I used to see my pack hang at 3 bars, but since I installed the replacement, that does not seem to happen? It is possibily an indication of a pack with high internal resistance in some subpacks, which was the main issue with my pack?
Remember the first MIMA pack whack, after topping off the pack with regen well beyond the top of the guage, we immediately did a discharge, when we got to the recal point, the guage still did a recal but we had assist available for several minutes after that.
The next day the guage worked normally from top to bottom and the recalibration was gone.
That final discharge is the part of the full cycle that the stock Insights have trouble reaching, especially if they have recalibrations that disable assist.
I suspect that the car uses it's running SOC calculations to determine the guage position, but has a max V and cell drop off detect as a backup?
Still a lot of speculation.
I wonder if letting the car sit with the lights on so the HV battery via the DC/DC is supplying the current would discharge the HV pack a lower point than while driving, but still stop when a cell drops out?
Leaving the lights on is something that Honda must have considered in the design, and would hopefully have put in some safety mechanism to stop the HV pack from reversing a bunch of cells? The BCM is always powered, even when the ignition is off.
Who will be the first to try it.
Last edited by Mike Dabrowski 2000; 04-10-2010 at 02:03 AM.
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