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Author:  **~Shiva~** [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Power Factor - What is Power Factor?
This latest video is a tutorial we made to help teach you about Power Factor. In the next few weeks we will be releasing information on how you can easily modify your current electronics to make them the most energy efficient.

I was astonished to find out we were paying so much more for the cfl's than what the boxes say you will pay. So me and Imhotep and working to correct this for everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIyfYjoKc2k
Author:  Vortex [ Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Power Factor - What is Power Factor?
Yes yes ...
I'm an EMPTY vessel waiting to be filled ... :lol:

The CFLs would be nice, but is it easier to learn
how to fix a refrig, toaster or fan?
Things in the house that have a plug, fixes which
do not require accessing internal parts of the unit.

Close would good, not needing fine-tuned PF correction with harmonic this and that.
I'd like improved PF to save money, with the understanding that perfect PF tuning is
more difficult to learn and archive??

I'll buy a kill-a-watt meter ..
but I need to know how to go about reducing the PF.

I know capacitors .. that's it. ahhhhh !?

Could not a bank of capacitors, an "evaluation box", be used like
they are using in the RotoVerter projects to roughly determine
what would be close enough ?
Then build a box just with a single capacitor for whatever you evaluated?
Not a box with an outlet to plug into, but reduce the cost by a box sliced into the
wire of the item being fixed.
Author:  mauiflipper [ Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Power Factor - What is Power Factor?
Hello Shiva and Imhotep. Thank you for informing us all about the power factor issue in CFL. Now that we know we are getting ripped of by the power companies (or CFL companies depending on how you look at it) I am excited to go and test different bulbs to see what the apparent power is. There are many different kinds of LED bulbs available, with huge price differences and I would like to test several ones from different manufactures.

Where can a find a device like the one that you have to display the Volt Amperes?

I have tested a few LED bulbs only by how it makes my wife and I feel. I can tell you that all of the cheap LED bulbs make us nauseous, within just a few minutes. But the expensive bulbs, like the Philips LEDs do not. In fact, they feel quite pleasant. I have noticed that the Philips LEDs are very heavy and while I have not disassembled one, I am hypothesizing that their bulbs are incorporating a small transformer to convert the electricity back into DC before it gets to the LEDs. As such, as I am guessing that the cheap bulbs, since they are using straight 120V 60 hertz AC, are making us sick because of the nature and frequency of the alternating current.

I would be really cool if someone else could confirm this.
Author:  JustAnElectrician [ Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Power Factor - What is Power Factor?
I'd send a PM Maui, or an email.

Better lighting circuits are likely being done with the Joule Thief circuits,
the output to input ratio seems to be really high, even higher than an IROL setup!
Author:  JustAnElectrician [ Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Power Factor - What is Power Factor?
I think you can get those Kill-A-Watt meters @ Menards, Lowes, etc.
Or at an electrical supply store. Online at least...
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