Metropolitian

Anyone here on NON-O volunteer and the last extension date exceeded?

I came in Thailand on non-o (v) on the 12th of August 2019.

The last, third, extension (in may) was not done, as company was closed and Immigration said I am in the amnesty.

Now,if there was no covid19 and no amnesty and I did the extension as usual it would be till around 7th next month.

What can I expect?

1 hour ago, Bob A Kneale said:

What's a designer beard...a beard?

Must be one of these.

4 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

On the right is ok for me, left, no thanks

 

15 hours ago, blackcab said:

 

What would you do if you were hanging a circular mirror?

Put a marble on the top, and whatever direction it is rolling realign.

????

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Wedge under the cabinet leg.

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17 hours ago, rvaviator said:

Why not level up the cabinet - blocks under the feet .. ?

Two reasons why not; there are two of them sitting next to each other. And the material is mdf which is prone to sag and flat at the bottom so using wedges it would give a gap at the left side at the bottom.

I'm now using small peggies, on points where the pressures are high, and lift the cabinet 0.5cm from the floor to avoid water going into the wood.

Having stuff on the cabinet the gap is barely seen now.

The one in the picture are mostly used as shades.

And the thin one for arts/crafts and advertising sheets.

At Global:

We are living in a townhouse, in the whole street the ground in the back has sunk a little.

Put a ball on the floor, and it will roll to the back. And so does fluids..

Rough measurement gives 10 cm over a distance of 12 meters. Close to a sinking ship ????

I did mount a whiteboard last week, which is 120cm wide. And when drilling the holes I used a level.

Now I moved a cabinet under it, at the right side it fits nicely under the board and at the left there is a gap of 1 cm.

Now what would you do when you hang up a TV, art or anything else on the wall.

Level to your eyes or level to the gravity?

16 hours ago, stubuzz said:

17 hours ago, giddyup said:

A few years, why will that help fix it?

Hard drives have a life span, so It gives a good indication of its condition. I believe the WD passport has a 3 year limited warranty.

There are a few sorts of 'life spans' , the most important are the guaranteed hours of use (mileage) which is at least 100.000 hours of use.

This is called MTBF, Mean Time Between Failure.

I found that for consumer graded harddisk the 'age' , when used continuously, is one-third of the 100.000 which is around 3-5 years.

Warranty is not a lifespan but you can say the company knows the MTBF and also use the one-third rule hence can 'promise' the 3 years warranty.

Another life spans is the durability of the materials, which is much longer, 10 years at least.

Then there is another 'lifespan' which writes them off after 3 years, even when they are still working fine. They get replaced to avoid errors. This is done with servers.

I'm using harddisk which all exceeded the ''warranty life time''.  Some of them 10 years already.

Few of them are type red (nas drives) , most of them blue (normal use) and no 'greenies'.

These coloring are used with WD harddisks, other brands have naming for the purposes.

For those who want to know what the coloring of WD harddisk means:

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WD Blue HDDs are mainly used for general purpose storage, they are great all-rounders, and an average user can’t go wrong with Blue.

WD Green is basically same as Blue, but it lacks a bit of performance. However, it is the most eco-friendly HDD, and it’s quite cheap.

WD Blacks are for pure performance including gaming, media, and content creation. Also one of the most expensive HDDs.

WD Red is a NAS drive. It’s optimized for NAS systems.

WD Purple is for surveillance. Advised for 24/7 operation.

WD Gold, probably the most premium of all. Made for a multitude of Datacenter-specific applications.

 

^{copy-n-pasted from wd.com community.}

16 hours ago, rvaviator said:

16 hours ago, giddyup said:

it does make some noise when first plugged in, but then stops.

A long shot ... maybe your USB port 5V is not good .. problem with the USB computer power source to the drive ...  Try a different computer if you can .. Is it used with a laptop or desktop ?

Also try another usb cable.

I have a few WD passports here, and the cable of one of them failed after a while making me stressed as I used that harddisk as backup and was thinking the harddisk itself was dying on me.

Same with another Samsung harddisk (mini usb era), changing with another usb cable and it's still there, the symptom with this one was the same as yours.

On 7/12/2020 at 8:11 AM, Yinn said:

Maybe. 

Eg  if I with two Issan people together, for be polite, they will speak thai, not Issan. 

Because I not speak Issan well, they speak thai. But if I not there, they will speak Issan. 

 

When i with not south people, I try not use south dialect. Just for polite, consideration.

Yinn have xenoglossophobia to learn Isan language? ????

I speak English, it is not my first language.

This Forum is English, good that you come here to improve your English.

In Thailand I use both English and Thai, good more if Thai speak English.

Not only for me to understand, but also for them to 'see' the world.

On 6/24/2020 at 3:05 PM, jcracine said:

green half-circles turning on top or on the side of an article.

 

...

What is it and how to get rid of them?

Ads trying to load

Solution:  put thaivisa.com in the whitelist of your ad blocker.

The chemical products Heptane and Naphtha comes close to the 'Wasbenzine'.

You can use it to clean fabrics with which then removes heavy grease stains.

