Adaptive Energy Saver Date: Saturday, December 16, 2006 @ 12:07:56 UTC Topic: Science
via KeelyNet News : 12/14/06 - Adaptive, Self-Optimizing $49.95 Device reduces Power Usage (A
truly Totally Brilliant Invention, the way of the future for devices
that will learn and adapt to the load they power for the most
efficient, energy saving operation. These should be BUILTIN to all
appliances and devices that use motors. - JWD) For fourteen years,
Chuck and his partner have quietly been inventing a little micro
controller called the "Plug Power Saver." He claims it works on all
electric motors from your air conditioner to refrigerators, washing
machines to whole house fans. He rigged a one-third horsepower motor to
show us the savings. Without the controller, “It's drawing 171 to 180
watts."
Plug in the Power Saver and, “It's trying to find the most optimum
levels of power consumption. So it's got to learn about what you are
using. Yes it is. It actually has a microprocessor in here." After a
few seconds, the motor is running strong but using half the
electricity. And if you know anything about electricity, you know this
motor running normally should be warm to the touch, it isn’t. That
seems to show no extra electricity is being lost as heat. Chuck has a
patent pending on his invention, a trade mark on the name and a U.L.
approval.
(A
truly Totally Brilliant Invention, the way of the future for devices
that will learn and adapt to the load they power for the most
efficient, energy saving operation. These should be BUILTIN to all
appliances and devices that use motors. - JWD) For fourteen years,
Chuck and his partner have quietly been inventing a little micro
controller called the "Plug Power Saver." He claims it works on all
electric motors from your air conditioner to refrigerators, washing
machines to whole house fans. He rigged a one-third horsepower motor to
show us the savings. Without the controller, “It's drawing 171 to 180
watts."