People Who Have Purchased the Enginer PHEV conversion kit!!

I already have the EV hack installed on my Prius. When I take it to Troy in the next week or so to install the 2Kwh kit I'm going to ask them to NOT connect the EV jumper from their switch. I'd rather control it independently. FEDex pkgs due Tuesday and Wednesday with the parts.

 

Mine two. It's funny how two packages send from the same place at the same time will arrive on two different days.

 

Wanna see how good Fedex really is? This is a video from my security camera from a few years ago. Two packages arriving at almost the same time by different trucks.

http://www.jaygroh.com/files/Fedex2.avi

DHL will actually route the package accross the country before its delevered.

from:south plainfield, NJ to:Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States to:salt lake city, UT to:Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, United States to:huntington, WV to:Wheelersburg, OH - Google Maps

 

Since we are not charging the OEM battery pack directly, the original BMU and HVU will protect the battery. If some one accidentally parked the Prius with Enginer kit while ignition on in the garage for a long period of time (like Kiet did), when it gets to 8 bars, the electric motor will spin the engine to drain the battery so that the battery stays below 80% SOC. Although it works, please don't do this at home on purpose daily . It is not good for your engine.

 

Thank you Jack for the response to my post. You confirmed that the safety feature against overcharging the OEM traction battery is in the original Prius design by spinning the electric motor if/when a event of overcharge occurs(similar to what Kiet experienced). This information is all I was trying to get out to the folks. I think you have a great product and wish you good luck with it. At the present time I do grid chaging only for my Honda Insight but look forward to modifying my 2005 Prius in the future.---RON

 

One way to see what the Enginer pack is sending to the Prius
system is to fire it all up and then let the car sit there without
driving, and see where the OEM SOC gets to before the Enginer
converter cuts out.
.
240V is 1.43 volts per cell, which is really a little higher
than you want to go. 235 would be a little safer. Remember
that this would be a *finishing* charge level; momentary voltages
during high regen currents don't count since that's just an
effect of the strong charge vs. cell internal resistance and the
Prius is doing its own "coulomb counting" all that time anyway.
But I think you'll find that if you keep pushing gentler currents
up to the level reflected by 240V you'll be into the area where
cells start outgassing and building pressure inside the cases.
.
Therefore, two suggestions: show people how to set their own
chosen threshold voltages. Hopefully your present or future
converters have a way to gently ramp down current they supply,
rather than just doing a hard cutoff and then potentially
oscillating about that point. The other suggestion is
make the EV switch a momentary like it's supposed to be, and
offer better instruction [or point to the calcars documents]
on the right way to use it. We've seen way too much confusion
when a PHEV controller tries to be too smart about EV mode and
keeps trying to set the state by itself. Let the driver decide,
that's how you get the best use of it.
.
_H*

 

My wife called a short time ago and said Fedex had dropped off two packages for me. Looking forward to getting this installed and seeing what kind of performance it gives...and giving some feedback of course.

 

So, are you leaving work early to start playing with the install????

 

Was there any question about that?

Actually, no. I'll be making a[FONT=&quot]rrangements[/FONT] with Jack to have it installed in Troy sometime soon. :rockon:

 

Just got a email from FedEx that one of my packages is on the delivery truck and the other was returned to the shipper due to damage. The damaged package was the lighter of the two. Any ideas if it was the batteries or the box/charger/converter?

I guess it wil be another week before I can install it. :-(

 

I got my two packages yesterday. I ordered the 2Kwh unit. The larger box was labeled as being 80 lbs, but it didn't contain the batteries. The batteries come in a small wooden crate with metal bands holding it together. That box was listed as about 60-65 lbs.

My battery box had been dropped. It had several of the bands burst apart. A preliminary exam (without pulling them out of the crate) indicated the batteries don't appear to be cracked or leaking, but I will do a thorough exam tonight.

I'm scheduled for install on the 23rd.

 

As always, delivery carriers do not like heavy boxed items, even if they are withing their company limits.
It is not the first time neither will be the last..............

 

It has been a couple of weeks since the last updates from those who have done the Enginer PHEV conversion. SO what the latest news, pros, cons, MPGs pre and post conversion, common give us something!

 

Not sure if you have been monitoring some of the other threads... If not, you might be interested in some of the Enginer info found in some threads listed here: Prius PHEV Plug-In Modifications - PriusChat Forums

(Has anyone installed the enginer PHEV? , Enginer PHEV Test Pilots: Mpg reports and important data , Enginer PHEV Technical Information , Enginer PHEV DC/DC Overheating issues , Enginer kit proper break-in charging cycles)

 

The distributor, Automation Tech, Inc. supplied two kind of batteries, ThunderSky (40 Ah) and Mottcell (39Ah), you have the second ones.
All batteries should be at the beginning out of balance, that's the reason of the breaking even period until the full family of Li-FePO4 cell are in amicable order.

 

hi guys. I am a prius owner in Beijing and am very very interesting in 4KW version. My question is:

1. Can I install it only according to the installation manual?
2. Can I only buy the kit w/o battery if I could buy the same batterial in China?
3. The key thing is where can I place the order?

Thanks!

Huibin

 

G/Day from Australia,
Just though I would add to this thread as have purchsed a kit form Jack a few weeks ago (bit slack as only just getting around to installing it) and I am sure from what I've read so far this site is going to be invaluable.
David J