May 25, 200916 yr 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
May 25, 200916 yr 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
June 2, 200916 yr 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
June 2, 200916 yr 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.
June 3, 200916 yr 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, 200916 yr by GeneralDisorder
June 4, 200916 yr Not if you put it on just the air/fan setting. Then you could run it off an inverter.
June 7, 200916 yr Just because it 1) pertains to this thread and 2) is funny... Everyone needs to watch this every now and then. Just because.
June 10, 200916 yr Electric turbocharger? In my opinion it's just a waste of money, a gimmick so to speak. Edited June 10, 200916 yr by Qman
June 11, 200916 yr 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
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