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I certainly don't disagree with that. The "extra $120,000 line was particularly absurd. I was just being a bit pedantic because I was annoyed to learn how much it costs and by the seemingly unnecessary duplication of inverters already present on the truck. In fact, I'm still a little grumpy...

I think you have no reason to worry, but I wouldn't put too much faith in rearranging boulders in a creek. They tend to move as soon as it rains.

For the Lightning, the cost of V2H gear is more like $5,000 than $2,000. That's because Ford does the home backup using a complicated system of feeding high voltage DC power from the truck through its Charge station Pro to a panel on your house connected to an inverter that converts the DC...

Jesus, that's not a ton more than I paid for my Pro.

I live in an area with absurdly high EV market shares, a "semi-rural" suburb in the SF Bay Area, but in my town of about 20,000 I know of one other Lightning for sure and may have seen one more. Rivians, on the other hand, are a common new car, not as common as the Model 3 or Y, of course, bit...

Well, aren't you the picky one, young man. ?

Wise move.

I agree that's what should be involved, but I'm not finding part numbers that go with all those lines. I'd probably get a better sense of how the lines could be Jerry-rigged if I took the bed off, but I can't do that until our other car gets back from the shop or my wife will kill me. Side...

Hey, I just found a Munro video that seems to show the cooling line connections for the Pro Power voltage converters/inverters. It's at about 12:28 in this video on the cooling system: I've read about the guy who bought the truck that was supposed to include the 7.2kW second inverter, but...

Is the stuff on the left side of that box converting two-phase power to run a three phase motor? If so, your pump motor needs three hot wires and no neutral. When the system is running normally, I'd check the voltage between every pair of wires in that plug (6 measurements). Added curiousity...

Sounds like an ER XLT with a less expensive option package required to be allowed to buy the longer-range battery.

Actually, the photo you posted contributed a bit to my concern. Your truck is reporting the load (incorrectly) on the 2.4 kW 120V inverter and each of the two legs of the 7.2kW split-phase 240V inverter. That tells me that the truck's computers are supposed toonitor these inverters and their...

I'd really love to try it, but I need to know where to find detailed instructions on what I'd need to do to get the truck to believe it's equipped with the 9.6kW version of Pro Power On Board. I'm willing to buy the parts, remove my bed, and see if I can figure out how to connect the parts, but...

Has anyone with a Pro model gotten any updates since June?

Well, I am sticking pins in a voodoo doll I just named BahmDCam, but I wouldn't say that I HATE him. It's more of a completely unhinged jealousy. I actually had a chance to buy an ER Pro, but it was on unacceptable terms. I was never allowed to order a Pro, but by politely checking with the...

I'd have to check back on what I saved earlier, but I think that's the inverter/voltage converter I was thinking about ordering. Where can I find a detailed step-by-step procedure for getting the computer to accept a new VIN? And wouldn't that mess up the Ford Pass app,which seems to identify...

Have you considered offering a human sacrifice? Sometimes I wonder if that might help.

I doubt they do in general, but perhaps a franchisee did it on the side. I really only know what the dealer told me about the Line-X thing.

On the F150 (not Super Duty) hybrid they replace the 2.4kW inverter with the 7.2kW one and replace the receptacle. It's simple. With the Lightning they add a 7.2kW inverter, but keep the 2.4. Only slightly more complicated.

OK. Good point. So the dealer I saw offering to upgrade a hybrid truck to 7.2kW Pro Power was offering an upgrade to the F150 hybrid with 2.4kW Pro Power Onboard to 7.2kW Pro Power and I'm not sure what my dealer was talking about when he told me Line-X installed the 7.2kW Pro Power in a Super...