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It exists already, just not here. Check out newzeroland on youtube. He has a Zero and an Energica E-bike. We just need a bit more range and for the Thai govt. to remove the prohibitive import tax. The former is just about here, as for the latter ... I'll just dream on.

The govt. has for the first time publicly said they are considering subsidies for EV buyers. As soon as that happens we will buy an ev.

I have used both several times and found that it pays to compare the totals before choosing one or the other. The difference can be significant. Sometimes one is better, the next time the other. But you need to start the process until you get a quote, incl. of fees, then compare.

We had several phone calls with a friendly IO. He said that he put my permitted stay date into their system repeatedly, but the app still shows the old date and that I am overstaying. It looks like the online system is broken now.

Back to snail mail.

You are right. The bold printing on the packet is so bad, even with my magnifying glass I  ould not be sure whether I mistook an S or an 8 for a B. This is the correct number:

https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct16g4sfd824a

But even when I typed the correct code into Crucial's search it did not find it. I had to find the right page myself.

2 x Crucial 16 GB DDR4 - 2400 SODIMM

Product code CT16G4BFD624A

Used for about 2 weeks.

2200 B each + postage.

Do you want to run this in single channel config, or do you already have one module?

2 x 16 GB DDR4 laptop RAM, bought in April with a low-power desktop mainboard from an online store in Spain, as unavailable here. The board died after 2 weeks and they refunded me, as no longer available. I'm left with the RAM I have no more use for and the shipping and customs fees.

So anybody can sell on Panthip?

Thaivisa used to have a classifieds forum, but it has either been removed or is now well hidden, so I can't find it.

In most parts of the world I would turn to ebay, or a local equivalent. Do you have a recommendation for a site?

Thanks,

Peter.

I've just been through the same rigmarole. First time they turned cgnat off for us, when we asked. But they seem to reboot our gateway occasionally at 3am and after one of those we were back on cgnat. Called them again and they fixed it.

When it happened the 3rd time we were told we must use a business plan at 3 time the price. We currently pay 630B.

Problem solved for now by using portmap.io. Their free plan gives you only 1 port and 1 protocol. I don't know yet how to overcome this.

@Led Lolly Yellow Lolly
Can you please give me a link to where I can get a VPS so cheap? So far I have only found 5$/month & up.

interestingly, I never had this problem in NZ and I ran more old PCs there (also out in the countryside). Never heard of anybody else having it, either. When we lived in our workshop here we had none of this equipment and the RCD still tripped, until dialled back.

Thanks guys! There is definitely a connection between sags and tripping. I can see the voltage drop on my solar inverters and the lights often flicker. I can see how critters can do it and I have vacuumed a few spiders out of sockets.

PCs leak current by design? Seems daft... But yes, I do have a few of these and once, when I was unable to reset the RCD we unplugged everything and the moment I plugged the UPS back in it tripped. Then it worked again only minutes later.

Ok, we will wait for the works to be completed, but at current speed that will take weeks, if not months.

We live in the rice paddies and recently our RCD keeps tripping, usually accompanied by V sags and/or spikes. (lights flicker and the UPS relay clicks on and off.) PEA is aware of the problem and they are upgrading mains lines everywhere as I am writing this. (My guess as to the cause are the many bore pumps being installed everywhere to compensate for the lack of irrigation water.)

But why does that trip the RCD? We have a separate switch board with RCD in the workshop and I had to adjust this to the lowest sensitivity and it hasn't tripped since. In the house it's not adjustable. Sometimes the RCD will refuse to even switch back on or trip again soon.

Should I replace the RCD for something better?

I have done exactly that with my APC CS500: doubled the battery size. Found a detailed explanation on the web, but didn't keep the link, sorry. The important thing supposedly is not to run it at the rated capacity, as the inverter will get too hot.

If you put in a LiFePO4 battery with protection circuit then it won't get discharged too far.

10 hours ago, canthai55 said:

Agree - electric bikes, and cars, will never become viable without Gov't backing.

And the greater issue - where will all the electric power come from ?

You need to add "in Thailand in the next 2 years". In Europe, many countries have already announced bans on the sale of new ICE-powered vehicles within the next 5-10 years. Buying a new car has never made economic sense for most people, but if you buy one now with the intention of upgrading it again in a few years time you will learn the meaning of the term "stranded asset". That will apply in Thailand, too, because most manufacturers will have to switch to EVs for the global market.

Germany has just passed a law requiring ALL petrol stations to install EV chargers.

In the EU in most cases the total cost of ownership for an EV is now on par with ICEs, depending on subsidies. The picture is distorted here in Thailand by the govt, that pays lip service to the energy revolution, but continues to tax imported EVs at up to 80% - unless made in China.

If you own your own home, chances are you can generate all your power from your own roof. It's easy and not too expensive: I have installed a 4.5 kW system myself on a shipping container and if PEA would let me backfeed we would have a net zero power bill at the end of every year, or pretty close to it. This includes running AC, el. stove and oven, fridge/freezer and deep freeze. We still have plenty of roof space and panels are getting cheaper all the time. As soon as an affordable EV comes along I intend to buy it, even if it means having to buy Chinese-made. More solar panels and a home charger will follow, although with the little driving we do we could probably get away with slow charging only.

