Man, that is the idea and practical use of a condom 👍

If you can get it in! 😆

@@luderickwong but a condom blocks billions of dirty worms, that's the only difference

Think that's what they all do lol

@@xB-fx2iuvs blocking billions of electrons

Blue*

@@HighestRank Red*

*yellow (I’m just joining in).

Would be even funnier if both leads of the LED were also be connected to the same rail like the cap, but I guess they had to make the LED work, so that people think the device is doing something

@@contrarian8870 What if they made the LED *blink*

UK is too scared to ban sales of untested devices from china because it might start ww3

@@girlsdrinkfeck True.

They are already banned... it's just nigh on impossible to police it with the likes of eBay etc

@monsieurtechnical it's not something that eBay can easily control - especially since many of these things are being sold from China where such things aren't necessarily illegal.

@monsieurtechnical Well if you report the seller to eBay their account will be removed pretty sharpish. But it’s easy enough to just make a new account and get straight back to it. Unfortunately, if we want it to be easy and convenient for genuine sellers to get set up, it’s inevitable that others will abuse it; the only real way to stop this is to put considerable barriers in place, like requiring proof of ID from all sellers. Similarly, if we insist on paying rock bottom prices, there are people that will be willing to skimp on safety/quality to meet that price point.

Yes, but there are issues, and there are... Issues...

Same thing with relationships.

Thir culture may reward corruption or they're that poor.

@Matt Quinn Yeh.. Because of Lockdown, we needed a webcam for a bank meeting... Hd it said on the ebay thing. Well. It does work, but HD it AIN'T!

@@NicholasLittlejohn in China it's both

Crooks of note!

@@NicholasLittlejohn if you live in China you'll quickly learn to treat manufacturers' and sellers' claims as if a homeless guy just randomly ran up to you and told you the same thing

What's the actual purpose of this device if made correctly? Is there any?

@@PJBonoVox only in industry, not in residential. A real unit built for industrial use will have a number of capacitors that can automatically be switched in or out to appropriately compensate for the inductive loads

@@PJBonoVox Just putting a capacitor across an inductive load can improve the power factor, which reduces the reactive component. BUT, most household electricity meters only measure real power so you won't reduce your power bill at all even with a 'correct' power 'save devicer'. (Look up POWER FACTOR). The only party that directly benefits from an improved power factor is the power company, coz they can use cheaper (smaller) distribution cables, transformers etc. Of course the consumer ends up paying for the infrastructure in the long term anyway.. .

@@stmounts 💯%Right

Money changes everything!

Pull the sticker off and you could sell it for twice the price as doing all four at once. Bargain.

@@Thermalions 😊

Old people are so stupid, they won't be able to survive without us yet they get mad when we try to protect them.

_Ding-dong!_

pretty sure i've seen one with an identical case somewhere!!

This is perfect example of buying leftover parts from other companies and putting junk inside but make sure the led works to complete the fake.

Don't get me goin on THAT! back in the day a set of door chimes had a REAL nice sound, now it is just a chunk of plastic with a circuit board an wussy-assed speaker, no magnet-wire wound solenoids with plungers and a nice set of pipes.

Ooh, that's a great idea! It should come with a hand crank attached to a wheel which makes a pleasant whirring noise. It needn't contain any other components at all.

They're called solar panels. Another big con...

oh you dont want to walk into that media bubble on youtube 🤣 (it knows your interested already as they buy your keyboard input data from google).

@@carnbyarst670 i dunno. mine keeps my phone charged and pc running for a few hours each day. and its only little. (real con is theyve invented >95% efficiency panels at least 3x in the last 15years that ive noticed. that tech for some reason never reaches the public. (first i saw years ago a chinese guy grew nano trees out of crystals allowing it to capture all wavelengths at something like 97% efficiency.) could have saved the planet. wont see that in costco anytime soon. (also check nasa's innovation competition winners. one of em was a fisherman who wrapped solar film with a bioluminescent material and wrapped it up into a cylinder. it could run for 10years without running out. he was granted 50k as a prize by nasa but they got rights to the tech. gotta get on the science websites and download these things as they tend to disapear from the news fairly fast.

@@luminousfractal420 I had 12 solar panels installed on my roof at great expense. I saw little savings. Worked out it would take 50 years to get my money back...

Not long enough, that's what she said. Hahaha

I don't think the earth pin was wide enough either--it's supposed to be bigger in all dimensions than the other two pins, but it looks like they just put a third regular pin on the package here.

I remember reading a friend's Japanese motorcycle owner's manual, in the days when electronic ignition was novel "This motorcycle has electronic ignition, so is completely pointless"

@@MarkUKInsects :D

The earth pin also was not connected to anything inside the case

Next: the LED is actually just a retroreflector that looks like it’s emitting light.

That sounds like the hand cranked LED dynamo torch I bought years ago. Had three button cells concealed in the head of the torch. The feature list on the box included "Good for hand pressing brain function."