It's also used as thinner-solvent (It is not -Thinner- but it thins the paint)

For household, (Dutch) wasbenzine is one substance and sold as one product in stores for the purpose to clean brushes and for degreasing purposes.

When I saw it I compared it with 'Wasbenzine' (Dutch, no english wiki).

'Wasbenzine' ; we used it for cleaning and degreasing, just like this Sophon White Alcohol promotes.

Clears residues from stickers and tiree inner tubes as well.

Not as strong as 'Terpentine' (White Spirit) and Thinners

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Wasbenzine is a solvent consisting of saturated hydrocarbons with 5 to 15 carbon atoms of the formula CnH2n + 2, for example C7H16. It is used for degreasing and cleaning.

What is the English equivalent version of 'Wasbenzine' ?

Polls are available upon starting a new thread.

For threads that has quiz/puzzles topics it would be great, if there isn't already, an option to post polls as comments.

This could be the code.

[poll]
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
[/poll]

Is there?

This was indeed a 'tricky one'.

The main feed would be at the right side, same side as where the connection clamp for the earth is too.

The cable gland which is 'free' and bigger then the other is also on that side.

Then I observed the cap wiring, the lid and the embossed wiring diagram made the conclusion that the mains wiring should be at the marked tabs.

-And- I saw that the lid can only fixed in one position, as the height is not the same. Not squared but triangle/trapezoid.

The picture of the motor itself is inverted , obvious as cable glands usually are on the "bottom side"  (quotation marks, as it's neither top or bottom in this situation but from the view of installer it is).

And the picture of the 'Star' connection gave out the definite confirmation

This setup is a delta wired configuration with the cap acting as phase shifter.

If the motor rotates in the wrong direction, then yep, the brown wire has to be moved to the 'marked tab' as in @Crossy's comment.

Tip for the OP: When connecting the wires, make sure the wire for the earth is longer (even longer then needed to get to the clamp) so that when the cord is accidentally pulled the earth connection is disconnected as last and not before the other two (L + N)

Drogba?

13 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Which current football player has won :

The World cup

The Euros

Champions league

Europa League

EUFA Supercup

FIFA Club World cup

F.A Cup

Premier League 

La Liga

Copa de ray ?

Sounds like number Seven

Ronaldo.

6 hours ago, Metropolitian said:

It's still Billy. Now in the seniors.

 

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Or do you mean that blonde that crossed to Swansea roughly fifteen years ago?

 

3 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

What is the question ?

Watt is the answer 

Yes I mean Watt, Steven Watt.

2006 he moved to Swansea City.

So I think you are right too.

Isn't she cute?  But she aint a Scotman ????

8 hours ago, 3 minus 2 said:

Here's one for you.. barring the young un 2 day,. .billy gilmour who  v unfortunately looks more than decent!!    Who was the the last Scotsman to play for the chavs..( Chelsea.) And in what year.

It's still Billy. Now in the seniors.

On 7/4/2020 at 4:57 PM, Crossy said:

Yup, same total resistance in circuit.

 

What's the load and the desired effect?

 

It may be better to use X rated capacitors to reduce the power dissipation.

Really a 'must' to use X2 rated capacitor opposite to other kinds of capacitors.

It's a feed that gets beating 50 times in a second continuously and X caps are more suitable for such task.

Failing caps are dead shorts and that would pass the 230 mains to the led, poof.

Leds cost near to nothing.

Thinking about using cap drops for the ESP boards, would be better with zener (5.6v) and fuse.

Or 'bigger cap ' like the 225K and little transformer for 24v to... 5v.  Not sure yet. What would you do?

On 7/4/2020 at 10:27 PM, Metropolitian said:

Do you have capacitor 100n (marked 104) on hand?  Use that in series with one resistor and the led, and the led in parallel with diode other way around.

On 7/6/2020 at 5:22 AM, Crossy said:

Do it like this:-

 

Just what I had imagined ????

On 7/5/2020 at 1:19 AM, maxpower said:

You mean, do you have a 100n capacitor of suitable voltage rating and be careful of voltages left on capacitors after disconnection.

No, I did not mean to say that so I didn't.

It's common sense to use one of suitable voltage (it's more important that it's an X2 type) -and- we are talking about capacitve dropper, not a elco (dc) or ladder structure which holds strong charge.

It would not always much, but yes it can, hold a charge.

You can shunt it with a bleeding resistor of 1Mohm, which empties such a fully charged cap of 0.1u in 0.6 seconds.

As indicator light connected in parallel it will eventually bleed out fast caused by the connected electronics at the mains side.

Used just as one thing, only the led and nothing else, where you pull it from the mains then you need the shunted resistor for bleeding the cap.

On 7/5/2020 at 1:19 AM, maxpower said:

Eg 100n-400V in series with 500Ω inrush limit + diodes

A capacitor in this setup (X2 , 100n) has 32Kohm resistance and a no-load voltage of around 4V and 8mA when put in series on the mains.

Add the 500 Ohm (470Ohm) is good for using one led.

Most leds are happy with 20mA and around 2 volt (Green 2.2 and red 1.8)

I would use the three leds with a 1.2K in series each led, with  1uF cap which gives you no-load voltage of 24 volt and 40mA.