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Thank you for watching. The 7500mah CAPA is the max point that the charger will stop charging. The battery is rated at 6500mah but you set the charger to 7500mah because of the way it charges called "Delta Peak".

@@GreggFesto so, if I set it at 6500 or 7000 it won't be fully charged?

It will depend on the battery health. You can find more info on how it works by searching "Delta Peak Charging".

@@GreggFesto so, I got this on DCHG 1300. CHG 7500 mAh. On the first cycle. Should I run it 5 more to see if the discharge increases if not wat would it be the minimum discharge and charge range?

You should run cycles until your discharge value is at least 5000mah. If your discharge value does not reach 5000mah then the battery should be replaced.

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My silver charger was purchased about 3 years before the red one. I have a video that shows comparison between them. The message "FULL" is the same as "END". Be aware of the buttons when a cycle has ended. If you press the wrong one then you will get no results. The red and silver chargers have different wording on the buttons but the button position for results is the same (I believe the far left button for each channel).

Thanks for watching. Prius V's should all be the same or very similar. You adjust them with screws on outside edges of housing. There are videos of this on youtube. I do not currently have one.

Thank you for watching. I have not seen this warning. I am not sure why it says this now. I suggest contacting EV-PEAK customer service for more info. Please write back and let us know what you find out.

Thank you for watching. I have been using the settings listed for years without issue. Adjusting CAPA to 8500 provides minimal benefit that I have seen and can leave room for overcharging. When running multiple cycles you can watch the "trend" of mah values on both discharge and charge to determine if the battery is good. The batteries will outgas some when cycling and I suspect this is what you experienced. The best way to know if the battery is still good would be to run cycle with my settings. If you get 5000mah or more on discharge and charge then you are good. Please write back and let me know how they do.

Thank you for watching. DLY = Delay. It should move past this step without issue. If your charger will not move past DLY on screen then you should check settings. If settings are correct then you should make sure that your leads are ok. If you still cannot move past DLY then you will want to contact EVPeak service.

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Thank you for watching. The discharge values are the ones to pay attention to. They will determine the actual "health" of your pack. Since the batteries are in series the pack will only be as strong as the lowest valued battery. This means that if you put the pack back together with batteries that have discharge value of 3900mah then the pack will only have about 56% capacity. I suggest running more cycles until you have minimum 5000mah discharge of every one of them.

@@GreggFesto Thank you. I will continue to cycle the modules. But one problem is that they continue to cap out at 7500 and the cycles just stop. Should I increase the capacity setting, or just keep manually starting new cycles on each module hoping that they'll break 5000 mAh discharge?

If the discharge value continues to rise after each cycle then I suggest to cycle again. There will be a point where the discharge value stops rising and will start to fall back off. There will be a point where the charge value will start to fall off also. If you can achieve 5000mah discharge or better I think you will be happy with the results. If you can achieve the 7500mah charge value at the same time, that's even better. please write back and let me know how your batteries do.

Thank you for watching. I do not know the answer to this question. I stay on the side of caution and change mine every 7500 or so.

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Thanks for watching. I bought 2nd charger just to speed things up a bit. If you are not pressed for time then a single unit is all you will need. On average it takes about 3 weeks per battery pack with a single charger. I have received really good batteries from vendor called AloyHybrid on eBay.

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Thank you for watching. The discharge mah is important because it is the actual capacity of the battery and what dictates how your car will perform. The maximum charge mah is limited by the charger. Both accounted and cared for.

Thanks for watching. Does this happen on more than one battery? What gauge are your jumpers? I have heard that some less expensive smaller gauge wire such as 24awg can cause issues with the process.

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The charger will stop cycling once the battery reaches CAPA. If the discharge value is not 5000mah then you will need to run it again. If the charger does not reach CAPA then it will proceed to next programmed cycle.

@@GreggFesto thanks for replying, I get that but is it normal that all the cells arrives to CAPA on the first cycle?

@@GreggFesto Also another question if in the first cycle it goes over 5k is that enough or would be better if I run it two more times to get it over 6k? or is the same ? thanks

You are likely to get CAPA message first cycle if the batteries have been sitting for a while. This is why I like to run 3-5 cycles on each battery, it will tell how the battery is health wise by seeing if the discharge value increases or decreases with more cycles.

