#254 - 20101124 - Batt-Cell with B&S run time tests part 3 of 3

REAL PROOF OF NET GAINS! This is the video evidence people will be talking about. I know I will! Tests with the Briggs & Stratton run time test stand with the new higher efficiency Batt-Cell. These are video highlights taken directly from my live Justin.tv broadcasts.

There have been a lot of good questions in the comments section. I will attempt to address some of them here.

I did test with several load conditions as well. Just didn't put that in this video. All the data will be presented at http://alt-nrg.org/ when I have it compiled. In a nutshell, I tested with no load, 1/3HP and 2/3HP passive load. Each of these conditions was tested with no HHO, 335ml/min HHO (5A or 1/6HP) and 670ml/min HHO (10A or 1/3HP). IN ALL CASES I RECORDED THE SAME NET GAINS. I too expected it would roll off under load but it did not. ROI was LINEAR ACROSS THE BOARD! You get back what you put in. Period.

When I went to 20A (1.3LPM) it was too much HHO for an unmodified system without retarded timing (My apologies to Massachusetts residents in whose state it is now illegal to use the term retarded. DEAL WITH IT). With this much HHO it becomes the fuel rather than a catalyst for the gasoline, detonating too far in advance and actually causing a loss of efficiency.

This is NOT OVER UNITY! Mixing HHO with the gasoline acts as a catalyst to make the gasoline burn more completely INSIDE the combustion chamber where it can do work against the piston rather than burning slowly out the exhaust where all that energy is lost as heat. We're not creating energy. We're simply recapturing lost energy. But the ROI is greater than 2:1 and that is exciting!

The thing to remember is efficiency counts. Low efficiency cells will clean the exhaust (I did smell the difference) but the energy equation is still negative. You need an efficient cell to get over the hump. Trouble is cats are maintenance free. Controllers like the Sq1 SIC will go a LONG way toward making HHO as maintenance free as it can possibly be.