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Its a gamble. Luckily it worked out for me.

BMS is internal to the battery pack. That's essentially why its plug and play because the truck just gathers and reports the battery status from the pack's internal BMS. The BMS communicates via a serial communication bus so it consolidates all the thermal sensing, contactors, voltage sense...

Yes to expand on this, the ER large modules are 5P11S. Essentially the ER and SR modules do not share the same internal battery modules, but the ER and flash do. The SR is 98 kWh with (9) 4P10S modules. 333V nominal as a battery pack. 360 cells total. The ER is 131 kWh with (8) 5P11S and (1)...

Actually the cell configuration between ER and SR modules aren't the same. Refer to post 72. The flash configuration is closer to the the ER. The SR battery pack is not ready for a solar setup as it is. Will need to talk to the internal BMS to activate the HV contact solenoids at minimum. Would...

I still have my original battery to revert back to should this ER battery croaks. The ER battery is definitely not warrantied. I am not afraid to tear into the battery for a module or cell replacement if need be.

No coding. Ford pass works just like before. Yes same electrical and coolant lines. Literally plug and play.

No I just did the battery. No other changes.

Not sure yet what I'm going to do with the old battery yet. I may make a science project out of it. That's the onboard chargers, and inverter. Now to setup microcontroller / canbus controller to see if I can manage to get these modules running standalone for my camper.

I don't see why DC fast charging would change. It bypasses the onboard AC charger(s). I've only ever DC fast charged twice and that was to test the Tesla adapter and the electrify america app.

Yeah I don't have the 80a home charger so it should not impact me. Charges at my normal 9-10kW rate.

Finally got some free time and amazing weather for the swap. The swap went went amazingly smoothly. You do need to lift the vehicle to get about 16" of clearance to clear the battery. You will also need to add additional clearance for the dolly height. Underneath the truck, there is a front...

The lightning battery packs all come with 9 modules in series. The SR is 98 kWh with (9) 4P10S modules. 333V nominal as a battery pack. 360 cells total. The ER is 131 kWh with (8) 5P11S and (1) 5P8S. 355.2V nominal as a battery pack. 480 cells total. The Flash is 123 kWh with (6) 5P11S and (3)...

No - Each module is somewhere in the range of 32V to 44V each. You need multiple of these modules (9) in series to get to ~350V - 400V range. You can't just take a single module out and "make it work".

For Georgia Class C is regular. Class D is provisional for kids just starting off.

Yeah there's individual modules inside the pack that can be replaced for serviceability. Well we don't really know if it's 10% on the top end. It could be 5% on the top end and 5% on the bottom end. 0% SOC is also equally as taxing on cell life as fully charged.