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If range is your BIGGEST concern go with the single axle. But understand it is a more difficult trailer to tow. As said, it will be less stable and have other concerns. Properly loaded (correct weight distribution) , a WDH, and an anti sway system will make a big difference. People can and do...

It may be a battery protection (warranty) effort. Lithium plating happens when charging with the battery cold and the heating may be an effort to limit that. As is the truck does change the heating depending on the power of the evse. Or charge on L1...

Could try running a CAN sniffer on the APIM as you repeatedly engage and cancel a Ford Nav trip to a charger.

The Lightning modulate both temp and quantity of air. Regardless, it takes WAY more BTUs to get the cabin to 80 than 70, and it sheds a lot more heat too because of it.

Front end is pretty easy. Old Android phone mounted in the cubby. It where I can see it if needed, but it's mounted on the front wall of the cubby so it's out of the way. The android app Tasker opens the logging app once the phone gets power, and sends it to the home screen when power is...

I just pull my logs and in general my 23 Pro looks to keep the LVB pretty healthy. This is from 1.2M measurements of the LVB taken since August of 2025. Honestly it looks good. Both voltage and charge percent do well, especially across the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile marks. Yes, minimum...

Yeah, I could do that. I will admit, right now its just a large number of messy scripts.

I mean, I think this point was pretty obvious. A vehicle thats gets advertised range when you are actually driving for range is important. Yes, EPA testing is one way to do it and nobody is arguing that Ford didnt do that, but knowing how far you can actually drive rather than a number that...

Lots of ways to mix and match the data, this is certainly just the first go at it. In this case my primary interest was in the current capabilities as that is likely to be the biggest limiting factor of the Lightnings design. Specifically where does Ford set the limit and how do they enforce...

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A few members have had issues with the PTC heater on the older trucks. I'm unsure if there is a way to test it. We do have PIDs for the heater power from the older trucks, I'm going to guess they are the same on the newer trucks. its possible an obd adapter and an app would show you if its...

The one I use is Torque Pro on Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torque&hl=en_US

I have been working on this myself. I have been logging data since August (a few million rows, probably over 50,000,000 cells. This plots how much energy is in each 1% of SOC by temp. This plots it in SOC, color coding for temp. You can see that lower temps have less energy remaining for...

CAN work has been on the back of my mind for sure. I guess theoretically that message may originate at the APIM, but who knows if its a back and forth stream or just a single alert. I'm hardly an expert on that.

Torque really is the old-school OBD tool. Sadly, its stuck there too, and it never really modernized or added more features other than just visualizing PIDs. I do not believe Torque itself does AA or CP, but I do feel like I have seen some AA dashboards. I cannot say much more than out of the...

Following up on my previous post about deconstructing PIDs from Forscan and CarScanner, I’ve been using a long-term monitoring setup to see how my Lightning Pro ER actually behaves under the hood. The Setup: Hardware: An old phone permanently mounted in the cubby. Software: Torque Pro...

I’ve been working on getting better data visibility for my F-150 Lightning. While FORScan and Car Scanner are the gold standards for seeing what’s going on, they are not always the most convenient tool for long-term logging or custom dashboards. I wanted to move that high-level data into Torque...

"Coasting" is in fact what you WANT to do, very frequently, at least in the lightning. The standard slight slow down in normal mode is more than enough when its really bad out. Any sudden inputs are bad bad things in the winter. There are lots of times I have just let off the accelerator and...

I will admit, part of me didnt mind....heck I use a space heater some times, no real difference.... Except there is a perfectly good wood stove next to it, i dont mind the garage as long as it s over 45f, and my electricity bill is already $700 a month (and thats with a geothermal unit). But...

After some testing it looks to be a charging current condition. When charging at 48a my truck immediately pegs the heater. When I lower my EVSE doen to around 36-38 I see the heating stop (pack is at 41f). So there looks to be extra heating done on higher power chargers In the end lithium...