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[HUBBA.HUBBA]

Anybody got any experience with them?

[ANON]

oh please don't tell me you're on about the cheapy ones on ebay?

[mini-luke]

Might as well paint your rocker cover red, it'll have more effect.

[Daviewonder]

Treat yourself to one of these and lay it in your engine bay. It would have about the same effect.

[holmesy]

has anyone actually tested them?

[HUBBA.HUBBA]

I was actually thinking of designing one. I thought I had invented the idea until did a search in google. I like the idea of taking the load away from the engine and using a battery.
Is there a relationship there between electric super chargers and KERS.
There must be a way having one that works better than the ebay 5% extra hp corsa specials

[mini-luke]

You can't get anything for nothing. No electric motor is capable of turning a fan fast enough and with enough torque to be anything other than a hindrance to air flow. Even if you could, there would be no way the alternator could keep up.

[Alex_B]

There are a couple of company's looking into electric turbos I believe so that the turbo is always spinning so less spool up time and therefore less lag but havn't looked into electric superchargers

[HUBBA.HUBBA]

Treat yourself to one of these and lay it in your engine bay. It would have about the same effect.

Reminds me of when my mate stuck a hair dryer on the air filter intake on his clubman 20 odd yrs ago. We're sure it went faster.

[TopCatCustom]

If it's powered by electricity then there wouldn't be any difference between an electric supercharger and an electric supercharger.

And I'm sure one day they will work, you don't expect to get any power for free, it will load the alternator more and cause a loss of power through that respect, but proper super/turbochargers use a stupid amount of energy to spool them up anyway!

I'm sure one day someone said "there's no way you could have an electric power steering pump as it would draw way too much current..." and now most new cars have them!

[Mini 360]

[civ99]

HAHAHAHA!!!

[Daviewonder]

If it's powered by electricity then there wouldn't be any difference between an electric supercharger and an electric supercharger.

[mini-luke]

If it's powered by electricity then there wouldn't be any difference between an electric supercharger and an electric supercharger.

There also isn't any difference between snake oil and snake oil!

There would be no point in making an electric supercharger, as it would be very inefficient to convert the rotational movement of the engine to electricity and back to rotational movement when just turning the turbine with the engine would be significantly more energy efficient.

[holmesy]

unless you can find one that has a faster gas flow rate than the current normal aspiration then it is pointless, there have been a few guys over the years that have tried this and have succeeded but they had to use 2-3 motors and even more batteries and the alternator will not be capable of charging the batteries fast enough.