jcolvin wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:38 pm

Thanks for this. Probably i will just pull the relay when needed, rather than going to the extent of wiring in a switch.

Go with that. I was doing it while waiting for parts delivery.
Now I'm skipping the part of opening the hood in a harsh winter conditions.

Yes, you can. Both A/C and heater.
With the heater is much more tricky not to wake up the ICE. The A/C no problem at all until the battery is depleted.

Save mode does cycle the battery, but haven't you noticed how the hysteresis cycle is much smaller in Save mode than it is in Normal mode, when you have a depleted battery and it's down to 1 bar? Save mode actually prefers series mode much more than Normal mode , and tries to generate electricity a...

Basically Save is intermittent Charge. Were Save is engaging and disengaging the engine on order to keep the battery at constant level, whereas Charge is keeping the engine constantly on until the battery is charged up to ~80%. The goal is to know in which driving conditions the engine can be used m...

Littlescrote, he is saying exactly the opposite. He is complaining that in very high speed the SAVE is constantly charging the battery. I can't confirm STS134 findings since never had the urge or necessity to push it over 125mk/h but probably over the observed threshold the engine produce excessive...

Littlescrote, he is saying exactly the opposite. He is complaining that in very high speed the SAVE is constantly charging the battery. I can't confirm STS134 findings since never had the urge or necessity to push it over 125mk/h but probably over the observed threshold the engine produce excessive ...

One of the problems with looking at range and ambient temperature, as above, is that after a night of lower temperatures (especially if parked in the open) the battery will remain well below air temperature for several hours - and "wind chill" when driving is unlikely to help. It is the battery tem...

Really? I wonder why your computer bothers with a fan then. :lol: Yep, really. My computer bothers with a fan in order to get the CPU temp. closer to the ambient one. Not to magically declare the CPU temp. 10 degree below surrounding air temp. The wind "chill" will only change the rate - speed of h...

Same here. Colder it is longer it takes for parallel to kick in.

If ICE power is required the vehicle should be stopped, turned off and on again with Modification disabled.) While I usually like mods I would not recommend this to anybody for above reason. Are you sure the vehicle has to be turned off to enable the relay again? BTW this vehicle is not advertised ...