Just have a pin on the back be pushed in to open a shutter covering a shiny green piece of foil with a reflector behind it and call it a low power led

Naw, just use a wire so low gauge it functions as an inline resistor for the LED.

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@@onemoremisfit That seems to have covered 99.8% of YT comments.

They _were_ considerate enough to include it , though. Wouldn't want to short-change their paying customers.

Not sure as it's the same one as I have. My refrigerator is plugged into one and it's working fine. When I installed it, I did see a power savings. Not sure if I'm still getting that or not.

Get a refund on eBay. At least you get a free cap then :)

@@russellhltn1396 you wouldn't be able to "see" savings, as nowdays refrigerator takes under 100kWh per year, or older ones few hundred..

@@Tsiikki You might check your numbers. They seem way low. Besides, I was talking about a device from the 90's, long before Energy Star came to be. It worked then, but I doubt if it would work now as the new units have been optimized for savings.

A good description for many politicians around the world.

Rude would be a social issue not sexual.

Knowing Clive, why not both?

Because there are people that are *that stupid* out there

I think everyone knows this , but Thomas Edison hired employees who taste tested soup from a bowl before adding salt to it.

Ummm, some people have OCD (it's not stupidity, it's a condition of reality) 🤪

Well it's only using a fraction of a percent of the power it's going to _save_ them. People may also figure that you can light a LED up with a 1.5v battery, so that's tiny compared to the 230-240v supply.

But, that LED iz green, meow. I iz certain it works.

@@Thermalions Save them from what

@@andricode People irrationally think the unit it's going to save them a significant amount of money off their electricity bill. The tiny amount of power used by the LED in providing them the confidence that it's working is a welcome trade-off in their mind (if they even think about that).

@@Thermalions Well, we need to appreciate the sellers, they were intelligent enough to make people believe them, they're marketing genious! (Or people is very very dumb)

I have no problem with native medicine, a lot of it is just stuff scientists haven't studied yet. But when you're taking strange herbs to balance your qi, it's hookum xD

@@cheyannei5983 While I agree with your response, I've thought a little more about my original comment, and wanted to add that we have branches of health treatments in the west which are also a bit suspect to me. Some people swear by chiropractic yet the underlying principles are off the wall, as are those of homeopathy. So it's not like accupuncture has a monopoly on 'woo woo'.

@@cheyannei5983 if you need to balance your qi .. you probably bought that wiress charger on wish.com and Clive will be taking it apart for us very soon.

Cheyanne I I have no doubt that some herbs have beneficial properties. What I object to is the use of rhino horn, tiger bones, pangolin scales and the like when not only is there no evidence they do anything, there is endless evidence that they do absolutely nothing. Hundreds of species are at risk of extinction purely because idiots think they have magical properties.

@@spencerwilton5831 Yeah that makes sense. In fact, a lot of our western medicine has roots in folk remedies: for example chewing on beaver tail was a painkiller because the tail glands contained aspirin from the willow trees that the beavers ate. Also, the fact that people are poaching animals to extinction for their shitty health scams just reminds me of the fact that people hunted narwhals and sold the horns by saying they were magical unicorn horns. I'm not kidding, that was an actual thing iirc. Either way it's gross.

The developers attended prestigious overseas universities, but didn’t attend any classes so they could deliver pizzas in their mummy’s Mercedes.

@@laustinspeiss - That's a lot of mixed stereotypes there.

The closest thing to a saving grace this thing could get would be if the caps were faulty/bad batch. Could be another reason to keep it out of circuit.

@@RFC-3514 Yeah, I’m a Twitter & Bisted old fart !

@@laustinspeiss why would anyone have a car for their mummy

Not far off from having an FPE brand service entrance equipment, and if u do and use these scammish power savers and they go KaPUT, ur house will probably go with it as FPE is lonng known for bad stab-lock breakers, If they work once ur freakin lucky.

@@raymondgarafano8604 in german Kaputt means broken

@@012345678944107 I always knew kaputt meant broken, I just didn't know what language it was broken in.

@@raymondgarafano8604 kaputt is also broken in swedish, a slang word of sorts. We also use "kass"

If you do read the instructions you’ll be more confused !! so just don’t !!

Chinglish instruction manuals are for pure entertainment, not to tell you what to do.

That's what she said.

I was very disappointed when it didn't start scrolling back and forth.

"This is the story of a man . . . who does not exist."

hmm, thats an idea, i made a little knight rider thingy when i was about 11(37 years ago 😱) still got it,, might be able to squeeze it in one of those cases, ....

can you imagine americas reaction to a chinese device that looks like it can do things like kit from nightrider 🤣

You've still got the earth pin issue though, and if I recall correctly it looked like it's rivetted, so not as straightforward to replace.

Ummm, I think that proves that your mind is infested with KZfaqry...just sayin' 🤪

Doing nothing, but safely.

it's just indicating there's power on the outlet

Well the fuse would anyway as Clive mentioned.

@@stevetobias4890 but... for science? ;P

@@stevetobias4890 the fuse was bypassed though

@@stevetobias4890 fuse, who needs a fuse? Bypass it

@@g2g591 fuse protection circuitry. How clever.

