Beware of the automatic taring in Scale Mode. If it is taking you a while to load the truck and it shuts off; when you start the truck back up, the Scale Mode goes back to zero. I actually prefer the standard vehicle mode because of this.
My fully loaded Platinum is just under the middle bar. The top number is 1356.
When the truck was really new, I had a bunch of stuff and the truck weighed on the state scales for registration at 7,200 lbs. (In my country registration is less for a heavy truck.) The bar was just under the red...
How long is your bed? The shorter beds only have stake pockets in the back.
I'm terrified of having my bikes higher than the roof. I'm an avid cyclist who cares a lot more about the bikes than my new truck. I know I would drive the bikes right into a parking garage ceiling. I got the truck as a...
I drove the truck home 11 hours from Montana. I had to reboot the phone once and another time it overheated on the wireless charger.
Around town it is perfect
Hopefully it has a built in circuit breaker so it is not a fire hazard. To get the full 7.2 KW you will need to balance your loads on each side.
What appliances are you trying to run? You would be surprised how much stuff you can turn on with 2000 watts. (Excluding driers, washing machines...
At $.10 per kw in my region, I figure it is about the equivalent of $.75 per gallon of gas. Seattle has very cheap electricity and very expensive gas. Paying to charge (not at home) on the go is usually as bad as gas or worse.
https://learn.openenergymonitor.org/electricity-monitoring/ct-sensors/interface-with-arduino?redirected=true
Using the above link, the Arduino measure the current and prints to a serial port (usb). The pi reads the serial port(usb). The pi can dump the readings to a text file, serve a website...