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...Wonderful, thank you Homeboy! I appreciate the response and will have a gander. Yes, looking for a studio photographer. Good luck is always welcome and needed!

Cheers, Bam

Does any one have leads on a local product photographer for hire?

Thank you, Bamboozled

I love nosing around like that myself. Thank you for the trip.

There is a gluten free beer for sale at Rimping on the river, near Dukes. I can't tell you anything more about it but I remember seeing it in the cold single-beers section just last night, June 11, 2021.

If I remember correctly, my two washing machines came secured in the box with substantial mounting hardware, sort of similar to what you have. Once unboxed, the hardware is rendered useless. I can't recall exactly how they function in the box/what they are securing but I also kept mine thinking that there might find some future use for them. They seemed too "nice" to throw away. I might be wrong but since you mention "washing machine".... I believe I have 3 or 4 of them.

8 hours ago, Mavideol said:

agree,  have exactly that problem, signed for 1,000 down and 300 up the day they installed it their test was around 962 or something close to that and 314 up.... has been reducing speed ever since, stable around 518-526 down and 183 to 197 up, I have been calling them on a weekly basis asking them to reset/flash my service, they do and for the next hour or so (sometimes up to a full day 555) the down speed gets closer to the 900's but soon after back to the slower one, my main problem is that I just (2 months ago) signed for 1 year deal, thus not many options besides tell them to f...off and loose the money, have some neighbors using AIS fiber and they are very happy and their speed is stable

I feel validated! Thank you!

I have that same package and it's slower than my previous True package which was rated only half as fast. Connection falls out more often, too. If you call, in my experience, they push some magic button and your speed will return for a bit. I don't know what strings they're pulling but I imagine it's something like robbing Peter to pay Paul. My personal feeling is that it's a crock of you know what. The 1000mbps/cheap price was a marketing gimmick which sucked us in and a lot of other folks, most likely, but they don't have the capacity to deliver it. I think they bump it up for installation and then steal it back to give to someone other newly signed up person.

Caveat: I don't know if what I said above is even possible to do, shuffling bandwidth around. Let me also say that I'm a bit sour on big business and paranoid, too, thinking they are always up to nefarious acts.

oh yeah, wonderful! I needed that...

26 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Operator error not iPhone error 

 

Here's how.

1. Go to Settings on your iPhone.
2. Tap Camera. You will be shown some options like Formats, Grid, Preserve Settings, and Camera Mode.
3. Tap Formats, and change the format from High Efficiency to Most Compatible.
4. Now all your photos will be automatically saved as JPG instead of HEIC.

Sorry, guys. Damn iphone image. Here it is...

I can plug computer and monitor separately but the USB-C cable from computer to monitor also can provide power to the computer meaning I don't have to plug the computer in anymore thus just the one plug. I was getting a stronger shock when I had both plugged in though haven't tried it with my new contraption.

So one rod....only one chance of getting zapped. Multiple grounding rods, multiple chances of getting zapped, yes?

Alright, here come the flames... Well, I've got the ground bar in and a line running from it which I attached to the ground terminal in the 3 plug box where I'll be getting my power. I'm also running a 3-wire extension cord from that box since the plug is not near enough to the computer. But that should all be fine. What is annoying is that the computer monitor has a two-prong male plug coming from it with the ground wire coming out the top with a "U" type connector on it, presumptively to attach it to a grounded screw plug (why it didn't come with a 3-prong plug, I dunno). Well, I don't have the option of attaching it to a screw. Instead, I've jerry-rigged the set up that you see in the photo. Not pretty but is it dangerous at all? I don't think so but it's scary looking, sure. That wire running out of the box is, of course, attached to the ground terminal of the socket. I'm not getting a shock any longer from the computer. Well, certainly not as much of one. I still perhaps feel a tingling but I can't tell if its my imagination or not. If I am still getting a tingling (though much less of one than before), what does that tell us? My ground is not good enough?

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I once lived in a house with well water and it was full of lime. If you put an ice cube in a glass with that water you could see it precipitate out. It left us with dry and itchy skin all the time.

