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5 hours ago, Khon Kaen Jeff said:Retire in your own country where you know where you stand, know what's going on and have friends and family and familiarity all around, or go to some sweatbox and pretend you are happy.
retire in your own country if you are poor and the local taxman can't claw 46.5% income tax out of your pocket leaving you to purchase with the remaining amount goods and services with a value added tax of 19%
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if you are well-off retire in some sweaty but tax free environment, forget about the taxman, use the tax savings to live in a comfortable fully airconditioned home, don't play golf when it's too hot but play chess or poker with your dogs (watch out they cheat!), drink and eat whatever you like and don't look at price tags.
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1 hour ago, Khon Kaen Jeff said:Same we're not too far off the same page then. Hope it works out. Why anyone would want to grow old and die here is beyond me.
there are many things beyond your comprehension.
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16 hours ago, Enki said:On 7/6/2019 at 10:04 PM, Naam said:
anybody who has the means paying for a solar system generating net 155 kWh/day is used to yields of 7-9% per annum. we are talking of an initial investment of USD 450,000 (perhaps a few bucks cheaper in Thailand because of low labour cost).
You must have made a typo, for USD 450,000 you can build a power plant.
no Sir, no typo. my average daily usage is 155 kWh/day and to provide for that demand the total cost of panels, battery banks and inverters is around $450k.
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1 hour ago, Crossy said:
I am trying to avoid using some of my valuable solar to move air.
what about a punkah walla?
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2 minutes ago, scorecard said:You put ice blocks in a bowl and use your normal fan to drive air across the ice and cool the room and turn off the A/C.
Don't laugh, a couple of decades back we did this and it does work up to a point.
and from that point onward you are royally p*ssed off because your room has 99% relative humidity.
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On 9/1/2019 at 6:45 PM, Crossy said:
It's actually better to make ice (latent heat of fusion and all that high-school physics stuff you forgot straight after the exam).
Make 1 ton of ice and you can have 12,000 BTU of aircon for 1 day.
depending on the ice temperature the btu harvest can be exponentially higher. but so will be the energy cost to cool down an ice block to absolute zero -273ºC.
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On 9/1/2019 at 6:35 PM, RideJocky said:
You can refrigerate water during the day and use it to chill your ac unit at night
interesting! does one pour the water into the inside or outside unit?
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10 minutes ago, scorecard said:
My dream is to eventually instal solar on the house roof and get the family electricity bill down to zero, also meaning zero cost to run 3 to 4 aircons for about 60 - 70% of the year.
may you live long enough to see your dream becomes reality. but don't hold your breath.
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3 hours ago, tjo o tjim said:
Depending on your priority, humidity or dry bulb temperature, you have a lot of options to reduce your power bill. Chilled water still seems to be hard to pull off here though. The equivalent of a single 100-ton CalMac ice storage tank would be perfect here...
i respectfully but totally disagree. ẟt between 18ºC well water and an average of 30ºC ambient temperature is a feast for every condensing unit enough to increase efficiency exponentially. no need to play around with an expensive ice producing and storage facility plus the running energy cost for producing ice when sufficient well water is available for pennies via a simple pipe or perhaps an additional well. we are getting ~6m3 with a 1HP pump but are limited to 2HP as tests showed that 2½HP would suck air in the dry season.
moreover, our home is not an office building or factory with peak and off peak demands required for energy savings but has a rather constant demand. by the way i like RH in my bedroom <50% and in the living areas 65%.
summary: ice in my fruit juice yes, ice for condensing purpose absolutely no.
we are simple poor retired people and can't afford luxuries
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12 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:
Naam, please start to learn technical Thai and you'll find out that it's easier than one might think.
yeah right! because for an old fart of 76 years, with a semi deaf left ear and both ears limited to frequencies below 7kHz who needs subtitles watching movies for even those produced in his mother tongue it's a breeze to learn a tonal language.
when our cook wants to discuss something with me she calls her husband (our gardener) to translate because i hardly understand a single word (big problem hearing consonants) of her high pitched voice.
and for my wife a few meters away me asking "would you like to have kartoffelsalat with your pork chop?" my answer might be, based on her last two words, "i never refuse a blöw jöb my beloved!"
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6 hours ago, tjo o tjim said:
Would love to mate a 3 or 5-ton condenser to a 10m3 water tank to build a thermal storage system, but doing it with ice and refrigerant gets tricky, and adding glycol on the primary cooling loop too complicated.
i had plans to use 18ºC well water (4-6 m3/h) for a whole-house chiller serving either 19 individual or three ducted units for zonal purpose (evaporators all refrigerant, condensers 50/50 separated by heatexchanger) but couldn't find a qualified contractor. when i found a top company it was too late.
estimated savings would have been at least 50% electricity cost ~THB 100k/p.a.
sooner or later most of my hard working 13 years old units need to be replaced. but being an old fart who cherishes his comfortable lazy life style prevents me to make big changes.
