Selling lots of GP30EVH NiMH Vectrix Cells (30Ahr)

Hi Linux,
I am interested to purchase NiMH Vectrix cells! I live in Italy and now I'm just trying to repair the Vx-1 2007 battery pack.

How much is shipping to my country of about 4 bricks (56 cells)?

Thanks,
Manu

Dang! Did you say these came out of a hybrid? I once heard that the cells are the same as an early Prius.

I just replaced a battery pack in a VX-1 and have the used cells from the old pack for sale.
The old pack had about 7K miles on it and was working fine except for a single bad cell. (I have not fully disassembled the front pack, but in the top layer, there was one cell at 0V.) The rear pack was disassembled into 9-cell strips and I found no bad cells in any of the strips.
I will sell the individual (good) cells for $6 ea plus shipping or a full (good) strip of either 8 ($45) or 9 ($50) cells with bus bars.
I also have the temp monitoring cable assembly and the other hardware and boxes from the packs, if anyone is interested.

In MD I have a complete VX-1 NiMh pack in good condition. Includes front half of the pack with 6 groups of 8 cells each, rear pack with 6 groups of 9 cells each, and all the cables, bolts, busbars, plastic boxes, rods, fasteners, etc. This is a plug and play drop-in replacement for your bad pack. The pack came off my bike after I converted to Li about a month ago. All cells are currently at 1.28V +/- 0.01V or so. Meaning, well balanced and none is self-discharging by just sitting in my garage.

When last used about a month ago, the pack was capable of 25 miles of good mixed riding (50% highway, 50% local roads, gentle acceleration). No overheating on any of the groups in use or during charging.

The pack was originally assembled by Vectrix in the end of 8/2013. It was then put in a '09 model bike that I bought brand new in May 2014 with only 130 miles on it. That does not mean the cells are from 8/2013, just that Vectrix put them together in a pack and tested them at that time. So how old or new and how many cycles are on the individual cells is anyone's guess. I put another 500 miles or so on this pack for a total of under 700 miles. Two months ago one cell in the front half of the pack failed (overheated). I replaced that one bad cell and the cell next to it (which tested good but I swapped it anyway as it was heated by the failed cell). I tested all other cells in the front and rear half and did not find any other bad cells. So, the pack was effectively rebuilt again in 8/2014 (about a month ago!). No issues since then and all cells balance nicely and keep charge as mentioned above. Range is as it was before that one cell failed.

This pack also comes with working temperature control boards/cables/sensors. The rear set is perfect and is currently installed in the rear half. The front set had one sensor (out of the 6) that became slightly off-spec when the one cell on which it was mounted failed as mentioned above. So this one sensor is now giving a false reading and, depending on the ambient temperature, may cause charging to stop prematurely (charge at room temperature is fine, but stops early if ambient is above 25C or so). When I find the time I will soon replace this one sensor, so all sensors will be good (the temp sensor I understand is a generic 10kOhm thermistor available from many suppliers, just need to buy and solder a new one in place of the bad one). Once I repair it, I can install back in the front pack for you. ---> Price for the pack: $400 for the full pack, including the sensor boards and sensors. $300 without the sensor boards and sensors. Plush S&H. I can ship in pieces or as one large box on a half-pallet via freight carrier. Will charge you actual shipping costs plus cost of packaging materials. Or you pickup free of shipping and packaging charges.

Also available: 5 strips of 8 cells each (complete with busbars and bolts), ready to drop in your front battery pack. Also available - half a dozen individual cells. These came from JimmyB's VX-1 here, when he upgraded to Li a year or two ago. All have 1V+ charge, so no dead cells, but have not been used for a while. So will be good that you balance/equalize them to the same voltage as the rest of your pack before use. I can fully charge/equalize them for you if you want, so all you need to do is discharge them to match your pack or charge your pack fully too to match mine. I can't guarantee if each of these cells is good, though most look good and I used a couple to repair the pack above and they were confirmed good. So I suspect most if not all of these cells are good too. ---> Price: I can include all of these for free for you as spares if you buy the full pack (just add additional shipping, if needed, and totally for free if you paid freight shipping for the half-pallet box above or pick up yourself). If you don't buy my full pack above, I can still donate these spare 8-packs and single cells to you for free - just pay me the actual shipping and packaging costs to your location or pickup for free in MD.

Hello:
I am looking to buy some GP30EVH cells. Say 5 to 10. Still have cells for sale?

I have a Vextrix VX-1 I am working to recover the batteries

Jim Logan
Pittsburgh, PA USA