Another fuel saver? Another piece of crap?

dreamym5

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http://www.neosocket.com/

Neo Socket is a break-through, patent-pending invension in fuel conservation. Neo Socket will let you save on gas just by plugging them into your cigarette lighter sockets. You will start saving gas consumption by 10% to 30% immediately.


any thoughts??
 
oh god, people will fall for anything if it claims to save them gas.

Gullibility is rampant these days
 
I find the most effective gadget around at present is a decent gps navigation unit. I use a tomtom 930 and it help us avoid extra miles looking for hotels, or going back into the freeway when inside towns/cities. It also saves idling time because we did not have to stop and look at the maps to check out where we are.

nice feature of gps units is it reminds you that you have exceeded the road's speed limit.
 
Short Answer: It's crap, as is any device that is claimed to boost fuel economy.

Long answer:
Even if it did work, which it doesn't, let's take a look at what they're claiming:

1. It's a capacitor. It stores electrical energy. This much is true, but the amount of storage available in a capacitor that small would be negligible. Your car battery stores 400Ah or more. The biggest 12V cap I can buy is about 0.1 Farads, which would run your car for a fractional of a second. It's a BIG cap, too - 5.25" tall, 2.25" diameter.

2. They say that if you install multiples the gains won't double. That's false. A capacitor put in parallel with an identical capacitor will, in fact, double the effective capacitance of each capacitor. If their overall claim is true (and again, it isn't) then in theory, you would be able to put in 100 of these and gain fuel economy rivaling a bicycle. The backpedalling on this point alone proves it's a scam - either you improve with more, or the effect is psychosomatic and they don't want you to realize you've flushing money down the toilet.

3. If it was capable of doing the things it claims to do (if it was made from a pure Unobtainium matrix) then it would be obscenely dangerous to provide to the general public. A charged capacitor capable of improving a car's efficiency would probably kill you if you touched it. You wouldn't do something as daft as touch both terminals on your car battery, would you?

If I were to invent something that actually could do this, I'd patent it then lease out the technology to every car manufacturer in the world. I wouldn't mess around selling them in lots online. Despite the tinfoil-hat claims, a working tech like this would be worth millions, if not billions, of dollars to the first company that could bring it to market in a vehicle. Everyone wants lower consumption, and if you can bring this kind of market pressure on your competitors, you would do very well.
 
"You wouldn't do something as daft as touch both terminals on your car battery, would you?"

Actually, this does nothing. If you extend something metal between the posts, sparks fly. But a human being can touch both posts simultaneously with no effect. 12VDC is not enough to ground in a human body.
 
It's bad enough that they spelled invention wrong!

On further review, the entire site is plastered with poor grammar and spelling. It wins the "poorly translated from some south east asian language" award.
 
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