On Dec 27, 8:07*am, "RBM" wrote:
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On Dec 26, 5:48 pm, wrote:

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:00:02 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:

It can be done - if you're smug enough.

http://jalopnik.com/5118297/tech+sav...-hybrid-to-pow....

The prius is a different story altogether. Notice 17 KILLOWATTS, with
the car starting about every half hout.
Gen 2 is 33Kw, and gen 3 is 50KW!!
Battery pack voltage is 273+ volts, so he wasn't using your normal
every-day inverter either!!.

That assumes the inverter was somehow hooked directly to the Prius
battery pack. *I see no indication that was the case. *He only drew
17KWH over several days. * *I would think that could have been
provided by a small conventional inverter connected to the car's 12V
subsytem.

The Gen 2 battery is good for 80 amps, and can take a 50 amp charge -
so not your typical deep-cycle battery either.
Gen 3 is 201 volts. Both are rated at 6.5 aH - or in the Gen3 case,
1300 watt hours (1.3kwh)

There are a dozen different stories on it. Reporters from all over were just
tripping over each other to write a worship the Prius story. Bottom line, he
connected a 1000 watt garden variety inverter to the gel cell 12 volt
battery, and let the car auto start to keep it charged. I guess he needed to
be a Harvard EE to figure out how to connect the red and black wires to the
battery.

Why put it down, if you had a Chevy hybrid you would do it, My
neighbor had a Escalade Hybrid for testing and it will sell. but I am
sure you would do it more carefully. Monitoring the Gen temp and other
components with an IR thermometer and having aiflow would have been
smart.