Re: Electric Demand Charger

[steveb@falcon.kla-tencor.com (Steven Buchholz)]

> 
> FWIW, they have a corporate web page at http://www.turbodyne.com
> 
> It doesn't have a lot of product information, but it's a starting
> contact point.
> 
... interesting!  Now that you mention the name of the company, these
guys also had a product that was supposed to help reduce turbo lag as
well ... it was an electric motor that attached to the compressor wheel
and had an overrun clutch so that exhaust could spin the turbo as well.

It seems as though these guys are targeting this product at large 
diesel engines primarily ... and it is fairly pricey.  I'd think 
that $1800 would buy you a whole bunch more with another approach.  
You could probably get a belt driven supercharger and have enough
left over for nitrous with that!  ;-) Now, my engineering degree is
in a field totally unrelated to this one, so I'd appreciate hearing
the options, pros & cons, etc on this ...

Steve

Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com
San Jose, CA (USA)