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Concur concerning APC. We have mostly good experiences with them. There is a utility to be downloaded that allows to control operation, among others to shut down the computer if the battery charge of the UPS becomes too low.

for an AIO the 500 VA version is probably enough.

As far as the battery is concerned, I have found the same 7Ah battery in most brands. Just make sure that whatever you buy allows battery replacement. As an average, I need to change mine about every 2 years. Batteries are available on Lazada too.

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

Thank you Crossy.

 

That is the sort of information that I am looking for.

 

A couple of months ago I bought 3 (buy one, get one free) solar spotlights. (The 3 BOGOF lights never arrived).

 

They were supposed to be 100W and possibly they were, but they went flat and shut down in3 hours or less. They were cheap at 582 baht for the 3 including delivery.

 

What I want to do is put a 100W or 200W solar light down the side of the house that we use, plus a 500W or 650W out the back pointing at my MIL house. They need to last at least 12 hours, so I think that it is the size of the solar panel that is important.

 

The are roundtuit jobs and at the moment are sort of covered by 4 foot LED mains strip lights, though the one at the back is not much use for the coverage that I want.

 

Your previous link going back 3 years should give me some useful information for which I thank you and the other posters very much.

We have a number of 60 W and one 100 W around the house and in the garden. Also some recently bought 5 W post lights. They all work quite well. Usually, when we get up in the morning around 6 - 6:30 most of them are still working, albeit not so bright any more.

8 hours ago, kimothai said:

Charkaphan Osangthamnont(Dr) at Bumrungrad. I had colon cancer in 2017. Thanks to him I am cancer free today. Going back for follow-up colonoscopy today. 

Similar experience in 2014. Can only recommend him.

4 hours ago, Guderian said:

Does this mean that for TM30 and 90-day reports they have their own ticketing system and you don't need to go to the 'First Queue' desk?

Have not done a TM30 lately, but for 90 days you do not need a ticket, just go in through the first door, drop off your passport at the desk and come back a while later. I had breakfast on the other side and passport was ready by then. This week on Wednesday morning.

You know the saying of going into one ear and out the other ? ????

43 minutes ago, sandyf said:

How do you know you will get a LC in about 6 weeks?

I get my pension from the Swiss AHV and their letter always comes about this time of the year.

Not verified but: Somebody told just me this morning that the police station at Soi 9 (close to Central Festival) will gladly render the service for 200 B.

Mine will come up in about 6 weeks and will then test it.

7 hours ago, LukKrueng said:

I've asked a few well drillers to give me an estimate about 7 years ago. They all came with 2 metal rods to look for best location. No radar or any other electronics...

They all had the same 2 charging methods:

1. You pay per meter at your chosen point (with or without their recommendation) and if they get to the deepest point they can but no water found - it's on you.

 

We had about the same experience, definitely the mumbo-jumbo method of finding water. We struck water at about 60 metres (East Pattaya) - about 10 years ago, it is still working. But using the water for anything else but the garden was a day-dream....

Casa Pascal breakfast buffet is back - on Sundays only

18 hours ago, Shannoblic said:

The Thai dog breed Bang Kaew is probably the best domestic guard dog for you.  They are both loving [BUT - only have one master] and exceedingly territorial.

 

A pure bred [with pedigree and Bang Kaew Kennel Club registration] is going to set you back about 10,000 baht and they need looking after.  My Bang Kaew is excellent but has to have top quality food and is regularly checked by the vet.  Expensive - yes, but Thais are very, very wary of Bang Kaews and will not go near where they are.   

 

If you have one they will be a great deterrent but be aware that you do not let them loose outside your property.  Anyone attempting to access your property could be subject to attack - and they do not let go!

 

I would agree to that. One of our two dogs only looks like a Bang Kaew (colors of the fur) but every Thai is deadly scared of her. And the whole neighborhood thinks we have a Bang Kaew. And she barks  as soon as someone comes close to our gate. To think we picked her up 9 years ago in the woods around here....

And no, our dogs also are not allowed into the house and they know it.

21 minutes ago, morrobay said:

"And that Germans outnumber Brits won't happen there" - . Anyway - Anyone except these obnoxious cigarette smoking german oafs is alright with me. These german jerks in Naklua think they own the place. I charter my private songkow just to get out of Naklua without putting up with them. Of course it also has some other advantages 

My my... and what nationality are you an oaf or jerk of ?

