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Old 09-03-2018, 01:00 PM   #18 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
Haha, quite true. This is phase 1. I just want to get a quick setup to plug into the fuse holder and it'll be operational. With my Metro, I just disconnected the big battery wire. I installed a relay to be able to hook it back up, but I never wired power to the relay to turn it on. It was never an issue.

Phase 2 brings the wires into the cabin and I want to tie into the brake light to reactivate the alternator for a regen braking setup.

Phase 3 is modifying the sense signal even further to crank up the alternator output to get a bit more regen out of things.
Cool. Add a phase four with capacitors to absorb the regen energy better than the lead acid battery can??
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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