Powerboost idle time in electric?

[PowerboostedF150]

It'd be interesting to monitor your Hybrid Battery SOC, as well as the rate of charge/discharge, to compare what is going on with your truck VS the typical Powerboost.

There's 2 Pids that would be very revealing.
(you can monitor them with an app on your phone and an ODB adapter)

I have spent so much time with those 2 pids on display that I can predict within a few seconds of when the ICE will start, and when it will go back off.

They look like this on an Android phone

The -14.5 represents the RATE of charge in Amps, at 276Volts (the voltage is displayed in the amber gauge)

The 43.59 is the percentage of battery charge (state of charge) of the Hybrid battery.

Ford has the software logic programmed to keep this battery between roughly 40%-60% state of charge. On this truck it is actually 42%-63% most of the time.

So if I were sitting in the truck idling in Park, I can watch the SOC bleed slowly down and predict that the ICE will come on at around 42% SOC. Immediately the charging rate will be a negative number of Amps (negative meaning current is going INTO the Hybrid battery) and you can watch the SOC increase rapidly until it reaches ~60%. (it charges at a faster rate if you have "Eco Idle" enabled and you are in Park)
As stated earlier, it will take from ~55 seconds to ~90 seconds to reach the SOC that Ford has set as the limit.

The ICE will turn off, and then you will see the Amps switch to positive + and the battery will begin to drain again.

If your truck is cycling between charge/discharge as often as you describe, I would be curious if it is because something is limiting the full range of SOC? Or do you have an excessive discharge rate far exceeding the normal discharge rate of 4-7amps?

OMG...so very helpful! I ranted in another post why there isn't a battery level meter! and here it is. I assume one could also use ForScan on a PC and pull the right PIDs using an approved adaptor?

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[Snakebitten]

OMG...so very helpful! I ranted in another post why there isn't a battery level meter! and here it is. I assume one could also use ForScan on a PC and pull the right PIDs using an approved adaptor?

I haven't checked, but Forscan full for Windows probably does have these pids. It's pretty amazing. But that need for a full windows machine while driving isn't a great form factor, if you know what I mean.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

OMG...so very helpful! I ranted in another post why there isn't a battery level meter! and here it is. I assume one could also use ForScan on a PC and pull the right PIDs using an approved adaptor?

I'm using the BTv4 version of the Vgate iCar Pro unit with the Car Scanner Pro app (iPhone) and have access to pretty much all the same information. You can also save multiple vehicle profiles, view/clear DTC codes. Perform acceleration and emission testing and more with it. The apps visuals are not at fancy as with the OBDLink app but it tells me what I want/need to know and it was pretty cheap for the adapter and app.

 

[EricR]

This thread discusses the software app, the ODB adapter, and the PIDs.

There's more Hybrid pids than you can shake a stick at.

Sorry for the rabbit hole you might be going down.

Hey @Snakebitten

Did you intend to include a link to "this thread"?

-Eric

 

[Snakebitten]

Hey @Snakebitten

Did you intend to include a link to "this thread"?

-Eric

I can't remember. Lol

But here you go, I think

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/threads/obdlink-mx-is-on-sale-today.13217/

 

[darioa]

Last year when I was boondocking in Kansas in the summer, I connected my PB to the trailer and turned on the A/C (13.5 kBTU) , which was on all night. The truck used 11 miles of gas (checking the difference in miles to empty) during the 8 hours I had the 7.2 kW Pro Power connected. I had 2 tablets turned on and 2 phones charging as well.

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