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I am very curious what this is the case at PEA.  Perhaps one of you can find out.

So far I found two documents, no prices about inspection.  It seems from the document that the meter and service fee is one price.

Interesting to read the differences about postpaid and prepaid and juristic and natural persons

[a sample text from the documents]

<sup>3. An applicant shall wire the main line from the house/building to the utility pole and leave the end hanging at the meter
installation level.
4. An installation site shall have the electrical wiring and installation of internal electrical equipment according to the
standards prescribed by the Engineering Institute of Thailand or the Provincial Electricity Authority; otherwise, the PEA
will require it to correct them accordingly before allowing the electric power distribution.
5. If the total number of lightings, outlets and electrical appliance existing and newly installed is more than 20 points (one
point equal to 1 unit of lighting or 1 unit of outlet), or if the power consumption is more than 5 kW, an applicant shall
submit 2 copies of wiring and electrical equipment installation plan (scale 1:100) for the purpose of inspection. The
applicant may hire the PEA to prepare the plan.</sup>

<sup>Note:
1. In case of prepaid internal wiring inspection (natural person), the document review, approval and receipt of payment for
meter installation will be completed within 1 day.
2. The processing time pursuant to the PEA Regulation on Service Quality Standard B.E. 2558 (2015) is to complete the
meter installation and begin electric power distribution in urban area within 2 working days of applicant's payment.</sup>

....

^{No. Fee Description Fee (Baht/Percent)
1) Single-phase 5(15)A meter installation fee (Note: (Including VAT))Fee 728 baht
2) Single-phase 15(45)A meter installation fee(Note: (Including VAT))Fee 4,621.5 baht
3) Single-phase 30(100)A meter installation fee(Note: (Including VAT))Fee 12,383 baht
4) Three-phase 15(45)A meter installation fee(Note: (Including VAT))Fee 16,004.5 baht
5) Three-phase 30(100)A meter installation fee(Note: (Including VAT))Fee 38,754 baht}

Still, no mentioning of the inspection/service prices. Do one of you know it?

Link to the files: PEA application manuals

You can have the internal wiring inspected by an MEA contractor, which then gives you an certificate.

This practice is many used at new housing projects, where prefab homes are stamped from ground and waiting for an new owner to buy, whom has then to get a meter by themselves.

The service charge for the new meter is when the certificate is approved not 700thb.

The certificate looks like this : (the number in the red square is what you need to give MEA when apply for the new meter, otherwise the service fee is 700)

14 hours ago, canopy said:

The cost of inspection is built into the cost of the meter.

15 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

Then, the second part to my question, how much does it cost to get a pass?

These two costs are separated.

The inspection is now customarily done when installing the meter and included with the service charge, which is 700thb.

The cost for the meter is variable and merely an deposit, for 5(15) it is 300thb and 15(45) 2000thb , 30(100) 4000thb and so on.

You can claim the deposit back when you sold the place.

(Prices are MEA)

On 2/4/2020 at 10:25 AM, Crossy said:

The ship and sub engines had reliability issues and many were replace with more conventional units, but materials technology has moved on since and they are possibly practical again.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Stirling_Castle

Yet this ship was driven by a 10-cylinder, two-stroke double-acting marine diesels, still funny to call it Stirling Castle.

Years before the use of the stirlings on the vessels, Philips in Eindhoven made a 'camping generator' which gave about 200 watt of power, it was the MP-1002-CA.

Looks very much like the Motobecane AV42 but without the wheels ???? same grey color I had long time ago, great bikes.

Is a Stirling Engine not a form of a one-stroke-one-cylinder engine? ????

'Combustion' is done external instead of inside.

3 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

I tend to think the same, they probably just wanted to update the OP passport as it is now expired etc,

3 hours ago, bluesofa said:

That happened to me in Big C last year.

I persuaded the customer service staff to enter my pink ID card details instead, as that number stays with you for life.

Those two members are spot on, that is one of the times Big C could ask for your passport (as they are used to) and then you can choose to use the passport or the pink ID they will update that at the service desk.

The second time they will ask for the ID is when you want to redeem your collected point on the card. _{(There are exceptions, they didn't always need mine)}

I already wrote this in post #83

Additional they could ask for your ID when purchasing at the technology area for insurance or registration procedure, but then it would be done there and not at the cashier.

