Xpower Energy Saver -- Investigation

[Dardedar]

DAR
Doug and I went to a "Living Green" festival in Rogers about two weeks ago. There were booths with people selling windmills solar panels and other green type products.

One fellow was selling this product:



It's a little plastic coffee can with a light on top. It has a small guage lamp cord coming out of it which you are to plug into the wall in your house.

Here's how it "works"

I can't cut and paste the text but here is the picture:





DAR
Here is a comment from ripoffreport.com

Xpower does not work as it claims

I am an electrical engineer and have found that a number of my family members have gotten involved with Forum Technologies which markets products designed by Xium Corporation. Their showcase product is the Xpower which claims to save up to 25% on your electric bill. After doing my own research, this device simply corrects your power factor, reducing your reactive power usage but very little change in real power usage. If the unit is placed close to an inductive load (such as a motor) with a bad power factor it will save you some real power in your wiring. This is simply because you reduced the amount of current flowing in the wires due to the reactive power, but not the real power used to drive the motor.

A few key pieces of info in my research are the following:

Article written by an EE that is fairly technical but does explain that it is not justified for nearly all residential consumers.

http://powerelectronics.com/power_manag ... index.html
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Article and Video piece by KUTV done on the Xpower. He buys two units and tries it in someone's home and the other unit is evaluated by University of Utah EE department.

http://kutv.com/letbillbuyit/local_story_038185542.html
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Additionally, I personally contacted the independent testing lab that purportedly did the testing and wrote the report on the xpowertechnology website. I talked to Jason Anderson, Director of Testing Services, and he told me that they have sent a letter to the company in question telling them to 'take it down' and 'that the report is falsified'. He said he would not make any further comments. Here is the link to the report.

http://www.xpowertechnology.com/independent_testing.pdf
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Lastly with a basic engineering understanding of power and electronics, even if I don't count the info above, the claims of this device are bogus.

[Dardedar]

DAR
Watch the short video ad here.

From the comment section underneath:

scam
power factor correction "which this thing does" is a means of reducing the inductive current flowing in the supply. this will reduce the overall current flow upstream of thecorrection, but will not reduce the current flowing into the load. the reduced supply current will reduce the line losses in the supply, but will have little or no affect on the KWHr consumed.
like the old saying "to good to be good"

Power factor correction reduces current drawn from the supply, but it will not alter the KW consumed. As most domestic metering and charging is based on KWHrs, there will be no reduction in the power bill even if the current is reduced.
Unfortunately, there are many who promote the reduction in current as being a reduction in power therefore a reduction in bill. - Not true.
This product is electrical snake oil and is a scam.

DAR
Bonus, this is a pyramid scheme too:

To whom it may concern;

a company name forum technologies has been selling a product called x-power energy saver, that they claim it can save you 25% of your power bill. A lot of people already joined this networking (pyramid) business. They ask you to join for a fee of $500.00 That include 2x power units for your personal use. As a "director" in other words a "recruit" you're supposed to recruit people so you can qualify for commissions and bonuses. This kind of tactics (making a lot of money from recruiting) is their way of getting people to join although they know that the product (i think) doesn't work.

Can you please investigate this x-power energy saver product if it's legitimate and really works? I believe this is just a scam.

This scam is happening almost all over the united states, especially here in las vegas and california.
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More later....