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Old 07-21-2008, 09:43 AM
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I am using one of the home made generators to make browns gas. It has been about a year of tinkering when the mood struck me but mainly my fathers project and now have 2 vehicles using it. Main use is on a 2006 Saturn Vue,4 banger with full factory computer controls and got 26.4 MPG to start with. Best mileage average to date is 34.8 MPG. Second is a 35 foot RV with a TB injected Ford 460. It started with 8 to 9.5 MPG on its best days. The RV is very early on install but looks to be about 2 MPH improvement as a start but think much more is on the table.

Internet design package was 300 bucks, about another 200 bucks in .... (down revision stuff or parts and pieces that have been shelfed). The total cost of parts to build just the Saturn's working model alone is about 150 bucks, but thats $650 to date. It does work or to an improvement of 20 to maybe 30% in MPG. That is on a Saturn 4 door wagon that is not a gas hog to start with. The 1995 Ford 460 is the one with lots of room to improve on. Getting miles driven to test and tweak is turning out to be a slow road.

All the stuff above has been my Dads work product but I plan on stealing some of his experience to build a generator to simply improve the pump gas quality. I want to add Browns Gas to a high compression, high HP engine simply to improve effective octane. Improving octane is maybe not an accurate term. I mean take advantage of cooler fuel charge or more density with reduction of pinging and so on.

Total size is a quart size jar with some wires and electronics and some rubber tubing. The amperage draw to run the generator in early designs was pretty high at about 40 amps. Now have amp draw down to about 20 amps at full browns gas production. It consumes distilled water with baking soda at a rate of about 9 spoons of mixture per 20 gallons of gas.

If Uncle Sam figures out how to tax water you will see this taken to a new level, not backyard hackers like my dad and others. Adding browns gas to pump gas is easy and does not have all the down side of trying to run high levels, high pressure or full hydrogen systems. At high levels the byproduct kills engines without a lot of modification but low levels the product/ byproduct is what works, hydrogen - 02 - condensate or water.
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