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3 minutes ago, Crossy said:

OK, is the Eaton box still in use and being fed from where?

 

Interesting that they gave you a 50A incoming MCCB, are you certain you have a 30/100 supply?

Yes about the 30/100 transformer the 1 phase is coming from my pole overhead to the villa the new 3 phase is coming from my pole to the new box in the car port

Original box

11 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Could you post a clear photo (close up) of your two existing breakers please.

 

194V on a nominal 220V supply with minimal load is somewhat worrying! (already 12% low).

 

Can you link to the spec. for your server rack please so we can see its power requirments.

 

 

 

First photo is the original 1 phase in the villa when I bought it. Other photos are the new 3 phase the single miner is running from the 30 amp fuse

Thank you Sir for your Reply and thank you for taking the time to do so. I know what you mean hurts the miners a lot but I live near Hua Hin now, I actually have a condo in your area that I will try to sell very soon. I've done the math and with 300 amps I could go up to 10 to 13 miners the majority would be for BTC and a couple of Kasper Miners to help pay my electricity I have my first miner up and running now on the three phase but I think my next job should be to integrate the wiring and get a new circuit board. I am using one room of my villa as the mining room the exhaust pipes for the boxes are going out through the wall to the garden. I'm using these boxes to cool down the miners and push the hot air out of the room into the garden and keep the noise down. The photo is what the PEA did for me. The transformer is on the road and the thick wires come down the soi To my pole and from the pole to this box in my carport the 30 amp fuse is being run to my room which I think I can only get one miner  on  15amp machine at this time. I would like to buy some more miners soon so I need the circuit breaker board that you mentioned very soon. Thanks again for your expertise and your reply so quickly

I have three phase now at my villa with a 30/100 transformer. So now I need to merge the old wires with the new three-phase wires into one circuit breaker board does anyone have any . suggestions for a circuit breaker board that can take 300 A I will split them into groups of 50 amp fuses if I can but my knowledge is limited. To reiterate I've had three phase added to my villa with a 50 amp fuse and a 30 amp fuse but I would like to integrate the old fuse box with a new three-phase fuse box. 

It finally happened

11 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Yeah, for 80 baht a square meter I'll buy all they got of that...

Ha ha ha agreed 

Perfect!!!

The concrete pad for the carport seems to be one whole section. Then they poured around it, and it isn't very think.

9 minutes ago, Puwa said:

Just by way of reference, we built this carport a few years ago. When I told the contractor, who is a structural engineer by training, that someday we would be adding a room on top, he put in a double-reinforced concrete floor (two layers of rebar grid). And we used poured pillars rather than prefab. 

Thanks for the info, much appreciated. At the moment I'm into minds. 1: To try and do it as cheap as possible, Using the existing columns and roof and thickness of the concrete floors. 2: Dismantling the roof, digging up the concrete, and starting from scratch. At the moment I'm leaning towards, starting from scratch. Very similar to what you have done, In preparation of building your room. But price will be contributing factor. So thanks again for everyone who's giving me advice. I really appreciate it!

4 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:

That was my assumption as well and why I said 

 

Meaning the decking at the high level will not be a problem for the existing supports, however the current  concrete pad may not be strong enough to support the weight of a pool, it’s almost certainly thin and may have little or no reinforcement in it

 

my approach would be to build on the posts but dig up the slab beside the carport and put down a slab that reinforced, or you could treat the existing slab as the ground and put a new slab onto it.

IMO your are correct about the concrete pad not being strong enough. Weight is important of course. Thank you everyone for your advice on these matters. Only today I have found some more photos which mirror what I am hoping to achieve.

My plain is to still have the ground floor as the carport and to have the pool to the left of the main structure. But I like the design of this a lot. Looks like on picture one you can see a concrete floor for the the upper level and picture 3 has a nice wooden finish. 

Thanks a lot to everyone I'm really learning a lot from all of your comments. 

1 hour ago, andygrr said:

Is it just a concrete slab or is it properly reinforced with rebar.

I don't know. But I'm hoping the decking and the plunge pool won't be too heavy for the concrete.

23 minutes ago, RichCor said:

My suggestion would be to try and save the roofing materials, if they're not too sun damaged, then knock down and rebuild so the structure will be built to carry designed weight and shear force on the columns.

Agreed, or I will have old and new look. Better to have old and old look

2 minutes ago, kensisaket said:

Depending where you live (city vs rural) there are permits needed to add another floor to an existing structure. Suggest you run your idea by an architect/builder before you commit money to materials.  

Thanks for the heads up. But I live 30 km inland from Hua-Hin, jungle jungle rural little village. My land was part of the farm once. Some of my land the farm still uses for feeding their cows. But yes, I agree need to get that paper. Over my wall is the farm, Maybe 20 rai to my 1 rai ha ha ha ha

2 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

How deep are your foundations on the car port that will depend if you can go up another floor I  would imagine looking at the pictures that you might have to re enforce the foundations 

Understand you Mr. O. From their broken English I'm sure I heard them say, "Knock Down". Maybe better to just start again. Here is the concrete floor next to the carport where I would like waist high decking with a plunge pool

4 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

 

For 3,840 you can't go far wrong, you just need to know what you want.

Hi,

I know I'm way off with the pricing, that is why I asked for help in this forum. Here is some new info, the farm next door to me is having a new barns erected and from my bad Thai and their bad English. With a concrete floor these barns are costing about 20,000 baht each. I think with everyone's help I'm getting a clearer picture of what I want and how much it will cost. Thanks again everyone. 

2 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

So you want something like this without the water

or this with railings 

Both are perfect! Wonderful, yes yes yes

5 minutes ago, DaLa said:

Anything you 'add' to this structure and what method you choose is not the main consideration.  The main factor is the load bearing capability of the existing columns ( posts).  Were you around when they cast these and if so can you recall how deep they went.  If not then you are gambling on them being deep enough to carry any extra weight.

 

Without then revealing the foundations my only suggestion would be to use as light weight materials for the 'extension' as possible. Pre cast concrete slabs are very heavy, so my solution would be steel beams and a wooden deck.  Maybe look at reducing some of the weight in the roof to compensate.

Thanks for your input. No, I wasn't around when this villa was built. So I like your advice. Keep it light with wood decking. Thanks again

Just now, Yellowtail said:

then go for it.

Roger that. Thank you everyone for taking the time to help in this matter. I need to build my confidence before talking to a builder

3 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

For 80 baht a square meter?

 

I you are trying to build the cheapest thing possible, use the existing roof and columns.

  

Yes, If possible use the roof and the columns.

10 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

 

If it's not going to be a living space, what is it going to be? It looks like a living space in the OP.

 

 

I would like to make it a open plan (No walls) Breakfast and chill area (Evening). The views are spectacular from that height. That was the closest drawing I could find for what I want to achieve, but without the walls of course. The step down area on the left of the drawing I am considering a plunge pool area. The Plunge pool being made from concrete, with wood decking. There is already a concrete base there to build on.