Here is how to disable Assist/Regen when you don't need it, such as when you are trying so keep from depleting the battery charge on long hills, or when you don't want background charging, or when you are going downhill and don't want to regen.
Take the 2 wires from the clutch pedal, run them thru a toggle switch and you're done, now anytime you don't want to use assist or regen, just flip the switch and IMA is disabled.
I forgot to mention that the clutch pedal switch is above the clutch pedal, it's all the way up, and kind of difficult to get the wiring done, but it's worth it.
Calpod
Great find.
The MIMA home generator concept needs the opposite function, where the IMA is not disabled when you are stopped.
Can you do a test for me. If you are stopped, engine running, clutch in, the car disables IMA when the clutch is in. If you flip your new clutch switch so it thinks the clutch is out, can you get MIMA to charge the batteries?
I hope to have some time to get to the programming and try out the FAS relay and things this week, and it would be nice to know what I need to fool to get full charging at will with the car in neutral. The neutral switch may also need to be fooled, which you could try by putting the car in another gear(clutch still in but fooled into thinking it is not with your switch).
Thanks
Keep tinkering
Mike
Here is how to disable Assist/Regen when you don't need it, such as when you are trying so keep from depleting the battery charge on long hills, or when you don't want background charging, or when you are going downhill and don't want to regen.
Take the 2 wires from the clutch pedal, run them thru a toggle switch and you're done, now anytime you don't want to use assist or regen, just flip the switch and IMA is disabled.
Does this work if my car does not have MIMA?
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Mark
2000 Insight #4709 (sold)
2005 Accord hybrid
Look for my CIMA post in the upcoming weeks. (Cheap, and very limited in compairson to that "M" word thingy)(And also in honor of its "discoverer", Calpod)
By the way if anyone wants to try it all you have to do is disconnect the clutch switch located above the clutch pedal, take the car for a drive and decide if you like it, if you do, you have to install the switch to be able to turn if on and off.
I'm surprised that this works: when I'm going up a hill and need to downshift, say coming into a switchback, the display will show a pulse of regen just as I push the clutch in. Only lasts for a second or two, a blip on then decay...
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How to disable Assist/Regen
