Happy 2012 everyone! Please stay tuned as we have many technologies in the works, and are very excited to be releasing some new products in 2012!

Meanwhile, we’ve just uploaded a great guide to pick a non-resistor spark plug for your vehicle in case the Brisk plugs from our site don’t work.

Here’s how you would use the guide:

1. Find your stock sparkplug part#

2. Note down the dimensions – Hex size, thread, reach, gasket?

3. Open up the chart at http://www.aquapulser.com/docs/NGKGuide.pdf

4. Find an appropriate non-resistor plug that matches the dimensions from step 2.

NOTE: If possible pick a surface gap plug as these tend to have the best performance for plasma applications.

Good luck!

Before:

Dyno Results with Stock Ignition

After:

Dyno Results with Plasma Ignition

The image below speaks for itself:

Fuel consumption at idle

The image above shows the comparison of fuel consumption at idle for a 2.4L Hyundai 4 cylinder. The testing showed some incredible results at idle as well as 4 other speeds that we tested. The indisputable fact after this testing was that stock computers do compensate for the more efficient burn caused by the plasma ignition. The above results were obtained with no timing optimization. We expect to see even better results with further tuning and optimization.

Aquapulser was under a cloud where rogue factions of the company plotted mutiny, hijacked our youtube account and started selling similar products under a different brand and website. But anyone who has followed this space will remember that Aquapulser is the original plasma ignition company that came out with the RPG4700, and we’re well and truly back with an exciting future ahead.

The SparkAmp products were designed from the ground up by Aquapulser Engineering – our second generation plasma platform. We have had many refinements and fixes through our testing, and as of today we’re proud to announce that we’re going into production. You can rest assured that any units you buy from our web site are genuine products that we stand behind. We encourage us to ask questions about the engineering behind the units.

Join the Plasma Revolution!

While Aquapulser Engineering continues to engage in cutting edge research in the fields of pulsed power, water injection, and other energy efficiency, high performance and experimental endeavours, EcoIgnition is geared towards ‘Eco Tuning’, hypermiling and other fuel saving strategies for today’s automobiles.

Aquapulser Engineering will continue to release products geared towards researchers and enthusiasts, so as to help them advance their research, with a major collaborative research campaign soon to be launched targeted at the opensource engineering community.

Aquapulser sees this as a tremendous opportunity to effect widespread recognition of its technology and hone its business acumen. Clean technology is here to stay and the Clean Tech Open is the premier organization trying to single handedly make it all happen.

The numerous last minute changes and adding the NASCAR MSD 6TN CDI box to the demo rig paid off and we convinced the judges (consisting of VCs, Angels and the like and some press) that Aquapulser Engineering was indeed the most exciting startup in the NW region this year! The presentation was very well received and seemingly people were very interested in this. And why wouldn’t they!? The blue high energy plasma sparks flying off the tungsten electrodes were only the coolest thing they had seen since….I dunno – the iPhone??

We left with this:

The DEMO event finalists who have made it through a rigorous screening process, will be demonstrating their exciting new products and services, and sharing how they created them on December 10^th.

This fall’s finalists are:

• Aquapulser Engineering: Offers an add-on ignition module that converts weak sparks into a high-current plasma
• Basic Athletic Measurement: Builds the world’s first athletic testing platform to drive consistency, reliability, and validity into global athletic performance measurements and ratings
• Exponential Entertainment: Provides HollywoodPlayer™, a multi-platform games service for users to discover, share, and play with real scenes from Hollywood movies
• Limeade: Supplies cross-platform mobile and social wellness tools
• Pharaoh Software: Develops a system which controls Windows applications through a UI to provide automated technical support
• Zooppa: The world’s largest source of user-generated advertising

Excitement abounds! Here is a picture of the demo rig we used to present and subsequently blow the judges’ minds:

Indeed no other technology shows promise for solving the fuel economy with reduced emissions problem in such a low cost manner. And best of all, this technology is here today and available in the market! The Obama administration has mandated that by the year 2016, all auto manufacturers achieve an average fuel economy to 35.5 MPG (42 mpg for cars and 26 mpg for light trucks) for their product lineup or pay penalties. The current penalty for not meeting CAFE standards are $5.50 per tenth of a mile per gallon for each tenth (1/10) under the target value times the total volume of those vehicles manufactured for a given model year. Needless to say auto manufacturers are trying to fight this arguing that it will cost them tens millions of dollars in R and D costs over the next few years and a failure to acheive targets will result in more millions in fines.