Has anyone fitted or know about running a car with a Brown's gas (HHO) generator?.

It looks pretty simple and cheap. Get a couple of bottles, couple metres of cable, couple of flat pieces of metal and a tube. Put it together, pour in water and soda bicarb, wire it all up to the alternator and feed it into the manifold. There's a link here. What do you all think?

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There's load about it on Youtube etc. Seems it improves the combustion of diesel, so ups the fuel economy and power. Is it too good to be true?

any offers of opinion?

Last time I saw something on this they said that although a car's engine can run on hydrogen, this was a petrol car, you can't produce enough of the stuff in a portable unit to make it worth while.

Yup Too good to be true. The energy to drive the generator must come from the electrical system which in turn depends on burning the diesel. Whether it alters the combustion characteristics is dubious, but it cannot make a lot of difference as diesels always have plenty of air. Save your money.

Last time I saw something on this they said that although a car's engine can run on hydrogen, this was a petrol car, you can't produce enough of the stuff in a portable unit to make it worth while.

The idea isn't that you burn pure hydrogen, but that you feed your engine hydrogen & oxygen enriched air through the air intake. The engine still burns diesel/petrol but the air it draws has extra oxygen and a quantity of hydrogen. You get (apparently) much better combustion for less fuel, my mate tells me he's doing 30%-40% better in his Toyota 4x4. He's made 4 cells out of 1 litre jars.

When my warranty is out I might try it....after all, you can make one with just a few scraps. a glass jar, some aluminium plates that will fit inside the jar, piece of hosing, 2 wires, gaffer tape, couple of bolts for electrodes, water and soda bicarbonate.

The idea isn't that you burn pure hydrogen, but that you feed your engine hydrogen & oxygen enriched air through the air intake. The engine still burns diesel/petrol but the air it draws has extra oxygen and a quantity of hydrogen. You get (apparently) much better combustion for less fuel, my mate tells me he's doing 30%-40% better in his Toyota 4x4. He's made 4 cells out of 1 litre jars.

When my warranty is out I might try it....after all, you can make one with just a few scraps. a glass jar, some aluminium plates that will fit inside the jar, piece of hosing, 2 wires, gaffer tape, couple of bolts for electrodes, water and soda bicarbonate.

If it works go for it, I'm just not convinced from what I have seen & read in other places that it's worth while doing as the amount of hydrogen produced is very small & if my chemistry is right then you need quite a bit to make this work. However I'm willing to be proved wrong as you always learn new stuff.

If it works go for it, I'm just not convinced from what I have seen & read in other places that it's worth while doing as the amount of hydrogen produced is very small & if my chemistry is right then you need quite a bit to make this work. However I'm willing to be proved wrong as you always learn new stuff.

I'll let you know how I get on when I do it. My mate Sy connected one cell to a battery, put the end in soapy water. In a couple of seconds he had enough bubbles to ignite....must admit was a huge bang and he's running his car on 4 of them.

What I'm worried about is physics. Physics dictate that perpetual motion or 100% energy efficiency is impossible. The chemical energy in the hydrogen is less than the electrical energy needed to release it. So that would suggest that it can't work....unless the combustion is improving the energy efficiency of the diesel being used to the extent that it exceeds the 'energy gap' in the equation.

It's all b**ls

I think any device like this can work by a kind of psychological "placebo effect" - the driver actually drives more economically because they want to believe it works ...

Same with magnets and all the other magic things - If its so good why don't they fit 'em in the factory ?

Surely fuel would burn better in 100% OXYGEN?

I'll be running water injection soon, but that in no way detracts from the fact the engine runs on diesel.

Surely fuel would burn better in 100% OXYGEN?

That's the principle with NOS. NOS gives up oxygen easily.

Has anyone fitted or know about running a car with a Brown's gas (HHO) generator?.

It looks pretty simple and cheap. Get a couple of bottles, couple metres of cable, couple of flat pieces of metal and a tube. Put it together, pour in water and soda bicarb, wire it all up to the alternator and feed it into the manifold. There's a link here. What do you all think?

How To Convert Your Car To Run On Water - The HHO Gas Car Kit Hybrid To Increase Gas Mileage

There's load about it on Youtube etc. Seems it improves the combustion of diesel, so ups the fuel economy and power. Is it too good to be true?

In that article it mentions the word scam too many times. And says how its not a scam. Anything that says that so many times is either a scam... or just really bad at selling...??

But hey if i see it working on someones car, and they do get good results I would consider trying it as well. (once the warrenty is finished of course.!!) only a 15 months... haha.

Surely fuel would burn better in 100% OXYGEN?

Probably would burn better in 100% oxygen, but don't know how to generate it quickly and simply in any quantities

Same with magnets and all the other magic things - If its so good why don't they fit 'em in the factory ?

I agree 100% about magnets, that's so clearly a load of b@!!@*. I have found the net split on the topic. Thing is I understand there is no way magnets can work, but I seem to see the theory and science in this...as long as acts as a catalist to increase the combustion of the diesel....if not then it does break the law of thermodynamics