Recent content by ericpullen

Not sure if it helps anyone else, but I had a change in mindset today when I started thinking “How would I have felt if they had announced T3 yesterday, stopped Lightning sales, and T3 used a radically different architecture and shared nothing with the Lightning”. It still would have obsoleted...

I'm bummed, but honestly the writing was on the wall for a while. I still love my truck and I am planning to drive it for as long as I can. My only wishful replacement was a Expedition sized EV, but doesn't seem like that will happen either. One final thing I would love for @Ford Motor Company...

No, they are the same or maybe even a little quieter. For those asking, here is the sidewall of mine for comparison:

Just to close the loop on this one, I got the Michelin Defender LTX M/S2 (275/50R22) and holy cow what a difference they have made. Smooth ride and the vibration is completely gone. Now it makes me wonder if I had a bad General tire since I got the truck. If you have a Platinum and don’t want...

That’s what I assume since they are about to shut that plant down to retool soon. Cool that it’s happening in my hometown 😀

@Ford Motor Company Do you know where in Kentucky this is taking place? Is it at one of the Louisville plants or at BlueOval City?

I bought an Anker F3800 Plus to be the primary power for my house in storms, as well as the generator inlet so I can recharge it from my Lightning!

Thanks, I’ve looked at that panel but it’s tough to do since I just got a full panel/service upgrade just 3 years ago. This is a manual setup, but most of the pieces are already in place. I’d love to go big with solar and fully integrated batteries with something like a EG4 Grid Boss type setup...

Just purchased a F3800 Plus after it dropped down to $2799 this weekend (plus I'll get the 30% tax credit before it expires). I have a unique setup, but I think this is going to work well for what we need. I have 400A incoming service (with outside disconnect), which is split into 2 - 200A...

I had a cheap usb to serial and struggled to get it working with my Raspberry Pi test machine, so I switched to a RPi Zero and it’s been rock steady once you set it up. I just mounted it next to the FCSP so I can do testing more easily since I don’t have a bench unit.

Since its never been setup, I'm guessing its in a default state. Might be good to grab the boot log sequence and post it here just to see if there is anything we can gleam from that. If we can ever get past the login/ssh or get to a u-boot, then there is a good chance I could decode how their...

Here is my Minicom setup (115200 8N1) that is hooked up to my Raspberry Pi Zero:

No I was just trying to see if Linux would show anything in dmesg when it was plugged in (it didn’t). I need to hook up the other uart and see if it shows anything, maybe that’s where the usb port is attached to.

Finally hooked up the usb port to my Pi and noticed it doing this when I had it plugged in. As soon as I unplugged it, it stopped. Wonder if it thinks it is about to get a firmware update.

I concur that the max_amps is just the hardware setting of the dial inside the unit. I've been trying to break the boot sequence (its using a TI chipset, which uses u-boot and a Linux OS under the covers). Would be awesome to have a bench unit to see what can be done for that, right now I can...