I Took Apart My 2 Million Dollar Concept Car To Fix The High Voltage Battery! This Is What I Found!

a couple of weeks ago I bought a two million dollar hybrid and I don't know how to fix it join the club I paid fifteen hundred dollars for a hybrid concept band that had high hopes of securing a 450 million dollar loan from the government the bright idea van was built to get 100 miles per gallon and supposedly it succeeded but the government lent the money to Tesla and a few other companies that went out of business so bright gave up and the van was left abandoned in a warehouse for 13 years I've been working hard to get this van running and driving again and after building a custom charge cable and fixing a broken electric motor bracket the van drove for about one block before Dino trying to destroy itself the main issue is the high voltage battery as it hasn't been charged in over a decade the battery pack was custom built by bright so there aren't any off-the-shelf parts available and retrofitting a new battery into a completely unknown electric powertrain system without any schematics or manuals could be extremely expensive and difficult considering what I find as I peel away more layers to this build I definitely finally don't want to go down that road if I can restore this battery pack I can not only save a lot of money but that might fix the issue with the rear motor trying to rip itself to Pieces as I believe this is being caused by low voltage the madness continues on so sit back relax grab yourself a burrito and enjoy the show so you guys may know my friend Freddy tavarish Hi how are you uh he recently bought something that cost two million dollars at at some point in its life yes yes um mine cost two million dollars more recently than yours did but I think yours is uh more complicated I mean I don't have any schematics although it's got to be hard to find information on a P1 as well but yeah I think you got me beat there dude so I'm very glad that the people that made this uh made it super easy to follow all these wires I mean we can obviously tell where you know this guy that's the that's the module for the it's the computer module yep yep yeah so lots of weird stuff going on here what I want to see is I want to see this on the road doing its thing getting 99 miles per gallon you know making people smile with its uh wooden headlights you know this thing needs to be on the road so you're gonna get that on the road in this episode right yeah sure yeah I don't I don't think I don't think so Alex downplays a lot of it this is like the real deal this is a concept car there's like this stuff is made of wood it's all like hand oh my God this is so thick yeah this is thick it's like this thick fiberglass but look at how nice the body is overall though it really is you know very very good they made their mini clay and then they sculpted this beauty and then they made a car that looked like nothing like the clay model yeah they made this and then made the clay models but then gave up halfway through making the clay oh okay was that where the two million dollars went most of it okay all right um so the battery here that doesn't look very good I think we might need a new battery something new that happened today was I went in there and I've been charging this thing by the way for about a week and a half I told you guys in the last video that the engineer said that it's possible there is a battery cell imbalance and then I essentially need to plug it in for a week so I did that and then today I think the normal 12 volt battery that came out of my 99 Cobra Mustang is bad and now we're getting a lot of let's just I'll show you so all we're getting is the red light in the cluster where before we would see Park and driving all that kind of stuff lit up I think the 12 volt battery might be bad we're gonna just start start there hold on I think I think I got it yeah those are fake oh okay okay yeah you should return this car all right no I like it too much all right for now because I have a battery on order yeah look at that 10 volts all right we're gonna give it 100 at 10 volts yeah there you go we're going to give it some some juice here and and see what happens this isn't going to like smash into the door or something right uh it might it might oh all the foot out put on brakes it's an old door let's do it all right let's see what happens oh okay that's it oh that's it you want you just it's the mounts are broken you just gotta you gotta get in there okay okay okay okay oh this is nice everything's like kind of plush but also this feels like like bath mat you know yeah like there's there's a hard surface underneath it like everything on this van it looks good but there's a lot of oh do you wanna it's carbon fiber back it's like a P1 yeah look at that that's so cool yeah it's really essentially a P1 at the end of the day it really is you know all right uh so yeah just like on and then yeah you'll you'll know to turn it off okay yeah okay all right that moved the entire car include like okay that was that was nuts now if you're wondering I had to try this because I've had it charging for a week and a half and the battery's at like I can only get it up to like 322 or 23 volts something like that nominal is 325 Max is 350. I have a feeling the battery is just is done at this point do you have high voltage gloves I have one pair I'll wear one and you wear one yeah yeah the other we will be one yeah it'll be like a layaway situation you know you know you have it on Mondays through Wednesdays yeah 316. I I think this high voltage battery is bad it was at 321 yesterday night and uh it won't get over that so I did learn that the battery the high voltage battery in this car van concept car whatever you want to call