arniejay Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 anybody have any luck with these? the electric turbo charger, it sounds to me like it does the same thing a regular turbo does, but kinda chincey, but im kinda thinking about buyiing one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralDisorder Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Maybe if you had 220v and an electric motor that could do 80,000 RPM. Otherwise no. It's a gimmick. It won't do anything. GD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepylegacy Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Garbage not worth the time nor money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbone Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 anybody have any luck with these? the electric turbo charger, it sounds to me like it does the same thing a regular turbo does, but kinda chincey, but im kinda thinking about buyiing one If your thinking of throwing your money away, I could put it to better use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine73 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 If you're talking about those little squirrel cage motors on ebay forget it. Those things probably can't even flow the CFM the engine needs under full throttle to begin with much less give any 'boost'. Just consider the power required to give say 14 psi boost at 350CFM, this is much more than some little gadget can make. Even a 220V garage air compressor might have trouble keeping up. Now I have seen an 'electric supercharger' setup that did give that kind of boost, but it could only do it for a couple minutes at a time I think it was and it was large heavy and had several batteries associated with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralDisorder Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 (edited) Just consider the power required to give say 14 psi boost at 350CFM, this is much more than some little gadget can make. Even a 220V garage air compressor might have trouble keeping up. An understatement to be sure! I build compressors and compressed air packages and the rule is that you get about 4 CFM per 1 HP of electric motor @ 100 psi. Most "garage" air compressors are woefully inadequate for anything but infating tires IMO but that's beside the point..... To flow 350 CFM at 12 psi from lets say a Roots style blower you would need an electric motor putting out around 40 HP at 1800 RPM. 40 HP is getting really big to be running even on 230v three phase, and single phase? Forget it - the largest commonly availible single phase 230v motor's are 7.5 and 10 HP. Anything bigger and you are in the realm of three phase power. For reference, most 230v "garage" compressors (home depot, sears, etc) put out less than 10 CFM @ 100 psi. Even my 5 HP Quincy QR-325 only puts out about 22 CFM and it's a full industrial machine costing around $4,000 retail. That's about the most you are ever going to see in someone's garage. At work we have a sandblast cabinet that USES 45 CFM for it's nozzle! I couldn't come close to running that in my garage even with a 10 HP machine. I would need two 10 HP machines and about a 200 gallon receiver. That's a lot of juice to be sucking from a residential drop. Blowers are cool, but best left to crank driven or exhaust driven (turbines). Besides - installing a REAL exhaust driven turbo isn't that difficult. GD Edited June 3, 2009 by GeneralDisorder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschool Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Buy yourself a hair dryer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niku-Sama Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 but then it'll blow hot air in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine73 Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Not if you put it on just the air/fan setting. Then you could run it off an inverter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ever Victorious Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Just because it 1) pertains to this thread and 2) is funny... Everyone needs to watch this every now and then. Just because. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomatt12 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 (edited) Electric turbocharger? In my opinion it's just a waste of money, a gimmick so to speak. Edited June 10, 2009 by Qman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brat the wagon Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 one time i put an a electric leaf blower on a 4.3 s-10 engine with a power inverter and it gave it some real power Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo'J Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 You did not!!!!:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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