Welly bad man. Welly, welly bad man.

We fill case with firework and radiation to kill bad man.

You could do worse...

STAR TREK - Scotty !!!!!!!!!!!!!

But they didn't clarify which result 😏

@@ursanotsomajor Maybe they mean "fleecing people of their money", in which case they're right

Love it!

It was the profit result.

There are two possible results when plugging something into the mains, and of those two results, "didn't kill you" is the very bestest.

Judging by the plug, it isn't even a good case.

@@henke37 which one?

It's weaselectrical.

matters when the cheap plastic snaps when you go to remove it 🤦‍♂️😀 had that happen before.

Big Clive must have a huge naughty box by now(!)

*That make some people wallets gone thin*

How come you posted this comment 6 days ago while the vid is out for 30 minutes? What kind of magic are you using

@@lillexus5589 the magic of patreon.

@@lillexus5589 i bought a universal time saving plug on Bigclive's patreon page

Works great in hillbilly areas of America... Spend money to lose money. They think that will "make America great again"....

It's recycling at its best: this is where motor capacitors which may have already died go to avoid, for the moment, the landfill.

> it looks better than a piece of rock Don't give them any ideas.

@@jaymzx0 can't cuz they already did that with bogus hard drives in the 2000's.

@@freedustin From what I've heard people still do it with external HDDs on occasion. If I go to Best Buy to buy a HDD I usually open it up near the customer service counter so they can see I'm not pulling my own scam. I haven't gone as far as bringing a laptop and plugging it in, but I haven't been burned yet. Be sure to use a credit card for extra protection, too.

So, let's say it cost a fiver to buy, so saving £2.16 per year it will take just over two years to pay for itself as long as you throw it directly in the bin when it arrives in the post. Perhaps Ebay could offer deals where you can save on the postage and they will throw it in the bin for you?

Almost the same as pay out £5000 on solar panels to save money . Try arguing with these companies that you won't save money until you get the £5000 back in saves energy costs.

@@marklatimer7333 just remove the sticker & resell it as a rat chaser for 2x the price you paid for it.

@@doctorkdsify I was thinking calling it a "Cosmic Wellness Emitter" and asking for $400 but available at the special price for today only of $99.98 buy now to avoid disappointment. This device is taking the world by storm, remember Big Phama has tried to ban this remarkable new scientifically proven product. - Buy more than one and get a 0.5% discount .

@@John-ob7dh On average it takes 8 years to get your money back from solar panels and that's assuming you live in a reasonably sunny part of the world. You better hope the panels last at least 15 years (they become inefficient with age) or they could cost you money .

When the testing failed it was easier to short out the fuse & change a single lead on the capacitor than to cut it out.

I really expected that big "capacitor" to be full of sand, used to make the product seem hefty.

an empty housing, with the leads coming out of the socket just open inside the case?

My wife often complains she has a husband who does nothing...

Well as a thought, they could just dump a bunch of junk e-waste electronic components they couldn't throw in a dumpster, put them in a case that lights up green and sell them for a profit... wait... 😲 That's a brilliant idea!

@@raymitchell9736 Bonus points if they pot them so you can't see that the two wires going into the mass aren't connected to anything.

@@ConstantlyDamaged Yes, that's a very good idea... that would make it harder for Clive to "reverse engineer" but I wouldn't put it past him... LOL.

The LED which, to the determent of the severely mentally lacking people buying them, only consumes power, not saves it.

He says it's 5uF, and as there is nothing written on it, I suppose he did measure it...

No, it’s really actual.

@@janosnagyj.9540 If you look carefully at 9:40 you can just make out 5 uF written on the side of the capacitor. You've got to be really quick to catch it, and it seems to depend on the angle of the light falling on it.

@@mandolinic Yeah, hand-written, I suppose by Clive. Good catch! :)

Yeah. I was plugging a cheap charger in at the time.

Does it use the three lamp system, or is it automatic?

@@bigclivedotcom it has a dial that spins 360 degrees we can adjust it to match the power company it's very old setup.

@@raymondmucklow3793 I for one would love to see this in action. Mainly because of the age of such a system. Guest video?

@@Mr.Unacceptable so it's funny you say that, our powerplant super came in to work today (which he never does it's Saturday 😁) so he came in to check fuel and figure how long we could run on what we have. All this because of a natural gas shortage. So we might just fire up our system. Our oldest Gen is 1947 our newest is 1992. So maybe I might just get to video it. Also our 2 oldest gens are 2 stroke 4 cylinder.

Yeah, they do that a lot.

I seem to be in KZfaq's good books at the moment. It makes a refreshing change.

@@bigclivedotcom How the hell did you manage that? We all know you Clive.

@@bigclivedotcom It's because I subbed to you about a month ago. You're welcome. 🤣🤣 Love your videos btw

I know - I'm usually in KZfaq's bad books and being hidden from sight for dirty talk and profanities.