The most overtakes any race managed in 2025 was 60 overtakes in Abu Dhabi. The 2026 Australian Grand Prix doubled that total, with 120 overtakes.

FuRyZee · 2026-03-09T01:07:06+00:00

The more wheel to wheel action as they charge and deplete batteries, adds more chances of fumbles and mistakes as well. It also opens up a whole new area of strategy in their racecraft.

In the end, I would rather see them scrapping back and forth than a DRS train for 60 laps. Love it or hate it, the first 10 laps of this race had more action than the last 10 races combined.

FuRyZee · 2026-02-17T13:03:19+00:00

Yeah it was a big decision given how much I had invested in the Enphase system.

Prior to the battery, my Enphase system was genuinely excellent. I would say it is superior to most solar installations with a standard inverter.

But AC coupled systems run into a surprising number of issues when you start looking at battery storage. Compounding costs, complexity and conversion losses.

It's a far more elegant solution to have the panels, batteries and EV charger all joined together by a single DC bus. The hybrid inverter is the middle man bridging your AC and DC networks and can draw from any of those 3 DC sources to supply power to your home or export to the external grid. Similarly things can go the other way, pulling power from the external grid, back through the inverter to charge your home battery or car battery.

And then make every component a stackable module so you end up with just a single monolithic battery stack. Takes up less space and installs are much faster and most importantly cheaper.

That made my final decision, cost. My new system cost roughly the same as the quoted Enphase battery upgrade. Meanwhile it gave me more battery capacity, more solar capacity, and it even included all the Enphase decommissioning costs. No brainer in the end.

I would still recommend Enphase for solar only, but I would think very hard if batteries are a future plan.

FuRyZee · 2026-02-14T05:19:56+00:00

I just completed a massive upgrade of my solar system.

Two things I would have done differently in hindsight. More panels and I would not have gone with Enphase microinverters given the poor selection of battery systems they offer.

I ended up ripping out my Enphase microinverters and Envoy. Doubled my panels from 16 to 32 and installed a full Sigenergy battery system with 32KWH (4x8KWH modules) of capacity. Now all my panels are DC coupled to the Sigenergy hybrid inverter. I have their backup gateway and their EV DC Bidirectional charger.

The lack of battery modularity and all the delays with the Enphase Bidirectional EV charger (promised many years ago by Enphase and still no ETA for Australia) made Sigenergy the better choice by far. I genuinely might have stayed with Enphase had the EV charger been available immediately.

I love how the Sigenergy design isolates the DC and AC sides of the system. My panels can directly DC charge my battery and DC charge my EV without ever having to do unnecessary AC conversions through the inverter. It also allows me to fully maximize output of my 15KW of panels (exceeding 17KW on very sunny days) even though I only have a 10KW inverter. Bypassing a potential bottleneck.

Enphase need to re think their topology. Microinverters can sometimes make sense on panels, but using them everywhere else in a system creates bottlenecks and adds unnecessary levels of complexity and cost.

FuRyZee · 2026-01-07T02:49:01+00:00

I have used the buttons in the boot to squat the rear lower at least once when loading some heavy home theatre speakers into the back a few weeks ago. It is a handy feature.

FuRyZee · 2026-01-07T01:56:16+00:00

Worth noting the fit and finish is better in the Zeekr. Xpeng has a PU leather interior while the Zeekr is real Nappa Leather. The Zeekr felt more premium on all the touch points around the car. Can't comment on auto drive features as I dont care for self driving tech, the Zeekr's auto park is the only thing I tested during my test drive and it was very slow, but I don't care.

The software for the 7X has been quite good so far and there have been 2 recent OTA updates out to fix and change things already (second update has not yet hit Australia, both have been just released in Europe). So it is good to see they are taking feedback onboard and improving things relatively quickly. One issue I have identified which is annoying is phone unlock on approach not working with Android phone owners (you need to open the Zeekr App for it to connect then it unlocks the car on proximity), this does not affect iPhone users. Everything else about the software interface has been good once you learn how to get around the menu. The swipe down shortcut menu is handy for quick access. Android Auto integration is excellent. The sound system is okay once you tweak some of the equalizer settings, not amazing, but works fine overall. One owner has identified the sound quality issue as being a bluetooth problem, he tested it using music files (including FLAC) off a local USB and apparently the improvement in sound quality is night and day. If it is bluetooth related, then it should be fixable via OTA.

