Don't mistake this noise for the inverter coolant pump

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by midi_ring, Mar 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM.

  1. Tideland Prius

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    If I remember correctly that's not entirely true. When the inverter overheats enough doesn't the car disable the AC compressor? Not sure that anyone would ever notice though, as the RTOD shows up at roughly the same time, and that tends to focus a driver's attention elsewhere.

    Also, if you have a gmail account then you do have a youtube login. It is just the same as all the other Google logins. Note that by default it will show your actual name followed by 4 numbers in any youtube comments. That's a really bad default setting. One must go to

    https://studio.youtube.com/

    and into "customization" to change that. Hit the "Publish" button at the upper right to make the change stick. (Hey Google, what's wrong with "save" like 99.9% of all other web sites?)
     
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    Seems to me I considered posting something on youtube once, some time ago, and having a Google login did make for a bit of a head start, but there was still a step where I had to accept some youtube terms and conditions, and I may or may not have finished reading all the pages when I said "nope".
     
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    Paralysis by analysis, much?