Hi my name is Roy, 74 years old and I like to repair cars.

In the last 6 months I have bought 3 older 2001 prius. I have repaired them myself in my garage. Thanks to the help of this and other sites I have got them all working. One had a dead traction battery, another had a broken sensor battery terminal on the hv battery and the third had a blown fuse in the auxillary battery circuit so it would not charge. I have reconditioned all three traction batteries using multiple rc chargers and cleaning and siver plating the bus bars connecting the individual cells together.
After reconditioning the batteries are performing well.
I purchased the chinese techstream and use it monitor the performance of the car's batteries under different load conditions. I have an OB II analyzer that I use to reset the various codes that have come up. I am now building a dc high voltage battery charger usng a variac autotransformer and bridge rectifier , I will use this to bring a dead traction battery back to life without having to remove the battery from the car.
I may be of some help to others although I have only limited experience with the electric car.

In my career I worked with high voltage dc and ac, repaired ac and dc motors up to 4160 volts Ac ,600 v dc, installed and repaired transformers and generators
and worked with programmable logic controllers for industrial systems as well as AC and DC Drives.

 

Thanks I live in Kingston ontario canada.

 

Thanks for the reply - this is the only forum I have ever joined so I am not quite sure how it works see you have been amember since 2005 so you must have a lot of experience with the prius. Each time I have a problem I search for solutions on how to do the repair on the internet, this site has many experts who may be of help in my next repair. I may be able to help someone with their problem if they have an electrial background, I taught electrical apprentices at a college in canada for a few years

 

Sorry no. I used frontenac in because I live in frontenac county in kingston ontario canada,thanks for asking. Roy