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[ericbecky]

Got the dc/dc converter installed last night.

This replacement converter is definitely dribbling power a little more slowly and smoothly than the previous converter, which is a good thing.

There is 5-8 amps or so dribbling into the stock pack from the Enginer pack. (The last converter began swinging amps from high to low and shortly after that it died.)

With this lower amperage, the IMA light does not immediately get tripped every time the car goes into Autostop, which is also good. It does still happen occasionally though, but I have not isolated exactly what conditions make it happen. It is surrounding coming in or going out of Autostop, though. When the IMA light gets tripped, the whole IMA system shuts down. To clear the light, for now, I simply key off, and then rekey on the car. (Another way around it would be to put a momentary switch on the appropriate fuse, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.)

Today was very windy and rainy so I couldn't really do any meaningful testing for mpg.

I did cycle the Lithium batteries from charged to discharged. In other words the balancer high alarm went on when I charged them, and then the balancer low alarm went on when I discharged them.

I used MIMA to get full use out of the batteries. I especially used the batteries to go up hills and start off from stop lights.

I'm still trying to decide how this Enginer set up will be able to help non-MIMA owners.

Out of 16 cells, I only have one that is a bit "out of line" compared to the others. The rest seem pretty well matched otherwise.

Plenty of other testing still needs to be done but this should whet your appetite.