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A con, but does it actually do anything?
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If it's too good to be true.....
It is a capacitor which won't save anything but will improve your power factor if it is low. If you have unity power factor it will lower it (make it worse).
There is also a LED which will consume a very small amount of power so it is costing not saving.
There is also a LED which will consume a very small amount of power so it is costing not saving.
Best case - it's a capacitor in a box which is there because some misguided individual discovered that power factor correction is a thing that can save money, and it uses capacitors.
What they missed is that PFC it's only used in large industrial facilities with mostly inductive loads and where power factor is actually relevant to what they pay for electricity, and that those capacitors have to be carefully sized to the specific installation.
Domestic installations have very few inductive loads and are only metered for kWh rather than kVAh. Shoving a random capacitor in will do nothing.
Worst case it's just a box with a LED indicator in it.
Either way it will achieve nothing.
What they missed is that PFC it's only used in large industrial facilities with mostly inductive loads and where power factor is actually relevant to what they pay for electricity, and that those capacitors have to be carefully sized to the specific installation.
Domestic installations have very few inductive loads and are only metered for kWh rather than kVAh. Shoving a random capacitor in will do nothing.
Worst case it's just a box with a LED indicator in it.
Either way it will achieve nothing.
Or... someone decided to take advantage of people via social media.
Undefined (usually ambiguous, as here) abbreviations can be confusing
However, I agree with everything that has been said by you and everyone else in this thread!
Kind Regards, John
I think that some one needs to report them to the ASA. On one of their (internal) links it says it "will" reduce your bills by 90%.
https://getecovolts.com/videopp/uk?...-g-uk-a1-l2-videopp-c1&offer=&t=1649247215255
https://getecovolts.com/videopp/uk?...-g-uk-a1-l2-videopp-c1&offer=&t=1649247215255
I don't think there are any laws against false advertising on the internet.
I wrote to my MP recently and said there should be.
Remember Martin Lewis sued Facebook because they kept distributing scam adverts making false claims that he endorsed or recommended the crooks?
"Martin issued High Court proceedings for defamation against Facebook after a year in which over 1,000 scam adverts abusing his name or image had appeared on the site. He pledged any proceeds would go to charity.
Online scam adverts, which often use fake celebrity endorsements to get people to part with their cash, have become widespread in recent years, and Facebook admitted in May last year that there were 1,000s of these ads featuring Martin on its site."
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/n...awsuit-as-facebook-agreed-to-donate-p3m-to-a/
The ASA will do nothing, as nothing can be done. It's just another website with no contact details.
In 2021, the then Conservative government, led by the then Prime Minister Johnson, introduced an "Online Safety Bill" that did not include scam internet adverts.
opposition politicians and consumer groups roundly criticised this omission, and public campaigns were launched. As a result the current Conservative Government, led by current Prime Minister Johnson, has shoehorned it in.
https://conversation.which.co.uk/scams/online-safety-bill-open-letter-anabel-hoult/
opposition politicians and consumer groups roundly criticised this omission, and public campaigns were launched. As a result the current Conservative Government, led by current Prime Minister Johnson, has shoehorned it in.
https://conversation.which.co.uk/scams/online-safety-bill-open-letter-anabel-hoult/
Well, as the photo of their founders:
Is actually a stock photo:
I don't think I need to say more!
Is actually a stock photo:
I don't think I need to say more!
You haven’t had your latest bill yet
how did you come to receive, or see, that scam?
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