Pro Power - powered airbag session for ~2.5 hours at 3800 watts

[user-name-required]

Hey all

This here is my truck (2024 Flash trim) powering an airbag for mtn bike freestyle training...two giant fans pulling about 1750 watts each running (peak 2,400 i think on startup), running out of the bed. Worked FAN-tastic! (get it...fans...I'll show myself out)

Seriously though, WAY better than running my old 7500 watt gas generator!! If you're within 15 feet of that thing, you can't hear . My only other genny is a Honda EU 3000, much quieter BUT it can't run both these fans, so I was stuck with the loud-as-hell 7500.

So I am very, very stoked to run this off the truck. It's basically a Ford commercial too, quite a few of the riders that came out said that to me....@Ford, DM me, I know local pro mountain bikers we could film some cool stuff like this with the truck in the foreground.

I was worried that it was going to shut off on me, since these fans have to be on all the time. I have run into issues when I was using intermittent loads like using a circular saw occasionally, where the bed outlets would turn off. Or when I was camping two weekends ago, we were in a forested site so I had to charge the EcoFlow off the truck (minimal solar) to run the trailer overnight for cpap machine for my wife and some other stuff. I sometimes had issues, but I think I may have just not been doing it right.

Here is what I did this time...

1. Turn truck on fully (brake pedal and on button)
2. Go to propower screen, turn on bed outlets, toggle the constantly-resetting "Leave on when truck off" toggle.
3. Plug fans in, run airbag. Left key inside truck, turned off other things like lights.
   1. After 30 mins the truck seemed to turn itself off, but the outlets kept working.
   2. Even when we shut this setup down, I turned off the bed outlets in the bed from that button, fans shut off, and I started to pack up.
   3. BUT, I needed to plug them back in a few minutes after, and thought that the bed button wouldn't work...but it did!

Like others from other threads I have read, I used to turn it on only from the accy method (ie not pressing brake), but i never liked that when I do that, there are some warning lights on the dash.

This way, none of that was there, the outlets ran flawlessly the whole time

Anyways, like another thread about posting when things go well, I wanted to do the same. Truck worked great for this, was so nice to not have to smell and hear the genny the whole time, and it looks cool as hell powering the airbags off the truck.

Cheers

Sponsored

 

[ScottC]

That is awesome and I’m glad to see that.

I have a video shoot coming up in Las Vegas in a couple months and I’ve been thinking that I will drive and power lights. Inspiring!

 

[Lightning Rod]

Nice!

I don't think you have to leave your key inside for it to continue to run.

 

[user-name-required]

Nice!

I don't think you have to leave your key inside for it to continue to run.

Good to know....it was on our property though so I wasn't too worried about theft or anything...but I will try that next time to see for when I'm out camping next.

 

[Mmiketa]

Definitely do not run it in ACC mode, honestly never run ACC mode. It is completely unnecessary in an EV and just depletes the 12V battery since it doesn't draw from the HVB.

My understanding is that the 2024s and up can run power with the truck off, but if the load is not large enough it will shut off after a few minutes. That does not happen if you leave the truck on.

 

[user-name-required]

Definitely do not run it in ACC mode, honestly never run ACC mode. It is completely unnecessary in an EV and just depletes the 12V battery since it doesn't draw from the HVB.

My understanding is that the 2024s and up can run power with the truck off, but if the load is not large enough it will shut off after a few minutes. That does not happen if you leave the truck on.

Yea that's what I was worried about, the 12v battery. I think the manual said to do that, when you're just trying to use the pro power...? Regardless, I won't be doing it anymore, and will just fully turn on the vehicle as I did this time.

And yes the truck did seem to be turned off after a while of running the airbag, and the outlets kept running. And even allowed me to toggle the bed outlets on and off from the button by the bed outlets, which was awesome.

Sponsored