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47 minutes ago, Paul Laycock1 said:
I watch the television and read google. Not seen anything about all borders being closed.
Supposing the border is open, have you investigated if Laos are allowing people in, do you have the COVID free certificate (valid for only 72 hours), the required 100,000 USD COVID insurance and a Thai work permit?
The restrictions on movement, especially foreigners, applies to the land borders as well as the airports.
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20 minutes ago, robblok said:I am not anti alcohol at all, just don't see alcohol as a good thing during a lockdown. I posted proof that it increases domestic violence and that will go even higher during a lockdown. Also plenty of proof that if alcohol is available people will start to party at home with groups of people again not a good thing.
Sorry that facts don't line up with your ideas.
You certainly come across as anti alcohol, anyway, so you think that Bars and Restaurants should remain closed?
Which means that a good percentage of the Thais in Pattaya remain without meaningful work and income, whilst queuing by the hundreds for food being donated with very little social distancing being practised, with the resultant increased risk of transmission, they are stressed due to their situation, which in turn increases in domestic violence, theft and social disorder in general.
Unless the good governor continues to ban the sale of alcohol, then those that commit the domestic violence due to alcohol (hmmm), are those who would rarely if ever sit in a bar or restaurant and will do as normal and purchase their alcohol anyway.
When should the bars be allowed to open again? After a vaccination is found and everybody been forced to have this? 1 more month, 2, 3, a year.....................??
Meanwhile the malls etc. are OK to open........................???
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I have UPS on both of my fibre connections and both lose the connection to the outside world when the power goes off locally, I assume it depends on whether there are any converters in the line, fibre to copper, or not, if pure fibre, then not power dependent.
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9 minutes ago, brokenbone said:
i could be wrong, but i presume the dotted line is already signed on train/ military hardware,
if it isnt, then yes it can be postponed
Rubbish, I can guarantee there will be a force majeure clause in the contracts, we are seeing signed contracts being cancelled left right and centre in our line of work!
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Thanks for the replies, I will take some measurements later on today and let you know what they are.
Tried to buy a new contactor / overload relay earlier, but the shop only have the S-T10 in 200-240v range, this might be slightly underpowered, although it does state it is ok for 1P motors up to 1.5hp on the side of it, guess it would do no harm to try it.
2 hours ago, Metropolitian said:Are you able to do some measuring with a voltmeter?
If yes; At the end of the 4hours run check what the emaux is feeding to the contactor on pen A1 and A2.
If not; Do you feel a ticking at the end of the 4 hours run at the timer altogether with the chatter of the contactor ?
Assuming that your model is the one with the round-dial-timer.
I'll do some measurements later, not sure if there is ticking, it is not easy to hear much other than the contactor and pump when it is chattering, yes, it is the one with the round timer.
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21 minutes ago, JackThompson said:
A COVID test solves the whole issue of folks coming in and safe flights - just a matter of having things "open" for visitors to do when they get here.
I tend to disagree, currently a COVID test shows that you are clear of the virus at the time of testing only, actually getting the results of the test differ from a few hours to 48 hours +, unfortunately there are no guarantees that the tested person hasn't contracted the disease after the testing and getting the results / travelling.
If and when they manage to get instant testing, then this would help enormously, it would then be a matter of cost and who pays.
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Morning, I recently had to have the salt water chlorinator unit & cell replaced on my swimming pool due to a cell failure and it made economical sense to replace all.
The original unit was a Viron V25 (Astralpool) which had a built in electronic timer for the pump start and stop functions.
The new unit is an Emaux SSC50-T, with a built in timer clock for the pump start and stop functions.
Motor is a single phase, 220v, 1.5hp Astralpool Alaska Plus model.
The power from the chlorinator unit goes directly to a Mitsubishi S-N12 Magnetic contactor and motor overload relay, before going to the pump.
Since replacing the chlorinator unit, the pump starts up perfectly OK, runs for the 4 hour cycle with no issues, however, at the end of the cycle instead of going off the contactor starts to chatter, as if the voltage feeding it has dropped to a point where the coil is on the edge of being neither properly on, or properly off, eventually the contactor de-energizes and will be fine until the end of the next cycle, this chattering only happens at the end of each cycle, it does not chatter when starting the pump or at any time during the run cycle.
With the Viron V25 unit, this never happened, it is only since the Emaux model has been fitted.
If the pump is manually started and stopped by either the on/off switch on the control box panel, or on the chlorinator unit, it works correctly, with no chattering of the contactor.
Turning the pump on via the timer for say 15 minutes, it turns off correctly, with no chattering of the contactor.
It seems to only do it after the full cycle of 4 hours.
I have checked all of the electrical connections to make sure they are all tight and are making good contact.
Has anybody ever experienced this, or have any suggestions as to what could be causing it?
My thoughts are the following, but really do not know if the truth be known.