this is not liquid cooled it has cooling for the motor yeah not the battery so it's kind of like a Nissan early Nissan Leaf oh okay situation so do you know if it's off the shelf uh Parts anywhere no I know the battery is here and the guy said that it's kind of complicated to take apart because there's all sorts of like air duct but I mean I think I'm making me believe are you already it's trying to tell me something are you leaking already I am oh hey look they left me this rag though this came with the van this may be where all the government loan money went yeah it's physical cash and gold is in here it's National Treasure three that's right there's a declaration of independence in here here this is this is like the National Treasure yeah movie here do we have anything 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right uh why don't you put a once you put your multimeter across them yeah and uh see if they register a voltage all right so we're gonna test this right now if you're wondering if I'm nervous right now the answer is yes I'm still nervous right now we're in live battery right here I I don't know why I'm like okay here we go guys I'm just I'm done that not dead yet 40 40 volts you got 40 volts okay on that one let's keep going yeah look at that I have all the confidence in the world though it'll be okay 41 41 volts what would be great is if we find one that's dead well how many how many of these do we have so we have eight eight times forty uh what what is that my uh my uh education 220 320 320 oh yeah 320 320. he said nominal voltage on this battery pack is 325. okay perfect so we should be able to diagnose each individual cell right 41 all right we got another 40. well we got another 40. okay yeah that that one might be uh yeah let's go APR culprit could be the problem child 41 41. 31. oh nice so so we could potentially have two two dead cells 2010 bright Automotive so they made these so you know what we got to do right now uh get out of the van well yeah we got a video called Rich okay yeah let's do it he's too important for us no he's not what's up yo we need you rich what do you guys need we have made a discovery over here on the space fan and we might yeah let me let's bring you inside really yeah yeah look we took the battery cover off and we have all this stuff going out most of these uh measure at 40 volts except these two one of them is 31 and one is 38. like is it is it just a matter of I mean I see how to take them out there's like gigant there's t40 screws holding these things in but I mean this is obviously all live right now so I don't know what's gonna happen to me sells only 40 volts it just adds up to the to the total pack voltage Rich have I ever told you how nice Chicago is in the summertime it's really nice you should come out here yeah Freddy's from Florida and he's here wear your lineman gloves pull it out it's only 31 volts putting it back in the fun part all right but uh it'll spark a little bit but you'll be all right all right rich I fully trust all the advice you've given me all right all right see ya bye bye all right so we should absolutely not do anything that he just said Rich says always is just yes from far away do it I wouldn't want to charge any of the bad ones because if one's bad and then it starts overheating and it starts going into the other way they have the thermal runaway thing and then you don't you don't want that I mean it's not going to be bad because it's 40 volts but yeah you don't want to you don't want a lithium fire you know I got these all right so rich gave us uh some work to do although Freddy is not just here for the space van we have some other activities including a charity event that we have to get ready for I'm gonna eventually take one of those out and I'll I'll let you know how it goes yeah I am going to work on my own two million dollar project uh that also has a battery that right needs we'll be in very different states far far away from each other essentially doing the same exact thing hopefully we don't just call each other like electrical fire like YouTube yeah all right cool well uh good luck well it's a few days later and Freddie was mostly in town for my fill the van with Cannes charity event not this van but my 15 passenger Chevy Express van and we successfully packed that van with essential items to donate and also another van so Freddie was there with me at the event and he is back in Florida working on his P1 now and I am back in the back of my van with my lineman gloves ready to do some work on this battery so right now it's been three days I want to check voltage and then we need to isolate which cells are bad and that'll give us a good idea of what we need to do next we'll either be able to attempt to fix this or we're going to be dead in the water now I did put the battery cover back on we want to be super safe with this not leave it exposed pull it off right now and it's nice that we have these partitions that can lay over each module so it's been three days and this was one of our good modules and let's see where we're at yeah 41 that's perfect so what we have here are 12 cells and each cell should measure around 3.4 volts they're connected in series so as we test them they should go up so we can leave a negative here and you can see they're labeled bb1 BB2 BB3 bb4 and so on so this should be about 3.4 ish yep 3.4 6.9 okay if you add those two together this one is also reading about the same and we'll keep going good good these can vary a little bit and we'll test all the way up to our total 24 now and then our final cell there's our 41. perfect okay so this is a good module this is functioning properly and pretty much all of them were like this except for this one this was our problem child measuring