Thread: Anyone heard of the Electrocharger?

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If ya' daisy chain several of these thangs together... can you multiply the systems performance numberz;?

I'm still hangin' onto the "Time Travel Theory" conceived in the LOX thread. He HE

Until they provide data and documented performance results rather than "Claims" I have ta' add them to the "If it's too good to be true it probably is" file.

Hotrodgirl,

I love to look at new technology also. There are some great things coming out of the minds of folks everyday. But don’t let someone with technical knowledge, yet lacking scruples, impress you too much with “technical theory” for claims that can’t really hold up in the real world. Keep your wallet in your pocket for just a minute.

I don’t know enough about electrical technology to have an “educated” conversation about this device's technology, but I know enough “country boy horse sense” to doubt the claims made on their website.

Please help me through their claim for cutting 3 seconds off the quarter mile time of a stock vehicle. Take any factory vehicle that is capable of running a 15 second quarter mile. How much more horsepower would it take to get this car to run a 12 second quarter?

But before you figure that out, look at a “fact” stated about this device. From their website - “The ELECTROCHARGERTM is powered by a Super Capacitor Battery Pack (SCBP) that is located in the trunk of the vehicle which provides 48 volts and 600 amps of juice to the motor instantly on demand.”

Isn’t 1 horsepower = volts x amps / 745? At 100% efficiency, this device would provide a whopping 38 horsepower boost!!! Sorry, but this isn’t going to pick you up 3 seconds in a quarter mile….

Listen, I’ve made enough “bone headed” purchases in my life to have a masters degree in the subject This sure looks like a product that will not provide the promised result.

Dan J

OKAY Streets...
If it wasn't for EE you wouldn't be typing on that PC.... and it would be pretty difficult to have a cool forum like this if you were sending your replys through the US Postal Service.

I agree.... I am not saying that I am going to jump out and purchase one tomorrow(because I already own the company).... but dang.... if it is what they say it is(and we know it is not)..."anyone here that goes to SEMA and might check it out in real life?"....
I am just too openminded to just say it cannot work(even though I own the company).... I think It might not, but I'll try to sell it anyway....

Originally posted by Streets
Hey Prozee... I think HRG has a monetary vested interest in this company huh. Whattcha think BRO??)[/size][/color] Do Electrical Engineers DRIVE Electric trains?? America wants to know!!
LOX wuz good too...

Yea.... sounds like a ringer.... Not makin' any claims here ya' understand, but ya' gotta wonder.
And ....... I think LOX goes with anything.... Look what it did for bagels. He He

Oh, and Streets... don't mean to sidetrack anybody cuz' i like this type of thread, but can I move to NY? I just now got my 2004 Property tax and they nicked me for an additional $692.00 this year. Over 70% of the bill goes to paying school tax to cover the cost of the new school they built. The area is becoming a bedroom community with new subdivisions going up all over the place. The city fathers apparently don't have the foresight to also bring in businesses for a tax base.

Hey, I don't have money burning in my pocket and running out swiping my card at the next new gadget. I haven't purchased one of these but very interested in the technology because Electrically it makes a lot of sense.
It isn't about HP...it's about torque...Torque is what launches your car and gets it off the line. The more torque you have the harder the car launches. HP is for your speed at the end.

Originally posted by hotrodgirl
It isn't about HP...it's about torque...Torque is what launches your car and gets it off the line. The more torque you have the harder the car launches. HP is for your speed at the end.

Hotrodgirl, I’m not picking on you and I think you’re enjoying the conversation too. BUT, you’ve got to use some common sense here. Beware of someone that makes claims that can’t be true!

By the way, horsepower and torque are related. The computation is Torque = 5252 x HP / RPM.

I’m just trying to get you to realize that the amount of “Power” that it would take to pick up 3 seconds in a quarter mile pass will be substantially more that what this device provides.

Dan J

Originally posted by hotrodgirl
Hey, I don't have money burning in my pocket and running out swiping my card at the next new gadget. I haven't purchased one of these but very interested in the technology because Electrically it makes a lot of sense.
It isn't about HP...it's about torque...Torque is what launches your car and gets it off the line. The more torque you have the harder the car launches. HP is for your speed at the end.

I just find it hard to believe that this electric motor can provide a sufficient amount of torque to the crank shaft to produce the claims made in the article. Aren't most Electric over Gas vehicles an either or set-up. That is one or the other is running but not both at the same time? Seems to me the faster the electric motor runs the less torque it would provide to the gas motor? In the "Hybrid" cars the electric side is only used to cruise and the gas does the "Power" work like acceleration? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Pro, this thing looks like it's providing all of the boost in horespower through the belt drive to the crankshaft pulley. I'm just not seeing anything in this device's setup that will reliably produce the power they are claiming... if it will make much "real" power at all. Maybe they've just taken the liberty of embellishing the facts in their advertising, but I'd be afraid of ANY of their claims at this point!

Dan J

Well, Dan maybe you are right. I am not saying that they have all the answers. But it says that this was developed with Texas A+M University. Are you contradicting them? It would seem that it would substantiate many of their claims having had a disinterested University doing their testing. I really don't know how that works....but just made sense since they are independent. A+M wouldn't make up test results...why would they? They are legit.

Okay guys,

You don't think it's a little suspicious that HOTRODGIRL just came to the Forum 'TODAY' and has never done a sign on greeting and is from Texas as was AUTODESCOM and is tauting this miracle performance tool. Moderator Help.

Hmmm now just how much hp can we transfer through this little belt, 100, 200 more ?

Wonder if our sister site Club Golf Club could use em on there golf carts I can hear the ricers now talking sh!t about their 6sec hondas, "uh can't race RIGHT now, gotta charge my dohicky in the trunk overnight"

Originally posted by Streets
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[font=lucida sans][color=purple]SURE BRO. comeondown, the water iz fine... and you wouldn't wanna pay my property taxes either.. $692. is what I would WISH I had for an increase.. them peeps think because I have it.. that they should get it too..

Ohhh...aaa.... Well maybe I'll stay where I iz' then. We are in yr. 3 of a 5 yr. de-evaluation of the neighborhood Nuclear plant. They are gettin' outta' payin' big taxes and we are pickin' up the slack. So, we'll be gettin' these increases for a couple more years unless I die first.