There are two times Big C asked me for any form of identification, and this is also with Thais.

Thais are used to ask for the card for Thai persons or the passport with foreigners.

Foreigners CAN show their plastic ID and Thais CAN show their passport, it is up to what is registered in the system when applying for the member card.

The only one time they asked for my ID is when the system needed an update. I got my member card before the 'full information registration' was needed,

which was the same as with getting new sim cards (Now you need give ID, back then no.) and the card for collecting point at gas and coffee'stations' (Now you need ID when apply, back then no.).

I gave my 'pinky' number and now the Big C membercard is not only registered with phonenumber but also with the (13) ID number.

Second (and recurring) times they ask for the ID is when you want to redeem the collected point on the card for 'cash' to pay the groceries.

Which sound good, no other can use your (lost? stolen? lent?) card and use your point to pay a small part of their bill.

This they will ask the customer before the middle of every year, starting from February if the accumulated points are reasonably high to be able to redeem. As the collected points are valid till the 30th of June.

For promotions like the 100bath off the price when 500thb and up spent in one bill which is printed on the end of one of your last bills, no ID is required but the membercard is.

Tesco members get their collected point converted into coupons which is sent to their registered address. It has the name of the member printed, at Tesco they can check and sometimes ask for any proof of ID. But if the membercard number and coupon name/number match they will mostly accept without asking.

Promotions from the bills, no ID needed.

3 panels x 300w.

Not ideal positioned yet. (Shadows)

On 2/2/2020 at 9:07 AM, Don Mega said:

A friend in Sydney installed solar panels a tesla powerwall, Not sure how much it all cost but I  do recall my mate saying it will take 12 years to pay for itself..... I wonder what the lifespan of the battery and solar equipment is ?

If the price for electric stays the same for me. The return is expected after 2.4 years, after that the electric from the PV array is a gift aw long as there is no other expenses (like a failing inverter or damaged panel).

For the batteries I have to wait for that project be finished and the bill of products (or what exactly that is called) is known and the capacity left after say 6 months.

12 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

It is a report of staying longer than 90 consecutive days in the country. When you do the report the 90 days is reset and you start a new 90 days.

A report which should be done after the 90 days and not before as it is called 'staying longer than 90..' . That's why you still can do it till 7 days after the reporting date.

I understood that online only can do before the due date, right? I have tried online before but gave up (''pending'' messages) and do it when I go for the extension.

10 hours ago, Yorkie said:

Off topic but I discovered that from the beginning of last year a renewed British passport is now valid 10 years from the date the passport is issued. It used to be 10 years from the expiry date of the old passport. At a guess the passport office (British Government) is making in the region of £18,000,000.00 extra in respect of this change in policy.

ot. In reverse Thailand gives you a ''free'' period when you apply for a driving license. Which is valid 5 years after your birthday which is a new policy.  When you get your 5 years DL for the first time (you need have a temporary first) and you pick it up the day after your birthday, changes are big that it will be 6 year minus 1 day validity.

Mine was 5 years and 8 months. After that, just 5 years starting from the date the old one expires.

The virus is a bad thing but having the Baht falling is good for the stash of foreign cash here.

4 hours ago, Yorkie said:

My on-line application (Surin Immigration) was approved yesterday evening and the new report date is 29th April 2020 (90 days hence). The actual date that I was due to report was 8th February 2020.

Ok. Then it is clear the new date is 90 days after the moment of approval/procession by the immigration.

Did mine yesterday and the next date is 1st of may, 90 days later.

Was just wondering why these method as the extensions and workpermit dates are count after the due date and not from the day of application/approval.

I am used to do those reporting at the same day of submitting the extension application for the visa.

Question: the new date of 90 days notification, is this 90days after today or after the current 90 days period is due.

(You can answer for both online amd offline notification)

Via the app.

11 hours ago, Crossy said:

Hmmm, a 20 meter ground rod?

Where did you buy that, how did you put it in?

10 hours ago, faraday said:

How do you put a 20 Metre rod into the ground?

Did a 15 meter once for a neighboring farmer, in Europe not in Thai.

