WHICH CARS HYDROGEN BOOSTING WORKS ON
It has baffled me that hydrogen boosting works on some cars but not on others. Also baffling is the valid argument concerning
the physics of it that the hydrogen can't supply any more energy for combustion than the energy the engine expended to turn
the alternator to produce the electricity for the hydrolyser to produce the hydroxy. I think I have the answer. There are at
least two ways to regulate a cars alternator. One way causes more engine load with more electric current usage, and the other
way does not. It's the old fashioned alternator that is the latter. They are a constant heavy load on the engine no matter
what the current usage. When usage is light (no stereo or headlights on) there is a switch in them that allows the excess
electric current to go to ground (the chassis) through a resistor. So if a 20 amp hydrolyser was running then that switch may
be off so that the current goes to the hydrolyser instead of ground. So the engine wouldn't feel the difference as far as
whether or not a hydrolyser is connected. It would only get the benefit of the hydrogen as a combustion enhancer.
I'm pretty sure the more
modern alternators change the resistance between the alternator output and the car stuff that wants to use
the electricity. That way the engine load from the alternator is proportional to the electric current usage. So the
alternator is a light load on the engine when there is little electric current usage and so the car can get better gas
mileage because the engine expends less energy to turn the alternator. So if a 20 amp hydrolyser was running then the engine
load from the alternator increases and there is no excess power from the engine for the drive shaft. The extra energy from
the hydrogen combustion is expended by the engine in turning the alternator which is harder to turn under a heavy electrical load.
My car is an '85 and it has the newer type alternator. I know that because in drive at idle the engine rpm will decrease when
I turn the headlights on. Probably a high torque engine will not lose much rpm's though with this test. But it may be a
valid test for all cars with small engines. So if your car loses rpm's when you turn on the headlights then I doubt it will
get any gains from hydrogen boosting. You would have to lean down the amount of fuel used and add a hydrogen booster if you
leaned it down more than 50%.