The Ford Lightning Miscellaneous Question and Answer Thread

[The Weatherman]

Don’t know the answer but have seen the same behavior. Watching!!

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[flabrent]

Hello guys. A problem I have with this and all other forums is that when typing in the reply box the curser will just disappear. Sometimes it will move over to where the mouse happens to have been left at but other times it disappears. Also notice that when I mouse over to the reply box and start typing the curser changes/flashes and that coincides when the curser disappears. It also does it in Word and typing in google. Any ideas? Must be something in settings. Thanks.

It sounds like you need to adjust your touchpad sensitivity.
Start >> gear icon >> settings >> devices >> touchpad >> touchpad sensitivity low
You might want to try turning off "Tap with single finger to single-click"

 

[RickLightning]

Its going to be something I would need to test and look at that battery status. Setting departure times for me might not work, but maybe just plugging it in and leaving it in is my only option. Even if my current charge state is 75% and just plug it in at 6pm at night and leaving it overnight is best to keep the battery warm. It is also interesting on what would the conditions be if it is fully charged to 80% and its plugged in compared to setting the climate and not plugged in. Will it pull charging on/off from the home during those several hours to keep the battery warm or best operating temp for me to just jump in an go. When I leave for work the next day at 7am...(and that time can vary either earlier or later).

To reinforce what @TaxmanHog said, the only "battery conditioning" is with a departure time when plugged in. A remote start does nothing for the battery.

Leaving the truck in will warm the battery to a minimum temperature when necessary. That's like a 20 minute hit once overnight. It's not "battery conditioning".

The charge level is irrelevant. The truck will charge to the level you set and stop. Then, if it needs power to warm the battery for 20 minutes, it will do so. SOC won't change, unless the warming maybe triggers it to show 81% instead of the 80% it was prior.

If it is plugged in, and you do a remote start, it will use the house current. As stated, it won't warm the battery.

 

[bc1]

It sounds like you need to adjust your touchpad sensitivity.
Start >> gear icon >> settings >> devices >> touchpad >> touchpad sensitivity low
You might want to try turning off "Tap with single finger to single-click"

OK. I just went to settings and my touchpad sensitivity was on medium so I changed it from touchpad sensitivity medium to low and turned off the "tap with single finger to single-click" as suggested. I managed to type this reply without the cursor doing anything weird. Will see how it goes. Thank you very much.

 

[Lightning Rod]

To reinforce what @TaxmanHog said, the only "battery conditioning" is with a departure time when plugged in. A remote start does nothing for the battery.

This has been my belief for some time, but I recently remote started my truck while it was plugged in and the battery soc was already at the 85 percent that I'd set it to. The temperature outside was 12 degrees F. After the remote start for about 8 minutes, I got into the truck and it was nice and toasty, but I noticed that the available power graph was at 100 percent. That never happens at that temperature when I'm not plugged in. At that temperature, the available power is usally about 90 or 85 percent. I think that only happened because I let the remote start warm the cab and i think it also conditioned the battery without setting up a departure time.

 

[RickLightning]

This has been my belief for some time, but I recently remote started my truck while it was plugged in and the battery soc was already at the 85 percent that I'd set it to. The temperature outside was 12 degrees F. After the remote start for about 8 minutes, I got into the truck and it was nice and toasty, but I noticed that the available power graph was at 100 percent. That never happens at that temperature when I'm not plugged in. At that temperature, the available power is usally about 90 or 85 percent. I think that only happened because I let the remote start warm the cab and i think it also conditioned the battery without setting up a departure time.

Using CarScanner you could figure that out.

I remote started the other day. 10 minutes later, the battery was at 30 degrees. I had 100% power.

 

[Lightning Rod]

Using CarScanner you could figure that out.

I remote started the other day. 10 minutes later, the battery was at 30 degrees. I had 100% power.

Hmm... maybe just being plugged in in extreme cold temperatures helps slightly condition the battery?

This topic has always been a head scratcher for me lol. I may just order this CarScanner i keep reading about. Is there a preferred model I should look at?

Thanks.

 

[RickLightning]

CarScanner is an app.
for
You need an OBD bluetooth adapter like Veepeak, currently $25.58.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Hmm... maybe just being plugged in in extreme cold temperatures helps slightly condition the battery?

The system might have run for 10-20 minutes in the middle of the night to slightly bump the battery temperature, just enough to get you back to 100% energy available to the motors.

 

[bc1]

OK. I just went to settings and my touchpad sensitivity was on medium so I changed it from touchpad sensitivity medium to low and turned off the "tap with single finger to single-click" as suggested. I managed to type this reply without the cursor doing anything weird. Will see how it goes. Thank you very much.

Well that was short lived. Still have the disappearing cursor but it just waits till its most aggravating to do it like right when I just typed the d on the word "do" just now. Thanks.

 

[davehu]

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Hello guys. A problem I have with this and all other forums is that when typing in the reply box the curser will just disappear. Sometimes it will move over to where the mouse happens to have been left at but other times it disappears. Also notice that when I mouse over to the reply box and start typing the curser changes/flashes and that coincides when the curser disappears. It also does it in Word and typing in google. Any ideas? Must be something in settings. Thanks.

your asking this in the wrong forum. this is for F150 Lightning issues, not Win 11 problems. .. type this into a google search: "win 11 cursor dissappears when typing"

 

[TaxmanHog]

Well that was short lived. Still have the disappearing cursor but it just waits till its most aggravating to do it like right when I just typed the d on the word "do" just now. Thanks.

 

[Lightning Rod]

CarScanner is an app.
for
You need an OBD bluetooth adapter like Veepeak, currently $25.58.

Thanks for this. I will order one this weekend. I still have my OBDLink FORScan OBD Adapter that I never used. Can I use that and maybe download a program to my laptop and monitor things with it?

 

[RickLightning]

Thanks for this. I will order one this weekend. I still have my OBDLink FORScan OBD Adapter that I never used. Can I use that and maybe download a program to my laptop and monitor things with it?

You can use the OBDLink and CarScanner right now. CarScanner is free, although eventually you have to get the paid version for $5 or so.

 

[Lightning Rod]

I will look into this.

Thank you!

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