its been forever.
i still have that system. my chips were from power-one. they were 0-25 amp, 0.77-5.5DCV analog point of load converters.
they worked excellent on my car. i got an extra 100 miles per fuel tank.
now, i DO NOT KNOW FOR 150% certain if they raised the efficiency of my cells, but it sure seemed to increase gas output. my cells were running around 2.7DCV @ 20-25 amps each and only drawing 15-20 amps from the vehicle. i no longer have the mercedes.
however, i never had a good enough dry cell to really test out, my homemade cells were inadequate. they were the yt- something series. the closest ones i could find on the website, are. i dont think these are regularlly sold to the public. i dont know. i went straight to the source.
i called the president of the local distributorship, told him how and why it works and how it was a very promising technology. he sent me five chips to beta test. i still have four of them. two are soldered to a chip in a failed attempt to put them both on a smaller board, and two are still bolted to my HHO generator box.
the only reason i stopped tinkering with HHO is that it is far easier and simpler to achieve improved fuel milage of this magnitude (read: small) by any number of means.
shutting off your alternator when the battery is fully charged and running a dual battery setup with small solar trickle charger.
or superhumid air injection.
or water-methanol injection.
or, just about anything, like removing weight.
HHO cells are a pain in the ass. now granted, i was using lowes-sourced parts that would quite obviously fail prematurely when exposed to the heat and extreme alkaline environment, but still. if i would have gotten some good cells, it would have stayed on my car until i got rid of it.
these chips were increddible! on-the-fly, dial in your cells and monitor them closely. i had three ammeters installed- one- overall system consumption, and one per cell. i had emergency shutdown switches, fuses with indictators, thermal circuit breakers, etc. i could monitor and adjust the cells while driving from my handheld master control box.
bottom line- adding a 15-20A load to my car's alternator was still showing slight but noticable gains in fuel economy.Statistics: Posted by resident_genius — Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:21 am
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