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    2001 AGM battery replacement

    Sorry I am sure this is the wrong area, I can't see an area for the old prius here. My daughter left her car at the airport (in winter grrrr) and...
    Thread by: SEaton, Jan 15, 2016, 1 replies, in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Prius won't start, how hosed am I ?

    History Bought the prius, with a bad traction battery. Drove it home just fine. Pulled the traction battery out, and started checking cells, found...
    Thread by: SEaton, Jan 24, 2014, 3 replies, in forum: Generation 1 Prius Discussion
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    Prius Battery rebalance thread

    Thanks for the information. I have only been charging mine to 7200 or 7300 mah, maybe way too low. My charges always hit the capacity limit. I...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 24, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion
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    Prius Battery rebalance thread

    Great job, I am jealous of those numbers. I have 2 Gen III's and a Gen I I am working on right now. Its a long story, but I thought I was nuts...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 19, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion
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    Prius Battery rebalance thread

    Take what I say with a grain of salt, as I am working on my first cycle, and my setup is just plain not working. 13 is a no brainer. And I can...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 12, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    well this morning I checked the batteries and they were still charging, but their voltages were up at like 8.6V. I thought that was too high,...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 4, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    well, something is not right. The discharge part seems to be working right, but the charge was over charging. I kicked in a manual discharge...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 4, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    First setttings Charge 5A (it can do higher) Discharge 2.0A 6.0V re-peak 3 cycles 3 capacity cutoff 7200 safety time disabled rest time 15min
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 4, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    It's snowing like crazy and cold, so I don't mind heat at the moment ;) Ok, being the rocket scientist that I am, I just now started my first...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 4, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    Just to give you heart failure, I have included pictures of what the first run might look like. Note these are not from my setup, but the setup I...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 3, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    I am thinking that by balancing people are just referring to making sure the voltages are the same across all the modules. The last step really...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 3, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    Thanks for the info. I will have to take some time to absorb what all he had to say. On the one hand he says discharging / charging is not...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 3, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    Right, you are right in line. My cells are mostly all at 8.2 (too high) for some reason. Guessing due to the bad cell it over charged the cells...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 1, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Best Battery Charger / Conditioner ?? Help wife is gonna kill me

    Ok so my wife is going to kill me. No not because the car is in pieces in the garage Not because I have a battery torn to pieces across the...
    Post by: SEaton, Dec 1, 2013 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting