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Anybody have a cheaper solution than my 206 baht Sonoff Basic IoT switch?

In my case, I have a Sonoff Basic device on the PEA side of my whole house UPS. It's the only way I can tell if we have a power cut or internet failure and it triggers me to shut off unnecessary air cons & water heaters to maximise the time I get from my 28.8 KwHr LiFePo4 battery, it also triggers me to call PEA or CAT Telecom and tell them. I have over a dozen of these devices controlling outside lighting, fountains, grid-tied inverters, table lamps, water heaters, garage door & main gate (the latter 2 are really useful as I can just say "Hey Siri Garage" or "Hey Siri Gate" from a few 100 metres away and they are open when I get there or I can close them after I have left. I can also program the grid-tied inverters to shut off for a few hours if I am away and it's meter reading day.

Buy a 200 baht Sonoff switch on Lazada, and turn on OFFLINE ALERT and the eWeLink app on your phone to control it will receive a PUSH message when the device goes offlne or comes online, ie power or internet failure.

My father in-law, a GP in the UK, told me always to go to the busiest hopital, not only are they more experienced, they see complications more often and are more capable of dealing with them. That backs up my own experience. I had 2 minor operations in a private hospital in Chiang Rai, both for a skin cancer, second time was a recurrence of the first. Both times I developed sepsis and spent most of the ensuing week laid up in a hospital bed there with antibiotic IV drip. My friend died in the same hospital from Sepsis. Another friend was in there for 3 weeks with Sepsis following a procedure. I wrote to the hospital director saying they had a problem, I didn't even get a reply. The second time, they didn't get all the cancer, I went back and saw a young doctor, who was literally shaking and left the room for 10 minutes to see a senior for advice, came back and said freezing wouldn't work and recommended more surgery, I told him it would have to be a cold day in hell before I let them anywhere near me with anything sharp again. I had follow up surgery at the government hospital. It was like chalk and cheese, 7 or 8 nurses plus one plastic surgeon in an incredibly well equipped OR compared with the same Dr. & one nurse both times in the private hospital in a dirty treatment room with marks all over the walls and one tray of instruments which I suspect either weren't clean or came from a broken autoclave. On another occasion, I had pain so bad I was throwing up and my friends took me to the other private hospital in Chiang Rai, suspected Kidney Stone at 8pm, they told me to go home and come back in the morning when the ultrasound operator would be in. Ultimately, it was removed under a General Anesthetic at the Government Hospital. I have had 2 colonoscopies, one at the hospital that causes Sepsis and one at the Government Hospital, both went well.

I don't think I know anyone who after owning an EV would ever buy an ICE car again.

The Miracle series are fixed speed non-inverter Air Cons, we are talking about inverter air cons. All fixed speed air cons have poorer SEER ratings, the SEER rating also decreased with BTU Output. The SEER rating can be different by country & climate too.

TCL air conditioners are designed with energy efficiency and affordability in mind. Many models boast an impressive SEER (Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio) rating of 16 or higher, meaning they typically use less energy than standard AC units while still providing excellent cooling power during hot weather months. Are Tcl Air Conditioners Any Good? - Go2Share www.go2share.net/article/are-tcl-air-conditioners-any-good Really? please share your data

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TCL are the largest air con manufacturer in China. They have always priced aggressively, I think they are “buying” market share, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are the No.1 by volume currently here in Thailand. Prices have been this ludicrous for the 3 years we have been buying them. China’s CCP has this policy of giving kick backs to exporters, probably lets them undercut everyone. On 6/6 from Lazada I ordered a TCL Inverter 10kg washer /7kg dryer for 9,700 baht, TCL 65” TV for 12,200 baht and a TCL large 2 door American style SBS Inverter Fridge/Freezer for 12,700 baht for a house we are preparing for sale. I have confidence in the brand.

We haven’t installed the WDP19 so I can’t comment. I would keep an eye on the price, I suspect 7/7 there will be a sale and you’ll get it for 12-13,000 baht

I think it’s more likely they are charging from 20% to Full. I don’t think I’ve ever had my battery below 20% and if you are on a long journey, you’re probably getting anxious at that level.

inverter or non-inverter. It's down to how well designed it is.

You might be better with something like a BroadLink that will send the IR code to do that. The problem is they usually beep on receiving the IR signal and that might wake you up. Most inverter AC's have a shutdown mode, turning it off at the remote begins a sequence of events that shuts down the AC. Just cutting the power is obviously ok occasionally, I'm not sure what doing it regularly might do to the unit.

Set your AC for the temperature you're comfortable with and forget it. Alternatively, use the timer mode on TCL, it's adjustable at 30 minute intervals, you can set it switch off during the night after a number pf 30 minute intervals. You can also set it come on the same way, but not both at the same time. You might find the sleep mode works for you, that will effectively shut it off if the set point goes up to the room temperature. The compressor on the inverter will switch off if cooling is not required, you then have a 10 watt fan running in your bedroom unit only, and possible a lot less than that.

