Recent content by unshortness

So you can charge a large power bank from the outlets in the truck and then bring them inside your house to run devices. I'm pretty sure that this is not the intent of the programs or legislation and it will eventually be caught and stopped.

So I know this isn't for everyone, but I do all the charge scheduling through Home Assistant and my Wallbox Pulsar Plus EVSE. I have an integration in Home Assistant that reads the time of use utility rates from my utility and only allows the EVSE to charge on the off peak rate. I did it this...

Yes, 100% HvB SOH is basically the truck telling you it thinks the battery is brand new I would say that the way Ford calculates State of Health for the high voltage battery is very optimistic and shouldn't be compared to other EVs. Like comparing lightning to lightning is fine but comparing a...

I'm not sure where you were looking but the design and technical manual from fujitsu for my exact heat pump says this unit can pull over 8 kW depending on the conditions. See page 12 under the AMUG48LMAS model. That quote sounds like an AI bot answer...

My heat pump is a Fujitsu XLTH unit which has an inverter/variable speed compressor and fans which is basically a built in soft start. It always starts low and ramps up. Here is the chart of power dwar from just my heat pump on Feb 24, 2026 and you can see the peak draw is close to 7.4 kW...

Unfortunately my 2024 Flash doesn't have the PPOB so this isn't an option for me. Also the PPOB is limited to 7.2 kW and my 4 ton heat pump is on a 50 amp breaker so on those cold winter days 7.2 kW is not really enough. The Sigenergy system is too expensive at the moment for me to pull the...

Did you look into the Sigenergy system with the bi-directional DC charger? That way you can use the truck battery to power your house. I got a quote for the entire system including a 15 kWh battery (needed if you want the system to operate in a blackout) and it was almost $30K CAD.

A lot of utilities will send you a spreadsheet of your historical usage so that you can see exactly how much you use at the different times. One trick I saw from someone else considering the ULO plan is that they scheduled their EV to charge based on the ULO schedule and after a month or two...

Some of you pay a lot for electricity. Here are the rate plans available where I am in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. These costs are in CAD also so in USD everything would be about 75% of these costs. A lot of people with EVs here use the ULO plan as that means they can charge at $0.039CAD/kWh...

This throttling is true for DC fast charging. On my 2024 flash the second it hit 80% charged the speed of the charging dropped in half. I don't think the truck will slow down the charge at all on Level 1 or 2 AC charging, that will charge basically the same speed all the way up to 100%. It might...

I also heard that the mercedes chargers are great. All three of these providers are using the same Alpitronic Hyperchargers that seem to have hit the sweet spot of speed and reliability that we need. https://www.alpitronic.it/en/hypercharger/hyc-400-series-2/

Man I'm almost jealous. I only had to drive to Brampton from Hamilton to get my 2024 Flash and that drive is not scenic at all. I have also seen over 180 kW on a supercharger which was amazing for an EV rated for 150 kW.

I read somewhere else that it isn't possible to connect the two inverters in the truck to the same breaker panels as they are two seperate inverters and their waveforms are not kept in sync, and they are not grid tied like a solar inverter. You can obviously connect 2,400 watts of load to the...

Do you know if you can use the bidirectional DC charger to dark start the system? Like if I skip the Sigenergy battery and the power goes out can I connect my Lightning to get my house up and running?

Awesome. Do you have your Solar Edge inverter connected to your main panel or to the smart port on the Sigenergy gateway?