Everything posted by sometimewoodworker
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A handyman who wants to charge 2000 baht for a "survey fee"
While my electrician doesn’t charge for a quote he expects to be paid for his travel time, he doesn’t give an amount but if you don’t give a reasonable payment you may find that any date you want him to come is unfortunately not possible. We pay travel, he is happy to work for us. His travel is not as expensive as the handyman and he needs 2 hours for a round trip.
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Buying a long lasting electric jug?
While TEFAL is an excellent make and there are induction kettles, it is extremely unlikely that the one you have is actually an induction kettle. It is likely to be similar to the Häfele kettle we have, they both have a Concealed heating element. Yours seems to be the TEFAL APRECIA - BI8126https://www.tefal.com/Breakfast/Kettles/Aprecia/APRECIA---BI8126/p/7211000876?scc=Breakfast-kettles mine is this one if it were an induction kettle it would be unable to have an auto cutoff function on the kettle itself. Totally safe to touch, I agree but not an indication coil. There are no induction kettles that I can find sold with an induction coil base apart from the Chemex Chettle Induction Kettle a little expensive at over ฿5,000 All the others use an induction stove. They are more efficient at about 85% as opposed to the regular electric kettle at 80%
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Building a new house in Isaan
I really really hope that you have copper feed cables as the PEA prohibits aluminium from being installed underground. I don’t have any information as to the reasons just that aluminium cable must be in the air.
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Building a new house in Isaan
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SD Card.
AS i already said that is an SD card. It is an external (not built in) storage device that plugs into your Phone, you just have to remember to take it out!!! There are many other less convent solutions.
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SD Card.
If you do backups online probably correct, if you don’t then at least if you backup on to the SD card you have a better chance to keep your data.
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Refrigerant re-fill for AC - when?
That is your opinion, many will disagree.
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LED lamps glowing
Probably not as the leakage current required to light an LED is significant lower than required to light a fluorescent.
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LED lamps glowing
2 answers, 1 @Crossy has diagnosed, your neutral and line are crossed on half the lamps. The other is that you have bought cheaply designed/made lamps where the circuit doesn’t have the required resistor/capacitor that will prevent the glow. Cheapest, reverse the wiring. Best, spend more per unit, though that is a bit of a lottery.
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Building a new house in Isaan
While I have no information of the use or benefits of using the nonstandard water seal instead of the world wide (not specially Thai way) common bitumen joint seal. The first recorded mention I’ve found is from 1902 in Toronto, Canada using “paving pitch”. It looks as if you are negating the effectiveness of the crack prevention as, as far as I can see your workers are using deformed rebar for joint dowels rather than the smooth rebar suggested to allow for the sections to move. I would love to be proven wrong but suspect that you will get cracks radiating at about 45 degrees from the rebar locations. This assumes that you have differentiation in movement between slabs.
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Solar system with Safe T Cut keeps tripping
That demonstrates the difference between marketing speak a the physics of batteries and their degradation over time. The claim that is being made is solid bovine waste. Or is rather/very economical with the truth. They don’t tell you that while a new battery/s may not stress the system you are going to loose a significant amount of the lifespan of the new battery/s.
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Cable brands - big differences?
Also when clipping to a wall it will look much neater it wasn’t until I came to Thailand that I came across round section mains cables
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Two LifePo4 battery packs I need to switch between, suggestions?
Is that breaker rated for DC? If so then almost any sufficiently beefy switch will do, like the knife switches above
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DIY Material.
You certainly can, however you can’t tell exactly what you’re going to get, so if you have a specific need the you have to go in person. Some items are probably not going to need that but with others there is such an enormous variety available that it is imperative.
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Two LifePo4 battery packs I need to switch between, suggestions?
Also a switch that can handle 48v 100A through it is a very different beast to one that will switch that load. So if you can stop the load and switch you will have an easier time.
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Solar system with Safe T Cut keeps tripping
Again a wonderful idea on temperatures but incorrect at 30C the battery service life is about 50% of the maximum. At 25C it is around 30% less than at 20C
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Solar system with Safe T Cut keeps tripping
That is a wonderful idea but regrettably it is pie in the sky. Batteries degrade over time and adding additional batteries to a degraded battery bank will significantly reduce its performance. This is why you should always keep battery sets together for best economy.
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Refrigerant re-fill for AC - when?
The landlord pays for the service to be installed water, electricity, AC The renter pays the cost of using the service. Regular cleaning is part of the cost of using the service. Don’t use it no need to pay As a landlord I would never expect to pay for AC cleaning, but if I was expected to do so you can bet the rent would be higher.
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DIY Material.
Well it tells us where not to suggest. probably MR-MDF will be a reasonable choice, though here it called HMR-MDF it is available in smaller dimensions from Lazada
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Multi-Process Welder:
The article you referenced was giving a price of ฿200,000, that was what I was basing my comments on the article you referenced. Having done a little research on AliExpress The wire feed unit is going to cost over ฿14,000 the laser itself is going to be over ฿135,000 Bottom line buy one even at the full price of ฿2,800 it’s not going to hurt your pocket and don’t confirm delivery until you have tested it and you may be able to get your money back when it doesn’t work. With the remote chance that does work you will be able to crow that nobody believed you
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DIY Material.
That still isn’t giving your location. If it’s going to be inside or outside is also relevant, as there are some boards that have a very high formaldehyde content that are OK if they are not going to be used in an enclosed space. They are likely to cause respiratory problems used without good airflow, they would almost certainly be banned in the U.K.
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DIY Material.
FWIW it’s extremely unlikely that they have ‘marine’ grade though they will probably have exterior grade material.
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DIY Material.
@Crossy is correct that the size is 2440 X 1440 and available in thickness from 3 mm usually up to 19 mm (marked as 20 mm) they do not have boards in smaller sizes and definitely do not have any cutting service. They may well have rubber wood panels in narrower widths and a verity of thickness, though they will be grade B or C. The availability of specific thicknesses and grades is not consistent as they wait until a pack is finished before ordering more. If you were to let us know where you are located and the rough details of the project we can probably give more specific advice
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Multi-Process Welder:
That does rather make the points is posited doesn’t it? you said So CHEAP TO BUY must have a very different meaning for you, as a light duty machine is going to cost ฿200,000 ~ ฿400,000 and over ฿700,000 for the better ones, and that is ignoring import costs. So for commercial use where the speed is a significant factor they are going to be commercially effective in high wage countries or for robot assisted production. In short a machine that is about 40~80 times the price of a cheap MIG and 7 times the price of a professional MIG. Is not in any way cheap nor suitable for home use. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy one, why not if you have the price of a car in pocket change?