Power saver for us, or pound maker for them?

hobo28

Your all cynics! I've ordered a thousand of them. At that rate, my power company will be paying me!

superscaper

penrhyn wrote: »

I think its supposed to correct for power factor, I know this is used in industry to correct for inductive or capacitive loads but I doubt its of much use in a domestic situation. I guess its a bit like the Savaplug for fridges, but I'm probably wrong.

The savaplug doesn't claim to "extract" wasted power in the system, it simply reduces the electricity used by a fridge/freezer when it isn't needed. It's nearer to the equivalent of switching something off instead of leaving it on standby. It saves money by reducing how much electricity is used whereas the device in the OP claims to save money by "getting" more electricity than you are supplied with.

Cricri

superscaper wrote: »

Considering it's the imaginary component of the total complex power I'd like to see how they even measure the "stored" reactive power considering it isn't even mathematically real power.

If you mean the power factor, this product should not be legal (or at least not approved by the electricity supplier ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor