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I heard it runs on cold fusion snake oil canisters.
from youtube:
[quote]My parents purchased several of these in the hopes of* lowering our electric bill. However they were mortified the next month when we received a bill from the power company for $47,000. In addition, the increased power draw of the PowergardZ apparently caused damage to several transformers and now National Grid is suing us for $125,000 in damages. My parents were forced to take a mortgage out on their home and clear out all their savings. Now I'll never be able to attend college. Why, PowergardZ?[/quote]
Who in their right mind would ever think it would work at all.
[QUOTE=nessman;39607540]from youtube:[/QUOTE]
Jesus Christ, that's horrible. I really hope that isn't true.
[QUOTE=nessman;39607540]from youtube:[/QUOTE]
Decent troll.
But a few of those can't pull that much power without creating a molten core in them. That power has to go some where. Even if it did pull that power, it would fry the cabling in the house, or simply trip their breakers.
[editline]16th February 2013[/editline]
I quickly did a calculation to figure out how much they must be pulling per hour to cost them that much.
That's about 1500 high end gaming computers running... 24/7 all under load, in the same house. A few of those boxes can't physically pull that much power without their being some sort of black hole in them.
thx going to buy 10 right now
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;39607576]Who in their right mind would ever think it would work at all.[/QUOTE]
Au contraire my friend, it actually does work as advertised by blocking the electrical outlet and therefore preventing you from using power from it. :v:
This feels like something the onion would do, and then include reviews of people claiming it to be awesome
I bet it's just a switch and a LED inside.
The only way I can see this working is that it blocks the socket, so you can't use it
Has anyone taken one of these apart?
[QUOTE=Occlusion;39609770]Has anyone taken one of these apart?[/QUOTE]
Yeah
from amazon
[quote]The device appears to be aimed at a European market and is made in China. And, yes I happily voided the warranty to be able to report the truth to you. I first took a screwdriver and drilled through the silicone caulk covered with a fragile warranty seal at the bottom, and then found this to be very gummy. BTW--This will not help anybody from what I can tell: European or American. And, then I just finally pried the case open with a twisting screwdriver. It contains a small circuit board, the back of the switch, the back of the pretty Blue LED and two useless cylindrical ~Electrolytic Capacitors in it of not substantial values. None of this stuff will do a thing for you.
And, I just read the review below. Either the poor woman was faked out or that is some sales person posing as somebody else just to rope you in.
I speculated that perhaps the device could help me with Electro-Magnetic-Interference (EMI), with all the other plug-in stuff available that purports to do this. "Plug one in you won't notice much, but plug five in and God will come to visit your home theatre and speak to you through it."--that is I being a tad melodramatic...but, not far from the claims out there for similar electrical noise quieting devices.
Only when I received the device did it purport to fix EMI. I happened to have P3 Kill-A-Watt 4460 plug in devices I had just received. I had a couple of hopes. I have an old printer that dims the lights as it pulses. I had fantasies that this would "buffer" the old piece of junk printer's ageing power supply by doing power factor correction and stop the dimming and fix EMI from propagating to my Hi-End Audio system.
In all instances, this device lowers Power Factor (that is bad!!!...not good!!!...not green!!!), as measured by the 4460. And, it requires 2.5 amps to run (according to its label on the back...at 120 VAC...ARE YOU FEELING GREEN YET???...YOU SHOULD BE). It seems to suck this energy from the VA side and not register as Watts. I did not bother to leave it plugged in for a whole month to see what...if anything this would do to the United States "Watts measured/billed" electric bill.
Frankly, I figured if it did do anything..."it would increase my bill at a minimum and go relatively un-noticed at a maximum." Most of us cannot turn everything off in our homes to do that test. And, you don't have to, because I did enough testing for you to be the fool you were going to become by buying this!
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When I was younger, I remember seeing a lot of these infomercials (not PowerGuard but same thing, a box that you plug in that claims to save energy) and always wondered how the hell do they did exactly work to save energy. Guess I should had expected it was just something too good to be true.
A too-good to be true product with one button? What does that remind me of?
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[QUOTE=Laserbeams;39609725]The only way I can see this working is that it blocks the socket, so you can't use it[/QUOTE]
Is it odd that I thought that's all it did at first? Was create an obstacle for the outlet?
I couldn't see it working any other way...
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