The Cellar - Prius Inverter

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Prius inverter disassembly and a bit of reverse-engineering.

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A wonderful opportunity was presented to me -- to have a spare Prius inverter assembly to do whatever I wanted with, and even a few extra bonus modules thrown in. While the technically-astute segments of the Prius owner community are already fairly aware of what's inside these things, having the parts right there to play with and do deeper analysis on adds a whole new dimension of understanding, which I can try to bring to the viewer in as much detail as possible.

He takes everything apart and there's a lot to it. He also tries to explain how the pieces work together and work with other parts of the car. You can do the 50 cent tour to see what it looks like, or the $5 study to understand it.

That got way deep for me, way fast.

Yeah, me too, I don't want to invest that many brain cells to understand the workings of something that doesn't interest me. I just found it interesting how complex that sucker is.

It is not really that complicated. They make it appear so by using many undefined nouns and expressions. With any concept that is new, it would require at least three rereads. More for that article due to so many undefined expressions.