Interesting idea..
I understand where you are coming from... I see it as a NOS like device. Where you add boost ONLY when you want. 98% of the time it would not be used. If it was hooked up to a LI battery, like a jump starter battery, (lots of current flow for a short amount of time, but a lot of time between to recharge the batteries) the batteries could be recharged with a low current source.I see ZERO advantage, and what you have essentially done here is turn the exhaust powered turbo into a belt drive blower, just like a paxton. WHY? Because the ALTERNATOR is belt drive and it now has to supply the power to spool up the supercharger. And it takes a LOT of power to run a blower.
I missed that... I guess it comes with its own battery bank and charger. Now it is getting interesting!Thing will boost for 4 min, vid says.
Yeah, for 2500...lol it f'n better!I missed that... I guess it comes with its own battery bank and charger. Now it is getting interesting!
I looked at their website and looked around. They use a 7HP motor to run the turbo.
Mad Max called and he wants his Switchable Blower idea back.
LOLOL so my initial guess about a 300A alternator was a little "small
Supercapacitors. Charge up fast, discharge all they got over about a 30 second span into a 12v device with huge amps. Trouble is pumping a constant 9psi into a running vacuum (motor) take a grip of power in itself. There is no free ride. Dont know why they dont just inject compressed air out of a tank instead of having the motor draw it in. Instant power, supercharger like response with no parasitic moving parts. Its called CAS, compressed air supercharging and it isnt 'new'. 850 HP on 10 psi on 91 octane. Whats on the lift at 1:59?I saw that Roadkill episode, too funny!
I'm thinking LI batteries to power the turbo. only need it rarely and for relatively short bursts, batteries kept fully charged all the time with a 12 V LI charger tied to the car battery.
Supercapacitors. Charge up fast, discharge all they got over about a 30 second span into a 12v device with huge amps. Trouble is pumping a constant 9psi into a running vacuum (motor) take a grip of power in itself. There is no free ride. Dont know why they dont just inject compressed air out of a tank instead of having the motor draw it in. Instant power, supercharger like response with no parasitic moving parts. Its called CAS, compressed air supercharging and it isnt 'new'. 850 HP on 10 psi on 91 octane. Whats on the lift at 1:59?
I gotta laugh;
About a year ago, I bought a 2014 Chev Orlando; basically, a high roof wagon. It comes with a Direct-injected. variable valve timing, 2.4 EFI, 167hp@6700 4banger, and a close-ratio 6-speed auto with loc-up; all in a 3600 pound chassis. It motors pretty good on the base cam timing, and at 4500 the VVT cuts in, and then hang on; well in second gear hang on anyway. For downshifting and passing at 55mph, it makes a good effort but you know.... it's still just a 2.4 liter.
Thing is; if you pulled that fancy-smanchy power unit out of there, and all the support works, and dropped a 5.2 Magnum/A500/3.91s, into the hole, the only thing you'd lose is the 32mpg; but you'd gain so much more, in power,torque,reliability, etc.
The point is that for all the technology the manufacture's have brought to the table, since the 70s, in order to use these tiny engines, the only desireable thing we the people get out of it, is a few more mpgs, and 7 friggen airbags. But all the money we save at the pumps, gets used along the way in maintenance and complicated expensive repairs; whereas the Teener-TF is about as stone-anvil reliable as it gets. I'd prefer the meager 20/25 mpgs and drive it forever character, of the ancient power-unit. And you can keep yur stinking traction control, yur stinking ABS, yur stinking 7 airbags, yur DI-VVT,yur plastic engine cover designed to lull yur brain into thinking there is so much more under the hood than the stinking 4 pot pos that was in your 1984 Hyundai-Pony, and I'll even accept a carburetor. And that Magnum, to make 167hp, now at half the rpm, don't need no stinking turbo, no super, no hi-test, no nuttin-honey,
and especially not no electric scroll-fan;
just drive it.