saving electricity on the farm

[J Wendt]

We all pay electric bills and we all are on the internet. We use it to heat and light our homes and shops we use it to keep our water from freezing and warm our tractors to do chores. So we all have seen the ads for watt savers claiming to cut our power in half. How is this possible and has anyone used them. I'm an electrician i don't see how this could work. I'm not an engineer so maybe I am missing something. It appears to be s scam by a rich guy to me.

 

[zuhnc]

The things have been disassembled by a few people; nothing in the box except SCAM! They don't do anything for your electric bill. If you really want to save electricity, use a Leyden Jar!

 

[DoubleO7]

Two threads started the same day for the same type of power saving scam gadgets.....................................hmmmmmmmm

 

[J Wendt]

Sorry if it was already posted, I didn't see it.

 

[Paul from MI]

I'm an engineer and a master electrician--the formulas for power usage haven't changed in hundreds of years. Those ads are a joke.

 

[DoubleO7]

Sorry if it was already posted, I didn't see it.

No need to be sorry. You and the other thread starter are both long time members.

Many times when there are very similar or same threads started about the same shady products, they are started by new members that just got done registering here. Which then looks suspicious.

 

[Butch(OH)]

We all pay electric bills and we all are on the internet. We use it to heat and light our homes and shops we use it to keep our water from freezing and warm our tractors to do chores. So we all have seen the ads for watt savers claiming to cut our power in half. How is this possible and has anyone used them. I'm an electrician i don't see how this could work. I'm not an engineer so maybe I am missing something. It appears to be s scam by a rich guy to me.

The only way to save usage on your farm is to turn things off. Remember this and it will save you from scams.

 

[stdsch40]

We all pay electric bills and we all are on the internet. We use it to heat and light our homes and shops we use it to keep our water from freezing and warm our tractors to do chores. So we all have seen the ads for watt savers claiming to cut our power in half. How is this possible and has anyone used them. I'm an electrician i don't see how this could work. I'm not an engineer so maybe I am missing something. It appears to be s scam by a rich guy to me.

I've been a mechanical engineer for going on 40 years, retired past few years, my job was primarily energy and how best to use it. That being said perhaps you'll listen to logic. Burn gas for heat, and only use electricity for lights and motors. Don't get sucked into believing some 'magical' device is gonna save you anything. If you must use electricity for heating water lines, so be it, but try your best to avoid the use of electricity. Where I live, even with the BS carbon tax in Canada, gas costs 1/3 the price of electricity. Electricity can never be cheaper for heating than gas, period. BTW, the world is full of scams, all sorts. Why use high grade energy (electricity) for low grade heat, makes no sense at all. Wood is also a good source of cheap heat. Stay warm and turn the lights off have a fire.

 

[Mcrafty1]

It's a scam.

 

[randyrenfro7]

IF it were true we would have perpetual motion machines. Just more unicorn farts.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

It's a scam.

You can save money by not buying a watt saver.

 

[wp6529]

For residential service any such device is a scam. Only with commercial service with peak metering is there some potential to save money without "turning things off", by improving the power factor of larger loads. The devices to do that will also be relatively large, not some little plug-in brick.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

No need to be sorry. You and the other thread starter are both long time members.

Many times when there are very similar or same threads started about the same shady products, they are started by new members that just got done registering here. Which then looks suspicious.

Except they'd be trying to SELL them, not questing their veracity.

 

[Steve in VA]

The things have been disassembled by a few people; nothing in the box except SCAM! They don't do anything for your electric bill. If you really want to save electricity, use a Leyden Jar!

And I wonder how many folks immediately search "Leyden jar"?

 

[Brown David]

And I wonder how many folks immediately search "Leyden jar"?

I did.

I'd never heard of it before.

But I had heard of it's function by an object with a different name.

 

[DoubleO7]

Except they'd be trying to SELL them, not questing their veracity

It is a known ploy for "influencers" to create posts that generate interest.

Looks like they are not selling but they are in the long run.

 

[Brendon-KS]

I've been a mechanical engineer for going on 40 years, retired past few years, my job was primarily energy and how best to use it. That being said perhaps you'll listen to logic. Burn gas for heat, and only use electricity for lights and motors. Don't get sucked into believing some 'magical' device is gonna save you anything. If you must use electricity for heating water lines, so be it, but try your best to avoid the use of electricity. Where I live, even with the BS carbon tax in Canada, gas costs 1/3 the price of electricity. Electricity can never be cheaper for heating than gas, period. BTW, the world is full of scams, all sorts. Why use high grade energy (electricity) for low grade heat, makes no sense at all. Wood is also a good source of cheap heat. Stay warm and turn the lights off have a fire.

If you use the electricity to run a heat pump it quite easily could be cheaper than gas but it all depends on local utility rates. A person can't really make abolute statements when there are so many variables involved.

 

[JMOR]

We all pay electric bills and we all are on the internet. We use it to heat and light our homes and shops we use it to keep our water from freezing and warm our tractors to do chores. So we all have seen the ads for watt savers claiming to cut our power in half. How is this possible and has anyone used them. I'm an electrician i don't see how this could work. I'm not an engineer so maybe I am missing something. It appears to be s scam by a rich guy to me.

Just wire around the meter!

 

[Crazy Horse]

I'm an engineer and a master electrician--the formulas for power usage haven't changed in hundreds of years. Those ads are a joke.

PAUL: You must have dozed off in the History of Electricity 101 class. Or maybe you skipped class that day? Georg Ohm didn't come up with his magic formula until 1827. That's only 197 years ago ..... not quite HUNDREDS of years .... but close !!!

 

[Texasmark]

It is a known ploy for "influencers" to create posts that generate interest.

Looks like they are not selling but they are in the long run.

There are a lot of them out there, deliberately asking a question most folks never thought to ask trying to arouse your curiosity. If I want to know something I post the question on my www search engine and review the comments.

I read the other day that the annual expenditure in the USA for advertising is.......hang on......$330 "B"illion.....that's Billion with a B, not M.

I started clocking ads on "free" TV that I have now with a 60' antenna on a tripod catching a station 7 miles away, and some have the same time line for commercials as for story content; every 7 minutes was the worst; most every 15 minutes. Watching football games is a real jerk when not only do they cram commercials into any break they get, buy sometimes run over and block out plays that you may have wanted to see if they haven't posted the required number of revenue dollars.

I used to have satellite TV and cancelled it......decided I wasn't going to pay $150/month to watch TV commercials.