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Originally Posted by Formula413
How do you adjust assist and regen amperage?
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There are several options ... off the top of my head:
- Slight Changes to driving methods / choices:
- It can be adjusted manually by the driver driving slightly differently ... the dash IMA power indicator does a poor job of indicating the amount of current being discharged out of or charged into the IMA battery ... it can be used but it omits things and is not particularly accurate ... it was designed to give the basic concept to people not for accuracy.
- A better way to be able to manually make slight modifications to one's driving for this particular effect would be to install a mod that allows you to more accurately watch the the current flowing into or out of the IMA battery:
- You can tap off the OEM current sensor signal ... and send a copy of that signal to your own dash mounted display ... a row of leds or a digital display what ever you like.
- You can use a Current Shunt concept:
- Adding a pre-designed Current Shunt in line with the battery current flow should be done with care ... this kind of mod would increase the effective resistance of the pack , to make sure it does not cause a problem you will want the smallest resistance shunt you can use to get the level of accuracy you want.
- Measure the resistance of the aluminum connections used in the OEM design ... the Aluminum piece that goes through the OEM current sensor is a good candidate due to it's length ... and there are already screw connection points on each end of it ... the down side / difficulty is measuring and working with resistances as low as that piece of aluminum will have.
- Peter's OBDIIC&C device is a OBDII plug in device that can display the IMA current amps or power watts.
- You can install the current hack that Peter used to create a difference between what the car is using and what it thinks it is using ... thus making it use 90amps when it thinks it is using 100amps ... or use 110 Amps when it thinks its using 100 amps ... depending on the direction of the mod ... etc.
- You can install some type of manual control of the IMA system to give control of the amount of AMPs of either Assist or Regen to the driver.
- You can build your own MIMA L if you are the electronics DIY type
- You can buy a fully assembled MIMA from Mke D install it yourself or pay someone else to do it for you.
- You can look into Peter's IMAC&C sytem.