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Originally Posted by brucepick
Nicely done!
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Thanks! I tried to be very thourough as i don't want to do this all again if I forgot something. I'm pretty happy with the overall results and i think that they're right in line with what others have observed.
the Honda charging system is pretty smart though, and I bet with little to no load the gains won't be as much. That being said, you could just drive farther then on the same battery, have to rely on grid charging less, or use less overall charging via the grid.
Either way i think when people are taking mirrors and wipers off to gain MPG, the alternator disable is a great way to gain MPG.
I forgot to cover that I did one test run the other day and found that without the 4pin plugged in, no load and full load both resulted in almost the same 79MPG for the same stretch of road, which makes sense. The engine is seeing the same load, even though the battery might not be.