In short, hydrogen does help your fuel burn cleaner and more efficiently.
HOWEVER! (you knew that was coming didn't you?) > Did you see that red gunk he poured out onto the ground? Yeah - that's in your engine too. Much smaller amount, Dose it do harm? I don't know for sure.
> The saving really isn't that big. Note he stated he now gets "100% Burn". I don't believe even today's cars will get 100% burn. You can't get "more" energy with "Less" fuel. energy exchange is 1 to 1. The best you can hope for is to squeeze a bit more efficiency out of the burn than what you are getting now. But I don't believe even then it would reach 100%.
> This was considered a "scam" back in 2005/6 when fuel spiked to $5/gal. We even had people trying to sell them to bus converters. What they did at that time was bloat the "bad numbers" because they assumed no one would run test before installing the system and only run test after installing the system. Therefore the "good numbers" appeared to be much better than they actually are becasue you will be comparing to their own "bad numbers". For example in the video he states that you loose 70% out your tail pipe. Not entirely True. Here is a simple chart.
> This is assuming a 100% burn. The loss you have in the Coolant and friction is going to remain about the same. The Effective power will increase a bit and the exhaust will decrease a bit. So if they state you are going from a 70% lose in exhaust to a 30% loss (not including the friction and coolant after the install) that sounds a lot better does it not? When actually you might be going from 40% to 30% loss.
So it boils down to how much "inconvenience" you want to deal with, notice he never stated how often you must change that water, I think you need to change it after about every 25 - 30 miles on that small of a system. something like that. It's H2O 2 Hydrogen and 1 oxygen so 2/3rd of those little jars is what you will get out (and even that is not 100%).
I know of 2 people that did it and swore by it back when they first became popular. As time went on they stopped using it because of the hassle of changing water and then later admitted it didn't really give them that much savings.
> Lastly, this system is connected to your Cars battery. Distilled water is non-conductive which is why they add the soda. If your water is too dirty it will produce the H2 way to fast and draw a lot of current on your battery. I am assuming they are using the distilled and soda as a means to control this. In either case this produces an additional draw on your battery - therefor causing your alternator to work harder and thus require more fuel to keep the voltage up. Something they fail to mention. This of course is taken away from what you might have saved in fuel. The savings barley compensates for this.
My two cents.
Last Edit: Jun 24, 2016 16:38:33 GMT -5 by BeeAmaker
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One more thing I forgot to mention, the Hydro burns your fuel hotter. Some engines may not be able to handle the added heat and will eventually (could) burn pits in you piston heads. Not to mention your coolant efficiency will go down as the heat goes up.
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Post by jimustanguitar on Jun 26, 2016 23:15:28 GMT -5
I made one back in the day. Didn't notice any real gain, but supposedly it was because I was doing it on a fuel injected engine that had an oxygen sensor. It would add more fuel to the mix instead of letting it run lean.
Tried making a bigger one to run a lawnmower engine on after that, and never had much luck. Supposedly it burns so quickly that you have to adjust your spark timing to almost TDC. I moved the magneto bracket on my briggs motor to advance the timing, but it just didn't work out and I gave up trying.
Water can definitely be used as a fuel, and the hydroxy gas that comes off of it definitely burns, but I think that you lose too much energy with the inefficiency of a standard alterntor. Converting the molecular power of the water takes more juice than you can regain because of all of the electrical conversion losses.
Look up Stan Meyer. He's the guy who patented the concept, supposedly rad a dune buggy completely on water, and then died mysteriously sparking lots of conspiracy theories. His system was some kind of a resonator, whether mechanical or electrical nobody has been able to deduce, but it made the system efficient enough to work.