in at 31 volts a few days ago ah 25 that's not good let's see if we can isolate these cells that are having issues okay well that was quick that is not reading much at all move on to BB3 wow that one's really low as well go to bb4 we're at one volt finally and we've tested three of these 2.6 volt after four well these are these are not good these are very low let's start to normalize okay yeah yeah the last cells look to be working okay okay so we're seeing decent increases across these cells here but these first four I believe very low all right here's the game plan people we have a battery pack with cells that were built by bright like 13 years ago this is nothing I could order off the internet so I spoke with Sean the engineer that helped build the van and my good friend Nick from Nick's garage builds here on YouTube check him out if you're into EV dirt bikes and stuff really really good videos uh anyway in Consulting with both of them we came to the conclusion that I can try and charge each individual cell so I've ordered a separate power source that we're going to be able to connect to each week cell and charge it at a very low amperage and voltage to see if we can bring them back to life sometimes you can do this with a lithium battery so we're going to give it a shot and while we're waiting for that power source to arrive in the mail there's a lot more to discover on the van I want to try and get the screen working and that all starts in the mess of wiring let's let's dive in since we're being safe with the gloves there are a few safety items I kind of want to just look over here in the sea of wiring and one of them is this right here this metal block here has two red wires going to it and I don't know if that's live yeah okay so first off these two posts that are exposed 308 volts no caps on them whatsoever so let's see we're going to put our positive here we can ground it here yeah this is insane this is live right now I do have the charger plugged in I believe if the charger was unplugged this wouldn't be live so driving around it wouldn't be but yeah this should all be covered up 300 volts just sitting there all right I've unplugged the charger okay yeah this has voltage all the time so does this great okay safety loop coming out okay so this is dead now that's nice cool all right with the fireman safety loop out it cuts all the high voltage power to the rest of the vehicle we're gonna use a little spray electrical tape it's done this positive one now let that dry kind of build it up and this guy I'm going to wrap up with some electrical tape here give it some kind of protection is that the prettiest thing in the world but at least these two are insulated to a certain degree uh yeah those are open too and we'll just go ahead and protect them all right I've gone around and taped up and protected as much as I could find but just look at this I'm pretty sure they just gooped up our TV on this positive connection so this van itself costs over two million dollars to build in 2009 and I know that a lot of the money goes into research and development when you're trying to build a brand new vehicle but I don't know guys let me know in the comments section because I'm having a hard time finding exactly where over two million dollars you know would be in this van it's just with with work like this again I know they were just trying to make it kind of function to show it off and sell the van but two million dollars a lot of money so it is from sitting overnight seven volts this battery's done so we need a good 12 volt battery to get anything in the interior to work this was out of the 99 Cobra just bought it a few months ago it's bad so I got new one much better 12.8 all right we're back in business all right so with everything plugged back in with a good battery uh this guy goes through a self-test and I believe this in conjunction with this have to do with the screen in the dash so let's see here self test okay cool and what we have here are RCA's yellows for video and that goes into a USB connector here now something I've noticed is that this green LED does not turn on it could be potentially why that screen doesn't work yeah we're getting nothing from the screen now I did find this cable wound up it's USB there's a USB slot here it's gonna plug that in and I'm gonna get anything all right I tried this is probably the hook up for diagnosis purposes to a laptop that bright was using but I was never able to get this guy to do anything it has show car mode cluster illumination video mode isn't even fully plugged in no it's not I don't even feel where the other connector is oh wait a minute what's this oh oh there is one I can't even pull it down there's no room hang on oh yeah I just plugged this in oh what is that gonna do is this stuff gonna work now please work please work please work please work work let's press some stuff on here all right here's cluster illumination oh look at that cluster illumination button hey what in the world is show car mode that is this one here oh look at this green lights that's show car mode these lit up as well what else is lighting up we got headlights we have headlights that's so cool oh get out of here this is like a headlight switch all right there we go it's drawing a lot of power okay I'm gonna leave that on for a second we gotta see if we got blue lights oh yeah look at that we found that there was a light bar right in there but it wasn't working that is some show car mode right there that'll sell you two million bucks just take my money all right we still don't have a green light here I think I'm gonna order a new one of these I looked around at Best Buy and Office Depot and it's ancient technology no one has one and we might not need this converter box we