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Finally got my cord with the ground snipped completed. 10 gauge wires, everything wired through, but capped the green ground wire on the male end, and tagged the cable as such. So now, I can go with either the portable generator with the connected ground, or the Powerboost with the disconnected...

Thank you for the reminder. I will. I still intend to do the short one I talked about earlier. It's just that I, like I said, procrastinated. Plus, have had a lot of other stuff going on. Just life.

Thank you, @HammaMan! I wasn't planning on cutting the prong. I was going to go inside the plug and just disconnect the wire from the prong and tape it with electrical tape. Or terminate with an end-to-end connector, with no wire on one end of the connector (if that makes sense). So I can...

OK, I STILL haven't made the mod to my pigtail, and I may lose power overnight (yeah, I know, I'm lazy and stupid for procrastinating). With the pigtail, which wire to I disconnect to make it work for the Powerboost? Ground. But what wire is that, in the pigtail?

Our '23 PB is the crew cab, and 4x4. We had the option of the long(-er) bed, but didn't go for it. We have used every bit of what we got on our F150. The 4 doors and back seat have been indispensible. The 4x4? Well, we've used it, but not as much as the 4 doors and back seat. But we've used it...

I'd probably just forget it and drive on, at this point. If it has been cleaned that much already, and heaters and ventilation still work... I'd have a hard time paying $1700 more for no apparent benefit.

More importantly, why is it foam? Why not a plastic cover, like on our Grand Cherokee, and even my Tacoma? Is the foam really that much lighter than a plastic shell?

Thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks. That is the same one my friend installed, and recommended.

Yeah.... a couple of friends have mentioned that before the soft start came up on here. Is there a specific brand you recommend?

I'm pretty sure they draw about the same amount. They still have a compressor that needs a BIG kick of juice from a huge capacitor to get it to turn over. I know that we've replaced a generous number of capacitors on our couple heat-pump units over the years.

Awesome! Thanks for posting of your success. I still haven't gotten off my butt to order the parts I need for making the pigtail. But good to know it worked!

Not doing extension cords. And already have the separate panel for generator input. I'm just doing the short pigtail for floating ground.

I probably will continue to use the existing generator, at times that the truck needs to be elsewhere, IF that power is still out as well. But for most of the time, I'd probably use the PB. Which is why I talk about the two-pigtail options.

Roger. So, like I said earlier, I'm going to try to make up a short length (really short) of cable to act as an adapter, with the ground removed. That way, if I'm powering off my portable, I can just use the old main cable. If I'm powering off my PB, I can add the shorter cable in the line to...

Yeah... I just can't see how not having the ground in the cable from the truck to the house negates the ground protection in the house. Maybe if you have a cut in the insulation from the truck TO the house and grab it... that might be a problem. But... otherwise? I'm just not understanding a...

This is the part that makes me comfortable with removing the ground from the plug going from the truck to the panel. The house panel is still grounded. The only thing that might make it dangerous in my specific case, it seems to me, would be if the generator panel, which can be isolated from the...

I'm comfortable just plugging loads into the truck. As well as the disconnected ground procedure. I'm just ornery and stupid like that.

Thank you, @CLT-PB. It helps... marginally. I'll probably get another short length of the same cord I did before, and do like @HammaMan said, and nix the ground. Probably remove the ground wire entirely from the short-length. That will be an easy fix, and it will be obvious that the...

Well... i read through this thread... and parts of the other thread referenced here, and I don't understand anything. I feel like a chimp (or chump) reading Hamlet. I have a portable, roll-around generator, 5Kw, that I've used for years with my house. I have an outside hook-up to a separate CB...