesday they called me to say it had been refunded and sent me an email to take to my bank to see where it had been lost. The refund hasn’t been lost, because Lazada use AliPay Financial Services it takes 3-6 weeks to reach the customer. So I wasted an hour in the bank too. So they take your money instantly, but take up to 6 weeks to return it. Why am I not surprised?

I had a look at the PH1000, it looks good and might be ok, I get the impression it’s basically a modified grid-tied architecture. You can’t run them in parallel unless you split your house load into multiple consumer units, 1 per inverter. You can use 1 of PH1000 with multiple PH5000’s in parallel though. It doesn’t matter which PH1000 model you buy, the grid failure output is 3.6KW, probably enough for your emergency circuits, lights, refrigerator, bedroom A/C etc. On my next big project, I might go this latter route with 1 of PH1000 and 2 of 6KW PH5000’s

PH1800-5048+ are my Hybrid inverters, I use them as whole house UPS now, when I used them as Hybrid inverters, most of the time they take very little power from the PV, if not charging the batteries and not using much power in the house then they didn’t export all the solar available, they just didn’t draw the power from the PV. I’m a big fan of the Must PH5000 grid-tied inverters, if you know the password to the admin section, you can tailor them enormously so you are the last inverter to shut down if there are others in your neighborhood and low demand.

COD is no good for a large household like mine with live-in staff. Often the recipient is uncontactable and paying for a scam order is too risky. I have always found Lazada very professional on returns.

We have a rule in my household to avoid this - No COD

If you’re going grid-tied and exporting to the grid, sometimes it pays to get inverters where you can get to the settings. Mine have had their voltage limits tweaked upwards so that (a) they are the last ones to switch off and (b) they are cadenced in 2volt increments so they don’t all go off at once. My ROI is about 5 years with batteries.

I put mine in the shade for that.

A Priest, a vicar and a rabbit went into a bar, the barman asked the rabbit what he wanted to drink. The rabbit replied “I don’t know, I’m only here because of autocorrect “

Our solar system is grid-tied and we have 3 grid-tied inverters. One will often shut down because we are outputting too much power to the grid. They are actually cadenced at 2 volts apart. I’ve tackled this with an over voltage sensor and a normally closed (NC) contractor. When the voltage climbs close to the cutoff point, the over voltage device triggers, opening the contractor and closing the contacts so that my Battery EV starts charging, lowering the mains voltage so the first inverter doesn’t shut down. This can sometimes be as early as 10:30am. The two 2KW stored water systems turn on first at 30 minute intervals delaying the trigger/BEV charging time. By mid afternoon the air conditioning units are drawing more load, we generally run them dawn to dusk, sometimes 24/7.

My 54 panels are on the roof, I can’t even see them, actually I’ve never seen them.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand is also intending to become a crypto exchange next year

And I agree, that can often be the best reason for installing solar power. I have PEA power supplied on my own underground copper cable. 54 PV panels connected to 3 grid-tied 6Kw inverters using the grid as a gigantic battery, and also 3 hybrid 5.5Kw inverters with 28KwHr of LiFePo4 batteries configured as a whole house UPS and a 15KVA AVR. I designed it myself, all in all about 500k THB, but we are immune from power cuts, run 13 a/c units 24/7 and charge my BEV car for free. ROI is between 4-5 years based on our consumption which is enormous. If I didn't have solar power, I would use about a quarter of the power we currently use, but it is nice to have the entire house maintained at 27C, even my garage is air conditioned to keep the car cool when charging.

In terms of value for money, I wouldn’t even consider solar for your requirements, bite the bullet and install that 240m cable.

You can blame America for the village loudspeakers. Their introduction was a CIA led initiative to instill national pride at the time Thailand was threatened with a communist uprising.

No parental consent needed for a child to own shares in a company, my adopted daughter owns my company and her mother couldn't be traced at the time of opening the company. The house can be sold out the company or with the company, you then have the issue of shutting the company down which can be expensive. We haven't got there yet.

You can buy the house in a company name giving your child more than 99% of the shares, a child can't be a director but can be a shareholder. It's better if you're not a director or shareholder at time of purchase transfer at the land office, but become the sole director afterwards.

Confirmed, the AML regulation is 2M THB, over this amount the bank will report the transaction to the BoT who in all probability will do sweet FA.

There's another issue here, presumably your kitchen has a roof?, you're not allowed to have any rain run-off onto your neighbours property, that probably means you need a gutter installing with a downpipe. The gutter must at no point be vertically over your neighbours land or you're trespassing. So the gutter has to be set back onto your land, the roof and wall must be inset from the boundary wall, you need to build another wall. In other words, you can't use a boundary wall as an inside wall for your kitchen.

Every Thai electrician will tell you that electricity is completely different in Thailand, and no earth is required ????