1. Polarity - Perhaps when the new unit was fitted, the polarity has been reversed on either the input to the unit, or on the input to the contactor (Being AC, would this matter and if it did, then surely the contactor would not energize?)
2. Heat related, the pump room is small and not ventilated, so heat builds up, especially at this time of the year, thinking maybe that when the timer reaches the end of the cycle the power is not fully released due to expansion of something internally?
I can solve the ventilation fairly easily, by drilling holes in the wall and fitting a wall fan to cool the chlorinator unit and will probably do this anyway.
Worst case, I can purchase and fit a new contactor and overload relay, although this model has been replaced with the S-T12 version and I'd have thought that if this was at fault it would show the same symptoms when starting or running?
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9 minutes ago, RickBradford said:
The Rayong/Chonburi border is going to be a riot tomorrow morning if Rayong restarts alcohol sales as promised.
Only with police checking Chonburi registered cars for Alcohol!
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1 hour ago, Jingthing said:Does the Thai version blame this on foreigners or farangs? It sounds like they are still play acting that there isn't community infection going on
1 hour ago, Jingthing said:It's not wrong per se to say the virus first entered Thailand from Chinese visitors and later came in also from visitors and returning Thais and other nationalities from China, other parts of Asia, Europe, and North America.
My son says that most of the gossip on social media squarely puts the blame on to America, quite why he cannot explain, certainly nothing to do with China as far as the social media sites he frequents.
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11 minutes ago, pineapple01 said:
Funny thing is i went past a Chang Owned distributor place and they still load up Shopkeeps trucks.its near a Police Station, so i recon its an area thing. Up counry Thais dont take much notice of Nannie State anyway.
It is a regional thing, not every province has banned alcohol sales.
In fact it is a 'smart' move from central government to not place a blanket ban, it relieves them of some of the inevitable political pressure that the Chang and Singha empires etc. will pour down on to them as times goes on!
Still think that it is all OTT, nowt wrong with having an evening tipple or two.
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2 hours ago, Yinn said:Tourism, retail, restaurant, pub = 10 million
K. Yinn, that represents over 25% of the working population of Thailand, which is substantial, some will be able to return to work once things open up again, others will not, it is hard to estimate how many businesses in this sector will be in a position to reopen.
2 hours ago, Yinn said:Factorys schools closed for songkran. They not close the factory before that.
This is not quite true, I work in a relatively large industrial estate on the Eastern Seaboard and several factories were closed down prior to Songkran, a lot of these support the car industry, so have been badly affected.
The company I work for is finding it extremely difficult to operate, the restrictions imposed are making our operations almost impossible to carry on, we provide critical support to the oil and gas industry here and cannot provide the services we normally can, this can only go on for a certain length of time before it in turn starts to have a major impact on the industry, which will have knock on effects to other sectors and the revenue streams for the Government.
Please do not underestimate the real issues that your country will face if this lock down continues for any prolonged length of time.
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On 4/12/2020 at 12:22 AM, Chrysaora said:
What level should the chlorine be?
For a home pool, between 1ppm to 3ppm.
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1 hour ago, barryofthailand said:
Re: the Pattaya Rayong motorway
they are still working on the motorway at Banchang and also I'm Rayong.
I am sure that they could open one lane of it if the will was there, with the new checkpoints it isn't as critical, the original ones would have greatly benefited from partially opening it.
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North Road - Close to 3rd Road Junction
Dolphin Roundabout (from Naklua)
Central Road by Big C extra
South Road at Soi Korpai / Soi Bongkot
Thepprasit Road, not clear.
Jomtien 2nd Road / Beach road traffic light area.
One would assume that all of the sois in from Sukhumvit will be closed, quite a task, as there are a lot.
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6 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:
why not just test the 2800?
or do they intend to lock that area down and let it burn through the foreign population?
They say their intention is to test the 2,800 Foreigners, how and why is unsure.
9 minutes ago, bahtboy said:Yes, a map is definitely needed.
I am sure they will produce one.
5 minutes ago, thaiflyer1 said:If they set up on central road getting down central road to go to Big C Extra should be fun..........thinking of those of us on the darkside
Seems the checkpoint on Central road is exactly at Big C extra, it will be interesting to see if the back roads are closed, there are many ways to get to Big C extra other than Central road, in fact I don't think I've ever entered from that way.
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2 hours ago, Pilotman said:The mistake, if indeed there is one, is not with the idea or its execution its with the vehicles and drivers. They knew what was going to happen, they had plenty of warning, so why were they on the road in such numbers in the first place. They can't all have been on an essential emergency trip. What part of stay at home didn't they understand. The fault and lack of thinking /planning lies with them. As usual on this forum, Members are very quick to castigate the authorities without considering alternative reasons for the cock up. It was ever thus.
The mistake was how they tried to isolate the city, it was never going to work in month of Sundays.
If you take a look at the map and know the area well, you would understand this, it could only ever produce what it did, that was inevitable.