might just need a yellow RCA to USB maybe we do have some that says video mode it's a button this is the push to change and nothing is turning the screen on and then there's two of them that say spare I don't know what that does that's about it so I'll turn all these off nothing's making the screen work when I spoke to the engineer he said they programmed a ton of good information in here like obviously the state of charge of the battery but a few more in-depth type of things that would tell us potentially what each individual module is doing that would be really good right now I found a same-day delivery from Amazon we'll see if this works all we need is the yellow and the USB all right USB is plugged in are we going to reach barely okay so I've eliminated all of this let's see if the Screen Works come on screen on screen on screen man this really stinks oh that's easy okay okay all right I don't know why they have this plugged in but they had one plug going to the climate control switches and the cigarette lighter that's cool we got some wood holding this up it makes it works right it's lightweight it's renewable I want to see if this thing's even connected to anything in some of the Articles they wrote about this they show the screen working but it also could be a sticker kind of like that that's just a sticker it doesn't have 182 000 miles it doesn't have that much fuel none of that works oh well it just pulled out all right I'm pulling out loads and loads of wires let's get this out of the way I don't see any reason why this would be unplugged but then again the show box was unplugged so who knows okay here is our shifter module okay this one I just unplugged so that's normal it was like that what else do we have sea of wiring cables oh let's see we got oh is this a video One hey we got a video one that's not plugged into anything these are the three cables coming out of the screen they are all plugged in I don't see any other missing connections here but at least we checked okay I found something a little bit more similar to this so we're gonna give it a shot all right got the USB plugged in there we go we're gonna turn the key on now see if this lights up huh nothing oh whoa whoa there we go okay I made a light there we go fans are on baby noises I like baby noises yeah nothing nothing on this screen great next thing we gotta test for power okay that's great at the back of the screen there are hardly any screws that hold stuff in it just all pops together it's kind of nice maybe we'll find the two million dollars in here oh yeah this of course just pulls right out doesn't it yeah this is so cool we get to see the work behind the dash as well I feel like Indiana Jones that was easy oh look what we found okay this is where the rodents got all of this white material from as it just jammed inside of here yep oh wow look at this this pink insulation like home insulation I think it is what is this some R 24 we got in here keeping it nice and cool and hot this is wood yep that is definitely wood oh wait no no it's not it is actually a speaker right there I figured it was a fake speaker cover I can see a plug in here that's disconnected a little Sharpie line where they were kind of cutting all this out right here okay I found a screw foreign custom one of one piece right here look at that and there's a screw right here a little more right here I think I might have to take these a pillars out whoa oh look at the roll bar in here and spray foam insulation a metal plate right here okay these things just pop right off look at that they're made of foam these are made of foam and just wrapped in fabric I don't see any screws for this Dash oh you gotta be kidding me this whole thing just pops right out no way I mean this is awesome for me but wow this isn't how cars are normally made yeah this is straight up home insulation right here wow lots and lots of connectors what does this say a little note here passenger side wheel a little far away from where you're supposed to be little buddy I would love to know what this harness is out of or what all this is for yeah none of this goes anywhere I got a ground wire right here and it does have a heater box but nothing works nothing's connected we have this bar right here so here's what it looks like underneath the dash of the bright idea van all custom made all right now we can get to the remaining screws here's the wood Mount kind of holding up the screen okay so I found an inline fuse in the dash yeah we have continuity the fuse is good all right so I'm looking for the main harness that is connected to the back of the screen pretty sure it's here so I just want to see if there's a power source we can verify well that's not plugged in anything what in the world is going on here I think this just pulled out of it oh yeah it did outside of the cables there's only one big connector that goes to the back of that screen and it was plugged into this that like literally leads nowhere yeah yeah this thing was plugged in just like this yep that's it and that went nowhere I found the power source for the screen right here it's an inline fuse and we do have battery voltage okay so this screen should power up it that could be bad we now have a red blinking light at the back of the LCD screen we have not seen that yet before still nothing here though I have a suspicion that the screen itself is bad so we're going to unplug this VGA cable and we're gonna feed it directly into a monitor see what happens okay monitor is powered up yeah there's that no signal oh oh oh oh whoa what do we got what do we got I heard the little beep back there so it went through its self test oh man no way oh I'm just gonna Mount this on the dash whoa okay so we're plugged right into the computer back