Don't berate me yet as most of us know that the electric S/C's that we have seen advertised so far are a waste of space, but this seems to be a different concept and I presume would work.
http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1024 ... ne-engines
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Electric S/C
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Re: Electric S/C
I have seen a working electric supercharger but it had what can best be described as 4 starter motors running it.
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Re: Electric S/C
It's neat.
The idea isn't so much to make a more efficient supercharger (quite the opposite; this is clearly less efficient on full boost than the equivalent mechanical one); rather it is to use variable throttle angle/rpm/boost maps to fill out the torque curve of the engine to make it more versatile - encouraging low throttle/low RPM use for efficient driving (classic long stroke torquey engine) whilst still delivering power at high RPM.
Interestingly the SRM (switched reluctance motor) that they use ought to be reversible - haven't yet decided whether that could be used for any advantage or not.
Cheers,
Robin
The idea isn't so much to make a more efficient supercharger (quite the opposite; this is clearly less efficient on full boost than the equivalent mechanical one); rather it is to use variable throttle angle/rpm/boost maps to fill out the torque curve of the engine to make it more versatile - encouraging low throttle/low RPM use for efficient driving (classic long stroke torquey engine) whilst still delivering power at high RPM.
Interestingly the SRM (switched reluctance motor) that they use ought to be reversible - haven't yet decided whether that could be used for any advantage or not.
Cheers,
Robin
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Re: Electric S/C
No price though Robin, which would probably be the clincher.
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