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Originally Posted by AppleMac*Fit
Thus says an electrician (me)...
Voltage stabilizer = snake oil.
A capacitor is only effective at stabilizing voltages in AC (alternating current - such as in your home)... not DC (such as in your car). In an AC system, it helps to eliminate ripple current, and straighten out the waveform of the AC pulse.
However, this isn't the case in a DC system. A capacitor in a DC circuit acts as a voltage blocker. When DC power is applied to one side of the capacitor, it stores a charge on one of the plates... where it stays indefinitely until it is discharged. What does all this mean? A voltage stabilizer is useless.
If one REALLY wanted to stabilize the voltage in a DC system, a 1:1 transformer would help somewhat... but the effects would likely be minimal.
If you really want to see if a positive change has taken place with a 'voltage stabilizer' - show me an oscilloscope waveform of before and after installing the stabilizer. What you'll find is there is ZERO change.
Can we please drop this subject of voltage stabilizers and assign it to the halls of urban legends?
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You can come up with all the reasons you like why it shouldn't work, but the fact is it does.
Today I had to fill up before going to autox this morning. It was the first fillup after installing the T1R Ignition Booster I bought a while back. To date, I have been getting 28-29 mpg like clockwork for a year. Calculated mileage from the tank w/ the Booster -- 33.4 mpg. The ONLY difference was the addition of the booster -- same gas station I always use, same pump for the most part, same driving I always do. Now, if it was like 30-31 mpg, then maybe I'd still have a fair amount of doubt about the booster, but 33.4 is a significant change. Tie that in with the noticed improved idling as well, and I say it does what it promised. You can argue all day about why it shouldn't or should work, I don't care -- it made a difference, and not a subjective difference either, but a measureable, quantifiable change. Of course, I'm going to keep tabs on future tanks as well and average it all over time, but I don't expect too much change from the results I got with this tank.
Do with this info what you will, I'm only reporting my experience with the product.