Thread: 2nd Gen Prius PHEV Conversion (Enginer plug-in lithium ion battery kit)
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Old 05-25-2011, 09:04 PM   #256 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
I popped the cover off the converter tonight and found what I think is the bad component. It looks like it over heated. The fuses all look fine.
Actually, that's a 100% component fairlure . In manufacturing we called it
MTBF (Mean time between failures).
Many factors for this rupture but it can be credit to low quality components.
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