+Slot1Gamer you need it for all those consoles

or from the streetlights to your house (only works at night) but its genuinely one ive heard of people doing lol

+The Mad Hammer I can imagine those with EVs would top up in large parking lots this way.

+The Mad Hammer - Here in the UK street lights are always powered on, and switched with a photocell at the top of the lamp.

good girl！he use the tool all made in china，haha😄

Brilliant!! Let me try it too... he-he These "magic" boxes should also come with pamphlet instruction to disconnect or turn off all unused appliances, including power supply bricks, which will probably save more than that measly 0.496Amps. lol

lol

The kiddie socket protectors do that job as well and cost less per piece. And you get kiddie protection thrown in for free! :)

Lmao

@@myprofile.4191 EVERY! single! power outlet!

celebrate Earth Hour on March 21 at 8:30p to 9:30p... switch it all off

Coverage Awareness Studio I rather not?

ppl would be surprised how much you will save in a month unplugging the microwave and kerrig or similar coffee machine. power bars make things easier.

@@absolutely1337 that's not all the TV and cable box use a lot of power even when turned off so do computer and monitor you can cut your power use by up to 30 % by shuting them off when not in use

@@douglaswindsor120 i just instal power strips on everything and flip them off when not in use. My power bill is very low. Vampire power draw is a real thing, folks.

Gotta love Big "If You Have An inductive Load" Clive :) 4:42

+Treyton Nugent (HWP) ikr

*BigClive abandons his love for electronics and power and goes into voice acting.*

+PianoVideosJustForU (PVJFU) Just gonna edit that for you: *BigClive abandons his love for electronics and power and goes **_back_** into voice acting.*

I knew it was of Irish origin, but since you mention French it makes more sense, as I'm a Cajun. :P

ratcat17 Lol, I live in the U.S. Cajuns are basically just exiles from France and then Canada. :P

+Zadster Even better tip... get someone else to grab it!!! Or be sensible and just don't touch it! lol Great tip though... same as the electricians with one hand always in the pocket ;)

Chris Landry Indeed... they are quite elastic in nature and bounce back from nearly anything! :-O

Just give it the foreskin test. You get a hard on and touch the case with the very tip of your foreskin. If it retracts, it's live.

Zadster I always get the cat or the dog to go sniff the appliance in question. If the appliance throws a shock they alert me immediately.

With AC there will be no muscular contraction. Still best to flick with knuckles to test for live as the contact is relativity high impedance and all you get will be a tingle.

You give most facility managers far too much credit for understanding the electrical systems in their installations and factories …

@@andyxox4168 Of cause facility managers understand the site electrical systems, if the facilities electrical load is significantly out of phase (inductive or capacitive) the Utility will significantly increase your Unit charge. Be aware, even if you alter your inductive or capacitive load your meter will track the modified Wattage consumption and you will also be down on power.

@@normie8895 … you give ‘facilities managers’ too much credit, ‘cause’ some of them don’t pay attention to spelling/grammar

​@@andyxox4168English teachers look great in skirts

I always found those capacitor rooms creepy. They sound so ominious and it feels that there's some inductive voltage when you just walk in the room.

Well 5g may cause a allergy season reaction that never ends creating nasal sinwaves effected by the moons industrious gravity.

My "sinus"es were getting congested till I got this. he-he

The premium version has 2 mystery black box capacitors.

lol

A 200kw fuse apparently.

But the fuse is fake~

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I've often had this exact same thought. You contact them to report defective products and they can just say, "well what's the problem? You did buy it from bang good" lol! The moral of the story, Only report products that don't bang good ;)

Dazzwidd Some of these Products should come from a Brand Named: 'BlowFuse'' Not sure if theres such a Brand, but you never know ^^

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In another twist, Bang Good sells some Good Bang for your buck devices for sure... tsk tsk :D

ZaitzDucu all men or this man? Back to university...

@@firstlast8805 do you know that the word "man" spells "men" You should go around the neighborhood to see the true meaning of the word men. Be blessed by the God!

+Nathan Finch You're welcome. Anything I can do to help reduce that irksome sleeping thing. Meanwhile I'm just about to make VERY silly video indeed.

+Nathan Finch I know right My wife will be angry in the morning when i don't wake up!

+bigclivedotcom can't wait!! looks like we'll all be struggling to get up tomorrow!

+Nathan Finch yeah I was pleasantly surprised as well :)

Nathan Finch Its his fault !! lets invade Scotland!! O wait some of the best single malts come from there ! ok lets destroy his bothy!

LMAO.....!!!!

Impossibru machine

LOL. The clue that it's bollocks is in the word "Savor". I can imagine the description on Amazon: "Very good power savor make long time benefit saving to you energy bill"

So, a Quantum Device, ok....

@@mikakorhonen5715 in my head it sounded like the Asian guy off hangover wrote that

I literally scrolled by as he said that.

