1. How does Power-Savings save electricity?

2. How does eliminating transients reduce energy usage?

3. 10% savings seems like a lot. How is this justifiable?

4. Can any surge suppressor save me energy?

5. How do our products differ from the competition?

6. How does our unit differ from a voltage stabilizer?

7. Where does the heat go that our products remove?

8. Why doesn't the utility company offer this protection?

9. Why should I take care of surge suppression?

HOW DOES POWER-SAVINGS SAVE ELECTRICITY ?

We discovered that Power-Savings reduces the amount of electricity used by protected equipment by accident. It is a side effect of protecting equipment from transient surges. Our products were developed to protect equipment, and it was noticed that facilities saw a marked reduction in electrical usage after installation. Investigation showed that protected equipment runs more efficiently and at a reduced temperature. A little known fact is... HEAT WASTES ENERGY. Remove transients = reduced operating temperature for equipment = energy savings, it is that simple.

Another factor in energy reduction is that we are basically reducing the impedance of your electrical system as a whole.  This makes your electrical system more efficient at passing electricity....you're not using increases in current to "push" voltage through your wiring system.  According to the Copper Institute, if you increase your wire size just one size larger than required by code, the result will be a reduction of between 6 and 10 percent in electrical usage.  Basically, we're doing the same thing for you electronically. 

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HOW DOES ELIMINATING TRANSIENTS REDUCE ENERGY USAGE ?

The devices that consume the most energy in both the commercial and residential markets are driven by magnetic mass. Your motors are little more than large electromagnets. Transformers that are also very similar to large electromagnets drive your fluorescent lights. Transients produce what is known as an "eddy current" effect in electrical systems which reduces the system's efficiency. Because they operate less efficiently they produce more heat. Transients also produce fluctuations in voltage, which create conditions in magnetic-mass driven devices that cause them to either draw more current than required which also produces more heat. The sharp increases in voltage are more than the devices are designed to operate at and the sharp and sudden increase in resistance produces more heat. 

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10% SAVINGS SEEMS LIKE A LOT.  HOW IS THIS JUSTIFIABLE ?

Let's do some simple math. To do this we'll make a couple of assumptions. A fifty-pound motor is not uncommon in most commercial applications. If we can reduce the temperature of that motor 10° F, we'll save 500 BTU (British Thermal Unit--the amount of energy required to raise one pound of mass one degree). Multiply that by 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and you will come up with 4,380,000 BTU/Hrs per year. Converting BTU to watts is easy.....multiply BTU by .293 (You'll have to trust me on this but it's easily verifiable...this is a standard conversion factor) Divide your answer (1,283,340 watts/hrs) by 1000 to get kilowatt/hrs. This will work out to 1,283 kWh. Let's say you pay $.08 per kWh. That will equal about $102.72 a year. If that motor is inside an air-conditioned building you will pay another $102.72 a year in increased cooling costs as well. Now, extend that throughout your facility--how many motors do you have? How many fluorescent lights do you have? Remember, a (minimum) two-pound transformer runs each fluorescent light. Just 25 fixtures will equal that 50 pound motor in transformer loading alone.

Take a sheet of paper and start making tick-marks for each motor and light you see on your floor--each of these tick-marks mean "magnetic mass" you'd be amazed at the amount of magnetic mass in your facility.

And this is only the direct heating loss--we haven't addressed the increased kWh usage because you are reading demand and kilowatt-hours that you haven't asked for and don't need! 

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CAN MY SURGE SUPPRESSOR SAVE ME ENERGY ?

To some extent, yes. The amount of energy a suppressor can save is directly proportional to three things. The first is its ability to maintain voltages at levels as close as possible to the design of the system and the equipment on it. The second is the ability to react as close to instantaneously as possible. The third is its ability to recover as close to instantaneously as possible to be prepared to react to the next event. We have no knowledge of any existing surge suppressor on the market being able to save the amount of electricity Power-Savings does.......period.

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HOW DO OUR PRODUCTS DIFFER FROM THE COMPETITION ?

Power-Savings is different in FIVE important aspects:

1. Power-Savings has the lowest clamping voltage of any suppressor on the market. For example, most of our competitors will clamp a 120-volt line at close to 300 volts! We'll clamp at about 132 volts--that's quite a difference.

2. Power-Savings reacts between 10 and 100 times faster than the competition. It can stop many more transients than the competition can even "see". You'll hear competitors say, "Reaction time isn't as important". Guess why?! Power-Savings has proven its speed with 12-inch leads--the same way we install it.

3. Power-Savings has the fastest recovery time of any suppressor on the market. It can do its job, reset, and be prepared to stop the next event before many of our competitors can even see the event!

4. Power-Savings has the longest warranty of any suppressor on the market.

5. Power-Savings has a demonstrated track record of proving savings as well as protection, and is willing to back that claim with a guarantee of savings.

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HOW DOES OUR UNIT DIFFER FROM A VOLTAGE STABILIZER ?

Power-Savings is a transient surge suppression system by legal terminology. A voltage stabilizer is nothing more then a unit that regulates voltage. Power-Savings does more than regulate voltage. It regulates voltage, it has phase protection built into it, it has arrestor protection built into it, and it provides a small, fixed amount of power factor correction through new technology.

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WHERE DOES THE HEAT GO THAT OUR PRODUCTS REMOVE ?

The heat isn't produced, it hasn't gone anywhere.  Our equipment does not ABSORB transients, it diverts them to a harmless path.  If the devices serviced by our equipment continue to do the same job at a lower temperature, you save energy.  Think about it this way.....when you turn on your electrical stove at home, the rest of your wires don't get COLD, do they?  If these transients continue to your equipment they will reduce the electrical efficiency of your wiring (increasing resistance) and will increase the operating temperature of your equipment (increasing resistance).  Whenever you increase resistance in electrical conductors you produce heating.

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WHY DOESN'T THE UTILITY COMPANY OFFER THIS PROTECTION ?

Your utility company is committed to providing energy to everyone in their service area, this is a very big job, so your utility company may not have the resources to research or implement any sort of power quality solution. Power-Savings has researched and developed power quality and transient suppression products for over 30 years. We are committed to increasing the efficiency of service you receive from your utility company.

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WHY SHOULD I TAKE CARE OF SURGE SUPPRESSION ?

Surge suppression  takes care of the lion's share of problems and it's easily the most cost effective of methods of power quality correction.  If you choose to take care of transient protection first, you provide protection that nothing else can provide and you don't create problems you'll have to deal with later.  If you install power factor correction equipment first, you either have to get less than the maximum efficiency from them, or you have to install surge suppression equipment to deal with the problems they will cause. If you install surge suppression equipment first, you'll take care of MOST of your problems, and you can take care of power factor correction on the savings generated by surge suppression.

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