Supercharger

A Supercharger is a device which temporarily exceeds the normal safe operating levels of an engine to boost power. While this compromises safety with an increasing chance of critical engine damage. In any field such as racing or war where there is a need for speed, people are willing to throw safety to the wind for a performance boost.

Despite the wide differences in underlining technologies, with internal combustion engine superchargers providing a greater mass flow-rate delivering more oxygen to support combustion than would be available in a naturally-aspirated engine, while Fusion Engine superchargers temporarily drop the limiters that keep the engine output from damaging the shielding, both produce almost identical end-results.

Because BattleMech superchargers use a entirely different method of increasing performance than that used by MASC, both devices can be used at the same time for cumulative speed boost in exchange for considerably higher odds of a catastrophic failure.

References

• Maximum Tech - pg 92-93