Aperture Laboratories same

If you have an inductive load it buggers up the phase of the power. Pulls the current in one direction relative to the voltage. A capacitor pulls it in the other direction. So it cancels out. As a capacitor charges, it pulls large current even when the voltage is low, when the voltage is starting to rise in it's sine wave. An inductor resists change in current, so only starts to draw current a while after the voltage rises. Electric companies don't like large inductive loads, because their system, and most loads, is based around the idea of loads being resistive, with a 1:1 relationship between voltage and current. Disturbing this messes up the system. So if you're a factory with huge motors, the electric company charge you extra for that. But it only makes an actual difference if you have large loads. A little motor won't make any noticable difference. Nothing domestic should be any big deal. And electric companies only charge you based on a resistive model anyway. So a capacitor in a box won't make a difference. And especially the tiny one here. You need proper big capacitors to balance out proper big motors. And that's how Clive's sentence would have ended.

Diplomatic. He plays a safe game. But on the other hand he also talks about how good this portion, and how that portion is not enough to do the trick. Which means Clive knows exactly what is needed to save power. But, the diplomacy and safe game again. But well, greenaum explained us a lot.

Question: if I have old fashioned power meter, with inductances within, instead a new digital power meter, would it make a difference? Nobody mentioned such thing, it would be interesting to do measurements. With inductive load, of course. Can you do that, please?

I did once toy with the idea of coming of grid and buying a 100% duty cycle gas powered generator. Given the fact I am paying 8.6p per kwh for electricity and 2.9p per kwh of mains gas. I know that they're nowhere near 100% efficient but if I could also get rid of 23p per day stand charge for the electricity meter I might get close to breaking even. Until the generator requires maintenance or repair of course.

There's piles of people who have thought the same as you. Best way to go is get on the websites/forums where they talk about that stuff and get all the good info from them. Meet them if you can and have a look at their 'installations' and see what might fit for your location. If outgoings (dollars or pounds or whatever you have) is the issue, a cheaper way to live is just to look at your outgoings and look for savings there. You might save 5 times what you'd save on going off-grid if you halt wasted expenditure (?).

Right, gaming the meter isn't the point of power factor correction. The point when it is legit is to use less power by correcting for the actual load used. Of course that is going to have to be an active device, not a passive one like in the video. For example, a power-factor-corrected supply for a table saw would generally be expected to save power. It might work for the blender, too. Large appliances that actually use a lot of power already have their own PFC though. But if you use a lot of old or cheap power tools, there might be room for PFC-based savings in the shop.

For older meters it works. This device is for China market they still use the old meters.

Exactly. Adding a capacitor to a highly inductive load will improve the power factor, and the measured current will be less, but the actual watts remain the same. The meter measures watts (KW), not KVA. Take this example, I've used values that are simply to multiply: A motor is running on 200volt, 10 amps at power factor 0.7. Multiplying volts by amps gives 2KVA. The actual power is 1.4KW (multiply KVA by power factor to get KW). If you add enough capacitance to get the power factor to 1, then the power will still equal 1.4KW. The current will actually drop to 0.7A. Showing people the current dropping to 7 amps is very convincing, this is how they get fooled by these devices.

Err. Exactly what our man said.

Same... I have no clue yet I spend so much time just watching his videos. And his little doodles and diagrams. It's all very interesting even though I have no idea what's going on :P

It's really fascinating stuff if you take the time to learn it. Whether or not you will ever use physics in your career, I feel that everyone should have a basic understanding of how electronics work considering that we use them on a daily basis.

Same here, excellent

suk up

Lovely Scots voice he has aye!

The salesmen used to have demo cases with a very lossy unloaded motor to show the apparent power savings.

I'm just coming up to my 60th and I don't know, then again I've never had the need to use it, I don't think, lol.

I feel like my friend who asked me when I press ctrl+Z "wait wait, how did you do that?!"... I Feel born again

me to lol im 49

im almost 30 and my mum told me what does that buttons do like 20 years ago

Me too, and I'm 50 come this December

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Restriction de substance hazardous. Boom. Frenese.

TheLastPost it seems to be ROUSH

Ashens reference - RRY CH!

+RIB B Do you really need a mnemonic for that? It't obvious that you need to put some charge (=current x time) into a capacitor before the voltage rises.

+superdau But not everyone is a fucking expert like you fella. How about trying to encourage people to learn, which is what this channel is about, rather than belittling their efforts.

+lazaglider true dat!

+RIB B I never could remember that..instead I always thought about complex (a+i*b) representation of resistance.. C and L rotate vector in opposite directions..forward by phase or back by phase..

did you take physics with Dr. Watters?

wow looks like the spare 250w panel started saving you energy to buy from grid, power companies dont like that..im assuming the inverter is a pure sine type, anything else would trip the elcb

+fidel catsro They sure don't. I certainly didn't expect to be dragged from office to office explaining myself and my measly solar setup, not to mention the threats of legal implications. The inverter was indeed labeled as pure sine though at that price i wouldn't be certain of anything.

would love to know more about your set up. do you have a utube video about it?

Hello how can I get a set-up like yours?

Your power inverter must SYNCHRONIZE the waveform with the incoming power, or there will be trouble.

The cap would make a good bypass cap on a pro audio driver

It is very neat, too bad the casing is wasted by putting in useless crap like this one. You can get these same exact aluminium project boxes online cheaper than buying this thing and salvaging just the case.

