Lucky or Brilliant must have plug? 2021 Ford F-150 Hybrid Generator 

Here is the video where I test out running the camper with the F-150: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BX2s9qXIgqk.html

So essentially you’re just using 1 hot leg instead of both. If you broke that plug open you’d see the one leg goes nowhere

Nope, you are correct. You in essence using up to 30 amps, yet only 110v. Just like your average house plug in. The amps aren't sending all that amperage, the camper draws up to 30 amps. Easy peasy. Nice chat last night-for those that aren't watching those live streams, they missing out.

Ford did there homework an built a great truck i would say! Have a hybrid F150 powerboost on order now can't wait to get this high tech marvel!

Look at him flexing with all those 2x4’s in the back of the truck!! Jeez he’s rich!!

Ford needs to dedicate a special training for using the 7.2 kw pro power. I just purchased a new 2023 with 7.2 kw and the selling dealer and three other dealers, service departments and parts from Ford had no clue about Pro power!

Appreciate this follow up video. Speaks volumes about you as a journalist. Much appreciated

Lol, on the trucks dash in your previous video it showed you only drawing power through circuit B. You have 2 circuits at 120v each, A and B. Each circuit can draw 30 amps at 120v. The "Dryer plug" on the truck combines circuits A and B. The Amazon adapter just happens to use circuit B only for 120v 30 amps. Theoretically you could draw 60 amps at 120v split between the circuits, (like running 2 campers) which is the same as 240v at 30 amps. As long as the voltage multiplied by amperage equals less than 7200 (Watts) you are good to go.

Hey Tim - I’ll take a different angle on this: You saved me about $80. I just picked up my new Powerboost and my RV dealership set me up with two different connectors to do what your $8 Amazon connector does. Thanks for what you do!! 🤜💥🤛

Take a Volt/Ohm meter and check the continuity of the prongs on one side to those on the other side of the plug adapter. That will tell you what is connected to what. The "extra" prong on the twist lock side is either going to go nowhere or it is ganged together with one of the female inlets on the other side. i.e. two of the male prongs may be continuous to a single inlet prong on the female side. If my memory serves me right, I believe to use two 115V supplies to create a 230V supply you have to have the 115V supplies either in or out of phase with each other. Can't remember which... I've had countless discussions on this adapter stuff with my son, who is an EE PE... i.e professional electrical engineer. I wanted to use two 115V outlets in my kitchen to create a 230V outlet for a commercial toaster. My electrician said you could do that as long as they both on a different circuit. I got a 115V toaster instead... They do a lot of strange things with electrical adapters including making suicide cords... i.e. male plugs on both ends... for backfeeding power to your breaker box from an external power source. Just because it works doesn't mean its safe. Your Pro Power outlets are not a "generator" output, they are simply output from an inverter that is creating AC power form the hybrid DC battery. A generator power source is a LOT different.

You can get a electrician and transform your RV in de main service at 220 v and use both hot legs and not only one like in this case with the plug great video

Bingo! Great simple way to explain it.

Good video. Electrical stuff may seem confusing up front but it's pretty basic math really.

You are correct. The plug only passes on one of the hot leads. How am I sure? I plugged in my RV electrical management/surge protector, which confirmed output of 125 volts

You know what. I almost understood it. Good job.

To clarify… Voltage is not equivalent to flow… it’s more equivalent to pressure. Amperage is more similar to flow… albeit not a perfect comparison in any way. The inverter onboard is there to take the DC power from the battery (can only store DC power, not AC) to AC for the plug not to power the electronics onboard. There IS another inverter that allows the high voltage generator /batter to also supply the 12v system charge and amperage but this is a DC to DC voltage regulator more than an inverter I suppose.

Love the "i dont know what the hell Im doing or how I got away with it, but look - it worked" instructional videos. 😂😂 #whatcouldgowrong

Your adapter used the voltage across one of the phases and neutral (120VAC), and not across both phases (which would be 240VAC). The power that comes to your house has the same setup! In your house some of your circuits are on one phase and the others are on the other one. Each phase comes as a sine wave perfectly out of phase with one another (180° to be all nerdy about it).

The 220 v 30amp will draw 24 amps at 80% load, only exception if it’s a resistive load ie. heater can draw and rate at 100%, this is for buildings. Code rule should apply to the truck. In your test of the rv plugged in 120v at 30amps, will draw 24amps at 80% load. I suggest plug in a heater put a clamp amp probe to the cord and see what the heater draws. Same for the rv.

