Working Pro Power using Generator Lockout Kit to Feed the Whole Panel

[Danface]

Hi, Following your post. Curious on what the inspector said. any update?

Not yet, I reached out to the electrician last week but still haven't heard back. Will keep pushing

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[Tweeker]

Not yet, I reached out to the electrician last week but still haven't heard back. Will keep pushing

Got it. Thx for the reply. I’ll keep an eye on this thread.

 

[evowner]

I can go a couple of weeks before I need to recharge with with the manner in which I use my truck. I try to let the battery get to 20%. My question is, to use the truck as a backup source it would have to be fully or near fully charged. So do those of you that are going this route charge your trucks every day or just keep a full charge when storms approach. What is the strategy?

 

[Danface]

If it was an impending event that could prevent "easy-ish" access to charging I would charge to 100 otherwise it would be on a case by case basis.

 

[EVpower]

I normally charge at home to 70%. When a major winter storm was forecast, I considered doing a cell equalization charge to 100%, "just in case" the Lightning was needed for utility back up. Since it takes time to the cell equalization to complete, and I couldn't schedule when an outage would occur, I decided to just charge as usual during the weather event.

Living in the Sierra foothills, we have had multiday power outages. Typically, outages are not widespread enough that I couldn't use the Lightning to haul electrons from a nearby DCFC for utility back up. Thank you, Ford for the Tesla adapter.

Steve

 

[Danface]

I normally charge at home to 70%. When a major winter storm was forecast, I considered doing a cell equalization charge to 100%, "just in case" the Lightning was needed for utility back up. Since it takes time to the cell equalization to complete, and I couldn't schedule when an outage would occur, I decided to just charge as usual during the weather event.

Living in the Sierra foothills, we have had multiday power outages. Typically, outages are not widespread enough that I couldn't use the Lightning to haul electrons from a nearby DCFC for utility back up. Thank you, Ford for the Tesla adapter.

Steve

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