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1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

Regardless, she killed a little kid that was entrusted to her, she used the child for money, the child suffered for years before dying, and this evil woman deserves her life be cut short.

 

If it were up to me, I would treat her the same way she did the little girl, serve her poison, let her die a slow and painful death.

 

The above said, an eye for an eye, is an eye for an eye, regardless if it deters others, justice served, a life for a life, why because it was a deliberate, callus act on an innocent child, no doubt she cuddled the child when she was suffering, which would have made it worse, showing the child that she was caring for her when in fact she was killing her.

 

Death by low doses of poison till her intestines can't take it anymore. 

And that is why you are not and never will be in a position to make these decisions

14 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

I thought the police did a good job. The hostage escaped and the man chased after her, still holding the grenade. He ran into an open space where there was minimum danger to anyone else. He was then brought down by a marksman.

 

If he had caught up with his hostage, or entered a populated area, there could have been fatalities.

 

Police then exercised patience before removing the grenade from the disabled man.

 

 

But the obvious concern is how would they have known what would happen. The man with the grenade was only a few metres from the hostage. Shooting the man may have caused him to relax his grip on the grenade and drop it or worse still release the grenade forward (since he was running...ish) towards the hostage. Too many unknown variables. I'd like to think that the marksman knew something we don't. But then you have to think if they knew the  grenade was not "live" or dangerous, then why shoot him? It looks to me like they took a gamble with the hostage's life and got away with it

So... it was deemed to be a good idea to shoot a man holding a grenade...

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"...vehicle being stopped amid cries of "shoot!".

 

Nonsense, they were Thais addressing Thais in Thai, they were shouting "Stop!"

There were definitely a couple of people shouting "ying" (shoot)

6 hours ago, webfact said:

She said he was reversing into his house but the motorcyclist hit his rear. He didn't mean to shoot him, just threaten him to get him to leave the area

From the video the opposite appears to be more true, as on at least two occasions he prevented the motorcyclist from leaving 

2 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Will this be another dual priced venue ???.................

The article states that they will be free for everyone, though as Swimfan says, Phuket is turning into a concrete jungle

2 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Here in sunny Thailand you can guesstimate your realistic solar output by:-

Installed capacity x 0.5 x 6 hours = Energy Generated.

Solving for Installed Capacity = Energy Generated / (6 x 0.5).

 

We have Sofar inverters, but they aren't particularly cheap either.

Showing my ignorance here, but "Installed capacity" would be the sum of the wattage of the panels? 

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

 

If you read the meter again at 4PM (second time) you can then estimate your daytime usage too.

 

Your solar needs to generate the sum of the two.

Right. Glad I checked this forum out. You've all been very helpful.
Could I trouble you all for suggestions on a 10kW (or 2 x 5kW) 3 phase inverter that would be cheaper than Growatt (they said they like Growatt because of it's name and guarantee - however I was thinking to go for a "much" cheaper inverter with a shorter like span with the idea that the tech is improving and getting cheaper all the time. Not sure if that's realistic)

2 minutes ago, Crossy said:

You can actually measure how much juice you use in the sun-off hours.

 

Read your meter at about 4PM and again at about 8AM, that should give you a ballpark figure for how much storage you need to go "mostly" off-grid.

 

Obviously you still have grid power for backup if your batteries go flat over night.

 

 

Excellent idea, thank you

1 minute ago, Muhendis said:

Do you want to be completely independent from the grid or will be happy to use some of it (when available) for example for the swimming pool pump etc?

I'm happy to use the grid when needed. I have 2 aims. 1 to reduce the bill (hopefully by 3 - 5k per month) and 2 to have electricity during the frequent power cuts (which mostly seem to happen during the day)

9 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I can price the parts .........

1. Growatt is expensive (70Kbht) so 11kW of off- inverter (2x 5k5 in series) = 32Kbht.

2. 26 x 450w Trina too expensive, so I'll calculate 34 x 345w = 120Kbht (vs 200k for Trina)

3. Gel is old tech (90Kbht), you can only use 60% of the rated storage (so 12kWhr), I'd use s/h LifePo4 (10kWhr x2) 60Kbht

 

Their quote uses 360,000bht of equipment ....... so labour is quite cheap.

But the gel battery storage won't last you long, you currently use 60 units/day, 12 usable units in the battery is not enough, you need at least 30 units of 'usable' storage, which you could get with the LifePo4 (3 x 48V @200AH) for the same price as they quoted your gel batteries (really odd choice for the batteries).

 

My suggestion costs 240,000bht of equipment and gives you 3x the storage (but still 30% needed from the grid).

Also the 26 x Trina panels will only generate 40units/day (at best) and you use currently 60 units/day.

