Note the Electric Supercharger is NOT included in this pack. When fitted as an additionally purchased items, it will be able to be powered by this Safiery Power Pack.

Fitting a 48VDC 6.3kw Peak Electric Supercharger to suit 79 series 4.5L V8

One of the remaining hurdles for 79 owners is "turbo lag", even on a well tuned engine. A solution to virtually eliminate this is the use of an electric supercharger. These require high power for a short time. This 5-6kW of power needs to come from a 48V battery because of the current demand and cable size. For example at 6kW, the power cable is carrying 120A approx. Whereas if it was 12V it would be 480-500A. A cable to carry this amount of current would be larger than a wrestlers forearm. Just not practical.

Consequently, a 48V power pack capable of delivering 6kW is required.

This is what is fitted into the Safiery Power Pack to suit 79 series.

During the first half of 2021, in conjunction with OCAM Industries in Melbourne, Safiery will be fitting an electric supercharger to the 4.5L V8 Toyota Engine in a near new 79 series. We dont know the exact performance outcome yet, but we do know turbo lag will be offset with an incredibley fast time to torque.

This will be a first in Australia. Watch the development on Insta and Youtube. Subscribe to Safiery or OCAM Industries.

Why Electric Supercharger?

When the first prototype e-boosters came on the scene a few years ago, back-to-back comparisons with conventional turbochargers swiftly revealed what an improvement they made to the response of large-capacity diesels.

Until this point, the compressors, driven by an electric motor rather than exhaust gas, have only been used in short bursts before a conventional exhaust-driven turbocharger system takes over. With the advent of 48V Lithium systems, a new e-booster can be used full time, doing away with exhaust-driven turbochargers altogether.

A turbocharger is driven by the energy released from hot, expanding exhaust gases. The harder the engine is working, the more energy there is and the quicker the turbocharger responds. When the engine isn’t working so hard, there’s less energy in the exhaust and turbocharger response gets laggy. Diesels are more thermally efficient than petrol engines, so more of the fuel is converted to mechanical energy rather than heat and the exhaust releases less energy. So when a diesel is loafing around, its turbocharger system really struggles to wake up and that’s when an electric booster can fill the boost gap.

50% More power 33% Fewer MOSFETS

One of the biggest enemies of a powerful electrical system is the heat it generates and controllers for e-boosters are no exception. Because the electric motors generate high torque, controllers quickly get hot, limiting the time motors can run without a break. New 48V technology with 33% Fewer MOSFETS for motor control enables a rethink of the design of the power electronics behind the e-booster to lessen the amount of heat it generates without reducing the torque. That means it can be used full time for boosting and replace exhaust-driven turbochargers.

The new electrical architecture separates control of the motor’s revs from the amount of torque it generates. Normally, both are controlled together, but under the new regime, the amount of heat generated by the controller is dramatically reduced. Not only can the motor be run for longer but it can be run much faster than usual. Typically, e-boosters are designed to run at up to 70,000rpm before the limitations of the electronic control system kick in. With the 48V design, there are no electronic limits and 48V e-boosters have been tested at up to 120,000rpm.

The benefit of switching to pure e-boosting is appealing on several levels. Diesels produce less of the exhaust gas energy at low speeds that a turbocharger needs to work properly. Removing the turbocharger from the exhaust system means the catalytic converter can be moved closer to the engine to clean up tailpipe emissions more effectively, too. It also gets rid of the exhaust back pressure that a turbocharger causes, which ironically can be bad for fuel consumption.