Making CAN View Earn its Keep

Right up front, let me be clear -- I don't have any under the table (or over the table for that matter) deal set up with Norm. A bit over a month ago, I installed my CAN View V3 in my 04 Prius. This car is, as most of you well know, already a gadget freak's dream. CV just takes the ecstacy to a higher plane. Well done Norm; this is a really nice product!

As I've learned the system and how to work with it, I quickly realized that there are some choices to be made. The three pages of graphics screens, as well as the text info, offer more than one can digest while driving down the road. This realization (which didn't take long...), led to the next question: what's the "best" setup for maximizing FE? This is my current "primary display" which I now use in place of the standard Toyota screens:


There are two more pages, four parameters each, all selectable from the available list.

Having rpm there remedies Toyota's glaring omission of a tach in this car. It also makes it much easier to set limits on engine speed, which seems to have a great positive effect on FE. Keeping it under 2500 rpms as much as you can seems to be very effective.

Coolant temp, in addition to the obvious "engine safety" value, seems to help with predicting how inclined the car will be to stay in stealth mode.

mpg? Not sure if this is very helpful. It's an instant value, and moves a lot, of course. Having the tach probably provides much of the same benefit as this datum.

Instant charge is great for observing that "stay out of the battery" rule for maximizing FE.

The graphic screens also provide a horizontal "bar graph" readout of throttle position, which I penned in in the picture, lower left. This display is great for manipulating stealth mode as it usually turns from green to yellow right before the ICE fires up. See yellow, ease off a tad, keep it in stealth a tad longer. Good feature you can see in peripheral vision.

Other parameters that can be displayed are: Volts, Amps, SoC, VVTi position, Battery Temp, Fuel Flow, Fuel Inj pulse measurements, Throttle Pos, Brake pos, ICE MG and wheel hp estimates, rpms for the MGs.

Does anyone have any ideas for better use of my "primary display"? I'm still experimenting with combinations of displays and if I can find a more sensible or effective set of parameters, that would be great.

Apologies for the long-winded post...