We had a number of delays in setting up the main solar for BaanMae. At first we were going to mount everything inside the house and use DC automotive fuses for protection. But we began to realize that many of the devices we wanted to power were outside, such as the water pumps and walkway…
Permanent electricity hookup installed today
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=208103 Today, the Metropolitan Electricity Authority came by and hooked up our permanent electrical supply. Up until now we’ve been using the temporary hookup people use for construction. (Which costs more than twice as much as the normal rate.) But the electrical inspector came by last week and now we are “on the electrical grid”. That’s…
BaanRimNaam: Time to start running the power
Now that we are basically done with the AC electrical wiring for BaanMae, we have begun digging the trench to run the electricity to BaanRimNaam. Since the house is quite deep into the land (well over 100 meters), this is going to take a few days to dig. Good thing we have an excavator. 🙂…
Electrical utility inspector came by to inspect our electrical wiring
I delayed signing up for the permanent electrical hookup for quite a while. It wasn’t too urgent because we already have the temporary construction electricity, but they charge about twice as much for it. We finally got around to signing up for the permanent electrical connection and the utility company sent an inspector by yesterday….
Temperatures of new solar powered DC LED lights
I noted at the end of this previous post that we the heatsinks seemed to be getting too hot when we first tested the LED lighting. The heatsinks were getting up to about 90 degrees Celsius. So in our final install, we roughly tripled the size of the heatsinks, and the results were quite promising. We…
LED light final install in bathroom
Today, we finished up the wiring of the LED lights in the bathroom and had our first test of an actual install of our new DC lighting system. When we tested previously, it was just temporarily put in place as a proof of concept. But the concept was proven and we wired it up and…
Wiring up the LED lights
We are using small gauge VAF cable to wire up our DC LED lights now. VAF cable normally has a white PVC insulation on the outside for protection, so I decided to try make it blend in with the wooden walls better like we did with the PVC conduit piping. In addition, Praew really doesn’t…
Circuit breaker box
It seems like it has taken a very long time to get the circuit breaker box wired up. Without much experience at this, every step is a decision followed by a need to buy something new followed by another decision. But after several weeks, we’ve gotten the main circuit breaker box in the first house…
A new order of solar panels received today
Today, we received our newest order of solar panels from Amorn Solar. In the top of frame, you can see 6x 300W panels. Each is pretty big, measuring about 2m by 1m. Together, they should really have plenty of power to run the entire house. Down below, in the small white box on the left…
Sewage tank prefilter
This was an idea Praew and I came up with. We will be experimenting with slow sand filters to treat the grey water sewage before using it for watering plants and realized we should filter for any loose hair or whatever that gets down the drain so it doesn’t clog the pump. Therefore, before the…
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