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<div class="stamp">VIN: 4ORT-TECH-SPARKS-NV</div>
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<h1>Adam Pollard</h1>
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<p class="sub">ASE Master Technician · Hybrid & Battery Electricomotive · Vintage Small-Block Resurrection. Twenty years in the bay, now bridging distributor caps and inverter-driven motors. Sparks, Nevada.</p>
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<a href="#diagnostics">Diagnostics</a>
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<a href="#vintage">Vintage Shop</a>
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<a href="#principles">Shop Principles</a>
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<a href="#films">Films</a>
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<a href="#tools">Reference</a>
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<img class="hero-img" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/37177072/pexels-photo-37177072.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="Electric traction battery inside a vehicle engine bay, harness and cooling lines visible.">
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<figcaption>Fig. 01 — Traction battery in place. Handle it like it has a loaded gun inside; because it does — 300+ volts that don't flinch.</figcaption>
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<p class="lede">Field notes from the bay, published as I do the work. The diagnostic discipline that keeps a 1973 small-block idling also keeps a 2022 hybrid inverter honest — and the saftey habits that keep you alive on high-voltage systems are the same ones that stopped you shorting a coil years ago. Everything here is grounded in what I've actually tested or torn down.</p>
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<h2 id="diagnostics">On the Bench — Current Field Guides</h2>
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<div class="card" data-tag="FIELD GUIDE · V2">
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<h3>Reading Battery State-of-Health</h3>
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<p>How I actually judge a hybrid pack without trusting the dashboard: module voltage spread, internal-resistance rise, capacity fade curves — and the equipment that does the judging.</p>
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<p><a href="soh.html">Open field guide →</a></p>
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<p class="data-line">Reference: Li-ion pack teardown + BMS scan data<br>Format: interactive chart + procedure tables</p>
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<h3>Hybrid Diagnostic Tool</h3>
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<p>Step-by-step power/ground/signal tree for common hybrid fault codes. Built for the tech who reads codes before knowing if the part is even fed.</p>
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<p><a href="tool.html">Use the tree →</a></p>
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<p class="data-line">Format: decision-tree worksheet</p>
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<h2 id="vintage">In the Other Bay — Vintage Small Blocks</h2>
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<div class="card" data-tag="TEARDOWN LOG">
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<h3>1973 Small-Block Resurrection</h3>
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<p>Scrape, sand, listen. Reading the grain of forty years of carbon and seats before reaching for the reamer — same discipline as reading a DTC.</p>
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<p><a href="vintage.html">Read the teardown log →</a></p>
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<p class="data-line">Next: cylinder head valve job</p>
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<h2 id="principles">Shop Principles</h2>
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"Verify power. Verify ground. Then trace the signal path."
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<cite>— The rule that scales from a dead 1964 points ignition to a hybrid inverter that won't latch. Half the time what's 'dead' was never fed in the first place.</cite>
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<h3>⚠ High-Voltage Safety — Non-Negotiable</h3>
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<li>Class-0 insulated gloves, rated and re-tested, before touching any orange connector.</li>
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<li>Disconnect and WAIT — inverter capacitors hold lethal charge for minutes after cutoff.</li>
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<li>HV isolation test with a megohmmeter, not a continuity beep.</li>
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<li>One hand in pocket near the pack. Always.</li>
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<h2 id="films">Films</h2>
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<div class="card" data-tag="FILM · 60s">
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<h3>Diagnostic Logic: Combustion to Electric</h3>
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<p>A short on the method that crosses the whole shop: verify power, verify ground, trace signal — from points to PMSM.</p>
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<p><a href="https://4ort.mov/adam-pollard">Watch on 4ort.mov →</a></p>
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<h2 id="tools">Reference & Data</h2>
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<p style="font-size:.85rem;margin-bottom:1rem;">The numbers I work from — live facts pulled into this page on every rebuild, plus machine-readable twins of my tools.</p>
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<div class="eq">SOUCE: item:Q2822895 · Lithium-ion battery — rechargeable battery · <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2822895" style="color:var(--accent);">Wikidata source →</a></div>
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<p>Adam Pollard · ASE certified · Sparks, Nevada — on the uplink from a 2-car garage that smells of Kroil and hot rubber.</p>
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<p><a href="index.json">Machine-readable index of my works →</a></p>
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