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Is this a Scam? You Decide

Subject - Is this a Scam? You Decide

July 21, 2010
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Is this a Scam? You Decide

I received the following email the other day on a device that claims: The Patented KVAR PFC Unit is a UL/CSA/EPA listed product, has a 12 year residential, and a 5 year commercial warranty and with an average 15% to 20% reduction in kilowatts hours, the investment return can be 12 months or less. Lower monthly power bills, decreased heat dissipation in all inductive load appliances, thus extending their productive life cycle and complete power surge protection for the entire home or office. The beauty of this system is you can take it with you when you move. We even had a customer sell his house for $2000.00 more because he used the KVAR PFC Unit as a selling point.

Greetings to you.

We are actively seeking fellow Electrical Contractors to add the KVAR Energy Controller to their product line. Many contractors include this item as a perk to close the bigger deal.

The KVAR Energy Controller is a capacitor bank that captures and recycles wasted energy back into the electrical panel, thereby reducing the demand on the meter. The customer pays for fewer KWH‘s, motor life is extended and it also serves as whole panel amperage surge protection. The customer benefits, you benefit and Mother Earth benefits. The KVAR EC is a certified green device. We offer both single phase, for most residential applications, as well as three phase units for your commercial customer base.

For less the $2000, you can become a distributor of the KVAR Energy Controller, a made in the US, UL Approved and Patented product. As a Distributor your cost for the standard PU1200 is $175 or LESS. The Distributorship comes with product, a demo kit and associated advertising materials.

Do not be misled by all the Chinese knockoffs and other imports on the market. For liability reasons, demand the UL Approved KVAR Energy Controller.

We invite your call and look forward to having you as a part of the KVAR US Team.

Best Regards, Phil McCullem
www.kvar.us, 561.744.5108 Office

Mike Holt’s Comment: Please click on the following links and read the newsletters before you consider becoming a distributor:
TVSS Claims Energy Savings - Update
Power-Save Power Factor Correction Capacitors

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Comments

Obviously, applying a one-size-fits-all box of magic capacitors possibly augmented by a few MOVs for TSS is going to cause leading PF problems and actually increase the current draw during hours when the magic box is connected, but no inductive/motors are running. So these products are doing something smart ~20% of the time, and possibly causing problems ~80% of the time.

So IF we were to do 'something' we need a non-magic small but correctly sized capacitor of the 'correct' type, installed at each individual load, so that the capacitor corrects the PF only when that load is 'ON'? If so, then where is the easy-reference chart from these people for selecting the correct capacitor-in-a-box to install across the leads to each motor in a typical residential home? You would think these products would love to get into a better market position where they could sell an entire "lineup" of such products, with various sizes and colors and flavors depending on the hp and voltage (120 or 240) ...except that after we're all done installing them and our PF at the house is a nice perfect 1.0...the kWh measured at the meter has changed by approximately 0.0. The ONLY way an actual change could be seen at the meter, in my opinion, is if the Utility cheaped-out on the meters and bought kVA meters that simply 'multiply' by some assumed PF, possibly adjustable for calibration. If so, the true kWh would still be the same, but the meter would be fooled by the addition of capacitors that allowed the user to operate closer to 1.0 PF than the assumption made by the Utility.

Every Utility I know of uses residential meters designed to measure Watts, and I do not know of any of the newer digital "smart" meters that would be fooled. If real people were truly seeing a reduction in the kWh correctly measured by their meters, for the exact same loads, the Utilities would be selling these things...no, wait, they'd be giving them away! In fact, it would be good for the Utility to invest in these if they worked "as advertised." Utilities would love for all users to be universally around 1.0 PF...but there is no incentive for the Utility to have residences sitting around en-masse with a leading PF screwing up the grid 80% of the time.

RSanders

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