Help with HV battery reconditioning

If you are going to return them, you might consider saving a ton of time and reconditioning the whole pack at once over a single weekend:
Battery Reconditioning - Hybrid Automotive

 

So I have entered the realm of Prii afterworld with scant disposable budget to bargain with its god to bring back our girl. Couldn't have started the journey without insights gleaned from the Gen 2 oracle. Trust me, it has been blessing and a curse. Take heed Mr. Keith's admonition of the perils that lurk! Especially 6 A charger island where I marooned, it seems, years or more. (Or perhaps a week or two but more than enough.) How I regret but lets start at the beginning. Our girl was taken by the Pri Underlord last spring to bedevil us from the Dealer's Half-Life. We couldn't pay the ransom at the NHW-20 crossing, but found a junkyard whisperer. She ran, heart revived, until winter's cold set in. That's when we became careless and let her sit idle a month or more, outside, and lavished attention on the new Jeep! Now both her heart and her donor's inhabit the laundry-room turned lab. Anyway, thanks guys! (I think. )

 

Maybe this is too simple, but did you try pressing the Start button twice? It must be pressed twice (about 10 seconds apart) after the battery reset to get the car into Ready mode. After that the normal single press is enough.

 

Hello,

My name is travis. I tried ordering Prius king book reconditioning Hv batt from amazon. After a few days I get message saying there on back order no time frame. It's weird cause on amazon it shows that they have a few then gets canceled by seller.. Anyway here goes I have 04 Prius and purchased recondition battery so my car would be back on road ASAP. My old Hv batt has a few modules need to be replaced.I just bought 4 hitec x4 ac plus four port ac/D.C. Chargers to do rebuild job. I ordered the Chargers when I ordered the book. Since I can't get book I turn to you fellow members. I know I'm probably beating a dead horse and there's been multiple post on it. I have a probostion for one you if you can walk me through it step by step in baby language. From dismantling batt to testing each module then cycling from discharge to charge on hitec x4 battery charger and balancer. I went ahead and bought five new modules from eBay to have on hand for procedure. If anyone wants to take time to explain in depth on email or if someone has the book they can share with me. I don't want to be a nuisance so I'm willing to give somebody $100 in there PayPal for time rendered thank you in advance .

 

You are better off without that book. This has been covered over and over again here. Read! Read every post made by member S Keith . He runs PHOENIX HYBRID BATTERIES . You are very lucky to live in his service area. You should have just gone to him to start with. Don't expect him to teach you how to rebuild a battery for $100.

Here's one safety tip. Until all the bus bars are removed from one side of the battery high voltage is present. While removing those bus bars high voltage is present. "High voltage" is just a nice way of saying deadly.

Brad

 

The nice thing about accidentally touching the full 220vdc high voltage is it tends to take you out pretty fast. Only painful for milliseconds before you go to meet your maker.

 

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I thought with DC it kind of clamps on leaving its victim stuck holding on to get full effects of a slow painful cremation like experience ..

 

Hmmm... Maybe I've got that wrong.
Could you quick do a test and then letreport back? ;-)

 

LOL NOooo! ..

As I understand this, alternating current gives a chance to "let go" between cycles but dc being constant just frys you crispy with one nice big contraction .. However I think more DC current is required than AC at the same voltage so both are perhaps equally fatal in different ways.

Not sure how "fast" "it" happens, I suppose your stuck there until either you frizzle up and loose conductivity - or the battery goes flat

Used to test 9v batteries on my tongue bad habit that