there yeah I'm gonna need a mouse and a keyboard I'm gonna pull this computer out because I want to see if maybe the hard drive needs to be reinserted um let's just see what we can see here and I wanted to see if there was any information on the back of this as well now we can see here 16 gigabyte I want to take this drive out and just reinsert it kind of start over and these normally pull out and I'm not getting that right now it is stuck the drive isn't just sliding out I'm going to take this face plate out see if that helps me all right let's see if this guy will pull out now oh that might help us yes all right okay we should be able to slide this entire thing out see if anything is disconnected or obviously broken there are a couple little replaceable batteries here they're just 20 32s should be able to pop this drive out there we go so all I really want to do here is just double check the connection here it's pretty solid there we go yeah pins look to be okay let's put this right back wow we're in there let's just take a look at these batteries see if they're any good no it's just one this little guy's totally dead I can definitely replace this not sure if it's going to fix all of our problems but while we're in there I don't feel like running to the store so we're gonna steal this out of my CL65 key this guy should be good there we go this has three volts the other one had nothing I'll go ahead and pop this guy in there we go with our new 2032 battery and I'm gonna put everything back together I believe that's to hold memory so it's possible that could affect the operation here we're going to find out in a moment so I'm going to put it back and then we're plugging it back into our gigantic computer monitor screen that I stole from Max he normally has three screens to edit but today he's only got two yeah I took a picture on how everything goes so we should be good everything is reconnected we're gonna go ahead and turn the key on now there we go stuff's making noises got some fans we got our self test all right here we go here we go error oh now press F1 to continue we're gonna have the same thing aren't we all right computer guys out there what is going on here I'll do this again probably not gonna work now is this disc not reading any longer maybe it's corrupted I'm not sure well this is a total bummer I really wanted to get that screen working but this computer obviously has an issue so computer guys out there let me know in the comments section what you think is going on um but at this point I believe my only option here is to send this to a computer store uh see if they can diagnose and fix it and see if we can recover anything on that hard drive and then at the same time I might look into a replacement screen or maybe send that out to be repaired because I don't believe that's working it's getting power nothing's lighting up so we have some serious issues but the good thing is is this stuff doesn't have anything to do with this vehicle driving it doesn't control anything it's just a display and it does let us know a lot of important information about the battery and the hybrid system and everything like that but it doesn't control anything so we could still drive the van without all of this so with that let's get back to the battery see if we can at least get these cells to recover at this point I'm kind of striking out left and right I could I could just use zoom a bit of luck a little luck Bright Idea come on look at this my buddy John from watch Jericho just sent me this they still make the screen in the car there's that little circuit board we found underneath and we have the exact same connection so if I deem that to be bad I could just buy a new one and John wants a shot at fixing the computer or figuring out what's going on with the hard drive he'll probably feature that on his Tech throwback Channel and it's definitely a big time Tech throwback so I think I'm going to send it out to him and for now we are going to mess around with this right here so this is my programmable DC power source that we're going to try and charge up the cells with I already attached the leads look at that they're not messing around they say you right up at 120 volts and we're going to charge this at three let's do 3.3 volts and we'll come down here to amps and let's just do two amps all right we should be all set there all right ladies and gentlemen this is it oh I'm kind of nervous about this we are going to be hooking up this power supply directly to these open cells since we're only going to be working on this module right now I've covered all the other ones we have our power supply ready to go and I did have the van plugged in for a few hours let's see if we gained anything okay we got a half a volt on the first cell and let me show you guys how to check individual cells we're going to put our negative on BB2 and then our positive on BB3 and we should be able to isolate that cell so that's a half a volt there and we can go down the line here negative on BB3 positive on bb4 another half volt these are very weak there we go we got to sell at 1.2 that's nice sell at 0.8 and you keep on alternating and making sure the polarity is right and here's another 0.5 wow there we go 3.4 so this is our first cell that's giving us a normal reading 3.4 3.4 yeah these last cells are fine all right so we're going to do to isolate the cells is we're going to go negative here and positive on BB2 now once I'm done charging this cell here the BB2 cell just like we did with the meter we're going to go negative here and positive on the BB3 so even though the module and all the cells are still connected we haven't removed them from the battery pack and physically isolated them on a table we can still isolate the power flow that