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How does solar recharge your F150 with this setup?
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120V or 240V through the charge port.
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Reading more about this, it doesn't look like it does what I want. I'm looking for:

1. House has solar.

2. House does not have batteries.

3. Grid is down.

4. When solar production exceeds house consumption, the extra goes to the electric vehicle.

5. When house consumption exceeds solar production, the extra comes from the electric vehicle.

This really doesn't look like something the F150 can do.

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The F-150 can do this, but by charging the batteries you don't have.

It could also probably run the house off the 240V outlet in the bed, but only if you knife switched the solar + grid off and just ran the house off the truck.

When the sun came out, you could knife-switch the house back, and charge the truck.

Alternatively, you could rip out your solar and put in the one brand that Ford works with (SunRun, I think), and then the truck would be able to bi-directional charge with the house batteries using the solar, or something like that.

(Yes, this is all dumb, especially since there are standards that should allow a dongle to be made to make this work transparently, and to just automatically do the right thing".)

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And then after a little while you can be without power AND stranded!
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I can go most of a week on the Lightning's battery, and it will shut down the 240V 30A outlet well before leaving me stranded. Thankfully the longest outage we've had in my lifetime (and I'm not a young man) is 3 days, for an extremely rare severe ice storm.
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