[Fungineers X7] Offer 10-amp fast charger

My X7 long range just arrived from Fungineers and I'm feeling the need to sing some praises. And there's not a lot of info about this board out there yet so here's a quick brain dump. Warning: I love this board, effusive praise lies ahead. For folks who don't know, the X7 is a VESC board made by Fungineers. It's an XR platform, meaning it's basically an XR at heart, it's even compatible with XR accessories. But a big difference is the motor, the Superflux, which is (much?) more powerful than Future Motion's Hypercore. And it has a 20s2p battery pack which makes it waaay more powerful than an XR and even a GT-S. I've been wanting an X7 forever but they were pretty low range at 403 watt hours, about the same as an XR Classic, and range is super important to me. But then they posted this magnificent beast to their website: [https://fungineers.us/products/funwheel-x7-long-range](https://fungineers.us/products/funwheel-x7-long-range) The X7 long range, with 720 glorious watt hours of battery capacity. An XR with more power than a GT-S and more range than my Floatwheel ADV1 and 67% more range than a GT-S? I don't care that it costs more than my car and my car has a broken window that needs replacing and the rains are coming, I'm buying that frickin thing. Two months later it arrived: https://preview.redd.it/y3tckmwtztvf1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0844f3189b875178d4879aa455e132d933c92a28 And holy crap all I had to do was open the box, put air in the tire and go. No wrenching or calibrating required. That was a big surprise since my Floatwheel ADV1 was a bit of a trial by fire introduction to VESC, I was troubleshooting that board for so long my friends are still afraid of VESC. I finally got it working (was a bad ESC) and I thoroughly love my Floatwheel, and it recently passed the 3000 mile mark without a hiccup, but it was a rocky start. And I should mention that those rocky starts are pretty rare now with the ADV2, a much less finnicky board to assemble. But still, I was expecting the worst with my X7. But I didn't have to do a damn thing, and it was just love at first carve. It really feels like an XR but with limitless torque and the most buttery smooth motor you can imagine. I haven't gotten a single motor crunch. No squeals or kerchunks, just bombs up everything I point it at leaving a trail of silk. It rides so perfectly that I haven't even bothered changing the tune yet. That's rare for me, usually I'm all about the Nico's Street Growler tune on my VESC boards (which isn't many, just a Floatwheel and an XRV), I love how carvey and loose that tune is. But I personally can't think of a single improvement I could make to the stock tune on this board. Maybe I'd lower the nose a tiny bit when going up steep hills (adjust the ATR?), but it's all super good, the stock settings are rock solid beautiful and I'm on I think day 7 and I still haven't changed a thing. This board is so intelligently set up that for the moment at least I'm listening to it and learning from it. I even love the tire, which is a real surprise since I'm a tire changing fool. The only reason I didn't pre-order a Goat tire is that they were out of stock when I looked, but I'm glad because the tire on this thing seems perfect to me at the moment. And about those rails... I have a pair of WTF's that I rescued from the Future Motion buyback landfill that I was planning to use since the X7 rails always looked weird to me in pictures. But I don't think they look weird at all in person, and now that I've been riding it I'm not going to change a thing. To me at least this board is downright cohesive, everything on it works super well together. More info on the rails [here](https://fungineers.us/products/x7) by the way, something about them being angled 4.20 degrees etc. And about that ride feel, it really is like an XR, and I forgot how much I love XR's. As most people considering an X7 know, the Floatwheel is like a GT in all it's tall wobbly glory. Which is fine, I frickin love my Floatwheel, when I got it a couple of years ago it was the only board on the planet capable of doing long crazy rides like this: [https://youtu.be/zsL4KfuxREQ?si=uDaSs6w79BPTW3zG](https://youtu.be/zsL4KfuxREQ?si=uDaSs6w79BPTW3zG) I thought my X7 was going to be an addition to my quiver as opposed to a replacement of my Floatwheel, and maybe it's the honeymoon talking but at the moment I really don't see a reason to ride my Floatwheel. I feel bad for typing that since I have such a long amazing relationship with my Floatwheel, but it just doesn't have any advantages over my X7. That I know of at the moment at least. As of now I haven't done any 50+ mile multi recharge rides on my X7, maybe I'll think differently after that. But at the moment I'm grabbing the X7 every time. About that recharge time... The Floatwheel has an optional 10 amp hypercharger. We all know it's not the best idea to use the Floatwheel hypercharger (Future Motion riders don't worry, your hypercharger isn't actually a hypercharger, more