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Hi,

how many plugs do you need to hook up two chains of lamps to mains?

Just two? Negative! ;)

Look how its done by specialists!

Hans
 

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Hi,

how many plugs do you need to hook up two chains of lamps to mains?

Just two? Negative! ;)

Look how its done by specialists!

Hans

Does the fire department there work on commission or something?


Torben
 
Does the fire department there work on commission or something?


Torben

Nah, that seems typical for Thailand. I have a couple of photos, taken in Bangkok, of overhead wires which resemble a rats nest.
The biggest difference I noted in the two countries, is that we (Canada) protect the stupid from themselves.
 
Nah, that seems typical for Thailand. I have a couple of photos, taken in Bangkok, of overhead wires which resemble a rats nest.

The reason for the ratsnests is easy to explain: Everybody uses the public power poles to wire his private installation. After a while nobody knows whose line is whose. So they add new ones. Bangkok is not the best example yet. Take a look at Phitsanulok - tons of wires suspended by bamboo sticks. :D
 
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The reason for the ratsnests is easy to explain: Everybody uses the public power poles to wire his private installation. After a while nobody knows whose line is whose. So they add new ones. Bangkok is not the best example yet. Take a look at Phitsanulok - tons of wires suspended by bamboo sticks. :D

I'd love to see that! I've only been as far north as Kanchanaburi, and even there I notice a sort of 'primitiveness,' which was both disturbing and calming. :p
 
Can you imagen that Thailand is seen here in Cambodia as an example of how it should be

That's scary :D

it means also that the situation here is worser than overthere at this time
and at the same time better than overthere but than different

The biggest difference I noted in the two countries, is that we (Canada) protect the stupid from themselves.

I see it more as natural selection what happens here :D

Robert-Jan
 
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The reason for the ratsnests is easy to explain: Everybody uses the public power poles to wire his private installation. After a while nobody knows whose line is whose. So they add new ones. :D
I have seen photos of the neighborhoods and their tremendous mess of criss-crossed wires. Some densely populated areas have so many dozens upon dozens of wires to one pole that it almost blocks out the sun!! It is a real nightmare!
 
I have some better photos *somewhere* !@%+! :p
but for now, found this on my hd.
 

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I have some better photos *somewhere* !@%+! :p
but for now, found this on my hd.

What's wrong with that? :D

Cables are high enough to have trucks pass underneath!
 
It's also good enough for the chap on the first floor to use as clothes drying line.

Defenetly drying line as that the majority of the lines are to hot to touch and the steam (vaporize) shows when it rains

(one reason for a high humidity here :D)

in Phnom penh there are houses with only 180 volt deu to voltage drop over the supply line :eek: (good selling argument for your own generator)

Robert-Jan
 
Does the fire department there work on commission or something?


Torben


Here in Cambodia they negotiate first a price before the start dousing the fire

and the one who pays the most get the most water in his house and has of course the first priority

its better to invest in a more then few fire exstinguishers

Robert-Jan
 
Here in Cambodia they negotiate first a price before the start dousing the fire

and the one who pays the most get the most water in his house and has of course the first priority

its better to invest in a more then few fire exstinguishers

Robert-Jan

Sounds to me the fireball would have a good market there, but it is a bit expensive.
You said 180V, wonder how your 220V appliances will like that.:(
 
You said 180V, wonder how your 220V appliances will like that.:(

Some simply don't work unless the neighbour with its work shop and of couse bypased fuses stops working then your power jumps up again

in my house it's not to bad now (I've been moved house recently)

on a day it goes between the 227 Volt and the 195 Volt

Robert-Jan
 
Even 195 sounds a bit low if your appliance is expecting 220 plus.
Well designed equipment will sail past that problem, the other, well they end up at the repair shop.
similar thing have been blamed for the demise of the electrical lawn-mower engine around this part.
You add 30 meters of thin stupid lead to drive your mower, but do not know what drop that thin wire causes, so now you live in an area where the power is a bit below par, and boom, while you're mowin, the motor packs up.
But you're asking it to work real hard of 190V AC or even less.
For me that makes sense.
Or so I've been told, but I'm sure some brainiac will tell me actually it does not work that way.
It equally applies to computer PSU's, their death is lower supply voltage.
 
Low voltage does affect motors, especially the ones which have to start into a load. e.g. a compressor in a fridge.
Voltage lower, torque is significantly reduced, motor may stall and burn out.

SMPS in computers. They cover a wide voltage range usually for 220 Volt setting they should work between about 170 and 260 Volts.

When the incoming mains voltage is low in the latter, the ON / OFF ratio is changed to maintain a constant secondary voltage to the computer.

The SMPS don't like spikes, which may happen when the voltage jumps from 190 to 230 Volts, and a brief transient spike could blow up the SMPS.

Best is to fit a surge protector.
 
Rodalco, I think you're right.
People that have problems with psu's, you can see in their homes the light's intensity changes the whole time. Dimmer, brighter, dimmer, brighter......

That can be where spikes come from and..... boom.
 
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