goes into each individual cell okay so let's just set this back up for first one and we have our base reading half a volt all right let's make sure we're good here bring this up a little all right so 3.4 volts 2 amps and we hit output you can hear this working it's normal but it's a little scary a little scary okay 1.7 volts with the machine connected right now feeding it a couple volts okay I've had it charging for about a half hour now on this one cell uh the fan kicks on every once in a while on the power supply and there we go kicked right off 3.46 volts and two amps so let's do this let's turn the output off and check it out we're at 2.9 volts already on this one cell so up from 0.5 almost all the way to three guys that's a great sign that it took the voltage now unfortunately at 2 amps this would technically take about 20 hours to charge each cell but what I'm going to do is wait about another two hours uh get it up to hopefully about 3.4 volts and then I'm going to shut this off and go home for the night because it's already kind of late uh when I come back in we're gonna see if that cell dropped down at all if there isn't a drastic drop then we're good to increase the amperage and kind of speed things up a bit and then move on to the next cell either way this is going to take a really long time but we're moving in the right direction sounds like that should be a song moving in the right direction is that song might be a song it should be a song Captain's Log supplemental I just spoke with Sean the engineer and he said a better idea is to charge up each one of the low cells so about 30 minutes to one hour each cell uh get them above three and then let them all sit overnight because the BMS can consume voltage from the higher cells and it might look like it's losing voltage overnight so it's better to basically just balance the pack right here and then let the whole thing sit overnight so basically I have to be here for many many hours into the evening so I went down the street got a fully loaded steak burrito added avocado I took it out and got the mild sauce and I'm gonna set it back here and have some dinner while I watch my lithium batteries charge a little burrito oh I know what you're thinking Alice don't get locked in I won't the doors open all the way I am not getting locked in this van ever again knock on floor that was made of recycled tires I learned I could have gone spicier with this I thought the grain stuff was the spicy isn't it the opposite the red is mild grain is spicy let's do something spicy anyone else watching this insane Tavaris P1 build what in the world they're taking everything apart it's one big burrito and three hours later check this out let's see if I can do this and hold the camera at the same time look at that 38.5 for this module earlier today this was at 25 we have successfully brought up these first few cells up to three volts each so now I can let this sit overnight but before we do that hang on let's slap a cover on this guy remember this cell right here has 38 volts it's supposed to have you know 40 41 so I checked each cell individually this guy here is only at half a volt I put a little X there so you know how we do we've got this guy connected up we're gonna charge up that half volt cell all the way to probably three or more and this pack will go from 38 to hopefully 41. and that means another half hour for me here in the space fan it's been a half hour this pack was reading 38 before 40.3 nice yeah we got this one up to 2.9 pretty good that'll do it for this evening's charging I will see you here bright and early in the morning fingers crossed do a little dance pray sing a song and do something do something all right because if these modules are back to where we started yesterday I am in big trouble it's the next morning I got a red legit three car shirt on and we're gonna test and see if these batteries are good Moment of Truth Big Moment of Truth I'm so nervous right now if this works we are good on this battery 37.3 not bad that's really good we only lost like one volt overnight okay 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.628 and then we get to the good ones three four three four three four three four three four and let's just double check our low cell on this side two seven cool that was at a half volt that's pretty good now it's normal for the cells to have dropped a little bit because we haven't let them fully charge and saturate now each cell unfortunately will take about 13 hours to charge because my machine will only go up to three amps but honestly that's where I would have set it at anyway we don't want to go too high we really want to let it kind of trickle charge so now if you guys are curious on why we're able to charge each cell well individually and why the power doesn't get spread out when I connect the alligator clips it's because each cell is wired in series so as long as we take our leads with the proper polarity and clip them in between the cells the power flow will only go in between those two so let's go ahead and start baking this first cell yeah 3.1 amps that's the most we can do okay hey look at that 3.2 sweet so because I'm trying to balance the module I keep moving the power source from cell to cell every hour or so just to keep things even and I'm just curious right now if it'll move at all without doing the crazy motor Shake let's see okay so far so good I have this thing taken apart a little bit let's see oh yeah look at that we're back in business okay it's two days later and I've gone around and charged each one of these modules quite a few times we still need to charge them a lot more roughly 13 to 15 hours each and there's seven of them you do the math we're not totally done yet but look at this we now