When in comes to matters of science, there will always be some who step forward
with anecdotal 'evidence' that they have experienced something that contradicts
accepted scientific knowledge. Using caps to reduce your power bill is one of
those myths. Your power meter is a true watt meter, and is very carefully
designed and tested to measure, react to and record only true watts, and not
react to reactive power. (pun!!) Yes, installing corrective capacitors can
reduce your power bill, but not because it changes your meter reading; it
doesn't. For industrial users, a poor PF results in penalty charges from the
utility, and improving the PF by adding capacitive VAs ( or KVAs) can reduce
the penalties, thereby reducing your bill.
This is not really a repeater topic, but power bills are a real part of
repeater use, so it is useful to understand the real 'science'.
Wes
AE6ZM & VE7ELE
GROL/RADAR
ARRL Technical Specialist
Lincoln, CA
CM98iv
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Bon & Hal" <bhbru...@...> wrote:
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> Bill:
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> Check this out. Is It possible that the device might actually reduce
> electrical usage?
>
> Hal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Plack
> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 9:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Adding capacitors to lower electric bill
>
>
>
>
> One company supplying power factor correction capacitors promotes their use
> on inductive loads only, where it might be a legitimate claim:
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> http://www.greenenergycube.com/index.php?support-documentation
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, AE4KR
>