Okay, I sort of figured something like that. But my "logic" is telling me that if the rods are all linked together (perhaps I am misunderstanding "bonded"), when one gets tagged by the lighting, the current will then go through all of them instead of just one. Or perhaps the point was not only that the rods are linked but that they are all in the same spot.

This lightning strike thingy actually happened to me or rather to my stuff. There was a strike somewhere close by (not in Thailand) and it traveled through the wires and if I remember correctly shorted out the TV or the washing machine and I think the fridge. The same thing happened to some neighbors with different appliances. I think they said their TV turned on for an instant. My memory is foggy but what I DO remember distinctly is that the current traveled down the internet cable and melted the modem, as well as frying all the wires in the neighborhood. This was in the beginning days of wi-fi and lucky for me, I did NOT have my computer attached to the modem by cable at the time. Man, was I happy about that.

Could you explain that, Lolly? How is it dangerous with lightning strikes if the grounds are all separate entities as opposed to linked?  What happens? Thanks!

Hello again electrical folk,

So, I have a 1 meter copper grounding pipe from global house with a screw at the top for securing the wire. Cost was about 300 baht. Now to start some pile-driving.

Hi Crossy, well, that's true enough and I believe I've read a bunch of your posts and you know what you're talking about. Point taken, thanks.

Thanks all. ...Answers that I had hoped for. The wall outlets are not grounded for sure. I've been inside them plenty of times. I rent the house but it's a...fixer upper type...so if I drill a hole it will be lost in all the other holes. No problem there. There rods I can get at Home Pro/Global...hmm, or the local electric supply shop, I suppose.

Crossy, why wouldn't you splice into a ground wire? What's bad about that?

Thank you, Bam

Hi Electricity wizards,

I am getting a light shock via my aluminum-bodied lap top computer. This is not unusual nor dangerous, however, it is uncomfortable. I recently added an external monitor to the mix which can also power the computer via the USB-C input. But now the tingling via the computer is even worse. If I'm not mistaken, this happens because my house plugs are not grounded and so grounding is happening via the computer. Again, so I've read, not dangerous nor weird behavior for this lap top. I do have some hot water heaters in the house that ARE grounded, thank god. My question is, can I run a single ground wire from the plug where I power my computer and splice it into this ground wire that runs from the water heater to, of course, the ground? Could it be as simple as that?

Thank you, Bamboozled AND shocking.

Thank you, Jim. "...required bank drafts..."? What's that all about, please?

I have a Honda Wave and also experience this vibrating and noise. On my bike, it's the panel(s) below the speedometer, that is the part that you straddle with your legs, more or less, but up closer to the handle bars. It starts at about 60km/h and if I press the panel with my hand it stops. It's been like that forever and I now have 10,000 km on the bike. Yeah, it's annoying and I still haven't gotten around to fixing it. It's done it since day 1. Bad engineering.

Good point!

Very helpful, friends, thank you. I'm not sure which day they stopped the outgoing mail and I didn't know it was for "deep cleaning". As mentioned, we did ask the post office about the delay yesterday but they didn't offer any clues. I appreciate the input.

'Morning fellow Thailand lovers... 3 to 4 weeks ago, even 5 to the UK, I mailed several letters international airmail, 3 or 4 to the US and one to the UK. None of them have arrived, so far. I did not purchase tracking. In normal times, it should be a week to UK and about 2 weeks to the US. The UK one is in its 5th week and still nothing. I know the Thai post office stopped shipping internationally for about 10 days toward the end of April into the beginning of May and I'm wondering if perhaps my letters did not even go out until after that blockage but the post office had nothing to say about it. Anyone have any recent experience or knowledge in regard to the above? Thanks so much, Bamboozled

Can I post an add-on question here? My passport will expire in December so I'm almost to the less-than-6-month-validity. At what point should I renew my it since many countries want at least 6 month validity for travel, etc... It's a US passport. This always seemed strange to me as it makes the last 6 months of any passport sort of useless but who am I to question? Advice appreciated.