have almost 40 volts out of this entire pack that is really good now I know a lot of you guys are thinking there might be a faster way to do this but I really want to give myself the best chance possible at restoring those cells so we have plenty of other things to do so let's move this guy forward oh why did it do that so this battery pack has More Voltage than it's ever had that makes no sense I thought for sure it would just move up you know right when you think you've gotten somewhere with the space van it does this to you this thing is unbelievable let's just go check the whole battery pack right now and see if maybe we lost some other cells I don't know you know what I haven't charged is this one dead cell in here or the low cell okay yeah 1.5 volts on that one cell because I didn't let this one saturate okay let's let this one charge up for a few hours and we'll see if maybe one really low cell is throwing this whole thing off and making it do the shaky thing I feel like this is all I've been doing lately but while I wait for that cell to charge up uh we're gonna take care of some wiring right here as you can see the insulation has come apart I don't think anything is touching and all the strands seem to be okay but we're gonna we're gonna fix this no there's no corrosion in here which is nice and I think all the pins are pushed in properly so that's good we're gonna do a temporary repair I'm not gonna D pin everything on this connector for heat shrink right now this will be good enough for the space van especially with all the hackery going on here in the space fan this will lend right in I've isolated all the wires at least they won't touch each other anymore so let's plug this one back in there we go there's another connector down here it's not corroded just a little dirty so we'll clean it up electrical contact cleaner plug this guy back into there we go okay let's see where we're at three volts okay let's try it here we go here we go okay we're back people we're back that motor going nuts has to have something to do with cells being very very low just need to go a few feet get me there space fan you can do it to infinity and beyond Buzz Lightyear Buzz Lightyear you guys got kids Toy Story actually people that watch those originally are not kids anymore it's an old movie we're driving feels good to drive the space man I gotta say let's not Pusher luck okay you just have to charge the cells for like 72 hours and you can go like 10 feet it's it's totally a usable vehicle I gotta get this thing in a little bit of a better position I'm scared every time I turn this key okay it's alive okay this is the first time I've been able to move this thing turn it off and then just start it up and move it again we're on to something here people we are on to something look at this I even have reverse no big deal there's home insulation in there this is plastic there's no wipers no AC no airbags no radio no windows a very very fake mobile all right I'm really pushing my luck I forget I'm getting a platform with a winch motor installed over there tomorrow so we can get things into my storage unit so I actually need to get this thing over there so let's see hopefully third time's a charm in this case and this thing still works space fan space fan it moves it grooves it's the space fan I'm going into reverse right now to go into drive a lot of you guys have said maybe that the polarity is reversed on the motor I don't think that's the case honestly all the big gigantic cables look to be going where they're supposed to go but we will find out okay bag of Park can we get through here hold on a little bit more [Music] okay now I'm seriously I'm done moving this for now we have to get the brackets off for the motor I took one of them out in the last video we got it Weld and it immediately sheared it off but honestly we're looking really good I've never had this thing kind of start up and move on EV Power so many times in a row without doing the whole crazy motor Shake I know we still have to charge the cells all the way but can I say I fixed the shaky motor thing I don't know I think for the rest of my life I'm always going to feel weird turning the key like it's gonna go and try to kill me but I think I fixed it guys check this out I just found something really really cool so see how that cable right there has a number one going into the motor it's hard to see but there's a number two and a number three there's three total high voltage cables going into the motor and then going into the motor controller or the inverter they labeled it one two three and you're probably thinking Alex who cares they're labeled one two three so one probably goes to one and so on and so forth but no they have one in three switched and remember when I go into reverse this thing moves forward and when I go into dry drive it moves backwards they reverse the polarity on this motor some of you guys had mentioned this in the comments section you guys were right now some other people mentioned that they thought the gas engine was fighting the electric motor which that was not the case we never had the gas engine and the electric motor working at the same time we only had the gas engine working and kind of moving the van with the high voltage connector out of the battery so that never happened they never fought each other but reversed polarity yes let's switch some stuff now I've pulled out the fireman safety loop so we shouldn't have any voltage going to the motor but you can never be too sure so these are the cables that go directly into the motor we got nothing so we're safe this stuff though is extremely dangerous so I'm still just gonna wear the gloves why not from inside the van and from the top you can see the three and two so we just