Turbo Lag

[Sandy]

What is the point, for an engine of any size, you will be wasting more
energy to get electricity from an alternator, feed it to a convertor, and
then turn a motor. What is really wrong with a belt driven system? 

Sandy


At 12:35 PM 2/24/96 -0800, you wrote:
>the idea i have is to use a   120 volt  ac dc universal motor "like in 
>an electric hand saw"  and use that to drive the blower.
>for a small engine there are some about 1200 volt amp blower units that 
>would work about $150 us wholesale. an a dc to dc converter and pwm
>to control motor speed i think you could feed it almost double
>voltage for acceleration bursts.
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