Question regarding Enginer PHEV

1. You are describing the battery balancers. You are not required to do anything with them unless you want to see the voltages of your batteries.
As you noted it goes through the voltage of the cells, shows the total voltage, and lastly the difference between the highest and lowest cell. (It cycles through this two times and then the screen goes blank.)
For example.....

1 3.257 Shows cell one at 3.257 volts
2 3.255 Shows cell one at 3.257=5 volts
... etc, etc
8 3.258 Shows cell 8 at 3.258
U 26.041 Shows the total voltage of that set of eight cells
.008 Shows the difference in voltage between the highest and lowest cell.​

If this is a kit that was delivered to you in late February or later, then the system should shut it self down without any of the alarms going off. Total voltage at rest would probably be somewhere around 27.2 to 28V
Individual cells at rest after charging probably settle to around 3.4 or 3.5V.

2. We'd have to explore a bit more about why you do not have a light. Can be as simple as a loose wire, loose splice, or simply the breaker not being turned on. Have you checked to be sure you are getting power to the plug first? That's what I'd do. We want to get that switch to light up green. Oh, an usually you will not have a red light unless the Enginer system has shut itself down because of low voltage. Do you have the new black plastic switch or the old silver switch.

3. The cable should be plugged into the hole closest to the two lights on the converter

4. Looking at the installation booklet and web site there seems to be a few ways to contact Enginer.
a) email Enginer through their web site contact page http://www.enginer.us/contact/
b) call the US phone number that is on the installation brochure 877-886-8897
c) Post your question directly on the Enginer Users section on their web site. http://www.enginer.us/forum/ (Looks like you'd need to register.)
As near as I can tell, it looks like the Shanghai location is simply the manufacturing base. Not installations?

 

Huibin,

Completely off topic but I will be in Beijing in Mid April. Hoping to see if I could catch up with you to see your install. I saw only one Prius in Beijing last March and am curious on seeing one of the first converted PHEV in China that I know of....

Chan

 

Q2 You state that everything is firmly plugged in. That's good that you think so. My question is whether or not you confirmed that there is actually power to the back of the switch. In other words, put your DC voltmeter probes across the connectors for the green and brown wires in the back of the switch and confirm that there is actually 12V power there. There is a chance that the blue wiretap connector you used may not have made a firm tap into either the ground wire (brown) or the ready signal wire (green). Or worse, the wires were simply severed during the installation.

Q3 Plugging the phone cord into the other hole is not the right thing to do. And yes, you are right the light will always be on. But don't do it. It is wrong.