Recent content by Newton

I have the 9854 and it does deal with the bonding issues if everything is installed properly. It can take a bit of work, my gas furnace was tripping the GFCI because the neutral wire was shorted to the frame (poor installation technique) which is something that I am glad that I got fixed...

As far as climate control goes - you can set a departure time and the cabin will be at the temperature that you select when you are ready to go. This saves some battery energy and means that the cabin is nice and comfortable when you leave. I believe you can even have the seat...

On my Lariat SR, on at ’idle’ with no load attached to the inverters (this is important) I used .31 kW with Pro Power off and .44 kW with all outlets on. That is .13 kWh if you leave all of the inverters on for one hour, or slightly over 1/3 of a mile loss in range if you leave the inverters...

A very good discussion here, the only thing that I want to add is that breakers do not prevent fires (at least not in the way that many people assume). If you have undersized wiring or a poor connection, a 40A breaker will happily let 40A of current flow through the wires no matter how hot the...

Just for some real life info: I left a town near Bellingham with 94% range and drove I-5 to Vancouver, WA in temperatures ranging from 72 to 83 degrees. One stop at a Tesla station for 21 minutes to get to 82% ( 38.4kW ). with a visit to the nearby REI for a quick talk about bicycles...

Note that if you just want home backup, it works perfectly fine to run a cord from the pro power 30A outlet in the bed. There is a little complication involving the GFCI but nothing that an electrician can’t figure out (see threads on the topic). The only advantage of the home integration...

Why not? Each car would be only 1400W. That is not a lot if your primary feed to the lights is 480V - but it all depends of course. If you have 100s of registered EVs at the current EV/ICE ratio in the USA, your parking lot is going to have several circuits and they won’t be small. One...

I thought that I wanted the sliding window but I have never used it. I have a canopy with racks on top for long stuff. The power folding mirrors are the big feature for me (I drive on ferries.) I had a gas Lariat with the smaller display and did prefer it. The large screen can be an...

I have a Lariat SR and have taken it from the Canadian border to California/Washington border a few times. So far I have never wished for more range, and my wife hates the freeways so we often go to places that are pretty far out of the way such as the long way down the Washington coast...

Has anybody tried going into Diagnostic Mode? You can see if you have cell signal, if not it could be a bad antenna connection. If you have signal, then verify that the IMEI number is allowed on the network… and so on and so forth.

Does Ford do the free charger install in Canada? If you have them install the Ford charger and it doesn’t work, then you have a little bit more of a hook into them — and it might actually work better than the Autel due to some obscure reason that you don’t really care about.

An arcing loose connection would be pretty noticable at 50A. You would smell and hear it. Do any of the lights in your house flicker when the Ford is charging, but not when the BMW is charging (or any other odd electricial behavior). An occasional spike could be that the truck is trying for...

I would be more likely to think that was the case if it wasn’t for the fact that the truck charges at 8kW which is 32A of power and capable of generating a lot of heat. The bad temperature sensors that I am chasing on my heat pump hot water heater throw out ridiculous values, they are not just...

If is important to you and you can still return the truck, then do so. I am pretty sure that the dealer is not going to be of much use here. Unless you are lucky and there is some code being thrown that the dealer can read and then invoice Ford for a repair you are going to have a hard...

Does anybody know what happens when you tell the truck to limit the current to 48A? Does it limit it to 48A or 38.4A (which would be the 80% derating for EVSEs). I could see somebody deciding that the latter was safer.