I suggest running 3 cycles at least on each battery so you can see if the values are increasing or decreasing. It will give you batter idea of the health. A value of 6000mah discharge on your batteries will certainly be better than 5000mah. Remember that your pack will only be as strong as your weakest battery. For example if you have 27 batteries with 6000mah discharge and 1 battery with 4000mah discharge then you are limiting your pack to 4000mah. This is because they are all in series configuration.

Thank you for watching. I am not sure how long it takes to do a cycle as it will depend on the health of the battery. I set the charger up and check it a couple times per day. The whole process takes 2-3 weeks usually.

Thank you for watching. The reason the charger is set to CAPA at 7500mah has to do with the way it reads voltage while the battery charges, you can learn more on this by researching "delta peak charging".

@@GreggFestoI read delta peak and that is the voltage drop at full charge. My issue is that the charge stops saying CAPA. So I need to increase from 7500mah to more?

I suggest that you do not alter the CAPA setting too much more than 7500-7600. This setting is keeping you from overcharging the battery and causing damage. The value that you want to pay most attention to is the discharge, which should be 5000mah or higher.

The time for a cycle will depend on the capacity your battery. Usually 2-3 weeks for whole job.

Thank you for watching. You should not discharge the pack. After performing the steps in this video your pack will be charged, balanced, and ready to install.

Thank you for watching. Dielectric grease is a fine idea and may help future corrosion. Cycling the battery in the car will cycle the pack as a whole unit which will not address the capacity of each individual battery. I do use dr prius app before doing this service as it enables me to verify that the blocks showing low capacity are the same as the ones I see when refurbishing.

@@GreggFesto Yes, I understand. But you recycled your batteries and got them up to decent ranges.(the ones that were good). My thought is to do the same thing on the car and then see which ones don't correct themselves. Might save time by having the car do the work instead of doing it on the bench. What am I missing with this logic?

When the pack is together the batteries are arranged series. This means that they are charged/discharged together. When charge capacity is reached on the strongest cell of the pack, could be 1 out of the 28, then the charging stops. When discharge capacity is reached on the weakest battery then the charging starts. This is the same way the charger works. The downside of this is the car does not fully cycle each battery in the pack. I believe that each of the 28 batteries you see me cycle is made up of smaller batteries. It is quite possible that only one of these smaller batteries inside of the gray battery has failed causing the gray battery to read as failed therefore causing the hybrid pack to read as failed. Your lowest capacity "weakest" and your highest capacity "strongest" battery of the 28 gray batteries in the hybrid pack will determine the way your cars charging system behaves. Your pack is only as good as your weakest gray battery.

Thanks for watching. When the batteries have been sitting a while they do as you are describing. I suggest running some more cycles on them to see if you can get the discharge and charge to 5000mah. I have run around 15 cycles on stubborn batteries before. The numbers will fluctuate some and this is normal.

Hey John, Thanks for watching. Sounds like you are having good results. The charger stopped doing cycles because it met the 7500mah CAPA on first Charge cycle. Pay attention to the Discharge mah value and start cycles again. The Discharge mah value should rise each time. When you get to 5000mah Discharge this is a keeper, if you have 7500mah CAPA Charge at the same time then this is even better.

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Thanks for watching. This process does take a while but the batteries are fine. The step of balancing will bring them all to the same level. I have not had any issues.

The Camry batteries should be the same as the Prius batteries. I suggest checking all settings for charger again. Maybe check to make sure the pack has not been replaced before you got it with a pack that is different chemistry. Hope you will write back in and let us know what you determine is reason for not working.

Thank you for watching. I suggest checking the settings on charger. You need to hit the Left button first before any other buttons (Red charger says Mode - Silver charger says Type). Write back and let me know what you discover was the issue please.

Re entered the setting, and it is still the same result i hit mode, and it brings me back to the menu with no results

Did you rerun 3 cycles after checking the settings were correct? You will only be able to read results after the cycles have stopped and you press mode button once. If you press any other button before mode there will be no more values until cycles are run again. If you are using one of the same chargers that you see in the video and it does not work as I describe, you may need to contact EV-PEAK Corporation for an exchange.

Unfortunately, several times. Each time, it just brings me back without showing results.

That is good. A super good result would be 7500mah on charge and 5000mah or more on discharge. A battery with these numbers is very good sign.

@@GreggFesto thanks sometimes after a Max charge cycle I'll get a really low number on the next charge cycle what's up with that

I am not sure why you would get a really low number. Have you checked all the settings on charger? You are setup to discharge then charge, correct? If you see the discharge and charge numbers both start going down through multiple cycles that indicates the battery is beginning to lose capacity and will need to be replaced.

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