2003-2005 Honda Civic Hybrid Advanced Programmable Charger Model IMA Battery Pack Home/Work Charging System w/ IMA battery cooling fan control! ** May help ELIMINATE OBD-II Diagnostic Trouble Codes: POA7F P1600 P1433** **May help turn off your IMA light and allow ASSIST and REGEN** **May help turn off RED battery trouble light and allow IMA battery to feed power to your 12v battery again** Where can I find more information on your products? MAXX VOLTS is on Facebook! Check it out. What is a MAXX VOLTS charging system and why to I need it? The
NiMH battery packs in the Honda Insight Hybrid vehicles consist of 120-132
individual battery cells robotically welded in series consisting of many sticks
of welded batteries each. Through the battery pack, electricity travels end to
end + to - until it runs through each of the 120-132 nickel metal hydride
battery cells where the total voltage ends up in the 144-190 volts range
depending on the state of charge of the pack and its overall battery health,
year/make/model. Now the Honda IMA system does a fairly good job managing the
charging and usage of this electricity but it the pack as a whole unit but does
not have the capability to manage each individual of the 120-132 battery cells
individually. Over time these batteries can become out of sync with one another
with slight voltage and internal resistance differences. This will reduce the
range of effective useable area the IMA system has to operate in between
charging and discharging (ASSIST) power. What trouble codes may the MAXX VOLTS CHARGER help eliminate? P1447/P1449/P1600 diagnostic trouble codes from the OBD II scan port are the typical codes that our system may help to eliminate with MAXX VOLTS charging system. Each battery has a different history and condition however and you must to start with a battery that is salvageable and not beyond repair in order for the process to be effective. How will I know when my battery is charged? Why wouldn’t I just buy a new battery from Honda instead of the MAXX VOLTS charger? Honda doesn’t sell new hybrid batteries for any NiMH packs. For
an average of about $3200.00, they will sell you a “refurbished unit” and
gladly take your existing pack to refurbish and sell to someone else. In the
end you will be out the money spent and still have a used/refurb battery pack
that usually continue to fail in a short amount of time. Panasonic made the original
hybrid batteries and they no longer make these cells so they are not available
as new. So for a fraction of that cost you can have a personalized MAXX VOLTS
charger to command at your will to take a charge, balance the high end of your
battery pack and potentially have a good working car again without the IMA
lights and with improved MPGs again. There are a number of inferior knockoff "chargers" around using cheap chinese Meanwell power supplies, however we have thoroughly tested those and they did not meet our stringent quality standards. An overview the features and benefits of our system below will allow you to decide who is building a quality engineered and well thought out unit at a reasonable price. Some Specifications on our Advanced Programmable Maxx Volts Charger: v - Programmable DIGITAL 24hr timer with AM/PM clock and
internal battery backup! v Built in DIGITAL LED VOLTMETER! v
Built
in DIGITAL CURRENT AMPERAGE METER! v
Modular
construction with CPC locking connectors. v Material construction quality and engineering -Charger high voltage purpose use cables are rated for 600V and not some inferior and potentially dangerous 12v rated automotive wire. -Battery pack to charger reverse
electrical flow protection built into battery harness. Strain relief plug ends protects wires from bending, wearing out and pulling out of intermediate cable. -Brand new power supply cases designed for ventilation and cooling. -Slow blow arc quenching high voltage fuse at battery connection. -Internal power supply fuses
v Built in LED quiet cooling fan -Protects power supplies from overheating. -Doubles as a visual indicator that the charger is
powered on and charging. Even from inside your home you can tell if the charger
is on. Significant improvements have been obtained with nearly every NiMH Honda Hybrid battery we have tested and reconditioned but YMMV. You must have a recoverable IMA battery in order to fully benefit from any grid charger’s use. The majority of our customers also report significant improvements when using our charger. Most clients have a check engine light before buying a our charger. With regular grid charging, the check engine light can normally be eliminated and battery life significantly extended. Some have extended their battery life well over a year or more by using the grid charger. Unfortunately, in any one specific case, it is not possible to say for sure how much the charger will help. The amount of improvement depends on the condition of your existing battery pack itself. If the cause of the problem is a major physical failure such and internal short or high internal resistance, the charger cannot help, those failed battery sticks must be replaced. If the problem is the more common nickel metal hydride battery pack imbalance, then our charger is designed to alleviate those issues. We make no guarantees that this product or any external charging system will fix your IMA battery, however more often than not, the charging and balancing of an IMA battery will alleviate many common symptoms of an out of balance hybrid battery. Under the worst case scenario if you had to replace your hybrid battery, our grid charger is still an imperative maintenance tool as it can prevent the new hybrid pack from prematurely deteriorating and becoming imbalanced. Those who have chosen to replace their IMA battery have benefitted from the use of our systems to virtually eliminate the imbalance problem helps contribute to IMA lights and premature battery failures. First Generation Honda Civic Hybrid MX 2003 2004 2005 IMA Battery Pack Charging System The MAXX VOLTS charging system pictured above will include the battery wiring harness for one vehicle make/model complete with reverse polarity protection, the charging port with dustcap and 9 pin upgradable CPC connection, the male to male modular 600v pro wiring harness from charger to port, the charger itself with built in LED cooling fan (fan color may vary from photos- blue, red, yellow, green) and female 9 pin CPC twist and lock connector with dustcap, the built in volt and amperage meter ( meter supports 0-999ma), 110v power cord to wall outlet, manual override power switch, built in PROGRAMMABLE 23:59hr digital timer w/ internal battery and clock w/ 1 min resolution with auto-off. |