A Continuation Of Hydrogen On Demand

The next part of the system which will be essential to keep any gains that you have received from your Hydrogen Booster should include at least an EFIE. What many companies that sell you a Hydrogen Generator or Booster don't normally tell you is that the generator is only the first step to a system, one that definitely requires you to fiddle around with the car's oxygen sensors. The reason for that is that the closest sensor to the catalytic converter ( the inlet) reports live data on the air/fuel ratio to the car's powertrain control module. For this last, read the car's onboard computer as the same as the powertrain control module. And the computer is not our friend when it comes to trying to gain more mpg than the usual factory established points. Any gains that you will achieve from the first day or so of a working Hydrogen Generator will be swiftly removed once the oxygen sensor reports the cleaner air in the exhaust area. The computer will add a more rich air/fuel ratio to compensate and you will loose all the gains.   Is all lost?   Nope.   Read on.

The EFIE ( Electronic Fuel Injection Enhancement) is a simple device that allows you to alter the return signal of your oxygen sensor so that the signal can be received by the car's computer and used to change the air to fuel ratio beyond the normal factory established set points. Normally these set points are in a range from the leanest (14.7 to 1) to the richest, ( 7 to 1) When leaning you will be instructed by the EFIE installation information to use only slight increments of the signal to see how your car/truck handles the leaner air to fuel ratio. This is not the only time when you should err on the side of caution when working with these products. Please remember that all of these electronic devices are experimental to a certain degree.

To monitor and set the new way points that is,  for your EFIE to work for you ,  you need a way to read the data coming from your ECU ( your car's computer). One of the best ways to do that is by a Scan-Gauge. You can find more detailed information about Scan Gauges from their website, www. Scan-Gauge.com.  This gauge can give you much good data about your car's performance.  Although if you are not a mechanic, some of it might be beyond your use and only be of interest to a mechanic but the important figures for us are the data stored in the Scan Gauge under the category  called,"Trip."  The following system information is found under the Trip Section of the gauge.

* Maximum Speed

* Average Speed

* Maximum Coolant Temperature

* Maximum RPM

* Driving Time

* Driving Distance

* Fuel Used

* Trip Fuel Economy (mpg)

* Distance to Empty

* Time to Empty

* Fuel to Empty

I am not sure whether you can pick up O2 sensor data directly from the scan gage. But you certainly can see miles per gallon displayed and given that you have first set up your gasoline tank data in gallons ( that is the number of gallons that your car's tank holds) you can display miles until next fill up and other data. You also get a continuous readout of miles per gallon. You can see the differences of speeding up to overtake a slower car and also the benefits of cruise
control on miles per gallon.

Speaking for a moment about tuning and control of the EFIE, I think that the basic EFIE's are more difficult to tune and control to set the way points. At least for me they were. The single and dual EFIE's that are hard case finished and use dials and ports for the probes of the millivoltmeters are easier to tune and establish your set points below 14.7 to 1 .You can find more information about EFIE's at this website. www.fuelsavers-mpg.com Tuning should be done with small incremental moves of the dials. The results show up quickly on the millivoltmeter and then the scan gage. One of the EFIE's that I have seen and liked featured two dials, both reading from the one oxygen sensor closest to the inlet of the catalytic converter but one dial labeled, In-Town and the other Highway. The way points had been established for each of the types of driving conditions. Neat huh? There is a lot that you can do with the EFIE and many persons just use the EFIE along with their Hydrogen Generator.

The bottom line here is that you can choose to add more miles per gallon by investing a little sweat and time and of course cash in alternative fuels. The important thing for me is that I am not just sitting and allowing the outrageous prices of gasoline to leave me car at home and walk. By extending my miles per gallon beyond the pitiful mpg of our American gas hogs I am not allowing events that I cannot change to overwhelm me. I feel that each small increment in mpg means I am reclaiming some of my hard earned cash from the rapacious Oil Companies.

Thanks for reading.  All the best, Jim