Power Inverter
06-05-2019, 09:59 AM
#1
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Power Inverter
With truck running I plugged in a Milwaukee M12 battery charger to charge my drill battery into the 110V outlet and it gave me an 3 blink overload code. Thought this would be able to charge batteries. Says you can use it for corded drills which I think would draw more amperage. Is this normal? Kind of useless if it is.
06-05-2019, 10:35 AM
#2
The inrush current can sometimes cause that. Or, the inverter could be bad. My 2016 would do that... plugging *anything* in caused the overload. Try some other devices and see what happens.
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Boostr (06-19-2019)
06-05-2019, 10:38 AM
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With truck running I plugged in a Milwaukee M12 battery charger to charge my drill battery into the 110V outlet and it gave me an 3 blink overload code. Thought this would be able to charge batteries. Says you can use it for corded drills which I think would draw more amperage. Is this normal? Kind of useless if it is.
06-05-2019, 10:58 AM
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With truck running I plugged in a Milwaukee M12 battery charger to charge my drill battery into the 110V outlet and it gave me an 3 blink overload code. Thought this would be able to charge batteries. Says you can use it for corded drills which I think would draw more amperage. Is this normal? Kind of useless if it is.
https://documents.milwaukeetool.com/58-14-2402d12.pdf
"Cat. No. ............................................... 48-59-2401
Input Volts............................................. .......120 AC
Input Milliamps......................................... ....750 AC"
Currently the inverter is rated 400 watts so I'd think that even if you had a 3x inrush current to get it started (I don't see why that charger would have that), it should still be able to do it. Something seems amiss
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Boostr (06-19-2019)
06-05-2019, 12:14 PM
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The reason some things (mainly electronics) dont work on the factory inverter is that Ford decided to cheap out and use a POS square wave non sinusoidal output inverter. Im still pissed off about it.
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Boostr (06-19-2019)
06-05-2019, 12:16 PM
#6
ewww
Is a straight replacement for a higher quality, sine wave inverter, like 'plug and play' direct replacement a thing by chance?
Do both of those have an AC-DC transformer built into the cord? Devices with a transformer in line conditioning the power before it hits the actual device handle crap like square waves or high THD better
Last edited by blkZ28spt; 06-05-2019 at 12:18 PM.
06-05-2019, 12:48 PM
#7
I did not know that.
ewww
Is a straight replacement for a higher quality, sine wave inverter, like 'plug and play' direct replacement a thing by chance?
Do both of those have an AC-DC transformer built into the cord? Devices with a transformer in line conditioning the power before it hits the actual device handle crap like square waves or high THD better
ewww
Is a straight replacement for a higher quality, sine wave inverter, like 'plug and play' direct replacement a thing by chance?
Do both of those have an AC-DC transformer built into the cord? Devices with a transformer in line conditioning the power before it hits the actual device handle crap like square waves or high THD better
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/direc...434039/index8/
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06-05-2019, 01:00 PM
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Looks like there is an answer, we just haven't seen it yet... ahem (rngtrtl) :cough:
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/direc...434039/index8/
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/direc...434039/index8/
(hangs head in shame) I know, my bad. I swear to god every single month something happens and my "toy" money has to go to fixing something that break. My dishwasher crapped the bed last friday, pool pump gave up the ghost in April, March was wifey's vacuum, and February was damn trees needing to get cut down (which is expensive AF I came to find out). I cant seem to catch a damn break
Its still on the agenda and hopefully I can get to it this summer.
06-05-2019, 01:03 PM
#9
It looks to be 85% PnP, the other 15% is either making a harness so you dont have to cut into the vehicle wiring. Total cost when I looked into doing this around Xmas was 250ish all in.
06-20-2019, 02:59 PM
#10
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Great, so it looks like I'm screwed lol