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10 minutes ago, csaba81 said:

I managed to find some holy basil and cilantro at Kham Thiang many years ago but that was it. Not practical for me to grow things from seed.

Certain Kamthieng market vendors stock nothing but herb seedlings.  There's also the MaeJo Uni agricultural fair on next weekend.

11 minutes ago, 33 RPM said:

any recent real life experiences with a solar setup , id like to hear of, or recent recommendations for a company who can provide quality products, for a fair price

Ideally you should research product supplied locally to others and gain some ideas.

> What is your average monthly consumption in KWhours and roughly how much used by day -v - overnight.

> What region are you in, city or rural?

I installed a 10kw Deye hybrid system 4 months ago with 12 x 550w tier#1 panels and couldn't be happier.  I purposely did not purchase a battery as I believe costs may plummet within 12 months and quality/safety is also improving.

8 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I wonder how he got out of Australia on another persons passport?

Not difficult via Torres Strait to PNG and Indonesia using a variety of private vessels, fishing boats and ferries.

Bike gangs in Aus import and distribute millions of dollars worth of drugs and have plenty of cash for chartering aircraft and bribing officials in abovementioned countries. 

Death sentence should be reintroduced for these murdering scum.

I prefer the colorbond extruded on site guttering complete with leaf guard if you have trees nearby.  I have a 5m run on the pool cabana with no faults or leaks found in 4 years service.  Compared with alternates it is unobtrusive and fast to have installed.

9 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

I strongly recommend painting them with silver oil based paint (it goes on like water) mine were welded on site, and the builder painted them at the time, curious I found out that it is the best for galv. as here in Thailand it is cold Galv. coated, starts to rust fairly quickly going by bits left over, after painting no rust came, that paint can also cover rust.

You must be talking about a different system as SCG lightweight steel truss roofs do NOT require welding nor painting.

13 hours ago, Longwood50 said:

With SCG  were your trusses Galvanized Steel?  The quote we had was for galvanized and my understanding is that though it does not rust, it does not have the weight bearing.  

Short answer, yes. 

It's not a hot-dipped galvanised steel product.  The steel is electroplated against rust and all cuts are treated with spray paint.

Trusses, by their design, carry the load which is evenly spread across the structure and are preferable to a built-up system IMO.  Built-up roofs employ 'king posts' to support a ridge beam to which everything is then welded.  One bad weld and the structure could fail under extreme weather loads (high wind) or an earthquake.

Pre-engineered roof trusses are the way to go.  Old fashioned built-up heavy steel roof structures are ... old hat.  Pun intended.

SCG supplied our steel trusses, erected on site in a day.

22 minutes ago, Formaleins said:

Yet another click bait crock! The lead photo shows a blown up engine with the nacelle blown off and yet it turns out that there were some sparks seen coming out of the engine! The standard of accurate news reporting just keeps sliding further down the sewer every single day!

Sadly, most Thaiger stories are run thru ChatGPT then have dumb clickbait titles added.  Another cause, possibly the one which was omitted, is compressor stall, causes a load bang/backfire and flame before engine shutdown.

Fish & Chips, smoked kippers, scotch eggs, bread'n butter pudding.

I envision this JV ending badly.

Flat batteries, fires, and accidents due to no-noise.  Highly dangerous to pedestrians IMO.

Anyone who follows Sanook/Thaiger chat GPT generated click bait needs their head examined.  Social media gossip frequently gets twisted and expanded with financial amounts blown out by a wayward decimal point.

Even if half true, the idiot deserved to be ripped off.  Gutter news IMO.

31 minutes ago, lom said:

I have the same inverter, just the 12KW big brother of yours, and I am running it with factory AC settings. I had a couple of warning alerts the first month but they seem to have disappeared now. A few of them occurred when PEA high-voltage fuse blown and was probably caused by the transients/ringing on the HV-lines, nearby lightning is likely to do the same.

 

I wouldn't worry to much about those warnings, they never cut off the inverter for me.

