Electricity Saving Box

[jasperchc]

Hi, i am thinking of buying an Electricity Saving Box for my home, hoping that it would save my electricity bill, but i am trying to figure out if the device really works or not. So anyone here have or used them before? do they really work?

I read online, some people say they dont work, others say they do work. So if you have first hand experience with the device, your input would be very much appriciated.

[Chai]

I don't think such things will work.

[Trinity]

How about this,


Brown's Gas articles and photos


And this,,,

Run Your Car on Water

Is there any merit to these at all?

[belikethat]

yeha i heard about it...install ti for few hundred bucks and it illegal
it works by slowly increaseing ur meter.. not sure

[Max_87]

I think the one you mention is something else This electricity saving box can be bought retail

My home used to have one of those electricity saving box... which does nothing as far as what we observed.

I think it's collecting dust somewhere in my home right now

[bslee]

What "electricity saving box" are you refering to? Any links to pics and specs?.
The one I know "should" work is actually consists of a bank of capacitors for power factor correction. Google for PF correction and you'd get a technical explanation. These things only work under certain conditions where a home may have lots of flourecent lighting and motor based equipment. If you have incandecent bulb lighting (also exclude energy saving ones)..that box does very little or nothing.
What can be done in for most flourecent lighting is to fit a capacitor across the lighting terminal within the light fitting. Do that for every fitting and you're more or less done.

Perhaps to further enlight: Power factor correction unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[jasperchc]

i am talking about the one that claim to do it via power factor correction. I remember studying about power factor in college and the theory does sound. However, whether the device really works or not, i dont know. So anyone else using them and notice reduction in your month enegy bill?

[bslee]

It depends on one's home where there's lots of flourecent lighting and air conditioners, it may help in some savings, NOT huge savings. Most local flourecent fittings omit a capacitor in the fitting to save cost. It costs a few bucks each and its easy to fix one in every fitting. At least its something done.
AFAIK, light fittings in developed countries are fitted with components that conform to strictest safety regulations. They do things right there..but NOT here. Here, many issues get away with murder...very typical.

[Adrian Wong]

Okay, I have one of these and I've put it up for sale in the FTZ.

To be frank, it works best for incandescent lighting and maybe simpler electrical devices like toaster, oven, etc. But it doesn't help with modern equipment like fluourescent lighting or air-conditioner cause they already have something similar in them.

If I'm not mistaken, it works as a power line stabilizer. Hence, effects are very limited or non-existent unless you use incandescent lighting or similarly inefficient devices.

This is why I'm selling it. It doesn't help at all with my condo. I use only fluourescent lighting (to save power, of course!).

[64bit]

I have came across some power saving device but it states that it works best on motor-driven electrical products such as washing machine. Not sure how does it actually works, but it should be based on the magnetic theory