cmike

40 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

I would say the Government is getting desperate ,they need cash from anywhere

to get money for the wallet scheme , it's going to make deliveries longer ,and who

is going to collect the tax ...

 

regards Worgeordie 

The post office collects the tax.

I received a note yesterday telling me that I have received a parcel and I need to pay 250 Baht tax and 240 Baht import duty at the main post office before I can get the goods

38 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

It is a Thailand problem that is best left to the Thais as they are the majority of the people potentially losing any money over this!

Basically, no one gives a <deleted> until they do something serious or don't pay the cops.

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

 

You might cover the daytime usage with that.

 

A 10kW system will generate about 30kWh during sunshine hours, but if you have no storage and no net-metering a lot of that will be wasted.

For some reason or other the family don't want to invest in a battery. They are thinking of daytime coverage only, which is a bit weird as most of them are not home all day.

I will start to read the meters (there are 5) each morning and evening. Maybe I will convince them to buy a battery.

12 hours ago, NativeBob said:

Maybe offtopick, but:

five floors running aircons "independently" - maybe you should consider central air conditioning like in hotels? Single powerful compressor instead of 5? 

Second: invite some expert from insulation company to fix leakage of cold air? You're not conditioning air around your house, right?

Third: Electric ovens. Its a luxury, shouldn't use in Thailand. Use gas instead.

Sorry @cmike, but that's where I would start. 

The house was built to high standards ( well known construction company) just 5 years ago, so no leaks. 

Yes, I agree electric ovens are a luxury, but the whole family agreed that it was safer than having gas.

19 hours ago, Crossy said:

OK 3,000kWh per month = Roughly 100kWh per day (ouch)!

 

To generate all that you are looking at 40kW of solar! 

 

10kW would put a significant dent in your bill of course.

 

Did your contractor indicate just what your 400k Baht would give you equipment wise?

Uhm yes, but I don't really undertsand much of it. 

I just think i was solar panels to cover the daily usage ( he said 10kWh) . No battery.

We have another contractor coming today.

Yes, 100 kWh per day sounds right. The nephew living alone has 3 air conditioners on 24/7. We have metres on each "condo" and his share is something like 600 kWh per month and he doesn't even want to be included in the solar panels. We are asking the contracter if that is possible.

We live in a 5 storey house of about 1300 sq meters.  (5 brothers and sisters. Each family on 1 floor)

The main appliances are:

6 fridges

8 aircons (running at the same time)

4 electric ovens

4 computers running constantly

Total electric consumption approx 3,000 kWh (approx 13 - 14,000 Baht) per month.

At the moment the aircons run mostly in the evenings and nights, but as we are all slowly retiring, I can imagine the day usage would increase,

We enquired at one company and they say we need a 10 kw installation and the price is about 400K baht.

Would 10Kw meet our needs?

Does anyone recommend any specific companies?

On 2/8/2024 at 7:27 AM, wimpy said:

Let us know how it goes.

It went very smoothly. It took about 3 days to get trading

9 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

So she is worried that the criminal convict will go again to jail. So sad.

Who will play now with her kids? Who will tell her what to do in his party?

It must be really hard for her. She was so used to special treatment for her father for his whole life. 

What do you mean "will go again to jail." ? - He hasn't been there yet.

I nearly choked on my coffee this morning when I read this article.

The first thing Thailand needs to do is allow foreigners access to the crypto exchanges. 

https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/bitcoin-price-unmoved-despite-thailand-making-btc-crypto-trading-vat-free-202402071900

3 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Etoro?

It worked well, but I cannot transfer cash to eToro

I may just transfer a few of my cryptos there and sell them, but then I have a problem getting the cash to Thailand.

Incidentally, I am going to start a new thread in a few minutes about an article I read today about Thailand wanting to be " a hub of digital assets."

By the time you get up from the floor after falling down laughing, the thread should be there.

A couple of hiccups on the way. 

I had problemd finding a document in the second list regarding address verification. I thought they wanted a driving license from my own country. I will try again tomorrow 

16 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

UpBit Thailand will work for you

Thanks. I'll download the app and try

I have been using Zipmex for years and as you know they have ceased trading. Luckily, I had transferred all my crypto to a hard wallet.

Now I wish to continue trading and maybe sell out some of the crypto, but it seems impossible to open an account anywhere. In Thailand there is the problem of the KYC verification, so I tried to oepn a couple of accounts in USA. All went well until I tried to fund them (a process I had to do before I can trade). I tried to use my Thai credit card to fund, but was told by my bank that credit cards cannot be used to fund crypto accounts. OK, I decided to try an emoney account such as Wise or Revolut. They also required an "activation funding" from an account in my name. Again the bank told me that I cannot send money to an eaccount in my name.

What have you others done to open a new account? Oh I am looking at Orbitz (partially owned by Kbank), but I haven't seen anything on here about them.