I'm going to install it in the back compartment above the spare tire and next to the traction battery, or maaybe on the outside under the car next to the spare tire well and above the plastic paneling, we'll see how it works out.
The plan for the electronics is to actually replace the lower inverter board with an openinverter board, since I won't be using the AC compressor inverter, or the DC/DC 200v->14v converter down there. I'll route the cables through the internal opening up to the upper chamber, so the entire thing can be sealed up except for the 12v, 200v, and two inverter outputs. You can see the opening in the top right corner of the image here:
I'm not totally sure what I'll do for heat dissipation, and I'm not sure how much heat will need to be dissipated. I kinda want to get away with just pumping the coolant around in a loop without a dedicated radiator, but I don't know if that'll fly. I saved some hoses and 12v pumps from the scrapyard also.
For outputs, I'm interested in some 110V 60Hz AC and maybe even a split phase 220V 60Hz output because I think it'd be cool to run a welder. I'll have to design an output filter to adsorb the high frequency switching energy, maybe with the inductor and cap from another prius or something else, we'll see what the math says. I think for a split phase output, I might need a center tap transformer? Or maybe just 4 phases of the inverter hooked in a split configuration. Haven't totally planned that out yet.
