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Newsgroups: alt.engineering.electrical
From: krw <k...@att.bizzzz>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:18:32 -0400
Local: Mon, Jul 9 2007 8:18 pm
Subject: Re: Question on Powersave 1200
In article <j6ednZyTsemzMQzbnZ2dnUVZ_jWdn...@nni.com>, gil...@nni.com
says... > > I suppose someone has to think SCAMS are great ideas. They wouldn't > From a "scam" view, this gadget (and its relatives) have taken in a lot of selling these things. He should have known better. He was a an EE and power company exec. No one in the family listened to me, a lowly EE student at the time. > Over 30 years ago, Exxon (the big US oil company) started to buy a small Yep, again. The above happened in the early '70s. > company that had "invented" such an energy saver. It was the same basic > idea: reduce the voltage to reduce the "reactive" current. A "chip" > monitored things so that the voltage would continually seek the optimum > point of minimum current. The hype was the same: it would make a giant > difference in energy consumption. The reality to most EEs that if it > worked it might save "a little." > Anyway, Exxon was willing to buy the company. The critics of Exxon claimed ;-) > that Exxon wasn't making an investment but was trying to keep energy saving > stuff off the market (like the 100 mpg carburetor!). Obviously, the BIG > OIL critics got just as carried away as the managers at Exxon. > I think I have seen it on display at some hardware stores once or twice in Yes, and I've seen some rigged demos when they show up too. > the years between then and now. > The "scam" part is the excessive claims. The basic idea works but only How many lightly loaded induction motors are there out there and how > saves some I^2*R loses in slightly loaded induction motors. much energy are they using? Remember, they're lightly loaded. ;-) -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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