Do they work?
Hybrid hydrogen oxygen (HHO) fuel cells provide hydroxy gas to aid your car engine’s combustion. Although the concept probably defies your sense of the fire triangle, HHO’s use water to assist the burn of gasoline. The average American engine burns only about a third of the gasoline pumped into it; the remainder gets “cooked” in the catalytic converter. With an HHO fuel cell, your engine burns nearly 85% of the gasoline for a more complete combustion cycle. This more complete, more efficient burn reduces your hydrocarbon emissions, helps preserve your engine, and significantly increases your gas mileage. In other words, yes, HHO fuel cells really work.
Are HHO fuel cells able to bring in more power than what they are capable of producing?
An HHO draws approximately the same power as your headlights or windshield wipers, a negligible percentage of the electricity your engine can produce. Because your HHO increases your engine’s efficiency, your standard alternator generates more than enough “juice” to run your HHO. You can generate enough HHO with 12v at 1 amp to utilize a well-built HHO cell, and you should see at least 5 mpg improvement in your mileage.
An HHO breaks down and removes carbon from your engine. The elimination of carbon pieces alone will greatly boost your fuel efficiency and extend your engine’s life.
What about temperatures?
How do you compensate for the heat that comes from the HHO, and what do you do about cold temperatures?
The HHO does increase your engine’s normal operating temperature, but you can control the heat with the specific amount of catalyst you add and or with a Pulse Width Modulator.
Because you’re operating a water-for-fuel system, freezing weather has potential to cause problems. But you are able to beat the freeze by adding together 20% denatured alcohol to your HHO fuel cell. With addition of alcohol, your HHO fuel cell won’t freeze even in the Antarctic.
Either of these catalysts will boost creation of HHO, which in turn will increase the benefits from running the cell.
More basic tips?
Check your water level every three hours. You’re burning water for fuel; therefore, the water level rapidly will diminish. As the water conforms into HHO, and the engine burns it, the water level naturally goes down, leaving room in the cell for hot HHO. The effect is approximately the same as sticking a hot, empty soda can into a bucket of ice water: it implodes. Dramatic for a soda can; tragic for an HHO…and your engine. Until you get in the habit of checking your water at safe, routine intervals, post a note for yourself or set the alarm on your cell phone.
The Verdict?
Easy to make and relatively easy to install, HHO fuel cells substantially increase your miles-per-gallon. For less than you would spend on dinner for two at Chili’s; you can increase your car’s performance and mileage by at least 20%. Over the course of a month, then, you recoup the cost of several dinners at Chili’s and a snack at Applebee’s.
And, in the bigger picture of things, installing an HHO fuel cell takes lots of hydro-carbon emissions out of the atmosphere, reducing your carbon footprint, and increasing your investment in saving the planet.
