Has anyone installed the enginer PHEV?

[toddwking]

Originally Posted by mrbigh

Please, refer to the Chargery DB8 as a batteries "BALANCER" for the LiFePO4 in use and NOT a BMS that it is a completely different thing.

huh?? I thought something that balances your battery pack, monitors voltage of each cell, cuts off charging and discharging when when a cell reaches a certain limit (and sounds an alarm when it does so) is basically the

definition of a BMS

Battery_Management_System

.

Do edumacate me though if that's wrong, I'm a newb esp. as it relates to lifepo4 and would love to learn more about it & BMS's et al.

[Flying White Dutchman]

Originally Posted by drees

From the 2nd page of the Chargery CY-DB manual:



So yes, it does appear that it will balance the pack for you.

ok
so every connector to a cell on this battery balancer is a small charger/discharger for 3.2 volts litium cells.

mm wy dont we have these for Nimh battery's.. ( for a good price )

[drees]

Originally Posted by Flying White Dutchman

ok
so every connector to a cell on this battery balancer is a small charger/discharger for 3.2 volts litium cells.

mm wy dont we have these for Nimh battery's.. ( for a good price )

See as all it aims to do is maintain consistent battery voltages, it seems that it could be easily adapted to various NiMH cells if you can set the proper low/high voltage cutoffs.

[Flying White Dutchman]

prius Nimh batterys have a 7,2 vollts ( the 6, 1.2 volt cells are packed in 1 7.2 volt pack you can not take apart ! ) or 14,4 ( 2 in pair ) cell voltage.

the Litium are 3,2 volt cell where you can not make 7,2volt or 14,4 volts from

and what do these things cost?

[Muhahahahaz]

ZOMG, this thread is very relevant to my interests!

Let's get a group buy going! They say it's only $1,500 each if we order 100 of them...

(Or $1,200 each if we order 1,000 of them... though I'm not sure if that would be possible.)

[Flying White Dutchman]

even 100 wil be a problem i think.... but you never now ofcourse.

10 group buy maybe and then 1500 for the 1995 ( 2 kwh ) kit or 2500 for the 2995 kit ( 4kwh )

[ph12321]

In a group buy, I'd be in for 1...

[DaveinOlyWA]

Originally Posted by SageBrush

This is for the PHEV battery Dave ? I though Li-X allows deeper cycling.

oops...misunderstood. thought you were talking regular SOC...actually Li can safely go to 20% (provides good safety margin) and up to near 100%.

[MJFrog]

Originally Posted by ph12321

In a group buy, I'd be in for 1...

Hi!

New member obviously...I've been lurking for a short time and joined specifically so I could post in this thread.

IF the initial testing for this thing turns out positive, I'd be VERY interested in getting one. Especially since I'm only about 15 miles from Troy MI.

Just bought a used 2004 Prius with ~48500 miles on it. Love it!!! Current tank is getting ~58 MPG on it.

[vertex]

I'm interested also in a group buy.