Gen 2 possible HV battery restoration in vehicle

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Your pack is generally a 211 volt system so you can hook up a halogen 500 w light You know one of those silly work lights before LEDs and that should pull it down right quick and if you were in Europe and you had it 240 volt bulb for that market that would work too from from Venice hybrid chargers I have his discharger right here sitting on the floor it involves connecting some kind of hydrol lamp or whatever a heat lamp will work

 

This probably is for the best. I don't believe what you proposed would have worked as the battery ECU would not allow the battery to be charged more than 80% or discharged 40% in-car.

In the Gen 2, there is a way to discharge the battery below 40% in-car by putting the car in neutral but that is a risky procedure in the wrong hands. Further, turning the car off when it is so badly discharged will not allow the car to restart. It is a bit pointless doing this as the car will never recharge above 80% which is required to top balance. As far as reconditioning goes, your only good option would be to make or purchase external charging and discharging equipment and do the reconditioning externally.

 

I Don't have much trouble heave hoing the battery out of the car It's undoing all the stinking little bolts behind the seat. So when I take the battery out once or think I'm going to and I get those bolts that are in between the backs of the back seats and the metal frame those don't ever go back in so the bolts on the battery are only attached on the top and the rear edges now One of the little trays on one of the sides I get rid of that too this is just in my car because I thought I might be doing this dance a few times but then I realized that would be out of the question just because it didn't make sense to me. So I got a new battery prepped all the bus bars and all of that stuff put it back in left the bolts out like I do and the battery's been running great no problems and the plastics are back covering all of that and I've just left it alone for about a year or so been running great.