have to switch the top and the bottom hopefully these connectors just pop right out I have to release these little tabs there's two of them a little difficult to do but that's holding that oh there we go that's coming off okay come on now I'm doing this right we're gonna switch it from the bottom this is much more accessible and I believe we turn this okay just to check again yeah we got nothing all right we're safe we're safe okay so we'll have to take this one down just to get it out of the way two is in the right spot go back together with that one but we needed this guy out okay so now we're gonna switch to this one and this one now but uh you know what's crazy is though they are labeled with colors and the colors go inside these might these might not click into anything but themselves yeah these are all different okay so we have to flip it at the motor these do have to be plugged into the motor controller as they were they have little guide pins in there so they only fit into their specific slot no biggie let's put them back all right click that in and then all right pushes in okay okay that's back oh I think this is it oh cool this whole thing slides off oh maybe we can switch them inside of there all right let's pull this out so we can work on it inside that would be nice there we go all right man how did they mess this up they would have literally had to have d-pin this improperly this is weird well I've never d-pinned one of these before but that looks like something this collar pops up so we'll have to do this on this side too all right oh okay that one just came right out cool and we gotta click these back too and it looks like there's a couple other tabs in here oh that's a nice clip another oh look at that my first time those are some satisfying clicks I gotta say this is not live but it's still scary all right so we'll pull this one out clickity click all right and now this one is coming out too and we're just gonna go right ahead plug this guy into here click and this guy into here so I kind of don't understand why this is like this someone would have had to go and do this work at this connector and for what reason I don't know I don't know it's a mystery just like the rest of the band all right it's hard to work with the high voltage gloves I just triple checked we got nothing here we're safe all right now we have to plug this in which is a lot easier said than done there we go plugged in see what kind of satisfying clicks we can get yeah is this gonna work I don't know it should right it should in theory we should have reverse and it should go backwards and forward should go forward and we might be there with this this will be so cool okay we're going back together with the fireman safety loop okay another Moment of Truth okay first one okay it was a little one huh okay that might have been like some kind of normal test it did a little little something there we're in Drive not going anywhere let's try reverse foreign at all why does this thing disappoint me come on dude okay so I've let this thing charge for about a half hour we're gonna see if that reset anything okay no weird noise from the motor at all that's good I'm gonna go into drive oh that was a weird sound and it didn't move let's try reverse huh it's registering speed though when it does that let's watch some half chefs here and see what's going on go ahead you see that oh yeah it moves it's shaking back and forth okay what in the world yeah it's just freaking out just not as bad as before but now it doesn't move also okay well that did not go first thing the cables would make words in reverse um but that didn't happen it's very possible that they simply mislabeled the cables on the bottom I mean considering everything we found in this video uh yeah they could have made that kind of mistake so kind of a bummer but at the end of the day I think we restored these cells I still have a few more days to let them saturate and charge up a little bit more and then I can plug it into the wall and hope that the pack just balances out and fully charges I mean it's going to be degraded a little bit I believe this was designed to go about 35 40 miles on electric power alone and then the gas engine kicks in but you know if we can get I don't know anything over 20 I'd be pretty happy at this point and then we got to figure out how to get the gas engine to come on at the right time so that the front wheel drive Chrysler drivetrain will keep this van going down the road so lots of work still to be done I still have to remove these motor brackets to get them reinforced but you guys have seen me do that in a previous video and I want to look at the shifter and instrument cluster communication to see if something's reversed there maybe that's why it's showing reverse when it's really in drive I don't know I don't know but we're going to learn we're going to figure this out we're gonna get this space fan back on the road and I hope you guys have really enjoyed this series up until this point if you have give this video a big thumbs up it really helps the YouTube algorithm tell YouTube that you guys like the video that's why it's a thumbs up share the video with your friends subscribe if you haven't already and most importantly have an awesome day I'll see all of you in the next video [Music] they had one plug going to the they had one plug so when speaking with Sean the engineer he had told me it's I don't know what that was but they needed to move a lot faster okay and we'll see if and we'll see if maybe one okay I'm gonna seriously push my luck right now we're getting a big when we only lost like one night yeah we only lost like [Music] all right foreign [Music]

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Published: Sat Jul 01 2023