Mackieallan
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Can't believe it took this long to suss out how power management works on the iForceMax Tacomas' bed & rear seat inverters, but there was a surprising nugget of info dropped in XOverland's latest vid. (also posted below). Apparently, 90% of the vid is about a pilot & his test plane and 10% about the Trail Hunter Tacoma)
Anyway, I digress; here's the critical info on the halo truck from that promo: In a nutshell, the engine will kick on to regulate power, like a generator. Ford does it apparently in one or both of their Raptors, cool... This is great for travelers in BFE with extra gas who need that wattage delivered... And not so great [as a potential option] for people at crowded campsites who have curfew or rules on generators or engines running after a set time.
Ideally, the goal of the Trail Hunter is to eliminate propane and utilize the engine as your fuel. So for winter trips, overnighting at a ski area parking lot while it's nuking - this is great news IMO. Here's the transcript as-is by Google:
"15:16
..advantage of that put a 2400-watt inverter and in theory, the engine will kick on and off as it needs to. But our engineer at Toyota said that running full-time for 1 hour would be .762 gallons of fuel if it ran continuously for a whole hour. What? That's all you get? It's all you get? I can smell it; it smells good - smell-a-vision bacon jalapenos little pizza and some college memories mix it up what now when we plug in this High wattage air fryer it's around 1100 WTS the truck will run for 5 minutes and
16:04
then shut off for 5 minutes which allows the smart power system in the trail Hunter to maintain happy voltages hot him oh man dude home run nice you're probably the first person in the world to eat a trail Hunter Tacoma air-fried pizza."
-Pretty cool. Now, for practicality, say your gf or wife is in the tent sleeping and you wake up early to get breakfast/coffee going. You probably need a ~1300Wh power station to pull some duty to keep things quiet.
I'm all about the info delivered cut & dry, esp to depositors. Toyota N.A. has been cagey on details. Pretty lame. Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan should be rolling heads over here. This b.s. inside baseball is poorly played. They should've been air frying mozzarella sticks at the expos. I'm guessing the OR iForceMax [w/options probably] will have the same power management style.
Anyway, I digress; here's the critical info on the halo truck from that promo: In a nutshell, the engine will kick on to regulate power, like a generator. Ford does it apparently in one or both of their Raptors, cool... This is great for travelers in BFE with extra gas who need that wattage delivered... And not so great [as a potential option] for people at crowded campsites who have curfew or rules on generators or engines running after a set time.
Ideally, the goal of the Trail Hunter is to eliminate propane and utilize the engine as your fuel. So for winter trips, overnighting at a ski area parking lot while it's nuking - this is great news IMO. Here's the transcript as-is by Google:
"15:16
..advantage of that put a 2400-watt inverter and in theory, the engine will kick on and off as it needs to. But our engineer at Toyota said that running full-time for 1 hour would be .762 gallons of fuel if it ran continuously for a whole hour. What? That's all you get? It's all you get? I can smell it; it smells good - smell-a-vision bacon jalapenos little pizza and some college memories mix it up what now when we plug in this High wattage air fryer it's around 1100 WTS the truck will run for 5 minutes and
16:04
then shut off for 5 minutes which allows the smart power system in the trail Hunter to maintain happy voltages hot him oh man dude home run nice you're probably the first person in the world to eat a trail Hunter Tacoma air-fried pizza."
-Pretty cool. Now, for practicality, say your gf or wife is in the tent sleeping and you wake up early to get breakfast/coffee going. You probably need a ~1300Wh power station to pull some duty to keep things quiet.
I'm all about the info delivered cut & dry, esp to depositors. Toyota N.A. has been cagey on details. Pretty lame. Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan should be rolling heads over here. This b.s. inside baseball is poorly played. They should've been air frying mozzarella sticks at the expos. I'm guessing the OR iForceMax [w/options probably] will have the same power management style.
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