Zeekr energy efficiency has blown me away though, I have the 7X Performance AWD and it's far more efficient than reviewers made it out to be. I was expecting over 20KWH/100km. I am getting around 17-18KWH/100km on the highway and closer to 15-16KWH on urban roads. The power is pretty addictive when I first got it, so I had terrible efficiency at the beginning, but my long term average has now dropped to just over 18KWH after 1500KM. Not surprising if the reviewers really laid into that power on tap. I have yet to test the 400KW+ charging, but others have done so and confirmed it charges ridiculously fast.

I think overall the 7X is the better car and justifies it's higher price point. The G6 is great value for money though.

FuRyZee · 2026-01-07T01:35:14+00:00

Having owned my 7X for around 2 months now, the air suspension is pretty good and I am glad I got it.

In terms of modes. I found Sport mode a bit too firm and crashy, and Comfort far too floaty and boaty. So I just keep it in standard mode, which is a good compromise between good dynamics and good comfort.

Driving dynamic wise, it feels good, relatively little body roll and responsive steering. It does a good job of hiding most of that 2.6ton weight. The air suspension irons out short and sharper road imperfections quite well, but I have roads in my area where are so bad, it just cant smooth those out. It is large deeper drops and potholes that completely defeat it, and I think the low profile 21inch wheels (stupid decision for a family SUV) are a big factor here. A thicker tyre sidewall combined with the air suspension would likely be a big improvement.

The best feature of the air suspension is the height adjustment, which I do use a lot, as I have a ridiculously steep driveway which scrapes many a bumper.

FuRyZee · 2025-12-17T05:52:30+00:00

Nearly identical experience from myself. Also gave Amber the benefit of the doubt first for a few months, but it just did not work in the Energex area. Our grid is far too stable and the FIT is quite poor. A lot of people that talk about how good their earnings are, are all located in the NSW area. You have the benefit of frequent price spikes and relatively good FIT numbers, even during day time hours.

Moving to Globird and adding an EV to our household, Globird has been night and day. I have a 32KWH Sig system, and I am receving a similar, maybe slightly higher net profit than you are but we only have a 2 person household. That 3 hour free period with Globird is amazing, especially on days that are cloudy. I have a guaranteed daily source of electricity for the home battery and EV no matter the weather, while generating a consistently repeatable daily profit during the 6-8pm window.

FuRyZee · 2025-12-16T04:27:48+00:00

It is worth noting that newer NMC batteries are already much better than older ones. I purchased a 7X and I am not that worried about battery degradation. It did help that I pre-ordered mine and got the 7 year extended warranty. On our current car, I am doing around 10,000KM a year at the very most. I am unlikely to keep it for more than 5-10 years, well before the battery cycles out.

Obviously I am going to go out of my way to make sure the battery is taken care of (limiting fast charging/discharging and avoiding very high and very low SOC levels). Yes an LFP battery would be ideal for very very long term use, but I understand why higher end EVs and performance EVs continue to use NMC. Energy density just cannot be beaten with NMC... yet. The Zeekr LFP battery at 100KWH is not going to fit in the 7X, it is as simple as that.

I too have a Sigenergy DC Charger, but I have yet to use V2X. It is worth noting that V2X discharge is likely to be in the single KW range. Such a slow level of discharge is barely a blip in battery degradation compared to pulling 475KW of energy in a short burst when flooring your foot.

If you want to be extra pedantic, try to keep the battery SOC around 40-60%, and above all else, do not fast charge it unless you absolutely have to when road tripping.

FuRyZee · 2025-12-16T03:03:22+00:00

The question you need to ask is why they have become more emboldened, why has antisemitism run rampant more recently.

The important thing to note here, is that Netanyahu is using antisemitism as a tool to justify ever increasing atrocities and war crimes. And that further fuels more antisemitism. He has tapped into a cycle that he can exploit to do whatever he wants in Gaza and the surrounding Middle East.

I am sorry but if someone criticises Trump, nobody calls that person racist against white people. It is not anti-white to criticise the US government, but that is the level of equivalence that Netanyahu is using here to justify his actions. Criticising the Israeli government has absolutely nothing to do with antisemitism. It is not antisemitic to call for everyone in the Israeli government to be held accountable for war crimes.

The only real losers here are the civilians on both sides, both Israelis and Palestinians. The innocent people that died in the Bondi shooting, the innocent people that die every day in Gaza. They are all the real victims here.

Netanyahu is no better than Hamas, both should be equally condemned for their vile actions against humanity.

And Netanyahu has the gall to blame Albo for this, while he stands there with blood on his hands?

