Gen 3 battery bridge charger questions

I use the Hybrid Automotive Prolong setup and share that with 2 other members in my geographic area.

Once you have the harness installed, the pack can be reconditioned in the car.

Good luck and keep us posted .

 

It’s made by the same company.

Go to their website for more info:

http://www.hybridautomotive.com

I originally bought it all myself for our 2010 when it had 149 k miles on it. Since I did that, I found other members around me that don’t mind sharing.

Good luck .

 

If you are handy and technically savvy you can build one yourself from power supplies and some wiring.

Won't be as safe or easy to use or as user friendly but would be less expensive.

 

Each car needs the cable, then it’s plug and play .

I don’t have the light bulb version (I have the Intelligent Discharger that you set and forget), so not sure. @jerrymildred or @edthefox5 do and might have an answer .

Good luck and keep us posted .

 

The bulb discharger works fine, but you really have to keep an eye on it. The directions are configured for incandescent bulbs. I suppose you could use something else, but you'd have to measure the resistance of the specified bulbs for the various stages and find something that has the same resistance and will dissipate the heat without melting or burning out. I imagine you could build something out of power resistors and make just one unit that you could switch resistors with a selector switch.

 

Or just buy the Intelligent Discharger that already has all of that worked out.

 

I have the light bulb discharger. I still see Incandescent bulbs every where especially floods.

Works fine. If you catch the battery early enough before it’s too deteriorated you can do an abbreviated discharge. I did thAt more than a year ago and battery still doing really well.

 

Good.

When I bought mine that’s all they had available was the light bulb gimmick.

If your battery has not thrown any codes it will repond very nicely to a rejuvenation.

My first and only discharge was done completely wrong and had a fantastic result. After a 15 hour charge I used two 100 watt bulbs and drained it down using these to 134 volts. Than changed to the 25 watt bulbs
And drained it down to 82 volt and then stopped discharging. No full charge in between. Then did a full 18 hour charge at the 82 volt mark and finished.

It worked really good. Battery has been almost perfect since. Much more benign discharge than going much lower than 82 volts discharge.

 

Folow instructions on hybrid automotive site.

 

That would require too much energy, hand feeding here is preferred.

 

If you just got the junkyard battery, I’d start by performing a 2 cycle reconditioning with 134 volts then 84 volts. That should set the pack up for success.

Did you confirm all the modules are the same year?

Good luck and keep us posted .

 

Yes they do say what settings to use. And it's very specific, not just a recommendation.

If you're using the light bulb discharger, they are here.
Prolong Simple Discharger User Guide – Hybrid Automotive
It tells what voltage to discharge to for each phase and it tells at what voltage to change bulbs.
Automatic discharger is here.
Prolong® Battery Discharger User Guide – Hybrid Automotive
It tells what voltage to discharge to for each phase.
Charger is here.
Prolong Grid Charger User Guide – Hybrid Automotive
It tells normal voltage as well as the voltage you should see once it's balancing the cells.

 

Yep.
As I recalled there was an entire chart.
Very specific.

Must be difficult to find on the site I guess.
Always a challenge to design sites that make all the users needs quickly accessible