You may need 3x 5k5 inverters and another 8000w of panels to completely power your home.

Thanks for the suggestion, really appreciate it. I will look into it

27 minutes ago, Muhendis said:

Your 8 batteries look a bit insufficient to me.

What is your after dust electricity usage likely to be?

Thanks for your reply. 
Normally we would have one 12k BTU aircon running til morning and a 19kBTU aircon on from around 6PM - 10PM, plus a couple of TV's. The swimming pool pump is on from 5PM until 9PM.
They told us the system would generate around 5k-7k worth of electricity per month. I'm expecting that it may be more likely to be around 4k and thus would require some from the grid. Initially they quoted 314k Baht, but then changed it to 399k as they said they hadn't realised it was 3phase (despite being told numerous times). They say that the 3Phase (Growatt 10kW) inverter is 135k Baht

Hi everyone,

Let me start off by stating that I know very, very little about electricity (other than it's dangerous and not a good idea to put your finger in a socket).

I am looking into installing Solar energy. I live in the south of Thailand, in quite a remote area with an unreliable (3 phase) power supply, so I'm thinking of a hybrid solution. Our monthly bill is between 6k - 7k per month. We have 6/7 aircon units (though not usually more than 2 running at any given time), a 1.5HP swimming pool pump, 2 large (55 & 70 inch) TV's and a projector.

There is usually one aircon unit on for most of the day/night.

I have contacted a local Solar energy provider/installer and been quoted 399,000 Baht with details  as below:
"

1. Growatt Hybrid-Off grid 10kW (Three Phase) inverter 1 unit
(can use electrical equipment continuously at the same time not more than 9000W/hour)
5 year warranty
2. Solar panel, Trina Solar brand, 450W MONO Half-cut cell (Tier1) = 26 panels
*12 year body panel warranty
*25 year power production warranty
3. Gel battery 200A 12V = 8 pcs.
4. Assemble the consumer cabinet

I am very interested in hearing any opinions you experts may have. 399k Baht does not seem like a worthy investment and am therefore considering buying the equipment separately and having "them" or someone else install it

Paul

6 hours ago, Yorkie said:

 

When I go to Surin Immigration I don't even tell them that; and they don't ask!

 

Just hand over my passport and the information therein is logged onto the computer and 5 minutes later, the passport is handed back to me. No questions asked.

I was speaking metaphorically, I didn't mean that I actually say to them "oh by the way nothing has changed" ????.

Luckily my Immigration office is very friendly. The usual dialogue is THEM: "90 day?" ME "yep" followed by handing over my passport. They take it, then bash, bash, bash, stamp and hand it back

On 11/7/2021 at 6:18 AM, blindcloud said:

I've been trying to report online all week with no success. I saw one post by Eff1n2ret on Thursday mentioning successful use of the online service. Everyone else is saying it is not progressing past the first page, which is also my own experience.

 

I last did my report online in May, then in August it wouldn't progress past the first page online, so I did it in person. Now I’m in the same situation again. It’s so frustrating, how many months or years will it take for a basic reporting system to work, or even produce relevant error messages!

I just tried a few moments ago and like you found that I could not get past the first page. It worked a few months ago (9 months I suppose) but the last couple of times it has not and not this time either. As you say, it's very frustrating. It's a 1.5 hour round trip drive for me, just to tell them that nothing has changed

18 hours ago, chercheur888 said:

I can confirm that NAI HAN beach was extremely busy, nearly no space between all the occupied sun loungers, all occupied by 10's of thousands of genuine tourists from all over the world.

On the other hand, NAI HARN beach was practically empty of tourists.

They don't even know the name of the beaches, must have been there via META

Since it's real name is not written in English, there is no right or wrong way to spell it in English. Signs written in English  all over Thailand often have multiple spellings for the same place name

2 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Considering that the early program was completely mangled and mismanaged, I believe it's coming along quite nicely and steady on for the last couple months - every week it zooms up another couple percentage points. 

 

Not to bad, compared to some of the world: to date 33.4% fully and about 73% partial. 

Could be worse. 

Actually I think it's more like 54% partially vaccinated, but as you say, it is at least moving in the right direction and picking up speed

4 hours ago, mr_lob said:

Unlike many other countries, Thailand doesn't jab on weekends or public holidays. This can only slow progress. Typically Thai though, and i can imagine that EVERYONE stops between midday and 1pm to kin kaow

Vaccines are administered at the weekends but in much lower numbers. Typically 150k - 200k each on Sat/Sun compared with 700k - 800k on a week day

10 hours ago, fredscats said:

This is Thailand,again Thailand were guys would s.hag a barbers floor if given a chance

I'm really not sure how your comment and mine are related, but that is a sweeping generalisation your making. There do appear to be a lot of those on these forums though.