Originally Posted by Cyril Baldwin
The hypervoltage and ground systems absorbs static electricity and negate dangerous electrical failures, thereby, maintaining voltage consistency, improves performance in the ignition system, saves fuel, filters usable energy needed for the braking system.
As the car travels on the road, the friction created by the wind rubbing against the car body causes electrical static. The static is physically detected by the car's sensor, which causes the sensor to translate false information to the CPU. This causes the CPU to make erroneous judgments that could affect the ignition system, fuel injector, ABS, and other vital electronic devices.
This doesn't sound overly credible in my opinion. I would call this a "stretch" of the truth, as Jeffrey Skilling would say (former CFO at Enron). Perhaps he even wrote that blurb as part of his new career when his testimony ends at the trial.
1). Static is high voltage, low current electrical charge which might build up, but be routed to ground through the normal grounding system. Otherwise, when you touch your car from any grounded source (especially at fuel fill up time) like a gasoline pump fill nozzle... Kaboom!
2). "Filters usable energy needed for the braking system" ??? Last I remember, brakes work hydraulically. And how much energy could be "filtered" and used in the braking system unless you have a hybrid gas-electric car? Usable energy? In what form? Heat? This is vague all by itself... What exactly is "usable energy". This is marketing "hype" of the first degree.
Did Ken Lay help Jeff Skilling (also from Enron) concoct that blurb?
3). "Which causes the sensor to translate false information to the CPU" - OK now, which sensor are they talking about here? There are scads of them all over the car. If this magic sensor(s) were prone to static interference, then if you're running a stock car with regular ground cabling, wouldn't it mean that the faster you go, the more static, the more the car wouldn't perform well? Uhhhh, wouldn't the highly skilled automotive engineers at Mercedes Benz pick up on this? OK, maybe the MAF sensor will pick up some changes in air flow, but all the sensors would have to have a common ground reference point (the body), with no appreciable Eddy currents... Again the engineers most likely thought of that. The CPU runs on the same ground as the MAF sensor... same reference point, so the CPU won't be confused.
4). Uhhhh, affects the ABS system eh... Hmmm... I'm sure the liability folks at Mercedes/Chrysler really gave the car's ABS system a good going over before marketing the vehicle... Lawsuits abound if ABS systems fail with stock electronics.
5). The product is well-named, and I'm sure a ploy on the unsuspecting layman... "Hype"-voltage. That is a give-a-way right there. Radio Shack has fat wire. If you want a grounding system, get a few strands of that at Radio Shack and hook it up. Save $40.00. Don't line the pockets of the hucksters who market this stuff...
6). If you conducted a test. Did you take HP/TQ/MPG stats before adding the grounding package, and then after? What were your individual gains as found from empirical, numeric tests... Dyno charts, gas slips please.