Mach Turtle
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When the mobile charger flashes the orange light, it's usually a sign that something isn't right. No idea what that could be on 120V, though! Hard to overheat the unit with so little power flowing...there must be something else that's borked in there.For the first time I tried to charge at 120 volts using the Ford supplied charger. It works fine at 220v, but I was visiting my daughter. We could not get it to charge at all. The light would go from green to orange almost immediately. Does this indicate something wrong with the charger?
If your truck is still under the 3-year warranty, a dealer (if a decent one) will be able to diagnose and probably replace the charger. I had a 2021 Ford mobile charger which intermittently flashed orange while charging from 240V, probably due to overheating; it took two trips to the dealer and a graph I made from a home energy use monitoring system before they understood the problem. The darned thing wouldn't overheat until it had been charging for 20 minutes or so, and they tested it for about 15 minutes. As soon as the problem was understood, they ordered a replacement and I got it the next day.
Here's hoping the problem is in the easily replaced charging cable and not the charger in the car! If it charges OK from 240V, that should be the case.
Edit: My Ford portable chargers have blue and amber (yellow? gold? Pilsner?) lights, but since different people sometimes see colors a bit differently and manufacturers often change the colors of indicator lights between model years, I'm assuming that we're looking at lights that indicate the same situation. It could be that something else is happening, YMMV, BYOC, etc.
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