So far this has happened to me once in 3 winters. Parked outside all the time and no cover. I use the fcsp.
I used my wife's hair dryer, it worked incredibly well. Not only did it melt the ice, the wind force generated by it helped clear anything out, way better than a heat gun.
Luckily the...
Could be a few things.
-frozen(washer fluid, even - 40 doesn't melt ice that quickly if there was water in it previously.)
-kinked, disconnected or broken line
-bad pump
-contaminated washer fluid that has fine bits of plastic in it that clogs the tiny nozzles.
No, in fact, I've had cars that lock only 1 rear wheel by design. One was manual trans to boot so I could have easily left it in neutral.
Electronic parking brakes use a motor inside the caliper to drive the pads on, no pesky cables to break or seize
Salt and sand are your friends in the...
The lightning maxes out at 1200w on level 1, even if you have a 20a 110v evse. As far as keeping the battery warm I guess it would depend on the outside temp. I tried it the first winter I had the truck while parked at work and it didn't do much, more hassle plugging and unplugging if anything.
Could also be a location issue, sometimes resetting your charge locations will fix the gremlins. There have also been a couple reports of charge controller failures in the truck where it will only work on dcfc.
The truck does not precondition the battery on level 1, it only charges. You might see some residual heating but not the battery maintaining that it does on level 2.
It is, I was thinking the wall side of it. We just have to be careful with extensions as the connectors can be a weak point...
It is possible the parking pawl is broken and you weren't putting the brake on.
Are you parking on an icy hill still?
It will take all of less than 5 minutes to test your truck parking systems.
What was your soc? Battery temp? Did you use fordnav to precondition before the charger stop? What brand charger? What output was the charger? How many units were there and how many were being used? How long did you charge for and to what percentage?
The lightning is a 400v architecture...
Keep it at 50% and plug it in occasionally to keep the 12v topped up.
It's in a heated garage so no need to keep it plugged in all the time. If it lived outside then you'd leave it plugged in to keep hvb from being too cold. The truck does that automagically, no need to set departure or preheat.