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Not easy to extend a 30 day visa exempt entry more than 30 days in advance.

Yes, of particular note:

From EVAT:

PlugShare has a pretty good overview of Thai charging stations. Edit: In my opinion the Thai charging network is now fine for charging on road trips, but I wouldn't buy an EV if I wasn't able to charge at home for day to day use.

Actually 38.22 plus 7% VAT, so Baht 40.90 in total.

After eight years two of the fluorescent rings had burned out on our lower floor (which belongs to the dogs), so we went to Global to buy some new ones. We ended up going for this Sylvania product, primarily because they were on sale down from Baht 300+ to Baht 99. Earlier LED replacement rings I have bought were of the magnet type that you just wire directly to the incoming wires, but these just looks like the traditional fluorescent type including the four pins that you connect to the little plug. So, not reading the instructions on the back of the box (what real man reads instructions), I just replaced the broken ring and plugged in the new one in it's place. When turning on the switch, the light came on for half a second or so, and then went out again. Thinking that maybe the new ring was faulty, I tried one from another box but with the same result. This is when I decided, that maybe it was time to look at the box to see if there were any clues on what to do. My lamp had an electronic ballast, so there were no starter to remove, but I figured out that I had to wire the new LED ring directly to the incoming wires. In order to do this, I had to remove the four pin plug (with four wires) from the electronic ballast and connect them to the two incoming wires. Then everything worked fine, and the light stayed on. So in the end not really a difficult job, but it brings us back to my original question. Is it reasonable to expect the average person with no electrical knowledge to understand, how the lamp has to rewired in order for these LED rings to work? Personally I don't think so. An added complication is that this product is sold in Thailand, but the instructions are in English. Good for me, but probably not for the majority of buyers. I believe that the reason Global had these rings heavily discounted in the first place, is because people have brought them back to Global since the rings didn't work when people just plugged them into their existing lamp. Just like I did.

If you were to do it again would you still go for used batteries, or would you buy new batteries (like the one you mentioned in your OP)?

It's possible, but it is a fairly highly rated seller and there are five star reviews of buyers of the panel within the last week.

A quick search turned up 345W poly panels for around 3,200 Baht and 450W mono panels for around 4,200 Baht. On a per watt base that is close to being equally priced. Any reason to go for one panel over the other? At the same per watt price my initial reaction would be to go for the 450W panels, where 9 panels should theoretically produce about the same a 12 345W panels and would take up less space.

So with 45 kWh usable (if I remember correctly) that would be about 7km/kWh. The new one have 49 kWh usable battery, but I will wait and see if they decide to sell the long range in Thailand (65 kWh battery).

No not yet. As mentioned we will be buying over the next year or two, so we haven't visited the dealers yet. Still waiting to see what new models will be coming out.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of mileage are you getting on your ZS? We mostly do highway driving at 80-90 km/h mixed with some city driving.

I know, but the box comes free with the purchase of the car, so it would be a waste of money to have to buy your own 7 KW box just because the company wont install your free box.

We have also decided to buy a new EV sometime in the next year or two. At the moment the MG ZS is the leading candidate, but that could change depending on what new models become available. Like most people we have a 15/45A meter on 16 sq.mm. copper cable. Upgrading to a 30/100A meter would presumably mean upgrading the cable, and installing a second 15/45A meter would mean running a second of cable to the house. None of these options are acceptabe to me, since the existing 15/45A meter could easily meet our requirements even after installing the 7KW wall box (which from what I have read is really only 6.6 KW.). I have also seen reports, that the company installing the box refuses to do so, if you have solar panels installed. Have anyone buying a MG (or other brand) EV insisted on just having the wall box delivered and installing it themselves? I assume (correct me if I'm wrong) that as long as you have suitable cabling in place, installing a home charger is basically no different to installing a shower heater. If none of the above is possible, then maybe just using a granny charger or a lower powered adjustable (6A/10A/13A/16A) charger like this one is a solution: Since I don't really need to charge fast, maybe a lower powered charger is even preferable, as it would make it easier to balance our load. That might be even more important once we have had solar panels installed (another future plan).

With the government discount the MG EP is now at a very attractive price-point

They are: And the new MG ZS is discounted by THB 240k plus:

If you have never seen a label with English product name in Makro, then you haven't been paying attention. Most of the products in the meat and vegetable section has the name in English (as well as Thai), and Makro's computer system is centralized, so there is no difference in labelling between different branches. Besides, when your product is being weighed the scale shows a picture of the product on the display, so it's easy to see if they entered the wrong product code.

We also had a visitor this morning here in Lamphun. Unfortunately our dogs (as is usually the case) found it before me, so by the time I saw it, it was already dead. About two meters long and quite fat. We have quite a lot of cobras up here, our main snake killer in the pack was spat in the eyes twice in the same week by a spitting cobra. The second time he managed to get to the snake and kill it. He did not enjoy having his eyes rinsed out with the garden hose, but came away from the encounter without any damage to his eyes.

Looks like the same type of bird that I took out of the mouth of one of our dogs: From an internet search I believe it's a Green Billed Malkoha, but they have very long tail feathers, which yours seem to have lost. It can probably not fly too well until they grow back.

I did my 90 day report via the new system Sunday, and the report was approved Monday around 9 in the morning by Lamphun Immigration. Had been using the old system successfully for years, but after getting a new passport in 2019 it never worked for me again.

You only get 1.1% for the first 100k, for the remainder of the balance (up to 5 mio) you get 1% p.a. Krungsri will deduct 15% tax unless you have them register your Thai tax ID on the account.

Read the OP again:

Yes, the first paragraph mentions "primary care facilities", but in the third paragraph it says that "a fund has been set aside for hospitals to request reimbursement for users seeking treatment outside of their designated areas". So, it must be possible to seek treatment at hospitals outside your normal area without a referral (at least to some extent).

He is right, it doesn't come with the battery. You can either buy the battery and charger separately, or you can run it on alkaline batteries.

Well, the link says: "Dual power source: can be operated both with 10.8 V-LI battery and with standard alkaline batteries", and that is repeated on Bosch's own Thailand website.