A rep brought the Energy Wizard to us and was very enthusiastic, as reps always are, about how good it was.
He said just plug it in and you will save at least 10% of your electricity consumption.
No one in the office believed him, we work on the basis that if it seems too good to be true it almost certainly is.
We have been proved wrong and have had to eat our harsh words.
We use quite a lot of electricity here and in order to make sure we are not wasting it we have two smart meters installed so that we can monitor our usage by the hour if we want to, they are very accurate.
We plugged the energy Wizard into a spare socket in a spare room and left it for a week and carried on as normal.
A week later we down loaded the figures from the smart meters and low and behold our consumption was 11.2% less than the previous three weeks.
Now we know energy consumption varies, the weather changes, temperature fluctuates and people do different things each week, but even allowing for this we cannot explain the results other than that
It must be working.
We don’t know how, there is a lot of info on the manufacturers web site, which is
Anyway to test it further we have turned it off for the next week and we will see if our consumption returns to its former level.
If it does then I for one will have to eat my hat for I was sure it couldn’t possibly work.
All this fuss and bother stopping us using normal pearl light bulbs to save a little energy and we can all save at least 10% buy just plugging in one these devices which don’t interfere with anything you do in the house.
Why didn’t the government come up with this rather than passing all these silly laws stopping you using the pearl and opal light bulbs that you like using.
How many power stations could you close if you reduced overall electricity consumption by 10%?
And it is painless you just plug it in; it doesn’t seem to effect anything we do either at home or in the office.
At our rate of savings it will pay for itself in just under three weeks, normal domestic users will take a few weeks longer, to get their money back.
Just how many years it will carry on working we don’t yet know but I do know it will earn it’s keep many many times over.
CommercialLamps
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I am puzzled, household meters measure KWH not kvar so there would be no saving on power factor correction, only on KW losses of cable resistance of ring mains etc which by my estimate would take many years to pay back the cost of the device.
Only industrial metering charge for reactive amps,I used to install power factor systems when I worked in industry.
Please advise where the saving is made and how it achieves this if it is only a capacitor and most appliances already have inbuilt capicitors.
Your advert says 10% saving on electricity bill in the daily mirror this would pay back in 4 months if true.
If it worked I would by one but unsure at this point.
I have a energy monitor which records how much electricity I am using, and when I plug in the energy wizard the monitor shows the amount of energy I am using goes up. I thought that when I plug in the energy wizard the amount of energy I am using would go down. Can you explain the reason for this.
I just want to make it clear that we dont manufacture the Energy Wizard so cannot tell you how it works unfortunately as the manufacturer obviously doesnt want to tell us!
All we did was use it ourselves and noted down our own findings and we found that it did indeed work for us
As for the amount of energy usage going up intitally apparently this can happen but it should still save energy over time
The energy Wizard is being trialled by Eon at the moment so it will be interesting to see what they come back with
In the meantime it continues to save us energy at home – we just dont quite understand how!
Hi Lampman,
It explains your question on the Ecotek site.
I can’t really get my head around how it work’s but will probably give it a go anyway.