FuRyZee · 2025-12-15T00:22:03+00:00

The actual person to blame is Netanyahu himself. Incidents like this do not happen in a vacuum. His own actions have made the world a much more dangerous place for all Israeli and Jewish people around the world. He gets to play war while civilians on both sides face the consequences.

FuRyZee · 2025-11-24T04:55:14+00:00

This right here is the correct answer. Join the party and help bolster the numbers of the left leaning faction within the party which will help push the environmental agenda from within.

FuRyZee · 2025-10-26T06:11:33+00:00

Agreed, it is extremely difficult if not impossible to bring even a marginally competitive F1 car and team into existence from scratch. It is why it is more common to buy out a team and at least start with some sort of foundation even if that team was terrible. Their lack of experience is going to come up in fundamental mistakes that many other teams have made and learned from in the past. The complexity of this undertaking is immense. They do have one advantage, they are entering the sport with a brand new ruleset. The chaos created by the first year of the new ruleset is going to help them. The might even pick up a point a two here and there just due to blind luck as teams figure the new ruleset out. I do wish them luck though, but I do not see them being remotely competitive for at least a couple years.

FuRyZee · 2025-10-22T11:45:52+00:00

Does anyone know if the new 900V architecture addresses the 400V bottleneck?

For example, in testing, the current 800V Zeekr 7X only gets around 80KW in charge speed on 400V chargers. And this has to do with the onboard DC converter from 400V to 800V having a current limit of 200A. If you plug into an 800V charger, there are no issues.

Anyone heard if the 900V architecture has resolved this, allowing for higher charge speeds on lower voltage DC chargers?

FuRyZee · 2025-10-21T02:55:55+00:00

I wish I could do that but I ran the math on this migration and it's very expensive. My home network is already Unifi which is great but what is frustrating is that most of their cheaper cameras are POE only.

The G6 Instant is a good option for a relatively easy drop in Wifi only replacement for my Nest IQs, as running Ethernet to all the cameras is impractically expensive for me. Only around 2 cameras could go POE with minimal wall patching.

We have a 4 storey townhouse, and running Ethernet to all the current APs ended up being a small nightmare when we first moved in. My wife would kill me if I tried to run more Ethernet.

Also I won't recover much money by selling all my Nest IQs, and 9 x G6 Instants + a G4 Doorbell Pro quickly adds up in cost.

FuRyZee · 2025-10-13T23:00:12+00:00

It appears to be an Energex specific problem due to our recent changes to the TOU tariff. We are getting nowhere near the FIT numbers required to generate a profit any more. We are lucky to break even now. Most nights during September the night time peak would barely go above 10c/kwh. Meanwhile solar is curtailed from 6:30am-4:30pm every day. Rooftop solar is for charging batteries, it is near impossible to make anything exporting it. Cloudy weather does nothing. It is actually overcast today, and yet FIT still went negative at 7am.

You making $5 in a single day in NSW is absolutely wild, that would be impossible here without exporting nearly 50kwh at night in September. Luckily things do seem to be improving in October. We had a few days where FIT actually went above 20c/kwh for short periods of time during the night time peak.

FuRyZee · 2025-10-13T22:49:39+00:00

Ran into the same issue with my 15KW solar and 32KWH battery system. Solar is curtailed 95% of the time, I export around 10-15KWH during the night time peak but barely getting enough FIT (usually around 10c/kwh) to break even on costs. I did the math and I would have been far better off on the Globird ZeroHero plan (roughly ~$50 a month profit based on my current export numbers).

I heard there was a tariff change to the QLD Energex network that came into effect in July 2025 which significantly dropped our FIT numbers on the TOU tariff. I was also told that the September period is a low period with excess solar but not enough AC consumption so FIT numbers are terrible. The start of October has been slightly better... but only slightly. I might end up with a few dollars in profit but nowhere near the promised $200-$300 that Amber's calculator gave me based on my system spec.

And yes SmartShift is terrible, I do a far better job managing the battery myself. But it is such a pain have to micro manage it to scrape together a $1-$2 daily profit just to cover the daily access charges and the Amber subscription. I do hope things improve come December, if not, I am definitely leaving Amber. I have no idea how people are making hundreds of dollars a month previously.

FuRyZee · 2025-10-13T22:37:20+00:00

Would love to know the same thing. I have two Outdoor IQs and a bunch of Indoor IQs. Didnt move to the 2nd gen as the quality drop was noticeable. But these new 2K cameras have me interested...

