Budget Battery Capacity Readout

Is there a Auto size option in Carscanner ?
A constant size may not work with the myriad sizes of display folks have.

 

I, too, wonder if the Clarity PHEV illuminates its brake lights when the ACC slows the car. I don't believe that the paddles ever cause the brake lights to come on, but they cannot slow the car as much as the ACC must do to maintain a safe forward distance. The cheap, ugly way to figure this out is to tape some aluminum foil over the high-mounted center brake light in such a way that you can detect its glow in your rear-view mirror. I've never tried out this ridiculous idea.

Because I couldn't stand not knowing when my small, sporty BEV turned on its brake lights in response to regen braking, I mounted an interior LED in the housing at the top of the hatch and wired it to the high-mounted center brake light. When looking in my rear-view mirror, I was disappointed to discover the brake lights come on in response to the slightest bit of deceleration. Since mounting that LED I've adjusted my driving style to minimize brake-light illumination. I no longer rocket away from a stoplight and then slow down to the speed limit. Instead, I now rocket away from a stop light and stop accelerating when I reach the speed limit. Interestingly, someone on another Inside EVs forum looked at my BEV's energy usage profiles and claims that rocketing to 35 mph uses no more power than slowly accelerating to that speed. Of course, I took that claim as gospel and looked no deeper into it.

 

Here is a similar thread for Chevy Volt:

https://www.gm-volt.com/threads/myvoltcapacity-android-app-via-developer-myvoltapp.333217/

I think it does a bit better than Clarity but it needs some digging to get a better picture.

 

I can say that paddles and ACC cause the brake light to come on. I have a steep twisty road a couple miles from my house and the street lighting is limited so at night when looking in the rear-view mirror it is easy to tell when the brake lights come on, and yes ACC and paddles cause it to come on.

In fact, I believe (no proof) that they engineered it so that the brake lights come on when the the regen exceeded the deceleration power that would be normal for engine braking of a similar sized sedan. And yes the brake lights come on even when not slowing down, but maintaining the ACC speed; or even speeding up when the paddles can't overcome the acceleration from the steep road. This is one reason I believe it is not the deceleration rate, but comparing the deceleration power to some threshold which would correspond to real braking in an ICE car without regen.

 

Since I brought it up I am going to start a new thread to avoid hijacking this thread since this thread is about getting the software to work.

 

The sizing on this update looks good on my Pixel 4a 5g phone, with a 6.2" screen, 1080x2340 pixels.

 

The ACC causes the brake lights to turn on in my '19. I use the more expensive method of a hitch mounted bike rack instead of tin foil. My bike reflects the light pretty well, for a moment I think I'm being pulled over.

 

I don't know what version of MacOS or Windows you're on, but the files are stored on the iPhone in the FILES folder, and further down inside the Car Scanner folder. There is a folder in there called Backups (i.e. Phone -->Files-->Car Scanner-->Backup). Use your syncing method (I use iMazing) to drag the file from your computer download into that Backup folder on the phone and then you can select it for Restore in the Car Scanner app on the phone. That file is compatible with the iPhone.

 

I do not disagree, but there are other variables - heat, whether you keep it fully charged or discharged, how fast it discharges, etc.

My car was on the floor for months, possibly with low battery, which would have affected the battery.

I would expect that we can estimate the number of charges based on the EV miles divided by the average number of miles you do on one charge.

In my case, I am thinking 25k kms divided by 60 kms average ~= 400 charges. Which also makes sense as I have had the car for 500 days.

that would translate in 36charges = 1% loss so far for me, which is 1.5% each month - 2% in winter, 1% in summer.

This is a bit too much. I will keep monitoring monthly

 

This is getting tangential, but I would assume ACC does use friction brakes as necessary, since the same basic ACC system is in non-hybrid Hondas where it must. My theory would be that the ACC input goes to the pedal input on both types, and in our cars that means the same mix of regen and friction as if you stepped on the brake pedal for the same level of deceleration.

And I believe the brake lights are intended to come on in those cases just as if you pressed the brake pedal lightly, even if other non-brakelight deceleration (regen or downshifting in a regular car) could be greater.

 

FWIW: The Honda Development of Electric Powertrain abstract, lists the battery at 27.3Ah. Two in parallel would give the 54.6Ah figure.

 

Is there any difference between these 2 units that have been linked to in this thread? They appear the same...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071D8SYXN

https://www.amazon.com/Vgate-Bluetooth-Scanner-Android-Compatible/dp/B06XGB4873

 

I bought this one off eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vgate-Car-Code-Reader-Scanner-iCar-Pro-BLE-Bluetooth-4-0-OBD2-Diagnostic-Tool-US/313213573319?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

I made an accepted offer of $20 but who knows what will be accepted today (at the time of my offer, there was sale with a 5% discount for a Buy-It-Now price of $22.32). The item came in the Vgate plastic box with instructions, etc. This scanner works just great for me with the Car Scanner android app.

LeoP

 

I made the move to the Vgate adapter. It worked fine with the Car Scanner app. I got 48.58 with 25,481 miles. Autel last reported 48.6 at 24,544 before it quit working.

 

Did another readout with improved fonts size. Last time it was 48.92, now 49.04.

much warmer temps lately might have affected the readings.

I also reduced the charger to 12A to slow down the charging, and this might have helped.

So it’s either the temp or the charging speed that has helped a bit.

i guess I will be Able to collect more data over the next year.

 

Got Car Scanner and noticed it has a profile for Clarity, so do we need to use these dashboards?

That said, I tried my cheap reader (Kobra) - it’s a wifi one cause at the time I got it, only wifi ones would work with iPhones.

Don’t get a Buffer error but also not getting all the lines. Also, not getting the battery charge either. Any ideas?