Thanks lom and yes they do reset.

I'll try and tweak our Deye to reduce the alerts as they occur a little too often for my liking.  We're in a heavily wooded urban area and alerts caused by weather or downed lines, blown transformers I can understand,  It's the unexplained ones which happen under otherwise ideal conditions which annoy me.

30 minutes ago, transam said:

Seems by your second para I was right............😉

 

Wheel and tyre dimensions are dialled into the suspension at factory. if you put taller wheels with skinny tyres on a ride that from factory had smaller wheels and taller tyre sidewall, the ride will be cr@p....

 

As I recall, my ol' 4x4 Vigo had 16" wheels with 265x70x16 tyres, with 29psi all round loaded or unloaded.. 20" with skinny tyres and 38 PSI will be 'orroble, must wear a crash hat for head to roof contact.......😁...

Quite right, T. 

Where you're mistaken is in reference to the OP's 'steering' problem which is what I was addressing.

8 minutes ago, transam said:

Then the ride will definitely be cr@p........🤭

Fat lot you know about the subject, KhunT 

I agree with your statement re the fitment of 20" wheels making for a crap ride and whilst the higher pressure may alleviate the steering problem it will not make the ride any softer, that's a given.

9 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

Try increasing tyre pressure 

What he said 

You'd want to be running the fronts at ~ 38psi IMO.

23 minutes ago, Crossy said:

OK, I don't know the Deye but I have a few observations.

• 265V as the upper limit is 240V +10% roughly, it's doing no harm there but you could reduce it if you like.
• 185V as the lower limit seems a bit high, particularly if you are seeing under-volt errors. Try dropping it to 180V.
• You may also want to extend the trip times for the under-voltage levels, say 5 seconds.
• Make the frequency +-0.5Hz. And give the frequency errors longer too.

Does the inverter have a "country" setting?

 

No specific Country setting, made for Australasia region.

Good points esp the trip times, tks.

3 months of PEA bills under 500bt is very satisfying especially given the amount of cloud and rain during the period. 

12 x 570w Longi panels produce power from ~7am until after 5pm most days for a monthly total of ~750kwh

We run a pool, irrigation system, fans, aircon (4hrs per night), 2 fridges and the washing machine almost daily :(

I have a few questions re Inverter settings which @Crossy and/or @KhunLA might help with as my Thai installer is currently out of town.

I note a number of over/under frequency/voltage alarms have occurred, yesterdays lightning causing one, and suspect the factory default settings may need tweaking.

Grid setup page#1

Page#2 - 263v seems rather high?

Page #3 - same here - very high upper limits?

Page #4 - freq, settings very tight?

As previously posted on page 1, BJ has a long affiliation with the Thaksin clan and a family connection through marriage.  His respect was therefor quite justified despite (our) collective dislike of MrT.

8 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Won't change their high fares, poor attitude and poor service. 

Fixed that for you :)

AFAIK it will be a new store, Thai Watsadu and BnB combined in one...  a Mega-store.

Not a solution, but some data for you to digest:-

The actual true water table will be lower than the 'pond'.  ie pond water is higher due to no earthen cover or weight bearing down.  As the wet season eases, the water table will drop and a pump-out should see you right until the next monsoon rains come.

Concrete rings allow the water table to rise from the base or joints whereas PVC septic tanks will only contain waste.  However, a PVC tank requires a 2nd 'semi-treated water' overflow tank which should ideally be full of holes to allow leeching (during dry season) or have leeching/evaporation pipes laid out under the garden.  3 rings deep for overflow/leeching tanks is my standard.

A rental house we occupied had similar problems during extremely wet periods and an overflow pipe was run to the soi by the local plumber 

59 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The temperature was 113° in the white car and 130° in the black car.    You think that makes the white car a better choice because 113° is comfortable and 130° is not?!   The difference after an hour of aircon was insignificant, also, at 80° and 90°.

Did you fail maths AND science class?