Prolong Discharger problem

Jeff is good about providing a warranty for this unit, but unfortunately the turnaround time does take a couple weeks. I have had this issue and it was repaired under warranty.

 

I'm not the average user of this type of device, I have used this for testing more often than the average user. Even with my testing, the unit lasted about 2 years (right before the warranty ran out).

 

Hey guys...Michael here. I purchased the reconditioning package for my Prius. I fully charged the system using the charger overnight. I connected the discharger this morning and selected 134v. I know mine is a Gen3 but the first level of discharge is 134v. It displayed 1.516 amps discharging while I was watching it. I walked away and came back about 45 minutes later. It was on 200v, down from 244v, but the amps were .285 amps. It has now been 11 hours and it is just at 169v, still .285 amps. I have an email into support but haven't heard anything back. How long should I expect the first discharge to take? By my calculations, it is going to take me at least 3 full days to get through the first cycle. Is this normal? How long does a full 3 cycles take? 2 weeks? I'm new to this but from what I can find, something doesn't seem right here. Any ideas?

 

The first discharge cycle could last the length of time you're experiencing. The 2nd and 3rd cycles usually are a little faster. It seems to be normal

 

Thats probably correct. The gentler the better really. It takes quite a while.

I had the first version using light bulbs and the 200 watters were super bright and super hot still took about 10 hours to hit 85 volts. But the battery does a self rebound if its somewhat healthy it will quickly start to creep back up when the load is removed. I would hit 85 volts with the bulbs but by the time I took the light bulbs off and hooked the charger up it had rebounded to 115 volts and creeping up.
If its a slower discharge it will not have as much of a rebound. Just takes a long time though.

The first version they didn't care how hot the light bulbs got they were easily replaced. With internal load resistors they are worried alot more about internal heat so there software limits it to .285 or a 1/4 of an amp. That's a nice place to discharge but takes time but will be gentle to the battery and not incur alot of battery heat either.

Mine was a sledge hammer yours is a scalpel.

Its superior to what I had. Patience....

 

I just pull out my discharge last night just to find out it’s out service only use for 2 discharge, I bought it in July 2020 and now February 2021 it’s not functioning, am really concerned about quality it failed in less than the recommended 3 discharge process this is unacceptable, something went wrong with it while was seated unused.
By the way my discharge panel light are all off only light on is a red one inside the unit but the 2 display on panel power on, don’t seem to be same as your because you have 2 green light on and my don’t.

 

This could just be a fuse problem, something you can pick up at Home Depot. Contact their support and they will advise.

 

It’s up working again, it seems to be last time I run the discharge it didn’t finish the cool off circle, so I plugged in power on for couple minutes and bingo, a working unit again, I didn’t know this needs to complete finish the cool off but now I know.

 

Was this posted somewhere, or was this in a reply from HA support?

I've never heard of this 'cool off' before, could you please explain it again so that we can all benefit from the knowledge.

Thank you!

 

No it was not posted somewhere neither was a reply from hybrid automotive actually they didn’t even know what was going on so they ask me to send it back for repair but I didn’t want to do that before some troubleshooting so I asked but they said they believe it needs to be back for repair so I just want to try something at my end and I remember that the discharge at the end of the discharge go into cool off mode but last time I did my battery discharge I just powered off without letting it cool off so that is why I decided to maybe the discharge still in the cooling off cycle so I plugged in went to do something and when I got back about 15 minutes it was working the light on top panel that was off now in on when power on, I don’t know the design or software of this discharge but I give a shot and it worked otherwise it will be in a box going for repair, good thing I didn’t give up without trying something, maybe make not sense but my discharge is working, want to add something the discharge probably warm up on those about 15 minutes from the storage it was probably about 60 degrees to 73 or more at the room I plugged in, make you own judgment.

This is from hybrid automotive manual:

When the discharge is complete the LED will flash red for seven minutes as the discharger system cools itself down. Once the cool down is finished, the idle LED will come on and the alert buzzer will sound, i didn’t have the flashing led neither the buzzer sound but my idle light did come back on.

 

Interesting there's a cool off cycle. I've never heard of it. I guess I'll have to try that and maybe my unit will last longer.

 

I guess sometimes is a good thing to wait a bit before taking, I going to have to back off from my conclusion about the cool off theory because am trying to start the second discharge and the discharge is doing the same and already 30 minutes waiting and the thing still unwilling to work so my apologies, feeling stupid here but not worries I survive lol, I going to keep it on to see if it magically work again, I guess after all it needs a trip to hybrid automotive.