For anybody with even a passing interest I recommend the Youtube channel "Fully Charged Show".

4 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

Re the 90-day report - PM me if you need some info on how to do it on-line.  It's real easy and only takes 5-10 minutes.

Thanks again, but fortunately for this one I don't need any help. I have already done several and using Lastpass I have both pages set up so it fills them in for me, almost no typing required.

@OJAS: No negative sense was intended and you made me curious (English is my 2nd language), so I looked it up:

peculiarity:

noun, plural pe·cu·li·ar·i·ties.

It seems they don't touch mozzies, spiders and roaches. That makes them pretty useless bug hunters for me. But I don't want to kill them.

No, I'm not exaggerating about the droppings.

On Shopee I see a lot of repellent advertised. Has anybody tried them, found them to work or not?

I like the little geckos, I really do. But we don't like their droppings everywhere. The house is pretty well sealed, with fly screens on all windows and a rubber strip on the bottom of the back door. We have manually caught and evicted quite a few, but I think they breed inside and our workshop, which is not sealed so well must have a whole colony.

So is there a way to get rid of them inside?

First, a shout-out to @Peter Denis, who provided me with tons of info and answered all my questions. Thank you! Somebody give the man a medal, please.

About 2 months ago we first went to the IO to enquire about my options. I have a non-imm OA visa with permission to stay expired in early July. It was a strange feeling, as the office was fully staffed, but hardly any clients showed up. They advised me to do a border run, re-enter visa exempt and see them to convert it to non-O, so I could get a 1-year extension without the need for health insurance. Quote: "nobody gets OA retirement extensions, because of the expensive insurance." They also advised against marriage extension, because of the extensive documentation requirements.

At this point I pointed out that land borders were closed to foreigners, to the best of my knowledge. This seemed to surprise them and after some phone calls they confirmed this. But: "Don't worry! If the borders are still closed towards the end of the new exemption period, just come to us and get a 60 day extension."

So, with the 26 Sep deadline approaching we went back. First, they put a stamp in my passport, stating that I was allowed to stay until 26/9 (one page gone). Then the shock: to "just" get a 60 day extension, our NZ marriage cert needed to be certified by the embassy in Bkk, then translated and certified by a ministry, also in Bkk. It seems they never considered that we might have been married outside Thailand...

Now, they changed their advice: I should get a marriage extension, since I needed the paperwork anyway. Alternatively, I could fly out and come back. I pointed out to them that this option required me to go into quarantine and was far more complicated and expensive than just buying the <deleted>' health insurance. My wife disagreed with me...

They gave us an A4 page with a detailed list of all the documents required for the extension. In Thai only. They obviously expect the Thai spouse to do the legwork.

And so she did it all by herself. Visit to embassy, ministry and Amphoe office in Bkk for the final document (Kor Ror 22, I think). Her advice: don't try to do this at a local amphoe office. In Bkk they know how to do these things and so it is quicker. 2 nights with a friend in Bkk, who also got roped in as one witness. There was a scare: the ministry's web site stated that one of the requirements for issuing the cert is to have 2 weeks remaining on the visa, which I didn't have any more at this point. Processing could take up to 10 working days. The requirement was ignored, it seems and my wife talked them into issuing it after one day! As a former admin manager she knows what buttons to push with office workers. ????

My only contribution to the whole process consisted of screwing the new house number to the wall (cracking 3 corners in the process, duh) and signing hundreds of pages of documents. Oh, and paying the 1900B. In Suphanburi you get your 100B change without asking.

I now have two more stamps in the passport: one in Thai, saying that I previously had a "Covid-19 visa" and have now applied for a long-stay extension (another page gone) and another, saying I had to contact the office in person by 16 Oct to find out whether my application had been approved (another half page). Underneath that a post-it note with a stamp in Thai, incl. a phone number we are to call, instead of showing up at the office.

There are 2 peculiarities in Suphanburi:

• Bank documents can be 1 week old.
• They want four pictures printed 2 per A4 page with an ordinary colour printer, not photos glued to blank pages. (Saying that handling the pages with glued-in pix makes it more difficult and they actually copied our pages for their files.) 1 pic must show the house number, another the whole house.

Then I asked when I had to file my 90-day report. And since I lost my departure card, with the new number could I not do the next one online? The lady helpfully printed out the 90-day receipt, showing the next date as 15 Dec and stapled it into the passport. The number problem was solved by her writing the old number onto the new card and stapling it in as well ("So you cannot lose it again.").

Results all around and Service with a smile!

Now I can put my feet up ... oh wait, no: my driving licences need renewing!

No amnesty. Why should there be ?

No, I don't have a copy.

IIRC the only people who ever stapled anything to my passport were Thai IOs. I hate staples and don't own a stapler.

I have a small box full. Send me your address and I will try to find it.

What if I need to apply for an extension at an IO, where a copy of this card is required?