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OK. Very sorry to have repeated these threads....but...honestly... I had not seen them. Still.... Really nice that others are complaining...much more forcefully that I ever could. Let's hope something good comes of our complaints.... Why do people need to re-invent the wheel? I do know, but then, I have no time to tell you all that I know.

What was once on the left....is now.... On the right. If you have not yet noticed this.... Then where have you been, by the way?

Sorry to hear this.... Stop the jabs, maybe...though I am no doctor, nor any type of vaccine scientist/researcher. Once one reaches an advanced age, however, we do know that vaccines have less positive effect, due to reduced immune response, as the result of age. As we age, we become less able to mount an immune response after receiving a vaccine. Therefore, it's all about cost/benefit, I guess. I have never heard of anyone getting 8 injections of the same vaccine..... I once had 6 injections of the RABIES vaccine.... And, fortunately, I did not contract the dreaded rabies...... Also, to this day, I have no fear of water.....either. Maybe, in our society, we should have more protection for our elderly population. As we age, we become, on average, less able to discriminate fact from fiction. Not sure what my brain might look like...at age 85. But, my guess is that it will not be pretty. We need better ways to protect our aged population....from the charlatans in our society. I hate scammers who prey upon the weak in our society. HATE is not a strong enough word...in fact.

EIGHT. Is your mother Chinese? 8 is a very lucky number, in Chinese culture. I have great respect for your mother, or anyone, who can have eight jabs, and still ask for a ninth. I see nothing wrong with this....as long as these shots are FREE. After all, somebody needs to be test subjects. In the past, drug companies once used PRISONERS for testing drugs. Now, they just use the general population, which is US.... I really do not care...because.... I have suffered no ill-effects. Even if I did suffer ill-effects, I would not complain because...... Our world is deteriorating so fast that.....any shortening of my lifespan.... Would be seen by me as.... A positive side-effect. No worries.

I had three....I think.... Although, who really knows....since.... After the first JAB..... I lost my memory.....

Right! Left is now Right. Right is now Left. So very confusing!

Just a minor quibble.... For some reason, they have moved the right side of this forum to the left side. What justification did they have for making this move? I always put up with weird moves, when I have no way to change the decisions of the Powers That Be. But, still, I find this move irksome, and also, I find that this change is for the worse, and for no good reason. Maybe I am wrong? Who made this move....and why? This is a very SMALL and MINOR issue.... Yet...I find myself....sometimes at night, in the wee hours....just wondering.... WHY! Still...its OK with me...IF....others prefer this new Status Quo. Best regards, Gamma Note4: I would not be averse to seeing things put right, and put back, where they once belonged....yet....I will not make any stink about it, either. Note4.1: Also...who am I to complain? I am, truly....NOBODY.....i.e.,....

Not really. I have always been considered a SEXPOT....even by my mother. In fact, Oedipus is my name.... And being a SEXPOT has always been my game....from my earliest years.... This is just ONE of my many more interesting COMPLEXES....of course....

CONFIRMED....by many girls that I have known in my youth.

NO. Not a sexpat. I am a SEXPOT, in fact.