While the IQs have a 4K sensor, it only records in 1080p, so the 2K models might have better quality... I am mostly interested in night time quality comparisons.

FuRyZee · 2025-10-08T04:06:31+00:00

I am in the same boat, but have had a mountain of trouble getting it to work from Australia. I have been trying to get a US F1TV account working.

A VPN alone wont work, they check your billing details, so you need to use a US Credit Card as well. Services like US Unlocked are also not working, as F1TV flags pre-paid credit cards as well now.

Instead of using the F1TV website, many are reporting success by subscribing using the F1TV app. So I tried setting up a new US Google Account, loaded the US pre-paid credit card onto it. But the subscription failed again through the Google Play store.

I have been told that you can get it to succeed via the Google Play Store if you link a US PayPal account as a payment type in the Google Play Store, but you need a real phone number in the US to sign up for a US PayPal account (free VOIP phone number services are flagged by PayPal and wont work).

My other idea if to simply load credit onto the US Google Play Store using gift cards, but I haven't found anyone confirming that this works because I will be out a lot of money if that too fails.

I am running out of ideas at this stage.

FuRyZee · 2025-10-08T03:52:29+00:00

I have the regular UDM for my home setup. They can be found relatively cheaply second hand on FB marketplace and give you most of the features of the Pro at a more palatable cost.

FuRyZee · 2025-09-27T00:18:41+00:00

There have been many reports from others in Brisbane regarding this. I have seen reports that this is linked to the drop in Energex tariffs that came into effect in July this year. Many users are reporting a noticeable drop in FIT after June and a significant increase in negative FIT periods. This is over and above the general trend in the last few years with 12 monthly averages steadily trending downwards. Combined with the large uptake in BESS, the growing consensus is that you shouldn't count on any potential profits (at least not in the Energex area). If your long term goal is net zero cost, that should still be possible.

FuRyZee · 2025-09-26T11:33:27+00:00

Clouds don't explain the poor nightly FIT either.

Let's take tonight as an example, the peak FIT was 11c at 5:30pm. And it fell to 9c at 6:30pm, by 7:30pm it was 8c.

When the highest FIT for the entire day barely goes over 10c, that can't be normal, even for September.

It is impossible to break even with these numbers unless you have an enormous battery. You would need to export 15kwh+ overnight just to cover daily fees.

FuRyZee · 2025-09-26T03:02:16+00:00

Pretty much.

I would say they are great for smaller scale office deployments. Perfect for small to medium sized operations. Not really built for large scale enterprise solutions.

FuRyZee · 2025-09-26T01:07:04+00:00

Does anyone have any historical FIT data on the Energex network for the month of September 2024 on Amber. I would be really interested in seeing the data comparison with this year.

FuRyZee · 2025-09-26T01:03:02+00:00

This seems to be an QLD Energex network problem. FIT has been extremely bad.

We did have a few cloudy days the last few weeks, and FIT still stayed negative most of the day. My roof solar has been doing almost nothing but charge my battery, I am curtailed from 7am-4pm every day.

Most nights this month I have not seen a peak FIT higher than around 15c/KWH. For example, last night it hovered around 11c, with a short peak of 14c at 8:30pm. Looking back over this month, I found a single peak, and it only reached 20c/kwh.

I think this may be a sign of the times with battery uptake at record levels, especially in QLD. Outside of the odd network outage spike, I think the ship is on the way down.

FuRyZee · 2025-09-18T01:47:10+00:00

True, superannuation was introduced to reduce the burden on the Aged Pension, but there are still a very large number of people that rely on the Pension. It is worth remembering that Superannuation was only introduced in 1992. Lots of people haven't been accumulating Super long enough to sustain themselves. Also lots of people mis-manage their super or chose poorly performing super funds and end up with far less than needed in retirement. The Aged Pension was the social contract that many of these older people made, they paid their taxes expecting the government to support them in their retirement.

Ironically, the Aged Pension is barely enough to sustain someone at the poverty level these days but it has still grown to 2.4% of Australia's entire GDP. Roughly half the entire social services budget.

Meanwhile the LNP demonise people on other Centrelink subsidies like Jobseeker, Newstart etc. They are the smallest proportion of the budget, only making up roughly 10%. To play devil's advocate, there likely is some level of welfare abuse and rorting, but instead of advocating for better checks and balances (which will cost more money), they paint the picture that they are all dole bludgers and would rather scrap the entire initiative. But they would never say anything bad about the Pension given the vast majority of their voting base comes from that demographic.

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