[quote=GaryHo [/quote] Any progress with this? Jack died so no help there. Im running a hacked tesla inverter with my 65kwh 515v battery to power my off grid my house. Fun but now I have 400 kwh more batteries to make use of and am more seriously looking at the Prius inverter because there so cheap ...

Just thought I'd throw an update in here. I remember I was using the Prius high voltage battery connected to a midnight classic solar charge controller and it was working for 2 weeks? Well yep it worked very well for nearly six months until I upgraded my system with my lithium batteries. I changed m...

I remember an old timer showing me a generator he had under the hood of his car. It was some kind of an aftermarket add-on device. It looked like a big heavy electric motor with a pulley on it. It ran off of one of the belts and basically had a 120 volt outlet right on the back. As long as the engin...

I love your idea and I'll be following this thread. These inverters in the Prius are so powerful and very inexpensive. I'm off-grid and I turned my Prius into a backup generator when I'm not driving. I'm still exploring the best option for using it this way. Now I've got four of these cars and it se...

Very interesting idea. You're right that a Prius is likely cheaper than an equivalent generator, depending on how you set it up you could see an easy 20kw from such a machine, and maybe up to 3-4x that. Short answer is yes, its possible. Long answer is that it would probably have to be MG1 only unl...

I'm impressed that the Prius is 2x as efficient as a normal generator. Didn't know genny's were that bad. So you want run the Prius engine, but instead of it charging the normal Prius battery, just have it directly charge the 48v house battery? I think you're better off just using a DC-DC converter...

Using the classic make selling its output voltage so simple. for anyone off grades you could easily change the voltage output to 12 volts or 24 or 60 volts right through the menu on the classic. Using Telecom rectifier modules seems like I would have to add a variable potentiometer somewhere in orde...

I've been off grid for a while and generators generally suck. I've recently used a midnight classic solar charge controller to convert the high voltage Prius battery down to the 48 volt house battery Bank. I've had some success with this and it's replaced my regular backup generator for the past two...