Dear Folks, a. As we all know, people living in high-floor condos have tried all sorts of ineffective methods to keep pigeons away from their balconies. For example, they have even resorted to many types of ugly netting, and have also tried using water guns and loud noises… Without much success. I truly feel for them. Pigeons are a complete nuisance, and dirty, too. b. So, I want to know if trapping pigeons in Thailand is illegal. And, I want to know what might be the most effective traps for trapping these edible pests. c. Many years ago, I experimented with some humane traps, going by the brand name, “Havahart”. These work OK. And, I want to know if I might be able to source this brand in Thailand? d. After listening to the noise from these pigeon-vermin on my lawn, disgusting beasts, only second to the domesticated rooster, I am hoping to INVEST in the Havahart type of trap, for the purpose of ridding my lawn of pigeons, as well as adding to the protein of my daily diet. e. So the questions beg: 1. Is it illegal to trap and eat pigeons in Thailand? 2. What are the best three recipes for cooking local pigeons? 3. What might be the risks related to eating local pigeons…if any…which I very much doubt. 4. What WINE should I serve my guests to enhance the flavor of locally trapped pigeons? e. Where can I find a local guy/gal to prepare the live birds for the oven? How much should I pay such a worker for this kind of dirty work? f. My thinking is that if this project goes well, then I will be able to buy far fewer cans of tuna each month. Yet, still, I will continue to have my 5-egg omelets, daily, as I really enjoy the omelet that my favorite cook prepares for me, seven days a week. I really cannot understand why, with all the hungry locals around here, we still have this huge pigeon infestation in our area….. Any good guesses as to why? (For example, back in the day, and in China, all these pigeons would have been consumed long before they could have cause so much havoc to our TOURISTS in their CONDOS....for sure.) Best regards, Gamma NOTE4: I prefer a Cabernet Sauvignon with my birds. What about you? NOTE4.5: This, obviously, is NOT a joke post. I have had it…UP TO HERE…with these local pigeons! NOTE4.6: Tomorrow is another Sunday. And, I am thinking.... In the future, I might be able to have guests in, on a Sunday, for a pigeon feast, weekly. Sundays are the days for fine feasting, at noon. NOTE4.7: Most of what I have learned about pigeons, during my youth, was learned from reading the experiments of BF Skinner.... Both Skinner and I....have a VERY WELL mind....

As I stated, in my view, you made the RIGHT DECISION to go with the cheapest machine that is able to operate normally, and up to your expectations. Here is why, IMHO.... After buying GARBAGE produced in SE Asia, I have noticed that the cheaper garbage does not operate any better than the much more expensive garbage produced in SE Asian factories. Why is this? It's my belief that the QC employed in SE Asian factories is just all the same, no matter high or low priced. Therefore, there is really NO POINT in spending more money for any type of "premium quality" machine....since, here in SE Asia...there IS NO SUCH THING as premium quality. The components used are all the same. And, there is very low chance to buy a premium quality machine, where all components used have been thoroughly tested before assembly. Example: Even with a premium quality machine, such as I have purchased in the past, there seems to always be several WEAK LINKS, such as a bad thermostat control, or a very bad fan, or something else. Which means that, even with a premium-priced machine, the machine will be....just garbage, in the end. Therefore, why pay more???? Far better to just go with the cheap stuff...and then....when something goes bad....just rip it out, and put it in the TRASH HEAP, where it truly belongs. Better to buy TWO or THREE of any type of appliance, such as a microwave oven. Then, when it fails within a year or two....just take a sledgehammer to it, take out your frustrations on it, and then carry it out to the curb-side, or trash pickup. In the past, I paid much more for better microwave ovens, for example. But they fail just as fast, or sometimes faster, than the ovens which cost 2 or 3-times as much. These days, I just buy 3 microwave ovens, at one time. When they fail...then OUT THEY GO....to the GARBAGE HEAP, where they belong. I then just use the next in line....until that one goes KAPOOEY .... I would ONLY pay premium prices for products made in Japan. And, in fact, the premium company I mentioned, above, has already pulled their production out of China, and returned it to Japan....for JUST THIS REASON. I am sure that this company would not have done this if ...... they could have reliably produced in China....with good QC control over components, etc. In conclusion: I really MUST AGREE with you that you made a far better purchasing decision than I....by a long shot. You saved a lot of money. You god a decent machine (machines). And, I see not much difference between what brand you purchased, compared to what I purchased. Also, China products can be very good. China can make ANY QUALITY that the customer pays for. We know this from the cars that they are making, these days, the EVs...for example. Can Malaysia make this quality? NO! Not in my opinion. ========= I have had so many problems with the ACs, premium machines, made in SE Asia. And, these problems are due to things like faulty thermostats, or faulty design out of SE Asian engineers, who are wifty as heck. Therefore...no point in paying premium prices for this garbage. I do miss the OLD DAYS, in Japan, when I could buy an AC that was a beautiful piece of well-engineered and assembled machinery, which was a beauty to behold...and a pleasure to use. Those days are gone, and probably never to return. So...again... I agree with your purchasing choice, concerning the TCL machine you found, for such low cost. KUDOS to you, then....

