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2006-2008 Honda Civic HybridEL-1 Non-Programmable ChargerIMA Battery Pack Home/Work Charging System w/ IMA battery cooling fan control!** May help ELIMINATE OBD-II DiagnosticTrouble Codes: POA7F P1600 P1433****May help turn off your IMA light andallow ASSIST and REGEN****May help turn off RED battery trouble light and allow IMA battery tofeed power to your 12v battery again**Where can I find more information onyour products? MAXX VOLTS is on Facebook! Check it out.What is a MAXX VOLTS charging system and why to I need it?The unique high voltage charging system we offer has been designed to serve themarket of Honda owners who invested in Hybrid automobiles with the idea thatthe high MPG fuel efficiency of this 51mpg hwy rated vehicle (civic) would save a lot of money in fuel costs overtime. Whether you bought your Honda new or used, you probably realized as timepassed, or in case of buying a used one that the mpgs started to drop overtime. The car started charging itself more often which loads up the engine anddrags down fuel efficiency. TheNiMH battery packs in the Honda Insight Hybrid vehicles consist of 120-132individual battery cells robotically welded in series consisting of many sticksof welded batteries each. Through the battery pack, electricity travels end toend + to - until it runs through each of the 120-132 nickel metal hydridebattery cells where the total voltage ends up in the 144-190 volts rangedepending 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 thecharging and usage of this electricity but it the pack as a whole unit but doesnot have the capability to manage each individual of the 120-132 battery cellsindividually. Over time these batteries can become out of sync with one anotherwith slight voltage and internal resistance differences. This will reduce therange of effective useable area the IMA system has to operate in betweencharging and discharging (ASSIST) power. What our charging system will do is give the end user the ability to chargetheir IMA battery pack at home or the office via the standard USA 110v AC plugyou would have in your home. This ability to override the IMA system tellingthe vehicle when to start and stop charging the battery pack will allow you tofully charge the pack without the IMA computer playing referee. How will this home charging of the IMAbattery pack help me?Our home charging system will allow the end user not only to charge their pack,but also to BALANCE their NiMH Honda battery pack. In most cases this willeliminate the IMA light, the lack of the cars ability to assist and regeneratepower to the battery pack. It may help keep off IMA lights and may help you topass smog inspections.What is balancing a pack?The Maxx Volts Charger system allows you to charge your battery pack. This willallow the charger not only to fill, but also to soak charge the weaker cellswithin the pack. Balancing a pack is bringing all of the 120-132 individualcells within the same voltage as one another so that their charge and dischargeenergy levels are as close as possible to one another.How do I charge the weaker cells?Charging at a safe charging current (with our Maxx Volts Charger), until thestronger cells with the highest voltage reach capacity, they will transfer anyadditional energy into a few degrees of heat that is exhausted by our IMA fansupport, while the weaker, lower voltage cells "catch up" andcontinue rising in voltage.What trouble codes maythe MAXX VOLTS CHARGER help eliminate?P1447/P1449/P1600diagnostic trouble codes from the OBD II scan port are the typical codes thatour system may help to eliminate with MAXX VOLTS charging system. Each batteryhas a different history and condition however and you must to start with abattery that is salvageable and not beyond repair in order for the process tobe effective.How will I know when my battery is charged?Our Maxx Volts charger has a built in voltage and amperage current display. Wewill provide baseline figures for you to look out for and what to expect whenreaching a full charge. This information will be contained in theyear/make/model general use instructions we provide for your particular vehiclewithin your package.How often should I charge the pack?This will depend on a number of factors including theoverall condition of the pack, the climate and mileage, usage of the car andfactors such as the internal resistance of the cells., Our customers have usedour chargers anywhere from every few months to weekly as a maintenance chargerto keep the pack balanced.Why wouldn’tI just buy a new battery from Honda instead of the MAXX VOLTS charger?Honda doesn’t sell new hybrid batteries for any NiMH packs. Foran average of about $3200.00, they will sell you a “refurbished unit” andgladly take your existing pack to refurbish and sell to someone else. In theend you will be out the money spent and still have a used/refurb battery packthat usually continue to fail in a short amount of time. Panasonic made the originalhybrid batteries and they no longer make these cells so they are not availableas new. So for a fraction of that cost you can have a personalized MAXX VOLTScharger to command at your will to take a charge, balance the high end of yourbattery pack and potentially have a good working car again without the IMAlights and with improved MPGs again.There are more than one charger on themarket, how is yours different from the others?There are various chargers in the marketplace, but none as featurerich, available for purchase to the general public and proudly built in the USAclearly demonstrating our quality, attention to detail and how well thought outour systems are. Just like you, we actually own and drive these every day.We currently own 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Honda Civic Hybrids, 2001, 2003 HondaInsights, 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid, 2003, 2004, 2005 Honda Civic Hybrids atthis time. So what this means is that every unit built has been thoroughly FITand TESTED through quality control we can apply while fitting these systems toan actual car and not a "jig".There are a number of inferiorknockoff "chargers" around using cheap chinese Meanwell powersupplies or worse, however we have thoroughly tested those and they did not meet ourstringent quality standards. An overview the features and benefits of oursystem below will allow you to decide who is building a quality engineered andwell thought out unit at a reasonable price.SomeSpecifications on our EL-1 Maxx Volts Charger:v Built in DIGITAL LED VOLTMETER!