Lightning to Power House??

[Maquis]

I finally spoke to an electrician. As written, the truck can produce 9kW or 9600watts. He divided 9600/240 to get 40amps. As he explained it, the truck can power a 40 amp circuit (or the sume thereof) and no more. My present house has a 200amp service so the truck could power 20% of the house - NOT the whole house. I feel the Sunrun site is misleading as it says it will power your house. Yes, some lights and a coffee pot but... wish I had understood this months ago..

The limitation is in the inverter external to the truck.
Just because you have a 200A service it doesn’t mean you use it.
I’m using the ProPower for backup which is only 7.2 KW and I will be powering virtually everything except my pool, A/C, and sauna.

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[Ekiehn]

We have solar with PoweWall and the Ford/SunRun home integration system. The Tesla PowerWall system has a backup panel with limited circuits. Because we have an older heat pump it won’t power that on. I understand you can now get soft start heat pumps that could work at startup. The Tesla system is seamless but the Ford/SunRun system takes several minutes to kick on. You can charge the truck off of solar during the day and then manually switch off your main breaker and the Ford system kicks in. However, the Ford system has been very unreliable for many of us because the Bluetooth connection between the truck and Ford Charge Station Pro is quite tenuous. Ford tells me it has assigned an engineering team to develop a fix for this but estimate they are still 3 months out on it. I have had my Ford SunRun system in place for over a year and Ford has been very slow to step up on this.

Agreed on the Bluetooth issue... I have to have the truck rear passenger side door 2 feet from the Charge station pro to even hope to have the HIS kick in... this puts it sitting half inside and half outside my garage... BTW we're you ever able to get the software enabled on your phone to monitor HIS operation? I've tried 2 different phones over a year and a half and never been able to activate, as far as Ford pass and Charge Station pro setup it thinks it has failed.

 

[Ekiehn]

I'm fine with purchasing the Ford/Sunrun Home Integration System. The glitch is that is seems to kick in only when the grid fails. I want it to power house when grid is on. Trying to avoid pulling from grid - ever - if possible. ??? Can truck power house with grid on ?????? Maybe I need to unplug from grid to make it work.. ;-)

So in theory, and based on what the Sunrun electricians told me, if you can add a battery to the Siemens system and that would work in conjuction with the HIS. What I was told is that the battery would kick in immediatly, the HIS would see the main power is off and the power from the Truck would be added into the environment (as well as solar if you have it) all controlled and managed by the Siemens Inverter... The diagrams and powerflow indicators in the mProfesional Seimens app seem to indicate this would be possible.. That would take Sunrun engineers to tell you if it can be done.

 

[BobKenyon]

Good to know - Thanks!

 

[9onmy6]

The whole HIS system is a joke. I took delivery of 2023 in Feb of 2023. I bought the HIS system shortly after, because if someone farts sideways, the power is it. I have lived here currently 2 years. Lost power more times than in my lifetime living all over the country. Anyway, last Wed tree down (5 hours), the Monday storm (14 hours), today were repairs (6 hours). This is a pro con post. I learned running a cord from truck to a super danny and there from, is sufficient. Sparky ran all everything that I needed. All my electronics, continue working, internet, et all. I have the HIS system in my garage from then. I could not get an installer. Ford dealer finally try help only for their vendor to quote $11K for an already purchased $4k system, because they have no idea to install.
Anyway, Sparky came thru for powering my needs for 25 hours within the past week. I may (prolly not), monkey with the HIS. If you are close by and give a little $ to pay for the $200 cords, hit me up. /rant

 

[Schroederhc1]

I hear you. I would jump on it if it was just half way a pain to figure out. I know the one dude on YouTube spent 20k to get it to work.

 

[v2h8484]

Ford dealer finally try help only for their vendor to quote $11K for an already purchased $4k system, because they have no idea to install.

Just to be clear, $11k just for installation excluding equipment?

 

[9onmy6]

That is correct. So $15k. This is a punishing state. Can’t have solar panels, $200 EV registration fee. Tried to go geo thermal…$60k quote. At least we are not last, but we are trying!

 

[v2h8484]

BTW, glad some find this hilarious, but it’s an honest question. I’ve already had enough ppl tell me how stupid I was to buy the system, thanks.

Have you checked Qmerit?

 

[MontaneLightning]

Have you checked Qmerit?

Not yet—thanks for the rec. I’ll contact them.

 

[Jake24]

The whole HIS system is a joke. $11k install for an already purchased $4k system.

Totally absurd

 

[hturnerfamily]

I believe that Ford should have stayed out of the 'HIS' business and simply stuck with the design and implementation of the truck, itself: Giving owners the ability to 'add' a whole-home integrated system, on their OWN, would be a better approach. Approve and designate several authorized HIS System Suppliers for owners to contact.

I do understand that Ford wanted to make this a huge marketing scheme, so having the integrated 'secondary supplier' gave them the ability to advertise it this way. The implementation, though, has not been very well articulated, and it seems that there is little to no communications between them and Ford.
When you buy a product from one manufacturer, and are then forced to deal with a 'secondary' supplier to get to the finish line, it can become a lame and aggravating business deal.

This also brings to the surface one of the basic 'problems' with this type of secondary implementation: ELECTRICAL equipment and work can be MASSIVELY different from one owner to another. The TRUCK itself is EXACTLY the same, but the work and cost and time to IMPLEMENT the HIS system is a totally different comparison. Even WHERE you live and the local codes and permits can differ greatly.

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