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I agree 100% there is some redundancy there for sure thats confusing. I like the capcha ebay uses very simple slide the square into the box.

I would have included on there site alot of video's of the battery installation too. Its pretty technical and somewhat dangerous to assemble if you don't have some good electronics chops. A video of certain stages would really help. A little training.

I see people on here that don't know much about it thinking how hard can it be? You not respecting that assembly for one. There's alot of power there.

Make them youtubes. If you have youtubes from the factory of NPB then it would help any future liability if someone got hurt/shocked etc. That's going to happen.

Its hard to be everything in your business. Pretty soon your business is running you. He's trying something that is very very rare and thats being a really talented engineer and a really good business man. That's a tough and rare combo in what I have seen in my long engineering life. On top of the Covid nightmare.

Anyway its a timely business he should do well I hope he does very well. I hope this bullshit anti-chinese sentiment doesn't kill his stock
availability.

He has been a man of his word to me. I have no complaints really. I will start on my battery this weekend.

 

I’d love to do a how but will have to learn how to myself first lol...

I will take lots of pictures though.

 

Started my NPB install today. Whats has always had me worried is getting that battery in and out of the trunk.

Anyone who could help me is as old and beat up as me many with same surgery L5/S1 I have had so had to come up with a way to get the battery out. I have a contractor who could help me but with Covid its difficult to get people over here. I woulds rather not interface with anyone right now in Florida still seeing alot of idiots with no mask. Tampa has been pretty good have not seen anyone without a mask in a store there the county has a law now.

I built me a little wooden ski lift lol! Hopefully I can now slide the battery out on these 2x4 skids I built in the tire well. Going to pull it up the skids with a rope on both sides of the battery.
Its not too heavy when your just sliding it I hope.

Battery is not crazy heavy but I am unable to do a dead lift on it out of the trunk. Every edge on it s wicked sharp too. See how this works tomorrow.

PS The black stuff in the trunk is peel & stick sound proofing I added years ago.

Selling my old school Prolong system too with the light bulb discharger. Works great.

 

Well not much luck here at my house with the new NPB battery install.

After I put the battery together and it was not installed yet i installed its safety plug and measured 214 volts at the battery side of the relay. Seemed pretty low to me but I figured it was enough to start the engine.I measured all the cells they were all pretty close. 15.5 I think?

After install the engine starts up I see battery charging arrow to the battery and the battery screen monitor is empty no purple no red
no nothing then about 15 seconds later it throws the RTOD and shuts the engine off. I know that battery energy is empty because the software is confused.

It also said at the beginning along the top of the mfd PROBLEM OUT OF FUEL.

Its pulling a P3190 and P3192.

Car has been parked on an incline for about 5 days with its 12 volts unplugged. 12 is solid I got 12.5 at the FJP.
Car starts right up.

OK because of the incline and the 12 disconnected I figured ok fuel gauge is whacked out wife said it had 3 pips when parked but went and got 5 gallons of gas put that in and did a fuel gauge recal the gauge now shows full. But same thing ruins for about 15 seonds then RTOD then I see PROBLEM on the mfd with the car icon on the mfd..

Bummer.

My hardship is my Techstream VXDIAG when I hooked it up now says software expired I will call them tomorrow so had to fall back to my ScanGauge Xgauge and its pulling the P3190 and P3192. There may be a battery code its not seeing. Jesus hope not.

Not an easy install in this heat. Not NPB's issue there set up is very cool went together really well. Just the heat and trying to figure out that battery case end where the black plastic air pipes go with the little bracket on the end of the case that busted my nice person till I figured it out.
Did not pay enough attention to that part when I pulled it apart.

Hope I don't have to pull that battery back out.

Tomorrow I will see If I can get my VXDIAG updated and pull some more codes. I was concerned about that 214 volts if i keep starting it I may kill that battery.

I double checked all my connections and there tightness. The ground strap on the output side of the relay is correct the little pointing tabs contact the cables and the open end of the strap faces the back of the car and is tight wirth it cover on.

the safety switch is in tight and the lever is down and clicked.

 

Yes bad word filter.

I wrote what a PIA that end if the case is they take the A word and make it a Nice Person.

 

Thanks for weighing in Straw.

I figured it out the battery blower motor plug was not pushed in all the way. I had to remove the Prolong hardwired blower supply to that and restore the wiring to factory.
In my haste did not push it in till it clicked. Christ. My attention was the battery box.

I laid awake last night going over it all and thought did I hear a click on that plug? lol...

And your right the engine was never running. I have never heard it spun up like that for any length of time before it sure sounds like its running only much quieter and smoother. But when i turned the car on after it was fixed and big difference the engine is loud.

My go to VXDIAG software all of a sudden says software expired so never was able to get my techstream up and running so had to use my old Scan gauge upgraded to hybrid Xgauge to pull and clear codes. It pulled a P3190 and a P3192 that was not listed as a viable code in my prius manual but google said poor engine power. Yeah poor engine power because the engine was not running.
That's the first time my car ever threw a hybrid code so never able to test the Xgauge but its worthless for any hybrid codes.

The second I pushed the blower ecu plug in it then fired right up and charged to 3 bars.
If I had my tech stream running it would have immediately identified that blower plug. I had no idea my VXDIAG was not working. Like I always tell posters you really need techstream if your dealing with the battery. If mine was working it would have fixed this stupidity immediately.

Its a pretty nice battery set up 2K designed really hard to mess it up. Very well engineered system all the bolt holes lined up including the bottom bolts. I like the covers. Very easy to install. I cannot imagine the time it took to design these battery's to the precision they are. The fitment is perfect.
In the picture those white plastic collars in the center of the battery have interlocking holes and studs.
I appreciated all the holes lined up properly very much. Its a sign of good design and quality.

The metal battery box is another story for a first timer that passenger side with the little metal plate on the passenger end sandwiched in between the case and the case cover and the blower plastic vents... Yikes... that killed me. On the dismantle i tore that apart thinking cant be that hard to put back together lol...
Next day I'm throwing tools around and cursing......

Freaking heat down here doesn't help. 90 and 80% humidity. Within 3 mins your shirt is soaked.

I was surprised my 150,000 mile battery was not corroded to bad. Thought it would be much more rotten than that. Its garaged. Included a pic of the rot. Just a little corrosion around the outside of the nuts. All the ecu plugs were very clean including the ecu pcb itself. I took the cover off and checked. Caps tested ok too. The sensor wires were clean too. Lucky.
They get you a little scared about moving the thermal sensor wires around as they fail so easily so after installing them on the battery's I front probed the sensor plug with 2 sewing needles (dvm probes wont fit in the tiny plug holes) and checked all 4 of the sensors to see if any of there wires were open. All 4 measured 9K ohms.

I will start driving it today see how it goes. I know it takes a few days for the software to catch up to the battery. Hopefully it behaves itself.

Thank you for the help!!