What is the shelf life of Ebay replacement Prius battery modules?

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    What is the shelf life of Ebay replacement Prius battery modules? I may have ordered too many.
    I was going to pop all of them in immediately, but I'm think instead of replacing them two at a time over a period of six months to reduce any errors in balancingthem. (My battery is at 50%)
    If I don't use them immediately, how long will they last before they degrade? Would they be viable for 6 months?
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    Measure them and or balance them as soon as you get them. Wait a week and measure them again.

    No one can tell you how long any one module or set of modules will last, unless they are new. And even those could have slight variations within the set.

    Many threads here are about after market used modules, like this recent one
    Dr. Prius Red Bar | PriusChat
     
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    Prius NiMH modules self discharge over time... They can go down to near 0.0volts after many years and still charge up and be fine, but once they hit negative voltage / polarity reversal, they'll charge up and recover, but won't ever perform very well again.

    In general, there's a huge amount of crappy modules on Ebay that will fail right away... But this dude's modules are super high quality because of all his expensive equipment and decades or expertise: Hybrid Car Battery Distributor | Contact Us | 2nd Life Battery
     
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    There are a couple other things besides reversed polarity. Uncompressed bulged while charging modules that have returned to what looks normal in size and electrolyte leakage. Sometime those things are impossible to detect from other healthier modules. Have you noticed any other module killers?
     
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