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Thanks for your post. I'm assuming you mean Nex Power (projectlithium.com). "Next Gen" lithium is also a company but seems to only offer PV and home power batteries? Nex Power do offer prius replacement batteries, but the price I see is $3221 (USD), and shipping to Australia is probably epic...

That post is shows replacement of OEM battery with another NIMH. Has anyone replaced with a larger Lithium battery with its own BMS, and made it a plug in hybrid? Im wondering if this can be done, or if the car will reject a different battery and BMS. In other words, does the prius battery...

Ended up building 16s9p and am stoked with the new battery. Thanks for your help.

I have a 2008 gen 2 Prius with an original NiMH battery. The battery is aging and milage is not what it used to be. Has anyone had experience replacing these batteries with lithium cells, or perhaps running a lithium battery in parallel with the existing battery? I'm also looking at options to...

Ended up getting the same JBD bms, this time with QUCC printed on the heat sink. It works fine for now. I was careful to connect B- before balance leads, and tested all the soldering of balance leads prior to plugging in. I have noticed the Bluetooth connection is fairly buggy, and seems to cut...

Yes, all cells have the white insulation rings.

Thanks for the responses, yes the cells are Chinese made cells. Thunderheart has done a review of them here and from that I decided they would be ok for my purposes: Queen Battery QB18650 2500mAh capacity test + comparison with QB18650 2600mAh Sounds like weight is no indicator of cell quality...

I've recently bought a box of 160 new QB18650 12A cells and will only use 144 for my build. So I'm trying to quickly weed out the worst ones. I don't have an accurate way to test quickly so am wondering if there are any other properties that could identify the weaker cells. 90% of them are...

Ok cheers, for that. I'm also considering Heltec BMS, which look quite different and were recommendedby a friend. Has anyone tried those, and are they also JBD based? I've been pretty unsatisfied with JBD. I'm pretty certain open circuit on b- or one of the balance leads fried it, and the...

Why do you choose QUCC cowardlyduck, and is there a way to turn on/off via software or a physical switch? What is quiescent current usage? Can you please share a link for what you mean? I'm getting many results searching for QUCC smart bms for 16s

Are QUCC based on Jbd? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002306907257.html

That's the current read out.

I while unplugging the BMS from the test setup the blue magic smoke came out of the BMS where the balance leads plug in. Now when I plug it in, cell group 1 reads incorrectly as 5V and group 2 shows 0V, so I fear I have fried this BMS. As AW mentioned these things seem pretty sensitive to the...

thanks AW! There are 4 pads in the box marked "SW" do I just short out two of the larger ones to turn BMS off? Bit reluctant as I don't want to ruin anything by shorting it out. I did not measure load current but there is at least 20W being consumed by the glowing light bulb in the first...

I've bought a JBD smart bms recently and have rigged a primitive16s1p test board with old cells to test the functions. Including abnormal states like over temperature and unbalanced cells. I Soldered all the balance wires onto the cell holders and have wired up b- according to schematic...