I am new to the forum and trying to figure it out. When I did a search, it took me to a commercial. Youtube videos show 2 ways to charge the hybrid battery. One, is to charge and discharge the individual modules with a low voltage charger (SkyRC Duo 400W). (very time consuming) The other method is to use a high voltage charger (250 v) and charge and discharge the entire battery all at once. It would seem that the weaker modules might be reverse charged. Is this an issue with NiMH batteries? I think that there is no balancer circuit as with lithium batteries.
Yep now you're seeing the dilemma of playing the whack-a-mole game and playing with the battery people that are in this business that are vested in this business can deal with 48 to 60 modules at a time whereas in your shop at your house and the carport or whatever You're not going to have near that setup so you have lots of time to invest in making this happen so your time at even half your hourly rate so on and so forth and so this is what it's costing you whether you see that or not is okay so by the time you get done with 28 modules breaking the battery down bus bars and nuts tumbling cleaning replacing so on and so forth you've got four or $500 of your time and not even gotten to any of the parts yet generally speaking If you can make that last you another 18 months to 2 years and you'll be out and on your way to keeping up with the Joneses another vehicle and all that then that's a great thing I guess I pay my guy 450 He hands me a battery all built that he's done at his shop and I hand him this one that's not so built and not working so well and I'm off to the races generally anything goes wrong with that battery I call the guy. And generally he will fix me up no big issues It's worked out well so far so I'm okay other than that like my flashlight when the batteries go dead I go to the store and get some new duracells or whatever poison I pick with the Toyota hybrid generally I'm one to buy a new Toyota battery so I can get the 8 to 10 years of not worrying with the battery because I'm trying to drive the car not play every weekend in the carport lifting the battery out of the trunk I'll do that with other parts We keep the cars a long time so it's worth it to us to have the battery situation relatively straight so we can concentrate on other parts of the car when needed.