A similar thing happened when they implemented the one way system on the sois for the underpass construction.
There was zero thought about the need for heavy trucks etc. having to use the railways roads, which are simply not designed for such vehicles, with some having to turn on to even smaller sois to get on to Sukhumvit and make deliveries etc.
Both 36 and the Motorway were blocked off to left turning traffic, which made the situation a lot worse, for example, at the end of the motorway all of the traffic had to turn right whilst having to wait for traffic lights etc. then immediately face another set of lights at the top of North road, whilst those wanting to go south would have to make a u-turn as soon as they have exited on to Sukhumvit from the motorway.
Those who needed to go out of the city towards Bangkok for work etc. had very few options on how to get to the motorway etc.
The latest we have from sources is that they will implement a new plan on 14th April.
The simplest solution would be to block off the many smaller sois from Sukhumvit in to the city, leave Sukhumvit open and the place roadblocks on the open roads in to the city, city side of Sukhumvit.
Also, consider opening the new section of 7 from the existing motorway to Ban Amphur, allowing the traffic that needs to normally go down Sukhumvit to use this.
The railway roads are not suitable for use as a bypass, due to all of the smaller sois that intersect them, turn on the lights and it causes even more chaos, throw the odd train in to the mix as well..............
Personally, I do not see what they are trying to achieve anyway, unless they know something we don't.
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1 minute ago, darksidedog said:
The "FreshFood" supermarket on Soi Siam by the fuel station, is actually not bad, though like Tops, a lot more pricey than Tesco Lotus or Big C. More expensive on most things than even Foodland actually, but a fairly wide range of fresh stuff.
If the railway road is the final cut off, then even the Lotus near Numchai will be out of reach, (though allowing darksiders access to it and shutting the entrance there to Sukhumvit would make sense),and not sure the locals can afford to be paying 40 or 50% extra for their groceries at Tops and Freshfood right now.
Hopefully some of the finer points of practicality will be in the final details.
Never been to that one, so cannot comment, I might give it a whirl and was going by the map, so was discounting Tesco by Numchai, although you are quite right, it would not be difficult to make it accessible.
There certainly isn't much choice if you consider the darkside only, hopefully as you say, all will be revealed once the details are released.
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14 minutes ago, Dirk_brijs said:many many supermarkets on the darkside large and small
Really, please enlighten us to where they are then?
Tops Khao Noi is the only one that you can truly call a supermarket, sure there are a lot of Tesco Lotus Express, Mini Big C etc. but these are not supermarkets, they are convenience stores, with next to no choice of food available.
There is the frozen place on Soi Siam by the Shell petrol station, never been in there, so cannot comment on this one.
Otherwise, there are no supermarkets of note.
PS I've lived on the darkside for well over 20 years before you ask and still do!
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31 minutes ago, smedly said:
like many others posting on here they are expecting sick people to be in a hospital here - they obviously aren't grasping what happens here when someone reports they are ill with a fever - they are ordered to go home and deal with it
Most countries are doing this, basically, if you are unwell and have covid like symptoms, stay at home, self isolate and only call for help if it becomes essential.
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37 minutes ago, smedly said:
tell me the steps involved to record death rate
note - people reporting ill are most likely sent home to isolate and that's the end of it live or die - so explain how Thailand is measuring the mortality rate for CV-19
That is a question few of us can answer, however, it would become increasingly obvious if people were dying in the same percentages as Europe, in this modern age it is impossible to hide everything, social media would be buzzing with it, people that you and I know would be affected by it, or know somebody that is.
I've no doubt that the actual number of deaths is higher than the official number, but would almost guarantee that is nothing close to Europe, an additional 700+ deaths a day would be hard, no impossible, to hide.
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1 hour ago, Allset said:
I looked it up and it is just Bangkok currently for the curfew I expect it to be imposed on the whole country potentially.
http://www.mfa.go.th/protocol/contents/files/news-20200403-200043-508409.pdf
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41 minutes ago, Allset said:
Ok well I guess the delivery guys and restaurants didn’t get the memo here then.
Enforcement, plus certain businesses and activities are exempt
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2 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:
there is also the back car park entrance
Yes, this was the one I meant, there are normally two in the car park area, I forgot about the front entrance, as always drive to there, as do most, when I got there about 9am there were about 30 people waiting for it to open, all at the entrance! I declined and went to Villa little walk instead.
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3 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:
All the queuing for tests in hospitals sounds like madness, a sure way to spread the virus
Yes, this was a major factor for us as the risk was way too high to take, we ended up with 7 going to drive thu's and 43 tested by a travelling team from WMC, nobody tested positive from the tests, this was due to one person testing positive earlier and these 50 had some form of contact, the person that tested positive was quarantined in a private hospital in BKK, never showed any symptoms at all and was tested negative last Friday.
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Planet earth, suggest you actually use Google to good effect, you ARE leaving Thailand and will NOT be allowed back again without any of this, ignore at your own peril.