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Do you know if they play games on weekdays or only on weekends? I’m having a terrible time finding the 2022 calendar.

Games are played Thursday-Sunday

>Central west NSW is facing its worst flooding in 70 years, with 22 emergency warnings issued across the state on Friday, including for Wagga Wagga, Gunnedah and Moama.

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>More than 1000 residents in Forbes have been told to leave for higher ground, with the overflowing Lachlan River expected to exceed 10.8 metres by Friday night – a mark not reached since 1952.

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>The emergency services minister, Steph Cooke, said residents in some communities might not see their property directly affected but could be isolated due to flooding nonetheless.

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>**The recent floods have eclipsed this year’s March floods, Cooke said.**

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>“We are now seeing flood upon flood upon flood, the layering of one flood on another.”

Hey, on the bright side is we had 70 years for planning and building right?

Hi all,

The advise I've heard is when going solar, go big. This is because batteries are expensive now but may come down in price one day to get one that takes you overnight, but also you'll want to charge an EV one day. What do you all think?

Yes do it. Even with the bad weather in Sydney, our electricity bills are down by a lot after installing solar. Plus we charge our EV for free via solar.

Make sure the controller is suited to battery charging.

I've had roof leak problems since getting them. If I had my time again I probably wouldn't have gotten them on my tiled roof.

It's a no-brainer. Typical ROI is 5 years.

I start with a 6.5kW system 2 years ago, and recently upgraded to 13kW. If I knew then what I know now, I would have gone straight to 13.

100% agree, get whatever your roof can fit and you can afford, limited only by whatever your provider will allow

Definitely. We're factoring it into our home shopping. We won't be buying until the second half of 2023, but it's something we're keeping in mind for improvements/future.

it was worth it for us. we did a new build and included ducted air so we had to. council insisted. still have bills as the feed in tariffs are shittenhousen.

Yep and don't get the cheapest deal, as many places send their dodgy panels to Aus as we have no quality control/ regulations for them. Then you get a fire in your roof.

We are getting solar hot water, putting the electric water tank on an off,-peak metre & getting an induction stovetop to replace our old electric stove.

We got a few quotes, one guy said 6.6kW would be plenty. Offered cheap panels and a single inverter. Another looked at our usage, asked questions, checked the roof, and quoted on good panels and micro inverters (8.8kW). Guess who got the job… week after we accepted his quote, we get a call “can we come around tomorrow to install?” They replaced all the broken tiles with some of our spares. These weren’t tiles they broke, just had broken over the years. This company monitors the system performance and can tell you if there’s a problem before you even know it. Illawarra based, DM if you want details.

I upped my panels from 1.5 kW to 7.2 kW. Now adding a 10kWh battery to handle those overcast periods when I don't get enough light during the day, and to supply much of my average overnight power. My average usage is 1 kW/h (not counting aircon and HWS) so a 10 kWh battery will last much of the night. And when I get an EV, the PV system can charge that for free.

I put a timer on the HWS so it only heats with free solar energy during the day.

Presently paying 24 cents oer kWH for the grid power I do use in a fixed price contract with 8 months to go. When that runs out the price jumps to 31 cents at today's price but if the price as predicted goes up 65 % then the price would double for me from now.

So my bills will drop to pretty small with my plan and it should pay for itself within 5 or 6 years.

> Overinvesting

On panels? Solar feed-in tariffs are only going to drop further, I know people with an average sized system who pump back in 3x more than they use and still have big bills.

Buying more panels upfront is pissing in the wind and makes no financial sense once you have your daytime power consumption covered, you are better off spending the extra money on storage/powerbanks.

I paint roofs, solar guys don't replace broken tiles often,just silicon them. We always get the solar guys to put the brackets on first then we clean and spray. After we finish we leave a few spare tiles if they break any installing the panels

Just want to chime in. It’s not just purely kW though. It’s also the brand and inverter. I.e. Just because a system has heaps of kW on the box doesn’t mean it’s going to pump it down. Especially, if it’s paradoxically cheap.

Case in point, a good mate of mine bought a dirt cheap Chinese 14kW system just down the road, while I was ‘conned’ into a 6.6kW REC panels with Fronius inverter. Most days, mine will pull down roughly 80% of what his system does; despite having less than half his kW panels.

I wish I’d got a south facing house so the panels were facing into our backyard rather than facing the street. It looks shit.

Feed-in Tarrifs *almost* killed it for us. But a friend of ours luckily convinced us to use the power during the day (e.g dish/clothes washing etc during the day). What you do make up in reimbursements, you save in having next to no power bill, any day of the week (except super rainy ones, of course).

Absolutely don’t get suckered by the cheapest option. A lot of solar installers are independent electricians who are just jumping on the solar bandwagon. They send their cheapest staff or apprentices to do the install. And they’ll sell you the crappiest system, install it under a tree shade, point it southwards. Got mine installed, cheaper guys who I looked over hassled me afterwards asking me for how much I paid.

Get quotes, but have them physically come out and check your roof position and energy usage. Go with quality, you’re installing an energy generator on your roof.

Had a similar experience with Penrith Solar. Excellent pre and post sale service. We had them back to install the car charger. Currently configured to charge only when making excess from the panels so the car costs next to zero to run. Very happy.

I'm expecting in the next few years that vehicle to load will become more popular so I'm skipping the battery.

