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Started the truck, plugged in a battery charger to charge 2'nd car's battery. put the truck in generator mode. Truck shuts off after only 20-30 min, and has done this 3-4 times now.
How do I get it to stay running longer?
And what am I doing wrong?
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This is a normal behavior when you are in a generator mode. Truck will start when it needs to recharge the battery then stop.
 

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I think he experienced the 30 minute limit for the truck to be in ready mode if you aren't sitting in it when the alert pops up.

You can disable the 30 minute idle limit in Sync4 settings.

I've been caught out by it myself in generator mode
 
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Thanks Bruce, I will check that today.
 
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This is a normal behavior when you are in a generator mode. Truck will start when it needs to recharge the battery then stop.
Yves, I mean the truck turns off completely...
 

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Ha ok. I went to check the setting of my truck and the 30 minutes idling is enable. I never had the problem that you are mentionning. I had to use my truck from few days due to power failure or several hours during hunting season. That being said, they were all run prior the latest OTA updates to 4.x.x.
 
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Now to figure out how to change the 30 min setting that Snakebitten suggested.
 

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You just disable it. Toggle off.
You don't have to have an idle limit.

Also note that if you are IN the truck when 30 minutes has transpired with the shifter in Park, you get a prompt telling you that the truth is going to shut down, but asks if you want to extend?

If you extend/override, the 30 minute limit no longer applies during the current key cycle.
 

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You just disable it. Toggle off.
You don't have to have an idle limit.

Also note that if you are IN the truck when 30 minutes has transpired with the shifter in Park, you get a prompt telling you that the truth is going to shut down, but asks if you want to extend?

If you extend/override, the 30 minute limit no longer applies during the current key cycle.
I thought this didn't apply in generator mode??
 
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Found the 30 min timer and turned it off!
Had to take the truck in for a CEL on about the Cat converter and while there asked a sales rep about it, he had no idea, figures.
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I thought this didn't apply in generator mode??
Might not have at one time?
Before some recent update?

But I had the same thing happen last Saturday night bed-tent camping. The fan keeping the mosquitoes away suddenly stopped. Dead giveaway the truck turned off and it fit the 30 minute window exactly.
 

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Might not have at one time?
Before some recent update?

But I had the same thing happen last Saturday night bed-tent camping. The fan keeping the mosquitoes away suddenly stopped. Dead giveaway the truck turned off and it fit the 30 minute window exactly.
Strange, mine has the 30m timer enabled but doesn't turn off in gen mode. Perhaps there's a minimum power draw? If only ford could first figure out and then let us know the logic to it.
 

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Minimum power draw could be!
I wasn't running anything but the 12" electric fan on low.

Interesting.
Yet another test to put on the list.

Still, Ford really needs to polish up the overall truck management code for "camping/generator mode".

It's OK if they hadn't thought of everything upon the release of the Powerboost. But 3 years in and there's some low hanging fruit that they could easily gain significant goodwill with existing customers.
 
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Another observation, normally when locking the truck the mirrors close(?), when in generator mode and locking they don't. No biggie just that I noticed.
 

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Another observation, normally when locking the truck the mirrors close(?), when in generator mode and locking they don't. No biggie just that I noticed.
Truck is on ready to drive in generator mode. Locking via remote or otherwise wouldn't make sense when the vehicle is key-on, ready to drive (to fold the mirrors).
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