If the battery is 35 KwHrs and we assume ithey are quoting 0% to 100% (since they don't mention anything else, this is the sensible assumption), then with losses you are going to have to give it 40 KwHrs (approx) and you are charging it in 6 minutes, that is 1/10 of an hour. 400 Kw for 6 minutes = 40 KwHrs. I don't think they are off by 9 years, but I do think it will take most of that to achieve mass adoption. No major manufacturer is going to switch across to their batteries without exhaustive testing. Incidentally, this isn't the first manufacturer to develop a BEV from a Lotus Elise (Tesla Roadster)

Most inverters have a SAVING or ECO button, generally they do one of these things... Mitsubishi - set the air con 2C more than you have chosen TCL limit the speed of the compressor to about 70% of rated output I think the Carrier also set the temperature 2 degrees higher than you have chosen, but I haven't operated one myself for about 4 years. Carrier & Toshiba are made in the same factory. Some will increase the temperature overnight with a sleep mode after 30 minutes or an hour, I always wake up too hot. Pay about this for TCL inverter 8,000 baht for 9,000 BTU 9,000 baht for 12,000 BTU 10,800 baht for 18,000 BTU and arrange your own installer.

We have been installing TCL for about 3 years. A good design makes it impossible for a gecko to get to the logic or power boards. I think the only way you can tell is with time and number of installs. We installed our first Mitsubishi inverter (heat pump) about 10 years ago and we've probably had about 100 unit years with no Gecko ingress. Daikin about 90 unit years with 7 gecko related failures. Carrier about 40 unit years, failures was a weld, I don't know if it was our installer's weld or not. In reply the post about TCL being noisy, we find them practically silent on the whisper quiet setting, we have only installed up to the 18,000 btu units, I can't comment on larger units. My understanding of most 24,000 BTU wall mounted units is that they overrate the 18,000 BTU unit with a faster fan and faster compressor, consequently they are noisier. We prefer to fit multiple 18,000 BTU units in larger spaces. My own kitchen is 6m x 13m and it has 3 of TCL 18,000 BTU Inverter units, we rarely run more than 2 at a time and mostly on fan setting 1 which is one notch up from whisper mode and almost imperceptible. 3 units is overkill but it's handy for parties. You need a very quiet room indeed to be able to hear them on the whisper setting.

I think the inverters are a far superior product, especially in a bedroom. Inverters have a whisper quiet mode achieved by slowing down both the inside fan and outdoor compressor, you can't do that with non-inverter because the compressor can only run at one speed and if you slow down the indoor fan too much it will ice up. Inverters typically maintain the indoor temperature within 1 degree (+/- 0.5C), non-inverters are typically at least within 2 degrees (+1/-1C), they overshoot on cooling and wait for temperature rise substantially above set point before restarting (for the technical, a larger hysteresis). Inverters typically vary their output between 20% and 100% of rated cooling capacity. Inverters don't click on and off, the click can wake some people up. Inverters save a lot of money. Inverters have a soft start, they don't spike the mains with heavy inductive loads. You can run inverter air con's on a generator without having to go massively over rating. Inverters typically operate across a wider range of AC voltage as they have Switching PSU's with under voltage protection.

And enjoy the rattling engine preventing you from nodding off and get out at the end of the journey knackered from all the NVH.

Our business developing moo baan now fit TCL as standard, no failures yet with dozens installed. Fantastic kit and so far, no fade on white plastic. Buy on Lazada when price at it's lowest. I don't recommend Daikin, we've installed about a dozen and replaced logic boards 7 times, always gecko ingress. One compressor failure too, replaced whole unit with a TCL. Fade to yellow on indoor unit, uneven with rotating louvre colour changing to completely different colour. One Mitsubishi heat pump power board went during a power cut when the generator went overvoltage (out of about a dozen), so can't really blame them. Colour fades to yellow evenly. Carrier, one failure out of about a dozen. No colour fade. LG, no failures but too noisy (pre-inverter). Colour fade to yellow.

The challenges of charging are immense. Allowing for losses, you would need to be charging at 400Kw average, there are issues with connectors and cables producing heat, I would guess it has to have 800v architecture as a minimum. It will need a whole new breed of DC chargers too. Generally, it takes at least 10 years to bring new technology to market, I'm more than a little skeptical.

Is Taiwan a sovereign state? The Montevideo Convention (1933) defined the 4 requirements for statehood. A defined territory A permanent population A government The capacity to conduct international relations. Taiwan satisfies all the Montevideo criteria, additionally, Taiwan has quietly and unequivocally declared itself a sovereign state distinct from China. Taiwan's recognition as being a sovereign state reminds me of being in my first school at 5 years old and the big bully telling me I couldn't be friends with certain other boys, and if I was then he would beat me up. There is only one way to ever deal with bullies. I am constantly amazed how corporations and governments continue to take a self-serving path when it is clearly morally wrong.

Eggsasperating, it's no yoke having to shell out more for Eggs

By threatening to invade the sovereign country of Taiwan? I don't think so!

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