There is quite a large performance/usability/function difference between what the Ford HIS is "supposed to do" and what a manual transfer switch with some critical loads does. The issue is that the Ford system couldn't even do what it was supposed to. I have that system, but also have the...
For the whole home backup, there are 3rd party solutions on the market like Sigenergy, and several more to come soon.
There are a few people now with Sigenergy V2X recently installed, and more (like mine) soon. I will provide a lot more info once mine is installed and operational.
Enphase...
On your graph from about 8:15pm to 6:45am the next day, was the truck actively charging (energy being put into the battery) or just sitting with the charger plugged in.
I suspect it finished charging at the 6:45 time frame, which matches all my previous data.
One reason I set my charge station...
I know you are being sarcastic but honestly I would like to help everyone. It’s easier for people in TX though. I actually have helped some people on the way for business trips.
Its important to keep perspective on this as well. The Sigenergy max rate is 25kW or a mere fraction of the 433 kW the drive motors can pull. The normal rate would be 11.4kW max or about 33A. Again a small percentage of the battery packs charge/discharge rate capabilities. The voltage...
I will disagree with most people, in that I do not believe the FCSP to be the root cause of the HIS failures. I have done a lot of testing and trials, and the issues all seem to lie in the truck software and the truck's modem. I do believe that people "over reboot" a lot of the time, and that...
With Ford discontinuing the lightning, as well as their amazing ability to deliver OTA's, I don't think we have much to worry about.
I think Tesla is really going to be the one that disables it on people who previously had it working. It looks like Rivian is going to actually work to make it...
To me it looks like in your testing, you are disconnecting at the wrong place possibly. The error is indicating that your system cannot see the transfer switch box (WHB-200) when in offline mode.
Can you show pictures or a diagram of your system and what breaker you are switching to test? The...
I don't think the cover makes any difference. That being said, I have had a Bak X4S since the first week of owning the truck and 63,000 miles later I still have an all time efficiency of 2.3 mi/kWh.
You should be able to use the EG4 Chargeverter as long as your batteries are 48V. You would need a way to parallel the chargeverter on to the 48V DC bus.
In Houston within ERCOT territory, I pay $0.0 at nights, so all my charging is free.
During the day I run off of home battery + a small solar system.
Basically I only pay for a few loads like the oven/stove and dryer which are not on the battery backup system when I use those during the day...
Unfortunately you will have to bash them forever because it is not going to change. There was actually an OTA that fixed this, and then they were forced to reverse it via an actual (I believe NHTSA) recall.
https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/recall-23c38-update-sync-software.17490/
After 62k miles I fully believe that 2P is "in practice" more efficient than 1P. Both modes are equally capable, but the precise driving that would be required in 1P, especially at highway speeds, make it harder to achieve max efficiency.
Now I live in Houston, and certainly bumper to bumper...