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How do they do what? Make up BS marketing hype?The power savings* and resulting money saved for residential customersimproving power factor is minimal. For a business or industrialcustomer, there are often power factor surcharges. So here, power factorcorrection can pay off. But residential customers are billed for realpower consumption only. * By improving p.f. the total current is reduced and, as a result, theI^2R losses are reduced. But this would be on the order of a percent orso of total consumption.-- Paul Hovnanian mailto:------------------------------------------------------------------Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.

This bugged me when I didn't see a MOVE xx TO PRINT-LINE.You revived a forgotten nightmare from 30 years ago,000560 MOVE RECORDS-WRITTEN TO TOTAL-READ.000570 MOVE SUMMARY-LINE TO PRINT-LINE.000571 WRITE PRINT-LINE.

Is this real ? ( Yes, its on topic )

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Paul Hovnanian P.E. 17 years ago

That isn't the way revenue meters work. They are pretty good ar reading the real power component over a wide range of power factors.

Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Happily doing the work of 3 Men ... Moe, Larry & Curly

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Robert Baer 17 years ago

...i have ten goats...is that the same as goat 10 (err...goto 10)??

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Robert Baer 17 years ago

Tht is the $25 magnet you put beside the fuel line...

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Greegor 17 years ago

This bugged me when I didn't see a MOVE xx TO PRINT-LINE. You revived a forgotten nightmare from 30 years ago,

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Jan Panteltje 17 years ago

On a sunny day (Sun, 31 May 2009 00:58:26 -0700) it happened Robert Baer wrote in :

Good for you!

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Jasen Betts 17 years ago

true,

this is false, if there are any active loads.

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Jasen Betts 17 years ago

there are plenty of ways to get a poor power factor without having a significant phase angle.

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