Power outlet are timing off after 6 minutes!

[Whammy Bar]

@Ford Motor Company we've got a problem.

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[Vypurr]

Dude, it's not worth your energy. The technician will barely understand how the truck works, and he will never be able to tell you why they designed it to work like this. It's working as designed and there's nothing he can do. Just leave the truck on while using pro power. You can even take the keys and lock the door to make it easier.

 

[flyct]

Once again, confirmed as soon as my cooler reached target temperature the Pro Power turned off. It ran for 12 minutes this time to get from 80 deg to 31 degrees.

 

[EVpower]

This problem with the '24 PPOB sure is a product design miss from Ford. I suspect the system engineers were trying to reduce parasitic battery drain with the six-minute time out, but did not understand how portable power systems are used by many people.

During the six hour no load test I ran today with my '23 ER, the HV battery state of charge dropped about 2 %. That could be within the rounding errors in the displayed battery percentages.

I agree the dealer service techs are not the best point of contact for any resolution of this. The dealer service manager may have a better contact with Ford.

Steve

 

[TaxmanHog]

This is a task for Engineering, leave out the dealerships for now, there is NOTHING they can do.....

@Ford Motor Company !!

 

[ryun]

I get the frustration here but what exactly would be the solution? Maybe let the user pick a timeout? I can't envision a fix where the truck is in a standby state permanently that wouldn't lead to parasitic battery drain like others have mentioned. Especially if the truck looks off. What if a technician went to work on the truck not knowing there was a live connection to the HVB with PPOB enabled?

Ford not telling the user with a warning what the conditions should be to meet PPOB while off is definitely dumb. But it seems reasonable to me that if you want continuous power then you have to turn on the truck.

 

[Karlo]

The toggle on the screen says to keep the outlets power often truck is off . I have the option of setting how far down I am willing to let the battery drain before the vehicle turns off. That is how the on board power system should work . Simple

 

[Firn]

The toggle on the screen says to keep the outlets power often truck is off . I have the option of setting how far down I am willing to let the battery drain before the vehicle turns off. That is how the on board power system should work . Simple

It's not that, it's making sure that there is not an active 400v service line outside the vehicle if it's not needed.

I can guarentee Ford didn't do this because they are worried about vampire drain. The reason to turn it off is for safety, not consumption. Is 6 minutes too short? I'll absolutely agree with that, but there is a number somewhere.

This whole thing can be fixed by running a small fan with one of the outlets, it's not like this is a difficult thing to resolve, and it ensure you very specifically want to draw power when you have 400v of electricity outside the battery

 

[flyct]

The toggle on the screen says to keep the outlets power often truck is off . I have the option of setting how far down I am willing to let the battery drain before the vehicle turns off. That is how the on board power system should work . Simple

I absolutely agree with Karlo. I have my truck set to turn off the outlet when range hits 70 miles

I always pre cool the powered cooler in my truck bed before filling with food on a trip. On the past i would run an extension cord from the house to power the cooler before a trip. If I stop to get something to eat I would like to not have to leave the truck powered on just to keep the cooler outlet alive.

power when range hits 76 miles. When I power my truck bed cooler to pre cool it before a trip it shouldn’t turn outlet power off when cooler hits target temperature

 

[FloridaMan655321]

After reading all of the posts, I wanted to mention that I always turn my truck on when I have the bed power enabled. I also go many many minutes without any usage during a brew day, and I don't have any issues with the power cutting off. So I take it from all the posts that this is an issue with when the truck is off and the bed power is enabled?

 

[Karlo]

After reading all of the posts, I wanted to mention that I always turn my truck on when I have the bed power enabled. I also go many many minutes without any usage during a brew day, and I don't have any issues with the power cutting off. So I take it from all the posts that this is an issue with when the truck is off and the bed power is enabled?

Yes Floridaman, and this is a option that started with the 2024 model

 

[FloridaMan655321]

Yes Floridaman, and this is a option that started with the 2024 model

So maybe this option is really only useful if you're powering your house via the 240v.

I did receive that update where I was supposed to have the bed power enabled with the truck off. I guess I never figured out how to do it, so I just continued the same process. Good information in this tread, thank you.

 

[RickLightning]

The main shut down timer appears to be set at 30 minutes and will turn off the truck if you inadvertently leave it on. I did disable that anyway , even though it is shutting down in 6 minutes. There is another protection that shuts the outlets off at an amount of predicted mileage that I can adjust according to how near a charger I might be. The default is 102mi (weird). I have it set at 50

I believe the default is based on a percentage of battery left. It translates to miles, but it actually percent of battery life.

 

[ryun]

If I stop to get something to eat I would like to not have to leave the truck powered on just to keep the cooler outlet alive.

I think this is part of the misconception here and Ford is doing themselves no favors. There really isn't much difference between the truck being "On" and the truck being in "Truck Off; PPOB Mode On".

If one leaves the truck on and turns off the center display, radio, and all HVAC settings then you pretty much have the equivalent to "Truck Off; PPOB Mode On". This is probably pulling more juice than leaving a fan plugged in (which I bet you could use the cabin outlet for), but might be easier. Indeed, it's the only option MY '22-'23 have.

I too agree that 6 minutes is really short though. Some sort of slider up to an hour or so seems like a nice compromise.

 

[The Weatherman]

Place your bets on the over under date when this gets resolved.

I'll start the bidding at ... November 2025

I’ll see you that and raise to: Sooon after BC 1.4 rolls out to 2022 MY.

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