Naughtiness confirmed :)

Residential power meters measure both the power going into your home, as well as the power reflected back to the power company, with the net being what you actually consume. Power reflection happens from inductive loads which temporarily store power in a magnetic field then when that field collapses, it send that power back to the utility. While that can add current in your power lines, your not actually consuming it and so aren't charged for it. Capacitors also store power in the form of a electrostatic potential between two plates and releases it back to the grid. Each unit of capactive reactance cancels the same amount inductive reactance. So while you seen .489 amps at 240 volts you were not seeing 117.360 watts being used. Rather, you were seeing 117.360 volt amps being absorbed from and reflected back to the mains line.

So these devices actually increase* your charged-for consumption, in a residential situation? *by more than the power consumed by the LED, obviously

Ian Oliver " So these devices actually increase* your charged-for consumption," Simple answer: No. More complex answer: Maybe just a tinny amount. Read below for a more detailed explanation. Look at this image of a capacitor in an alternating current circuit. sub.allaboutcircuits.com/images/quiz/00577x02.png Power is Voltage times Amps. Consider these four different situations with a capacitor during a complete (0-360 degrees) cycle of applied alternating voltages. 1. 0-90 degrees of a cycle, voltage and amps are both positive. so power is positive and you'r consuming power. 2. 90-180 degrees of the cycle, voltage is positive and amps are negative. so power is negative and you'r sending power back. 3. 180-270 degrees of the cycle, voltage and amps are both negative. So power is positive, and you'r consuming power. 4. 270-360 degrees of a cycle, voltage is negative and amps are positive. So power is negative and you'r sending power back. Adding up all the power flows. gives you a zero net flow of power. A little more nuanced answer: But, if you add in the tiny amount of resistance found in the wires, then yes you will loose a tiny amount of power due to line losses. For residential consumers, it is generally so insignificant that its not worth mentioning. "Your charged for consumption" is the net power that you consume. These devices temporarily absorb power and reflect it back. If I gave you an apple and moments later you give it back, you didn't actually consume it, thus I cant charge you for what you did not consume. But, the apple still changed hands twice. The apple in this analogy represents power not current. This is how it is with residential power consumers. Industrial power consumers are a special situation. They consume so much more power and often have very poor power factor. If we carry on the analogy, were you I might have exchanged an apple, Industrial consumes exchange truck loads. If power lines are like freeways. those freeways can only allow so much traffic, unnecessarily exchanging truckloads limits the number of truck a given highway can deliver. Adding an extra lane helps, but is costly. Alternately, power companies charge industrial consumers for the actual power flow rather then net power flow. This creates an incentive for industrial consumers with poor power factor (often excessively inductive) to employ power factor correction through introducing capacitive reactance.

Florian Uhlemann you do recognize, that this device is not powerful enough to do anything except blank that stupid old green LED. The point he was making was in the event that you had a device that function correctly, through it, One could change the differential between phase of voltage and amperage. I don't care if you put a big Flippin magnet on this thing it won't do anything at all to your bill. But know this is a Chinese POS, with false advertising, and dreams of grandeur, straight up and out right bullshit, nada,nit,crapola!!!! In the American vernacular Dogshit tastes better than this works.....LOL

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+SutekhAeon Maybe you're right. 99.9% of humans who change science din't get rich but poor with their interests and often loose their lives. The best way to avoid reduce your liquidity is to save every penny and avoid girls.

+dharmabodhy LOOSE? I don't think so. How does this look? LOSE

+dharmabodhy But Where's the fun in that?

Mostly ElectronHeads will be viewing this video which probably makes the Chinese price on this a good deal. We get a nice extruded aluminum case, 4.7uF/500V Cap, Panel mount fuse holder, Power cord and connector and a PCB! All for probably 1/10th the cost of buying the components separately!

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+Derp Herp Only in Bangkok

+drkastenbrot That's anti-semitic you racist, nazi, sexist, bigot!

Kablam?

Do all you people want Google to remove the comment section? Please be respectful and kind to a person sharing information.And usernames​ say a lot about your character which I'm sure that's the point your trying to portray. It's not impressive and very small of you

Isnt the reason we drive ground rods into the ground to reduce objectionable current like nearby lightning strikes?

What's amazing is how people who "know" electricity can never explain it to those who don't. :)

now available at the 99 cents store in 3 sizes. screw the big box prices ; )

Must have been all the capacitors inside them

But you will have to spend all the savings on your health because those led's are harmful to your health. I guess you haven't thought of that, have you?

The Pale Horse how are LEDs harmful to health?

Go and do the research. I did

+Toumal Rakesh Clever way to feign compliance or just a typo? :-)

ROSH - Reduction of Surplus Housings Maybe they had a lot of aluminum cases they needed to use for something.

@@jessstuart7495 Add CE mark for that effort: Chinese Engineering.

Rating for INROSH current?

+forestbird agree, the housing is quite fancy indeed, you could use it to house maybe a power bank or something more useful

Horadic or radio

warmfreeze your logic is screwed

The fuse holder is reusable also.

I thought the same thing, anodized case for that device was cool