sometimewoodworker

+1 on those. I have 6 outside PoE cameras 2 indoor wired or wireless cameras the Reolink 16 port NVR all powered through a big ish UPS that is probably good for almost a day of power cut for out doors I have 4 fixed RLC-842A cameras, a RLC-823A camera for the gate area and a TrackMix for the outside kitchen. Inside I have 2 X E1 Pro’s. I am thinking of adding a second TrackMix or RLC-823A to cover most of the garden and possibly another E1 pro so the workshop has full coverage and maybe an E1 pro for the paint room we have 3 rooms with no coverage, our bedroom, computer room and outside paint room All of these have been running 24/7/365 for about 2 years AFIR

it might, it depends on how much heat is being transmitted by the walls. If they get direct sun, the yes’s it will. Our house walls never get hot as we have double cavity AAC block walls, our windows let in most of the heat but use low-e double glazing and they mostly don’t get direct sun after 9:30. The house, without using AC is usually 10C lower that the daytime high

No, the usual is 2, one for the protective earth and one for neutral. you can, most will, add bus bars to groups of units as above. just a FWIW AFIR the 4 circuits on the left are lighting and are unprotected by the under over voltage protection unit on the left. The 3 on the right are for power machinery that may be damaged if the power is too low/high and the power goes through the contactor in the centre but is controlled by the second from the left unit also of course there is the DIN rail that is isolated from everything Because DIN rail is so popular there are hundreds of different modules available from thousands of suppliers so usually DIN rail units are less expensive than plug in units These are at the top, the incomer box with lighting protection and the isolators for the workshop and house the next 2 are for the workshop, (I have too many power circuits in the workshop for a single box to be logical) the bottom one is for the garden the house has its own boxes. All of this is far more than is strictly necessary but units are cheap and when building it’s simple to add circuits for versatility, I can easily have too many high power consumption tools to overload a single, or 2 or 3, circuits

They maybe a USA product, that however doesn’t answer the question of the fittings not being DIN rail components. Also what is so good about being made in the USA? that of course doesn’t address the point that the products are probably made in China, Vietnam, Thailand etc anyway. Being a USA product is no guarantee of quality.

Those statements are mutually incompatible. Schneider Is a French origin company and uses DIN rail Square D is a USA company that mostly uses their own non DIN rail components A box from the USA is not automatically one of the highest quality. Also using a single box may not be the best choice depending on the number of circuits you have.

There are various allowances and deductions available along with possible deductions from your countries DTA you tax bill will be some amount under ฿275,000 how much under depends on your personal circumstances it is possible, though unlikely, that you may owe no tax. The TRD has 10 years to decide if they want to audit you (only 3 if you file a return), the penalties for deliberate evasion can be severe and include prison time. One almost immediate action is to hold you in Thailand until they are satisfied that any tax due is paid. Your travel can be restricted, even if you owe no tax, until the TRD happy that your filings, or non filings, are correct and any tax due is paid.

As has been noted by numerous posters, despite your spreading of FUD there is ZERO evidence of the claimed proactive general move to close actively used accounts. That some accounts in some banks have been closed is an acknowledge point, if they were being actively used is unknown. This point was never contested. While it is difficult to impossible for most non U.K. residents of modest means, to open a U.K. based account it is not impossible if you have sufficient liquidity. The inescapable conclusion is that you are dressing up your speculation as fact as is @quake

Where is your information coming from? Or is it just speculation. There have been these kinds of statements being bandied about for many years they haven’t been shown as correct yet.

The rules for offshore accounts while of some slight academic interest are totally irrelevant to U.K. onshore accounts. There are three of Crown Dependencies along with a number of British Overseas Territories that are mostly totally independent of the U.K. onshore banking system. These have nothing to do with U.K. bank accounts that are located in one of the 4 countries of the U.K.

That may be the Lloyds policy. It is not true for RBS though I don’t remember if my last debit card was sent to Thailand.

That may well be on the website, however I have owned my account for over 50 years and my change of address for my account has been notified to RBS over a year ago, I have received mail from them to my Thai address so like many things you read on the internet it is not always true.

FWIW if you have an active U.K. bank account some banks will not require that you close it. So far they include RBS and HSBC that allow overseas addresses. Some banks have closed accounts, I don’t know that the accounts were actively being used at the time. These include Barclays. Anecdotal evidence could be useful. This would need to include the activity in the accounts, along with the bank name, possibly original opening location. as a starter For reference my Royal Bank of Scotland account was opened in Watford in the 1970’s, it had 12 transactions in October, sometimes more sometimes a few less, my address is in Thailand. I also have an RBS credit card, it has a U.K. accommodation address, it has less than 10 monthly transactions. I have not updated to my Thai address as I suspect it is likely to be closed if I do, I have no evidence, just a suspicion.

I opened the account with their predecessor (Williams and Glyn’s) in the mid 1970’s. I have only been a U.K. non-resident since the 1990’s. You will find that virtually everyone (over 99%) who has an active U.K. bank account without being a legal U.K. resident has maintained an existing account. See my post above, also added under for information At the present time Bank of England and HMRC controls over the U.K. banking system while technically not stopping banks from allowing non U.K. residents from opening a U.K. account make it so difficult that only those with high net worth find it possible. So unless you have a few, to many, millions of pounds in cash and assets or are U.K. resident, you cannot open a U.K. account

I am tax resident in Thailand. I still have my active RBS account, they have my Thai address. Your question could be “is it possible to open a U.K. account while not being a U.K. resident” the answer to that is technically yes, but in practice virtually impossible unless you are a high net worth individual, so in reality no it is not usually possible.

Sadly, or conversely to our great financial benefit, you are responsible for virtually everything. A main fuse box/consumer unit in Thailand costs from as little as ฿2,000 while doing the same job in the U.K. for a one bedroom flat was only ฿64,800 So in Thailand, including a top of the line AC and CU you will pay less than half the U.K. cost for the CU only. A qualified electrician with all the correct equipment and 3 people just cost less than ฿20,000 to retrofit 24 x triple outlets (including (HäCO fittings about 1 ½ days work and half a day’s maintenance and travel expenses. In the U.K. or US that would have cost 4 times the amount, I could have got the same total amount done by a Thai bodger for half the cost less with lower quality sockets.