And not a massive rod but an thick shielded 16mm copper conduit and the soil was sand/mud/clay.

Water was fed trough the conduit with a garden hose and I was able to push the conduit all the way in the ground including two couplings.

It was a lucky shot, as there were a lot of boulders deep under the ground, a remain of the end of the last ice-age.

5 hours ago, Crossy said:

Since just adding a battery isn't going to change his actual consumption one assumes he's taking advantage of very generous Time of Use tariffs. Buy power really cheap at night to charge the battery, use it during the day.

 

 

Just what I did before going solar.

Charged batteries at night for use on the day.

Until the calculation shows the costs of the batteries did not outweigh the profit of the tou.

Batteries were depleted to fast and worn in no time even when discharged only to 80%.

Lack of good under/over-charge controlling.

Now I am picking up this again, but with Lifepo4 batteries and balancers.

And charge the small kit with the panels during 'low efficiency' times and the bigger, teslawall-like packs, on nights.

What are you using for cleaning your tiles.
Many use Haiter and some dogs get the skin infected by scratching skin that's irritated from the 'clean' floor.

They are cute. ;
Why would people just dump them and only the females. What is the ''specialty'' with the male dogs the female doesn't have except gender difference.

I rather choose to keep the females then males. Males urinating against everything.

Aren't they just born there?

One more .

As I was making a astable multivibrator with two caps and two transistors and a few resistors granddad was here and he said;

''When I was younger I made such thing with a window wiper motor from my 2cv and a wooden board with fat polished bolts on a 'arc like path' mounted where the wiper arm moves along.  Live wire on the wiper arm and the bolts connected to (incandescent) colored light bulbs. For the local disco. A band from the UK, some rascals with long hair, was coming that next weekend''

He told me many stories but that one is gold to me.

Look. Those are the threads which gives me the warm memories ????
I see the solution has been discovered by the poster.  Super!

When reading the original post, fantastic to read about those electro-mechanical switches, especially the ah3-x timers.

Somewhat nostalgia from the time long before the microprocessor became common. They existed, in fact I was working with PLCs back then for a while but mechanical was still used.

For the OP, many solutions and many uses I have been using came trough my head.

Timers I used in the hallway for the staircase lights and the shower ventilation.

Would share this:

I did make my own 'countdown' counter/timer by using a motor with a revolution of 2 per minutes (you remember those disco balls and the program motor for the laundry machine).

For a model I wanted a flashing light ,one flash every 15 seconds. 

On the motor a wooden disc was mounted, with two notches. And a micro-switch mounted.

0000100001000010... ????

When the power was cut, motor stopped. and so was the 'countdown' of the 15 seconds and when the power came back countdown continues.

Does the teh48b the same? I never used that one.

7 hours ago, sattahip said:

There should be an apology for Szbreniza also where Dutch UN troops declined to fight to protect the people and 8000 men were slaughtered

 

The Dutch opted to stayed neutral and declined to fight. They rather protect then attack.

But in history the Dutch made a miserable mistake in Srebrenica.

Three Muslim men were sent away from the ground of the Dutchbat, they sought refugee/protection.

Outside the compound they were taken and slaughtered by the Bosnian Serbs.

Salient detail, two of the mens were brother and father of an interpreter for the Dutchbat and one men was electrician at the compound.

Dutchbat went too far to being 'neutral'

The Dutch government apologized and gave financial compensation to the family of those men, after the case being years in the court.

8 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

Name me one country that doesn't have some kind of ghosts in their past.  Remember history goes back along way 

Thailand

You haven't opened the box so couldn't confirm yet but at the ads you linked in the OP I see in the photo of the actual pump an sticker attached.

That label looks very like this one: 

Read the text at 'attenSion' , it says water prohibited.

I can't deny my feeling that it would be affected internally by corrosion which will not occur with diesel.

So if you want to keep this pump, strongly advised is to clean and dry the pump after use.

BTW, the idea of the floating tub and tug it all along the canal with the batteries in the tub. I like that.

Consider a water container for at the trees.

They can be filled with that pump 30-45 min from bottom to top.

They come in 600-1000 liters.

When the water in the canal dries out or get contained you would still have a bit overlap.