The air exiting the vents of the indoor evaporator unit SHOULD be lower than 18 degrees C...by the way...

As I said, when you FINALLY, shared the exact model number that you purchased: This is a very good deal you have. Here, you can see the difference, for example: This machine normally sells for Bt.45,000. This price listed is just a temporary discount. Usually, you cannot buy this, with installation, for less than Bt.45000.00. And, since this machine is higher capacity than the smaller machines, the SEER .....SUCKS the BIG ONE...with an SEER of 20.20. (The 18000 BTU unit has an SEER of 24.19, and the 1269 BTU unit from Panasonic has an SEER of 24.4....) The machine above has an SEER of 24.45...so....decent. (This SEER does NOT suck the Big One...! Therefore, as I have just stated, your choice of the much cheaper brand (in Thailand)...was a very good choice, it seems to me. My only concern is that the data published on Lazada, or other sites, might NOT be accurate. And, there is really NO WAY you can test this yourself, because you have no accurate way to measure the heat coming off the hot coil, in BTU. All you can do is measure power usage at what you consider to be MAX POWER, in WATTS, as you have already done. The other problem I have had with cheaper Samsung machines, small ones, is that, in the past, they tended to ice up, when overtaxed. This happened a long time ago, with a Samsung machine, very cheap, 9000BTU, in Taiwan. I prefer to buy Panasonic. However, with the price that you got, then it's impossible to argue that you did not make the best choice. If you cheap machine is quiet, and if it lasts over 4 years, then your choice was the best one could possibly make...OBVIOUSLY. I had thought about buying something other than the Panasonic machines, the large ones. BUT, I did not realize that I might have purchased, on Lazada, the TCL unit that you did. If I now had it to do over again, then I could have purchased 4 TCL 12000 machines for the price of just one Panasonic 24000BTU machine. If I had done this, then I think it might have been a much better choice....for sure. But, how did you get the machine installed for such a low total price, is what I do not understand..... Bt.8000.00 is a super LOW price.....an amazing price, in fact.

However; if the unit you purchased, according to the model you listed, actually does achieve an SEER of 21, as I have seen on one internet site.... And, if the price is about Bt11,000.00, as I have seen on Lazada.... Then, it would be a wise move to buy this machine, obviously. I would like to see the indoor and outdoor unit noise levels in dB, or example. 50 seems high to me. Still, it would be better for me, for example, to buy 12 units of this model that you purchased... Rather than THREE units of Panasonic 2400BTU machinese. Because, the same overall cost. Panasonic is much more expensive. Therefore, it would be my choice to buy 12 units of the TCL machine that you bought.... Which would give me 144,000BTU of cooling power for less money than I paid for my three Panasonic machines, which give me only about 70,000BTU, TOTAL.... Therefore, if the SEER data is accurate for the machine that you purchased, the I would buy 12 of them, and still save money, and have TWICE THE COOLING POWER, too!!!! However, as I say, I would first like to check the energy data, and the actual power consumption in watts, before I made a final decision. I could actually use 144,000 BTU of Cooling Power, during the hot season. Great for ice skating, or other forms of exercise. When outdoor temps might be 43, then I could get the indoor temps down to 16. Easy as pie, with 144,000 BTU of cooling power....

This site you link is for USA readers. Anything under 23 is garbage. What is good to you, might not be good to most people who are interested in saving money by using a high-efficiency unit. In North America, the site you link, most people do not run ACs year-round. But, most do, here in Thailand. The entire site you link SUCKS the big one for Thailand readers.