The amps are not a useful measurement in this situation. The 30 amps is available on each of two hot legs on your 240v output. So basically, you are just dropping one of the hot legs which turns it into a standard 120v 30a plug. Technically your truck supports two 30 amp outputs at 120v each. Or, one 30a output at 240v. Long story short, watts are a more useful measurement of power than amps IMO since you don't have to mess around with math. :)

Brilliant

Pro Power On Board Issue Thanks Tim! So yes, I performed the same test with my camper and F150 Powerboost. It worked perfectly. I’m so pleased. Then my wife came out and said “quit play’n around with your truck and help me around the house”. I was wondering if you ran into the same issue?

Hahahaha your face in the thumbnail for the video

Using that adapter will consume roughly 3.6kW, basically one of the double-pole is idle/ not utilized .

Normally it would be 15 amps per leg 120VAC @15amps times two; 240/30 amps. But the plug basically cuts one leg and only delivers voltage on one leg, but the amperage potential draw is 30 AMPS. I'm wondering if the truck output can deliver the additional potential 15 AMPS without suffering sme damage?

Thanks for the video Tim. I have done the same test on my truck. I do understand the 120v vs the 240v with the adapter only using one leg of the 240v plug and only getting the 120v out. With myself not knowing how the Amps work, my big question was if we still get the 30 amps while only using the one leg of the 240v plug? Or does it drop down to 20 amps like the two 120v plugs? Another question for the electricians, should I install a "Soft Start" on my camper AC unit? It's a single ac unit camper with 30 Amp service.

Powers the outlets, not plugs. Plugs plug into the outlets, just sayin. Btw: the adapter you are using is also available in a dogbone style from Amazon. Search: 3 prong 30 amp RV adapter cord, L5-30p twist lock male to TT-30R female

Is there an adapter to go from the 3 prong 120V outlets on the truck to the camper configuration? Fewer AMPS? Just curious.

Same as the Honda gas gen with solid state inverter..

I was hoping to learn how often the engine started while using your camper with the air conditioning running. One of the problems I see is that you're potentially using about 3500 Watts on one leg of 120 volts, which leads me to believe we don't know which of the other 120 volt sockets are available for the other 3500 watts available of the 240 volt system. The inverter/generator cannot produce 7000 watts at 120 volts. It can only produce 3500 watts on one leg and 3500 watts on the other. That I see as a potential problem, that no one has addressed.

Because the inverter is a very good saw too signwave

Its simple you are only using 1 hot wire not 2 so one circuit is being used

Could you have run the camper using a 110 adapter plug onto your 30 Amp cord and used the 110 outlet on the truck?

Kind of curious now. Since the plug configuration between the truck and camper didn't match. Did you end up connecting it the way that Ford recommends? And why doesn't Ford include an outlet that matches the camper?

So how many Ah of service will the battery provide you for camping?

a pigtail cord is easier to use, and rated for maximum draw.......i use that rather than a simple plug adapter...

You didn’t really get lucky as such, the people who made the adapter did the thinking for you. If you’d tried to cobble up an adapter yourself you’d probably have blown something up.

Do you have a link for the adapter?

Question..is the 7.2 option is it continuous or peak?.

You’re using one hot wire one neutral wire and one ground.. that equals120 V to your camper..

Great video and content as always, could do without the clickbait goofy posed pictures on the thumb.

EXCELLENT! Now, what about only using "one leg" of the 240 and creating imbalance? Generator peeps say that hurts the generator. How to fix? Does it matter?

That is pretty lucky. 4 prong to 3 prong adapters typically drop the neutral lead not a hot lead, because 240v stuff doesn't use a neutral. 3 prong 240v plugs are 2 hot leads and a ground, no neutral. Pretty lucky that that thing dropped a hot lead and not a neutral wire. I'd probably check it with a volt meter anyway, because some appliances do run on anything a/c between 110v-250v... so there's a chance you were running 240 and your stuff was just able to handle it anyway, it would've just used half the amps then. I'd plug your adapter into the truck and then stick a volt meter in there and check it.

I thought what the plug was doing was obvious, but I guess I have more experience with electric circuits than most.

Has anyone checked this adapter to see if it actually drops a leg? I have 3 different adapters and NONE drop a leg, they combine the legs. Personally, I would never use an adapter that drops a leg.

Yes the adapter is just taking 2 phases instead of the 3 phases of 240.

Can help

It's by load

First thats not a dryer plug. That plug is a 240 to 120 out that you bought. You were using the wrong adapter to supply 240 to the camper.

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Bad example of this setup.

Huh ?????

People like you are dangers to themselves. The response to randomly grabbing adapters and plugging things in should never be "I was lucky". Understand fully what you're working with or leave it to someone who knows what they're doing.