Prolong reconditioning start voltage at 228?

I just installed the harness and started the first phase of the prolong reconditioning process. But from the get go it says I've got 228v. Am I reading this correctly? Does this mean my battery is fine since normal operating range is 202-235v for gen2?

 

That is super helpful and informative. Thanks!

 

I started at 1:30pm today (1/20/18).

My fuel economy had been going down hill very slowly since the summer, and the hybrid battery monitor was overcharging. Recently, it has been undercharged with MPG in the mid to high 20s!

 

Thanks, I will certainly test it out before a discharge. I was going to do the whole process but I am actually in a bit of family emergency pinch and need to drive 6 hours as soon as possible. Should be a good test unless anyone recommends against that.

I have done a lot of looking around on here-- it's how I found out about prolong. Sometimes it's overwhelming but I am super impressed and grateful for the forum and all of the shared knowledge.

 

was thinking of doing the whole shabang but per edthefox5 's advice, I'm just going to do the top off.

 

yup, I read that on the prolong website. Thanks for the info! I'll take all I can get.

 

oh, I will take whatever info and advice and well wishes I can get! I've done a lot of mechanicary but nothing like this. It's all foreign and there are so many potential ways to mess up $big$ time. So thanks!

 

Ok, so...I waited for an hour after charging and took her for a spin. 7 miles on a 55mph hwy and some rather short (and hilly) round town driving. On the hwy I averaged 36 mpg. In town, 33 by the end of it but that was at the end of a long downhill and short drive. Thoughts?

I kind of want to give the whole picture of Prius' current state. Here goes. I will include anything I think might be relevant which does not mean that it is!

Before this summer I averaged 44-46mpg most all of the time, hwy and city.

While driving down the interstate a contractor bag got sucked under my car and was stuck on something burning. I pulled it off but for the next many months I would smell burning plastic after driving, not always, but frequently enough.

A few months later, driving down the interstate and the heat shield to my catalytic converter (I think that's what it was) came off. By this time my fuel economy had dropped a couple of mpg.

I live in Pittsburgh, a very hilly city, and I started noticing the hybrid battery discharging at a stop light at the bottom of a steep hill. It was a new sound for me. And it was new for me to see the hybrid battery full on green.

I got studded snow tires. Didn't notice much impact on fuel economy.

For christmas I drove from Pittsburgh to Vermont. We had that terrible cold snap and it got down into the negative teens. I actually had to go the hospital in the middle of one of those nights while it was -9F. When I turned on the car, the dash lights didn't come on. Then I turned the car off and back on, dash lights. But a bunch stayed on. VSC, tire pressure, brake, maintenance required. And there was no beeb when I backed up. Same happened when I left the hospital at -7F.

Since then the lights have never gone off. I've tried an OBD II and there are no codes. No codes showed up at a valvoline when I got an oil change. I ordered a VCI techstream but never got past the registration key frustration (If anyone has any info, please help! I've tried opening the file to find the key but that is not working).

On the drive back from VT I noticed my fuel economy was massively worse. I was getting in the mid to low 30's. Now, just under a month later, I've gotten down to 24mpg in the city. I haven't been on the hwy. And noticed that the monitor shows the hybrid battery is only half charged.

That's all I can think of. Perhaps not relevant or helpful. Maybe I need to do the full discharge, recharge cycle.

Any help, tips, advice, encouragement, greatly appreciated!

 

State of charge was grey, 2 or 3 shy of full. Seemed like where it should be. Thanks for the response. I'll see what I can do about techstream. My brain turns off when it comes to computers.