on that later). A 10 amp hypercharger is a ridiculously fast charger. For comparison the GT-S hypercharger is 3.5 amps. I'm sure it's not the best for the battery but I use that 10 amp hypercharger on long rides and it's amazing to go from near dead to full in the time it takes to drink a beer I mean coffee. The less time pacing around waiting for the board to charge the better since I suck at killing time when I can't putter around on a onewheel. Which leads me to the only disadvantage of the X7 versus the Floatwheel that I've found so far: it only has one charger, and it charges at 5 amps. I asked the wizards on both the Floatwheel and Fungineers Discord what they thought about charging the X7 at 10 amps and the consensus seems to be that it will \*probably\* be fine since the BMS (so goes the theory) is rated at 12 amps. The charging port isn't rated for 10 amps but neither is the Floatwheel's, and I've never noticed any heat on my Floatwheel's charge port. So I'm probably going to damn the torpedoes and make an adaptor to charge my X7 at 10 amps using my Floatwheel charger, let me know if anyone has any tips or wants a followup on that. Another bit of geeky stats since it's so damn important to understanding the majesty of this board. All this "our boards go up to 11 miles!" way of estimating range is useless, so here's the actual battery capacities of every production onewheel in the world at the moment: Pint = 147 watt hours Pint X and XR = 324 wh XR Classic = 388 wh Funwheel X7 (non long range) = 403wh GT-S = 430 wh GT XL = 486 wh X7 supercharged = 518 wh GT = 544 wh Floatwheel ADV1 = 622 wh Floatwheel ADV2 = 720 wh Fungineers X7 long range = 720 wh So yeah, the Floatwheel and the X7 are the current long range kings, by a lot. I don't want to make this post about FFM (if you don't know what that stands for skip the rest of this paragraph), but nothing from Future Motion comes close. The GT-S with its 486 watt hours seems to me to be ridiculously short ranged, and the fact that it charges super slowly is a bad combination. The GT-S rides well enough, it feels almost exactly like my Floatwheel, a little less power than my Floatwheel but close enough, but personally I've never been tempted to spend irresponsibly on one. I've always accepted that the XR platform is doomed to being short range since that's just always been the way it is, "if you want longer range you're going to need this obnoxiously large GT frame", but now that's been gloriously overturned. Another board worth mentioning is the X7 Supercharged: [https://fungineers.us/products/funwheel-x7-supercharged-high-voltage](https://fungineers.us/products/funwheel-x7-supercharged-high-voltage) There's a thread about that here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/onewheel/comments/1kpcvxh/the\_funwheel\_x7\_supercharged\_is\_here\_134v\_beast/](https://www.reddit.com/r/onewheel/comments/1kpcvxh/the_funwheel_x7_supercharged_is_here_134v_beast/) The Supercharged has a 32s1p battery pack. Insanely high voltage. The now deleted user who wrote that review says he uses the board to ride the speed of traffic. That's crazy talk to me, I like to cruise around 20mph with occasional unintentional bursts to 26 or maybe 28, but for me that's just not my thing. But if you have a death wish and don't mind the decreased range (518 watt hours compared to the long range 720) that's something to consider. I don't have any experience with it yet and am afraid to ride one since I'm worried I'll love it. Anyway yeah, I have no idea how these tiny little companies keep making vastly better boards than Future Motion in all their private equity glory but in my opinion they do, and by a frickin lot. Floatwheel Tony massively pushed the sport forward with the Floatwheel, then Future Motion responded with the GT-S so they wouldn't look like incompetent dipshits, and now we get the X7 raising the bar again. And once again Future Motion is going to have to do something other than sit around and wait for better battery cells to be invented so they can increase the range of their bizarrely inefficient boards. And I hope this inspires Floatwheel to push out a better board as well. They've been talking about a high voltage Pint for years, and Tony said he also wants to make something on the XR platform. Go Tony go! And I should mention for people who like the GT XL, Fungineers sells the [X10 rails](https://fungineers.us/products/x10-rails) that, if I understand correctly, let you change the X7 into a BTG (big tire) board. I hope they sell a complete X10 board soon. I have to go protest against our wannabe king and this review has gotten way too long so I'm going to press send even though I haven't mentioned that I love the footpads and grip tape and build quality all around, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of other things. But let me know if any questions about the board, glad to answer. And I'm an hour and a half drive north of San Francisco and am in San Francisco pretty often, DM me if you want to take the board for a spin. And FFM!