2 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

looks like an A340-500 to me.

The perspective is not so good, but it seems to have a center gear, so it really must be the A340-500 (HS-TYV). I first thought it is a B737.

The RTAF does have a passenger jet fleet of some Airbus 319/320's, some B737's and one A340-500. There are also 3 Sukhoi Superjets 100, which do not seems to see a lot of flying.... (see wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_of_the_Royal_Thai_Air_Force)

Which one of those they want to replace is not clear. Whoever wrote that article does not really have a particularly deep knowledge of aviation.

The A340 has flown to Turkey a couple of times lately, I suppose on humanitarian missions. As far as I know from FR24, it has also spent quite some time in Lufthansa's workshop in Hamburg last  year  - probably for upgrades inside and out. So I somehow doubt it is up for replacement.

Statman,

I seem to be fresh out of ideas. This is what I am seeing this morning:

I can associate events in the house with this graph: aircon in bedroom switched off, espresso machine heated up, pool pump started, sprinklers and deep well pump coming on and turning off..... Consumption from PV is reduced when consumers go off. All as it should be. I have turned feed to the grid off for the time being.

So I could not imagine what could be wrong in your system.

One thing might be worthwhile to try though: You could turn of the feed to the grid for a while and turn it back on after some time to see if this changes anything.

KhunLA:

Unfortunately, data is going to and stored on the Huawei server, the graph is updated every 5 minutes. Of course, the arrows also show direction of feed, but not in (real) real time.

I intensely dislike having my data in China, but what can I do ? This is one thing about Huawei...

Can you say how much is shown as coming from the grid in a situation when the meter is running backwards ?

Statman,

it looks to me like us, you have a Huawei inverter, at least the software looks the same as ours. That page you took the screenshot of has an upper part, that normally shows the flow of electricity. Load on the lower left side, supply from solar from the top and grid from the right. Like this:

In case you are feeding to the grid, this will be shown by the small arrows going down from your system.

Here are my curves from some days ago (we have a 5 kW system and is is quite hazy these days here in Pattaya).

If I were feeding back to the net, the blue line would turn green (which I - of course - would never do).

22 hours ago, n8sail said:

I moved to Na Jomtien and I hardly ever ride from my condo anymore.  I drive in my car to Maprachan or Wat Yannasangwararam Woramahamihan which has excellent riding with some hills.  Head from the temple over to Khao Chichan if you want some even bigger hills.   Hill training on a bicycle WILL make you lose weight.

 

I have yet to ride here, but apparently it is very nice also, and completely separate from all roads:  https://goo.gl/maps/khQn8YaAoYCsP1sbA

 

 

Agree about the Mabprachan track. We are going there with the bikes on the pickup (almost) every morning.

Last time we checked (about 3 - 4 weeks ago) that hill side track in the link given it was still closed

37 minutes ago, Hakuna Matata said:

If you are using PayPal only to pay for the goods and services or to send the money to other people, you can register now with PayPal Thailand which was just relaunched a week ago.

 

If you go to the signup page it says Personal Account requires Thai National ID ???

I did not go any further to check where the ID is required

If I am not mistaken, the (somewhat) recently finished new car park at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital is covered with this kind of panels.

Got the same mail. Fed-up I went and cancelled my account that I had for 10 years +

12 hours ago, Puccini said:

Are you sure that "the direction of take off and landing are entirely at the pilots discretion"

 

Or am I wrong?

In the end - yes a pilot might refuse a given landing direction if she/he feels it is not safe. It might lead to waiting times and/or diversions though.

Edit: Just saw that this has been made clear much more in detail further up.

1 hour ago, 007 RED said:

"no battery as yet"

 

Just a heads-up......  I seem to remember another forum member who has had a Huawei inverter installed discovered after the fact that Huawei some how tie you into using only their batteries, which then turned out to be a very expensive option.  Hope I'm wrong for your sake.

I have no plans for batteries at the moment but I might consult my installer to find out if there is such a restriction.

44 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Hi, yes I'm looking at 3 hybrid inverters (with toroid transformer), cost about B35000 each.

[My Thai Solar friend who was just visiting said 'make sure the inverters have toroid transformers']. I haven't Googled it yet. ????

Toroid ? Is that a dirty word ? ????

I saw them install circular transformers around the 3 phases which I assumed to be current transformers.

The 3-phase Huawei inverter (5 kW) was about B30'000