- No guesswork or dangerous poking or prodding of high voltage electricalterminals with a crappy voltmeter to try and figure out the state of yourbattery charge/volts and is accurate up to 300 volts DC!vBuiltin DIGITAL CURRENT AMPERAGE METER!- Allows you to monitor/calculate the energy going into the pack and determine ifyou have successfully made the proper IMA+ and IMA- connections. Unlikeinferior competitor products, you can actually VERIFY that energy is making its way tothe IMA battery in real time and real mA measurements so you can calculate how much you have charged the IMA battery in amp-hours!vModularconstruction with CPC locking connectors.-The charger and the car's wiring harness uses professional grade connectionscomplete with locking connectors!-Clean installation, safe connectors with twist to lock function prevent pull out and wire strain.-There are NO high voltage wires hanging out of the charger unit to tangle ortrip over and no inferior 12v rated low quality connectors used to avoid arc and electrocution.vMaterialconstruction quality and engineering-Charger high voltage purpose usecables are rated for 600V and not some inferior and potentially dangerous 12vrated automotive/computer wire like others.-SOOW water and oil resistant commercial grade rubber insulated 600v certified wiring. Inferior knockoffs use thin pet sleeving that is supposed to protect high voltage? NO!-Maxx Volts chargers use 100%, 18 gauge copper strand wiring for ALL connections compared to inferior and less efficient 22ga 12v rated wiring used in knock off chargers.- Professional tool crimped tin coated brass male and female pins for a commercial duty quality connections. Inferior knockoffs use 12v rated 4 pin cheap radioshack connector, pet sleeve and computer wires. Have some dignity, don't buy junk.-Connections are SOLDERED, custom printed with wire connection markings, heatshrunkand many connections potted for electrical connection protection. Inferior knockoff chargers use 12v rated automotive crimps. Don't sell yourself short. Look at our attached pics for our connections!-MAXX VOLTS charger power cables from car to charger are CPC male twist andlock connection. No loose wiring and pet sleeving and a securely and surely lockingconnection that won't pull out. Inferior chargers do not use quality connections.-Strain relief plug ends protects wiresfrom bending, wearing out and pulling out of harness cable.-Brand new power supply cases designedfor ventilation and cooling.-Slow blow arc quenching high voltagefuse at battery connection unlike knock of chargers that do not even use a fuse at the IMA battery! BEWARE! DANGER!-Internal power supply fuseProprietaryIMA control system custom engineered PCB circuit BUILT-IN! -Due to the superior design, constructionour custom pcb is built internally into our charging system so that you DO NOTHAVE TO CUT ANY WIRES! Unlike inferior knock off chargers which use a PCB tohack into the vehicles factory wiring and cause irreversible damage to thestock IMA fan wiring, our proprietary patent pending design allows ourminimally invasive wiring to be installed without hacking up or cutting yourfactory wiring. Fastestand easiest installation of any IMA battery grid charging system-Due to the superior design, constructionand components our IMA battery grid charging system is the fastest and easiestsystem to install in the marketplace!-built in quiet non-led cooling fanDOUBLE THEWARRANTY OF THE COMPETITION’S KNOCK OFF CHARGER!-Due to the superior design, constructionand components our system employs in its patent pending designs, we are areable to offer 2 x the warranty coverage of other knock off “chargers”.Significantimprovements have been obtained with nearly every NiMH Honda Hybrid battery wehave tested and reconditioned but YMMV. You must have a recoverable IMA batteryin order to fully benefit from any grid charger’s use. The majority of our customers also reportsignificant improvements when using our charger. Most clients have acheck engine light before buying a our charger. With regular gridcharging, the check engine light can normally be eliminated and battery lifesignificantly extended. Some have extended their battery lifewell over a year or more by using the grid charger. Unfortunately, in any one specific case, it is notpossible to say for sure how much the charger will help. The amount ofimprovement depends on the condition of your existing battery packitself. If the cause of the problem is a major physical failure such andinternal short or high internalresistance, the charger cannot help, those failed battery sticks must bereplaced. If the problem is the more common nickel metal hydride battery packimbalance, then our charger is designed to alleviate those issues. We makeno guarantees that this product or any external charging system will fix yourIMA battery, however more often than not, the charging and balancing of an IMAbattery will alleviate many common symptoms of an out of balance hybridbattery.Under the worst case scenario if you had to replaceyour hybrid battery, our grid charger is still an imperative maintenancetool as it can prevent the new hybrid pack from prematurely deteriorating andbecoming imbalanced. Those who have chosen to replace their IMA batteryhave benefitted from the use of our systems to virtually eliminate theimbalance problem helps contribute to IMA lights and premature batteryfailures.Second Generation Honda Civic Hybrid 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 IMA Battery Pack Charging SystemTheMAXXVOLTSchargingsystem pictured above will include the battery wiring harness for one vehiclemake/model complete with reverse polarity protection, 9 pin male modular 600v prowiring harness from charger to IMA battery, the charger itself with built in cooling fan, the built in volt andamperage meter ( meter supports 0-999ma), 110v power cord to wall outlet,manual override power switch. This model is not programmable. Compatible with Maxx Volts Pro dischargers.(AFTER CHECK OUT, PLEASE MESSAGE US YOURYEAR/MAKE/MODEL HONDA SO WE CAN BE SURE YOU RECEIVE THE APPROPRIATE WIRINGHARNESS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR VEHICLE.)