Battery life and rejuvenation

Below is a link to Prius chat members that have reviewed this product.

[Review] Prolong Reconditioning Kit | PriusChat

 

Welcome
@Raytheeagle has used the deluxe package. There are many others in that linked thread too.
Jeff from Hybrid Automotive is here too as @jeff652
Since I have tagged those users they may respond here too.

 

Asides using the hybrid automotive chargers, you could also use other hobby chargers to recondition your battery pack.

Dxta

 

Welcome to Prius Chat .

We have a 2010 Prius II now with 170 k miles and going strong.

How many miles on Your Prius ?

I have the Hybrid Automotive Charger and Intelligent Discharger and they work well.

I began doing the reconditioning cycles before the battery failed, and this was a bit sooner than your situation. Based on the battery behavior you are describing, you are on the verge of losing one or more modules.

If you have the funds, I would look to get their kit as soon as possible and begin reconditioning your pack. If you get a code and have their kit, it’s not the end of the world and now you’ve made module replacement and pack balancing as easy as it gets.

Hope that helps .

 

+1 to what @Raytheeagle just wrote!

I've been using the original system with the light bulb discharge on our Gen 2 cars since we first got them in 2014. Great tool! The new systems are even better. If you're going to do this, I'd suggest doing it right away since it looks like you still have a good chance of considerably extending your battery's life. Once you install the cable, it's plug and play.

 

As Jerry can attest, do not rush the process. One time he did not let the battery sit after a long charge. He ended up needing to replace the battery,

 

I'm not totally worthless. You can always use me for a bad example.

But it turned out well in the long run, I think, even though it's not what I would have chosen.

 

Sorry, you are the only suffering example I am aware of.

 

Or the only one willing to share.

 

Long suffering, but of great goodness!

 

I was going to say he is the only one CONFIDENT enough to share.
Many people take failure personally, especially if they intellectually knew it was wrong.

 

Yes, see the link in my signature below to read about my experiences with grid charging. Bottom line: the sooner one starts battery maintenance the better.

 

You folks are too kind. I just figured out years ago that saying, "My bad!" is amazingly disarming.

 

Just starting a regeneration project on my 2010 Prius. While driving it on occasion by clearing the bad hybrid battery code, P0A080, my apps, Hybrid Assistant, and Hybrid Doctor showed wide swings of discharge and charging dipping below the 40 percent range as low as 25 % and then above the 80 % range to 85%. When days were warmer I ran Hybrid assistant with automatic fan on to keep packs cooler - seemed to help. This started back in January and I stopped running it last week after seeing a lot of dangerous charge signals/warnings with higher than normal voltages. But what's strange is that the worst looking cells, 6 and 10 seemed to improve somewhat...or maybe the rest have degraded more. Last week, last day I ran it took it to Toyota dealer and paid them $133 to check it all out. They said it all looked good except for cells 6 and 10 as I had been thinking. They offered to sell me a new one for $3200, but since it's usually hard to just buy food and we're maxed out credit wise am opting to rebuild/regenerate. Have 4 modules got off the internet, arrived today along with my Pay pal paid, (more credit !), RC charger discharger devices. Picked up a Tenergy TB6B, and a HTRC H200 AC/DC. Also got a used MR 959 for charge only I believe. Will post some pics later, time to get to work, daylights burning. Very thankful for this site and all the work you guys have shared. Mark

 

all the best!

 

Dont use that energy bar as an exact reading. It is an approximation of HV charge.

 

How many many miles on your 2010?

Any other issues other than the battery?

Has it always spent its life in sunny San Diego?

 

It has close to 180,000 on it. It's a S CA car, got it used with about 44K miles on it in 2013. It's been great up until this past November when I was doing a late Uber run at 2:30 am, blew a tire out and then all the dash lights came on. Changed tire in middle of country road a few miles from home. Seemed to drive fairly normally even with the lights flashing. Thought perhaps the Processor got overheated and threw the code. Part of what I asked them to check last week. Had the update to Processor done in 2014. Mileage got worse and worse, I changed out everything I could think of, new tranny oil, plugs, PCV, coolant, new brakes, flushed the lines... mileage settled around 40 mpg sometimes a bit better sometimes a bit worse.

 

You’ll also want to cleanse the egr system, as that will likely be clogged.

Look in the Gen3 maintenance section and there are @NutzAboutBolts videos pinned at te top.

They’ll show you how to remove, clean and replace the egr cooler, egr valve and intake manifold .

But the hv battery is a different aspect. If going the hobby charger route, you’ll want to charge/discharge the modules, but this won’t allow for doing the whole pack as one. There were a coupon low of members here looking to get the Hybrid Automotive Prolong equipment. @Mavi was one of them.

I own the Prolong equipment with another member here. I will be doing a 2 cycle reconditioning over Easter to keep our 2010 with 176 k miles going strong.

Good luck with your rebuild .