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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...

Do you have departure times set?

Theoretically yes, but the measure of improved reliability is miniscule at best. A good charger rated for 48a and running at 48a will still be much better then a mediocre quality 80a charger running at 48a. Just by quality, dont assume you get the same reliability by underrating a higher output...

Very interesting. I need to pull some of my data, although I wont have full charging data (my logger shuts off). My standard routine is to pull in the garage and plug in. If the battery is cold I immediately here the pumps kick on once I put it on the plug. If I open the truck later the...

I have never once observed meaningful heating of the battery off plug, parked or driving. Maybe, and a big maybe, when pack temps were in the 20s a trickle of heat was pushed to the battery, but heater power stayed below max and coolant inlet temp ticked up to the low 30s and pack temp went up a...

Fwiw mine never seems to warm the battery itself when off plug, even driving highway speeds wont warm the battery up. Leaving work i have seen the battery down to 20f and it stayed there the entire 20 min drive home. I have a nice warm garage (not usually heated but never drops below 45) so I...

"Government subsidized" Its almost like they figured out how to position themselves for the global market. Oh well, the only reason the US had EV subsidies was to save the planet.....

Same for trucks with rake. That isnt an issue with leveling it

Headlight leveling has nothing to do with rake. No, trucks do NOT come for the rated load. My headlights are aimed, from the factory, using normal leveling UNLOADED. lift kits dont change anything, the lights get aimed with those too.

Fwiw I was disappointed in the stability of the Lightning when the rear is heavily loaded. Both with weighting the bed, and with an improperly setup WDH. Imo the independent rear causes a bit of wandering when its loaded. Personally I would look to get a WDH on it.