I heard more than one report of early Prius days where a Prius tech from Toyota
has to dress with high voltage gloves, tie a safety harness around him with a rope that was held by a second person, so he could be pulled away from a dangerous high-voltage situation if that would expose itself, so that the tech was allowed to.... reach into the trunk and remove the plastic service disconnect! Uhm, I have no problem (and have done this many times) doing this with bare hands, since not only is the battery voltage isolated and therefor no current can flow, but the plastic handle of the service disconnect is really safe - safer in fact than the plug that you stick in the wall outlet without even thinking about it, for example when vacuuming, pluggin in your razor, hair dryer, toaster, you name it... There is *safe* work that you can do on a car with a HV pack, and there is *unsafe* work that sometimes needs to be done. The latter involves working on the HV wiring and battery, when it may not be guaranteed that the battery has actually disconnected and everything is powered down. However, as linemen know - there are ways to make sure you are safe. That often involves simply short circuiting to ground the parts that should not be live, so that if they are, the fuse will take care of making it safe and they never touch live power. I am sure that in your training, you will present many more ways to stay safe. Regards, Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com <http://www.proxim.com> Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info <http://www.cvandewater.infom> Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 ________________________________ From: Chris Tromley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 6:05 PM To: Cor van de Water; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] acquiring commercial l BEVs in non-compliance states I have no trouble believing such an onerous regulation exists. One has to wonder however, what astoundingly difficult certification is required to work on cars that carry enough explosive liquid fuel to destroy an entire building and everyone in it. You must have to study and train for years to get that. <snark off> Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140728/5432c9ff/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