Because, I did not see where you listed the XAL-12CH. Anyway, for the model XAL-12CH, there is not much information online. I was unable to find the max power usage in WATTS. This is all that I see shown on most sites... So, if you know the max power in watts, then you can divide that into 12340, and get EER (estimate) Some sites state that this machine might have a SEER of 20, but this should be checked with the manufacturer, to verify. Super LOW cost, of course.

As I told you... You need to buy an AC with an SEER of 23 or above, if you want to cool efficiently and save money on electric power. HERE is the Panasonic AC That I would buy, if I wanted a machine of about 18000 BTU. But, I need larger machines.... You can see that the SEER rating on this machine is over 24. The only thing that I would ensure, if I could, is that I purchased a Panasonic AC which was manufactured in Japan.... But this is probably not practicable. I believe that the ACs made in SE Asia are GARBAGE by comparison to ACs made in Japan, by Panasonic. Just an opinion based on experience using garbage from SE Asia...

Here is ANOTHER piece of WASTEFUL GARBAGE from a TCL Elite 12000 model (This is why it is important to identify which model you actually do have.....Otherwise, it's all just a big guessing game here.....) EER of about 10.6

NOW HERE is a TRUE piece of ELITE GARBAGE, for example!!!! The EER on this model TCL is SUPER low. Piece of JUNK, definitely. EER is about 10.5 or less. This would be great for your Landlord to make big bucks off you by charging you surcharge for electric power. What a RIP OFF,,,,,BIG TIME!!!!!

There are MORE THAN one model of TCL Elite 12000 available. You need to first read carefully WHICH model you actually have. Then, you can find the data you need, in order to calculate EER. https://www.tcl.com/northafrica/en/air-conditioners

Regarding the SEER for the model AC you listed, this one, the SEER is as listed.... 16 But, For the TAC-CHSA/XA61, the specs are as below: EER for this machine is about 13, as you can plainly see.

You CANNOT calculate SEER yourself. Because, you do not know how many BTUs of heat are being produced by the machine, at any given time, or any given wattage being used. Also, SEER is calculated on many factors, including usage at different times of year, and is seasonally influenced. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST look at the Manufacturer's Rating, which is published, and available on the internet??????? I already sent you the published SEER rating for your machine.... 16 which is garbage. The EER rating is lower than the SEER. My GUESS is that your machine has an EER of about 11 or 12, which is garbage, and it wastes a LOT of electric power. You can contact your manufacturer for the exact EER rating that the company or testing organization has tested on your brand model of machine. Probably 11 or 12, as I already told you. Next time, BEFORE you buy, first look at the PUBLISHED EER and SEER ratings for machines that you might want to buy. Higher EER or SEER rated machines cost more money. For a machine of less than 18000 BTU, then a SEER of over 23 is acceptable. I am not up to debating this further, as this is not really a suitable topic for debate. It's just science. And EER and SEER are what they are by.....DEFINITION.... There is no room for debate...obviously.

You just DONT GET IT, Boy! We are talking EER and SEER. This has NOTHING TO DO with the size of the room. Smaller machines are able to achieve higher EER . Got it? Don't believe me? Just google it. Machines less than about 20,000 BTU are smaller machine which can be more easily designed to achieve higher efficiency, or higher EERs. You should check, once again, how EER is calculated. This is based on an industry standard. So, EER is calculated the same way. The ambient temp used is standard. The machine must be operating at maximum, or near maximum power. Humidity also must be controlled for when testing EER. You FING CANNOT DO THIS AT HOME.....Boy! For one thing, you have NO WAY of measuring the amount of heat being put out by the Hot Coil....BOY! Therefore you have NO WAY of making the calculation, because you do NOT KNOW how many BTU of heat are being produced. ========= If you want to talk about what size machine is too big for your room, that is an entirely different subject, which depends upon many things such as insulation, exposure to direct sunlight, and time of day of use, etc. I think your understanding of SEER and EER and efficiency in general....needs a lot of work.

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