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2 minutes ago, FredGallaher said:
Frankly most American wouldn't know about capillary injection or expansion valve. I assume they have to do with an AC unit but not sure. I use our local AC guy who is great.
that depends on the store. aircon parts of course only in a specialised store. but 99% of your technical needs big stores like Lowe's or Home Depot are perfect. i designed and built a high-tech home which requires continous preventive and actual maintenance which is with very few exceptions done by ourselves.
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5 hours ago, villagefarang said:Quite simply, the sounds coming out of your mouth are just noise and have no meaning because you don't speak Thai. I would suggest you bring your wife up to speed before you go shopping, so she knows what you want and why. If a young child was crying or talking, adults would simply talk over them, ignoring what to them is a useless interruption. They may see you in a similar light.
I am sure it is frustrating for you, but you are the one who needs to adapt, not the other way around. You are of course free to completely disregard my advise as I do not fit your criteria of being unable to converse in Thai and needing an interpreter.????
i disagree respectfully but totally. i hate to cross the property lines and when we lived in the U.S. of A. my wife to used buy technical items in hardware stores based on a broken part, a description or a drawing i made. she was usually greeted mit a broad smile and "and what does he want today?"
here in Thailand i do some shopping in hardware stores and use my Thai assistant/handyman/service engineer as my Thai is virtually not existent. but even if i was the Thai expressions for most technical items are so multivalent and unprecise that they are useless. english words for technical itmes are used in Thai language too. try to find Thai words for capillary injection or expansion valve and retranslate into English for a roaring laughter.
if we encounter a salesperson who's English is rudimentary the solution of the problem is "you talk to me or we go!" if my assistant is not faster with "you talk to him or we go!"
works since 15 years. as simple as that. case closed!
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3 hours ago, Matzzon said:I sincerely hope you are joking! Iconic slice of Pattaya? Since when does the sleazy bar and bargirl scene become iconic. Must only be iconic to the ones that degrade themself to frequently indulge inthe forever boozing and eating a piece of flesh a couple of times a week. So, as asummary. We should be very sad if the sex expat and the sex tourist are leaving Thailand. As I said, you must be joking.
he might be joking and you lack humour
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neat job Crossy!
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1 hour ago, Jajazazajaja said:
Pound strengthened today on the news that Brexit has pretty much been cancelled.
did your reading glasses break?
Quote"The British Parliament has been officially prorogued after Queen Elizabeth II approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request to suspend the legislative body until October 14. The prorogation order said: "Order proroguing Parliament no earlier than Monday 9th September and no later than Thursday 12th September 2019 to Monday 14th October 2019, and directing the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain to prepare a Commission accordingly."
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11 hours ago, BestB said:
Is it me going crazy, or someone else also notice the difference?
Can not comment on regular Coke as i do not drink it
applies to regular Coke too!
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7 hours ago, mania said:
I have never been but have read about it...........
http://www.jensenchuaphotography.com.sg/khao-kho-northern-thailands-hidden-gem-in-the-highlands/
a beautiful area indeed. but that's where the proverbial village Nakhon Nowhere is located. one thousand miles to the next Foodland, Makro, Tesco or Friendship, 48 hours waiting time for an emergency team when you have a heart attack.
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6 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:6 hours ago, Naam said:makes quite a difference but 4-5ºC is a gross exaggeration.
I would say, perfectly possible. An unpainted grey wall is about 10~15 degrees hotter than the same wall with white paint.
yawwnnnn... measuring the difference of wall temperature inside/outside is as irrelevant as are the reproductive organs of a nun who vowed eternal chastity. relevant is the difference of room temperature and outside temperature. if somebody claims this difference to be 4-5ºC at or after 12.00 noon then...
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21 minutes ago, Tofer said:I have never heard of duty being charged on the cost of shipping and insurance before.
not only TiT but global usance to charge on CIF.
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Why did you choose to retire to Thailand?
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because of the taxman Mate! even in Costa Rica he's rearing his ugly head friends told me. our cook prepares excellent food and if i want something which is difficult to prepare at home i order food from a huge variety of restaurants which our driver collects. the climate in our home is a quite pleasant ~26.5ºC and as a cosmopolitan i can adapt to any culture or ignore it. the latter i do as i live since nearly 30 years like a hermit... with a wee bit more comfort.