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Originally Posted by MN Driver
The HCH2 has 22 sticks but they are two sticks welded together in a U-shaped pair. So there are 11 serviceable modules. They are shrink wrapped alternating colors orange and green. There is another thread about these by Hybrid-Battery-Repair with pictures of the pack. He has said that they test out at the same capacity using an identical test method even though Honda rates them differently. The paired sticks look identical in the pictures that I have seen of the Gen 2 Insight packs. ...except there are 7 modules or 14 sticks(84 cells) instead of 11 modules or 22 sticks(132 cells). With less cells in series the imbalance between sticks will likely be less of an issue as there are less cells to deviate from each other. It is also less work performing a repair when working with 7 units instead of 20 separate sticks, but it also means that one or two bad cells in a 12 cell double stick is going to cause more of these double sticks to get tossed into the bin of non-serviceable modules, likely making them cost more when rebuilding than 2 separate sticks.
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Yup. My price is $50 each for the Gen-I 6-cell sticks and $125 each for the 12 cell-sticks based on the number of bad stick pairs that go in the recycle bin.