My solar installer said to have 10-20 spares because he couldn't guarantee he wouldn't break any but he'd make sure to replace them properly.

If your mate bought a 14kW inverter that doesn't do 14kW, he's owed his money back.

But yeah, if it seems too cheap, there's probably a reason why.

I'll be honest, I don't even notice them anymore, other than to be like "oh they have a nice set up."

My installer said to have 1 spare per panel, I have 35 panels so I bought 40 from a building recycling centre. (My tiles are no longer made).

Bought a new pressure washer and 20 litres of paint. I cleaned them and painted them with a brush. 3 coats and used about 1/4 of the paint.

My installer used 2 spare tiles! I have 38 spare tiles and 15 litres of monument grey.

I have heaps spare. Noone asked me!

Hi everyone,

Its Richad . I used to post under an old account which by the life of me I can no longer log in to. I used this in the past but the original seems to be gone.

**To start off with, this is NOT PROMOTION or SELF PROMOTION.**

**I am not gaining anything from the services I provide to ie. Sydney (Covers 85% of NSW too) communities nor am I planning on monetizing anything. I am an ex-emergency services member hence my passion in this project.**

So I have been streaming emergency services communications to the public since 2006. Lately I have moved to YouTube to live stream not only the audio but also the display so people can see what they are listening to. This came in very handy during bad bush fire seasons in the past.

I am just asking for some honest opinions and help, the more feedback I can get the better I will be able to adjust my stream to make it more reliable and accessible.

I want as many people as possible to have access to the stream because I believe that when it comes to Bush Fires, floods, storms, etc being informed is key to your safety. Having that direct link to SES, F&R, RFS etc etc can be live saving - I have been told this by many users in the past.

I am streaming live right now and it would mean so much to me if any of you would be kind enough to look at the feed, listen to the audio, look at the video feed and let me know visually what you would change, things that are out of place and what can be improved.

My YouTube channel will never be monetized - I don't charge money for peoples\` safety - plus I am trying to keep the damn ads to a minimum. Sadly YouTube is pumping it full of ads - beyond my control.

You can take a look at the current stream with a changed layout here:

[https://youtu.be/\_-OWe6IgVjE](https://youtu.be/_-OWe6IgVjE)

Previous iterations of the display layout can be seen here:

[https://www.youtube.com/c/ScannerAustraliaBroadcasting/streams](https://www.youtube.com/c/ScannerAustraliaBroadcasting/streams)

I am also creating an archive which I hope can be hopeful in the future.

If you would like to know about my set-up, I\` d be happy to show/explain what I use and if you are a scanning fanatic, I am also happy to give you a database for free as long as you use something like a Uniden UBCD536-PT model or similar. Other people charge for it. I think its a damn shame. Stuff like this should not cost anything.

Anyway enough of my rambling, if anyone can help me out - like 2 years ago when I posted under my old account - I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks in advance & Thanks for reading.

Richad

Scanner Australia Broadcasting

I subbed to your youtube back when you made it :) I don't look at it very often but I do keep it in my 'disaster' folder on my browser speed dial

Just subscribed, I’ll listen/watch and give you feedback

With your description SES 132500 is non life threatening only, if someone is in danger and in need of rescue they should call 000 and they’ll coordinate the multi agency deployment.

Otherwise this is super neat! I like it and have subbed for later.

The NSWTA depot is located in Castle Hill down in the industrial part.

Sorry I forgot how to use Reddit in the time I was away, Mods, if I did something wrong please let me know? Thank you. \*well I am sure you will anyway. hehe

Thank you! Much appreciated.

Thanks for that. I will amend the description.

Hello good folk\~!

I'm planning on embarking on a road trip from Brissy down through and along the inland side of the Great Dividing Range, stopping by the popular Blue Mountain trails, Oberon, Canberra then down to Vic to drive along the Great Ocean Road.

On the way back, I was planning on cutting inland back home to Bris.

I'm basically avoiding the M1 as much as I can.

For reference, here are google maps screen grabs of my proposed routes down and back:

* Going there [https://imgur.com/w2wZd93](https://imgur.com/w2wZd93)

* And Back [https://imgur.com/t8rJ3r0](https://imgur.com/t8rJ3r0)

I'm worried though that the route back takes me too close to the recent flooding.

Can anyone advise me how I should be changing my route to avoid the flooding areas if it is an actual concern?

Any general advice or tips for making this trip? This is the first time I'm taking a multi day trip solo.

Cheers\~!

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Hey there, I recently did a motorbike trip from Sydney to Brisbane and back! I took Putty Road and then A15/15 just like you're doing (but in reverse).

15/A15 was really easy to ride on, wide and well marked. I don't think it'd be affected by floods that much. Putty Road northwest of Sydney might be, there were roadworks in August with only one lane open on some parts of it.

There was some traffic between Tamworth and Newcastle, but the road was fairly empty north of Tamworth. Nothing extreme though. I was riding during the week, it might be different during the weekend.

And generally, you can check https://www.livetraffic.com/ for the up to date status of all roads in NSW. From what I see there are some flooded roads, but the main highways seem to be clear at the moment.

Enjoy the drive, and take frequent stops to rest. Make sure to check out the rail station in Wallangara on the NSW-Qld border.

I drove into Brisbane from Newcastle the other week via the M1 and there was no road damage or anything similar so you should be good for those bits. I do realise your going mostly inland though