Tesla device

Water-Bug wrote:
Yeah! The only voltage that you usually use is the top 10% of the waveform above 100 volts. All that voltage between 0 and 100 volts just wastes current and runs up your bill. So, the ideal device turns on as the waveform passes thru 100 volts on the way up and turns off at 100 volts when the waveform is on the way down. That way you are only using the most powerful portion of the waveform. When I get it perfected, I'll let you know. :)

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Yeah! The only voltage that you usually use is the top 10% of the waveform above 100 volts. All that voltage between 0 and 100 volts just wastes current and runs up your bill. So, the ideal device turns on as the waveform passes thru 100 volts on the way up and turns off at 100 volts when the waveform is on the way down. That way you are only using the most powerful portion of the waveform. When I get it perfected, I'll let you know. :)

Haven't seen/heard anything about it for years but several years ago there were several door-to-door & phone sales people around here trying REAL hard to sell what was alleged to be a Tesla-invented device that would cut your electric bill by 50%...60%...75%...depending on who you talked to. Somehow this device removed all the "dirty" (yes, that's the term they all used) electricity (= wasted/unused) and only permitted "clean" electricity to pass thru the meter. I never got one so don't know how much money I could have saved. Probly tens of thousands by now.

smkettner wrote:
My smart meter has a digital display. Yes it can be read by anyone.
Easier to use the electric company website that gives a daily tally, graph of usage by the hour and estimate for the next bill.

That would be cool. I think it will be awhile, if ever, that we get something like that around here.

I once called my local electric company to see if they could do a energy audit at my house. They didn't even know what I was talking about and they laughed at me.

My last water heater quit. It was 70 gallons. The electric company sold the landlord a new one, cheap. It is suppose to be more efficient then the last one. The new one is 110 gallons! I called them up and said "I'm a bachelor and I live in a 2 bedroom one bath house I could never use that much hot water!" They said that they bought these water heaters in a batch and they did not have a smaller ones available . The new water heater is so big they had to put it in a different place. It radiates so much heat into the pipes above that that I have to run my cold water in my kitchen sink for 90 seconds just to get a cold drink of water.

It doesn't seem all that efficient to me.

Electric company's are in the business to sell electricity. The more electricity you waste the more money they make. That's all they care about.

No wonder I don't remember buying the ticket. :)

Water-Bug wrote:
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I originally assumed the "Tesla device" was Elon Musk's battery technology in a box, which essentially would function as a giant UPS. This would be very useful, even if it just connected to mains power and separated electrically the house from shore power, as it would make brownouts and short duration blackouts a thing of the past. It would also make it easier to connect a backup generator, a solar array, a wind turbine, a hydroelectric turbine, and other items, because those can charge the batteries as they see fit, and not have an effect on what items are drawing from the battery bank.

Something from "Tesla" that gives unlimited energy like the Bedini motor (I will admit the Bedini motor is a showy way to desulfate batteries, but claims of it actually creating energy from electric fields is something can bite my bongos.)

wa8yxm wrote:
IF you see a label with "Volt-Amps" printed on it, That means Volts times Amps, this is what you pay for.. Volts Times Amps, Times POWER FACTOR, is what you get. So bringing the power factor closer to 1.0, means you use less power.

Apologies, but this isn't quite correct. Low power factor does not mean more power (in watts) is consumed. What happens is more current is drawn through wiring as the power factor drops below 1.0. Power utility companies charge commercial/industrial users for low power factor by reading KVA, KVAH & KVAR because it means they have to oversize supply conductors which gets expensive. Engineers and electricians make every attempt to keep PF close to 1.0 to avoid having to oversize supply wiring to equipment in buildings. And no discussion on power factor is complete without including "real power" and "imaginary power" and also leading and lagging PF. :D

A smart meter looks like in the pic. They have replaced most of the the old analogue ones in N. America with these. They've caused a LOT of controversy as many have blamed them for causing fire, cancer and being grossly overcharged. They transmit a meter's readings to a nearby transponder which saves on someone having to go manually read a meter at every single location.



Residential consumers get charged for the amount of kilowatthours consumed. If you look at a compact fluorescent lamp and multiply the current printed on the lamp times 120 volts, you get around twice the wattage of the lamp. Have a Philips 13 watt CFL that says 228 ma which equates to 27.4 watts (0.228 x 120). This also means that they are a very low power factor. Are we all being duped by these lamps and getting charged more on our elec. bills? I don't see any mention of voltamps (KVA) or power factor on our bill. Are the smart meters reading voltamps and converting it to KWH?

My smart meter has a digital display. Yes it can be read by anyone.
Easier to use the electric company website that gives a daily tally, graph of usage by the hour and estimate for the next bill.

Highway 4x4 wrote:
Electric meters are my life and I can tell you that if you have a "Smart Meter" on your house, playing games with the power Co is over for you. What that meter can tell the power co is really everything. Stealing power is really serious and it can cost you big time. If you have a fire, count on your ins co to look into it. As far as reactive power goes, residential single phase has little affect on the bill, big 3 phase it does. The killer for us domestic rate people will be when TOU (time of use) hits us. I know, this is TMI.

I don't know what a smart meter is. But, my brother has a meter on his farm that requires the electric company to drive into his yard every month and read it. There is nothing he can read. And, the nearest big town near me is now putting in meter that will be read by a truck driving down the street.

The problem with both if these is that you have no idea of how much power you are using until a month later. If you have a short in your house you could end up with a whopping bill over a two month period.

When I lived at a house where I had to pay for power I liked that fact that I could read my own meter and then I knew how much power I had used. Then I could calculate it out and plan it into my next months budget.