How often do you actually use the 9.6 kw pro power on board?

[hturnerfamily]

funny

my wife ordered her an interesting 'USB-charged battery-powered CURLING iron'
for her car, while she 'travels'...

really?

I told her we had an outlet, if not MANY outlets, in our truck... full 120v outlets.

"oh", she said, "I got this for my EV9"...


well... I said, "Dear, you have an outlet in the car, too"....



oh well.

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[Jseis]

Yes, house backup but more.. to charge hand portable tools, run a small 120V compressor, chop saw, reciprocating, grinders. Might as well use the good old corded tools. My older farm has limited power and its very useful there. A reel or swing out cord reel that could reel up 100’ w/3 receptacles would be nice or maybe a heavier cord to a separate utility panel on a transfer switch. That’s the ideal.

 

[Runaway Tractor]

Infrequent enough that if it was an individually price add-on, it would be dumb. But when I need it, it suddenly becomes completely worth every dime.

 

[GDN]

To be honest something like the 9.6 Pro Power is one of the biggest selling points of this truck. It's very sad Ford doesn't include it on every one. If they've got to reduce value and raise prices then things like the scales are the easiest and most gimmicky things to get rid of. Of course I think they've done both.

 

[Firn]

Here is a copy and paste describing our setup. Been working great for about 18 months.

"When I installed our transfer switch last September the plan was just to have it for backup. Then it morphed into powering our house from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm when our utility rates skyrocket (we are on the EV time of use plan so have the highest peak rates). Once I discovered that the Lightning would power our 5 ton AC and could go several days powering our house without charging we started turning on the Pro Power every morning we are in town.

Our transfer switch is kind of a Unicorn. It's automatic and switches the neutral and has a switch for instant transfer or 30 second delay. It's only 50 amps but that has not been a problem. Basically it's designed for a 50a Class A RV.

We have identical dual panels since we finished the basement 14 years ago. The transfer switch feeds the sub panel with a 50a breaker. The sparse sub panel is now full and the main panel is sparse. We are powering our entire house from the lightning with the exception of our 4 ton upstairs AC system, dryer and a handful of mostly unused outlets and lights.

With the Lightning ground connected to the transfer switch we would get periodic ground faults at the lightning when our 5 ton AC breaker was on. This AC unit is inverter driven and full variable which is the only reason the Lightning can run it. I went through the wiring completely and it is correct, tight, no bugs and no moisture. However, these Inverter units are much different than a tradition AC so no idea why it can cause the Lightning to ground fault. The Lightning cannot start our conventional 4 ton unit.

I finally gave up and dropped the Lightning ground at the transfer switch. All we have to do in the morning is remove the charger, turn on the truck/Pro Power and done. My wife does it most days at about 6:15 am before she makes coffee. Alexa reminds us every night to reverse the procedure.

I am at peace with removing the ground for the reasons stated by others above. Truck is in our attached garage.

When my wife retires in a few years we are selling and moving somewhere with mountains and low humidity. I will remove the transfer switch and move the breakers back to the main panel.

If you came into our house you would have no idea it wasn't running on grid power.

From Midnight to 6:00 am the grid powers our home and charges our EVs at 2 cents per kw in the winter and 3 cents per kw in the summer. On the rare occasion that we have an extended power outage we have backup power on par with super expensive Generac install.

We like sleeping in a cool environment so in the summer our programable thermostats blast all floors with cool AC from Midnight to 6:00 am at .03 cents per kw. Even on 100 degree days our house stays nice and cool until mid afternoon. Then main AC kicks on powered by the Lightning.

Our retirement home will be much smaller, much nicer and much better built. It will have V2L and whatever truck or powered RV trailer is capable of powering it. For now I love our inexpensive system (obviously ignoring the cost of the Lightning).

DISCLAIMER: Don't even think about putting in your own transfer switch unless you have experience working in main breaker panels with hot utility power."

Any sense of the savings realized by going this route?

How much does your battery deplete during the day?

 

[Hammick]

Any sense of the savings realized by going this route?

How much does your battery deplete during the day?

Only been doing this for about 17 months but between $1,200 - $1,500 per year depending on how hot the summer is. This time of year when I'm not running any AC it uses about 12% per day.

Obviously my approach won't work if your Lightning is your daily driver or if you don't have time of use rates.

 

[Farmford42]

I use it all the time. @Ford Motor Company please please please make a way to have just pro-power on and nothing else and run it from the app! I manage a farm and I cant tell you how often we need to go out and run tools, charge the drone, weld, charge the batteries for the electric fence, run the wells when the power is out etc etc. Just last night the BIG tractor had some battery issue that drained them down and would not start. It is a long way away from any other power source. It has a bank of 8 (i think) batteries and would take a massive effort to leave a truck running to charge, or pull the batteries and bring them in to charge. I just left the truck in the field overnight with the pro-power on (dont forget to turn off the timer! @Ford Motor Company it would also be great to be able to have more options there) It took 20% of the charge to bring it up to 75% but I wonder what it would be if everything other than pro power was off. I cant remember if I turned heat off etc.
Its still charging, so I had to run the backup to check on it. Could not resist the photo..

 

[GDN]

I use it all the time. @Ford Motor Company please please please make a way to have just pro-power on and nothing else and run it from the app! I manage a farm and I cant tell you how often we need to go out and run tools, charge the drone, weld, charge the batteries for the electric fence, run the wells when the power is out etc etc. Just last night the BIG tractor had some battery issue that drained them down and would not start. It is a long way away from any other power source. It has a bank of 8 (i think) batteries and would take a massive effort to leave a truck running to charge, or pull the batteries and bring them in to charge. I just left the truck in the field overnight with the pro-power on (dont forget to turn off the timer! @Ford Motor Company it would also be great to be able to have more options there) It took 20% of the charge to bring it up to 75% but I wonder what it would be if everything other than pro power was off. I cant remember if I turned heat off etc.
Its still charging, so I had to run the backup to check on it. Could not resist the photo..

Others can - just no SW update for you and me. This was promised when the '24's came out and the option was added, but no love for the older trucks. Maybe after they get BC 1.4 out they will get all these past releases caught up, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[davehu]

I can't get the color I want and the 9.6 kw option

Just curious if many of you ended up using it. Initially I was hoping to use the 7.2 kw outlet to backup my house in a power loss event, but I am now getting powerwalls due to great incentives. Still, I was hoping to have this as a backup backup option if my powerwalls mess up or get depleted and my solar panels are completely covered by snow.

Other than that I am not sure if I would use it much, but having a 240v outlet on hand seems cool. Though I'd probably use it for bitcoin mining before I use it with any tools haha. I'm likely not going to tow and trailers or RVs too, though it does sound cool (if we get serious about camping we'll probably just start with a truck cap and mattress or something since it's just 2 of us)

in 1 1/2 years we have lost power twice. Pro Power to the rescue!

 

[hajalie24]

in 1 1/2 years we have lost power twice. Pro Power to the rescue!

I actually got my powerwalls installed a few months ago, I've had 2 outages since then and didn't even notice! The automatic switchover is very impressive.

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