Power Capacitors
Overview
Problems
Solution
How it Works
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Overview
Read the below information on this page to find out about our product that can be installed in your home or your business to help recycle the energy you are currently using. With this product, you can save money on your electricity bill as well as reduce your carbon footprint!
Problems
At Power Catch, we help solve some of the everyday energy problems listed below:
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Up to 25% of billable electricity consumed in homes and businesses is non-productive and unusable.
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Most AC motors operate at 80% efficiency under a full load, the efficiency drops dramatically at lower loads.
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This non-productive energy wastes money and also shortens the life of inductive equipment such as motors, HVAC equipment, pumps, and major appliances.
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"Over $16 billion dollars of electricity is unusable energy, but billable in the U.S." Source: U.S. Department Of Energy
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"The estimated annual cost of the outdated U.S. electricity grid is $206 billion per year." Source: Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory
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"The adequacy of North America's electricity system will decline unless changes are made soon … demand for electricity is expected to increase over the next 10 years by 19 percent in the U.S., but confirmed power capacity will increase by only 6 percent." Source: North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC)
Solution
Energy Controllers fine tunes electrical systems to reduce non-productive and wasted electricity, giving you cost-effective energy therefore reducing your electrical kilowatt hour usage!
Our Guarantee
At Power Catch, Inc., we guarantee a reduction on your kilowatt power usage or your money back guaranteed. You are billed in kilowatt hours which means you are billed by how many thousand (kilo) watts you consume per hour. The Energy Controller unit installed at the panel corrects the power factor imbalance in your entire electrical system, allowing your inductive motors to operate with maximum efficiency, recycling wasted electricity and drawing less power through your meter. This will lower your electric bill because the meter sees less watts being consumed. The controller reduces the heat around motors extending their life.
Power Catch, Inc. will provide you with a 12 year warranty for residential applications and a 5 year warranty for commercial applications, a product you can take with you when you move, a product with a 25 year life expectancy and your money back guaranteed if you don't see a reduction in your power consumption—savings which begins immediately upon installation.
How it Works
The PFC Unit increases power factor, by reducing the amount of reactive power that the load draws from the utility company. PFC Units store the reactive power needed for the creation of the EMF within the inductive load. As the motor operates, this reactive power is "pulled" and "pushed" to and from the PFC Unit by the motor. The amount of reactive power purchased from the utility company by power factor optimization has been greatly reduced, or eliminated.
Click here to view an informational video on the PFC Unit.
Click here to download a Powerpoint presentation on the PFC Unit.
U.S. Department of Energy Motor Challenge Document Understanding Power Factor Correction
Latest News
Fox News Report on Power Factor Correction "Deal or Dud?" (See more news or view the video)
History of Power Factor Correction
Mr. Gregory Taylor started working on this invention in 1976. Moving into the 1980's, the vision for the company was started. By 1995, he had invented the Energy Controller (KEC) Unit and received the first U.S. patent, August 8, 1995 (U.S. PATENT #5,440,442.)
Those who are environmentally aware will be interested in knowing that this unit has provided a contribution to the safety of our environment by helping reduce the energy demand and by it's environmentally friendly construction and installation on an individual and global scale. Our products have also been tested and are in compliance with the following accredited organizations and institutions: U.S. Department of Energy, EPA, NASA, UL Approved, CSA, Cleaner & Greener Certified & RoHS.
This is a green product manufactured with no lead, no acids, no lead paint and no zinc in the bolts.
Capacitors have been around for over 150 years. That's nothing new. Utilizing the use of the capacitors within this invention allows the unit to store the energy directly coming in at the power source until it is needed. That energy, which is constantly being drawn from by the amount of electricity being used to run the home or business is regulated by the capacitors within the unit giving you 100% optimization of what you need versus the amount of energy you currently waste when pulling your electricity directly from the power source. That excess waste of electricity that you currently receive from the power company is expelled from the motors in your home or business in the form of heat, makes the motors work harder and shortens their life span. With the unit installed you will prolong the life of motors, reduce your electric bill, and provide a safer environment in the reduction of the EMF (Electro-Magnetic Field) emitted by the motors by up to 40% and reduce your carbon footprint factor that contributes to global warming. As an added benefit your home or business is also amperage surge protected.
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Questions & Answers
- IS THE UNIT LEGAL?
- HOW DOES THE UNIT WORK?
- WHAT IS POWER FACTOR?
- DOES the UNIT WORK IN ANY HOME?
- IS THE UNIT TESTED AND APPROVED BY INDEPENDENT LABS?
- WILL THE UNIT AFFECT ANY OF MY APPLIANCES AND THEIR NORMAL USE?
- HOW MUCH CAN I EXPECT TO SAVE PER MONTH USING THE UNIT?
- HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR THE UNIT TO PAY FOR ITSELF?
- IS THE ENERGY-SAVER EASY TO INSTALL?
- HOW LONG WILL THE UNIT LAST?
- WHY HAVEN’T I HEARD OF THIS PRODUCT UNTIL NOW?
- THE SURGE PROTECTS FOR AMP OR VOLTAGE POWER SURGES?
- DO YOU HAVE A 3-PHASE UNIT FOR COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS?
- IS THE ENERGY SAVER UNIT WARRANTED?
- IS THE UNIT WEATHER PROOFED FOR EXTERIOR PLACEMENT?
- ARE THERE ANY CODE VIOLATIONS OF MOUNTING THE UNIT TO THE FUSE BOX, PANEL OR PLACEMENT IN ANY OTHER AREA OF THE HOME OR DIRECTLY TO THE INCOMING POWER LINES?
- WHAT IS THE ESTIMATED TURNAROUND TIME OF BUILDING A UNIT (AFTER BEING SIZED) AND THEN SHIPPED?
- WHERE IS THE IDEAL PLACE TO INSTALL THE UNIT?
- HOW DO YOU ACHIEVE SAVINGS?
- HOW IS A TRANSFORMER USED?
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Absolutely, has over 14 patents nationally and internationally and has been UL (Underwriters Laboratory) approved, CSA (Canadian Standard Approved) in addition to energy and safety tests conducted by the following organizations: NASA, EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), U.S. Department of Energy, & RoHA Compliant (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) UK.
Power Catch, Inc. is a licensed business. It is also a green company located in Norfolk, VA. Power Catch is also a member of the Tidewater Builders Association. -
The unit reduces the amount of power drawn from the utility by storing (in its capacitors) otherwise lost electricity (watts) caused by the inductive motors in your home. (Some examples of inductive motors are air conditioning units, refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, dishwashers, pool pumps, vacuum cleaners, furnace blower motors, fans, etc.) The technology applied by the unit supplies that stored electricity back to your inductive loads, thus causing you to decrease your demand from the utility. If you decrease your demand from the utility, your meter slows down and you use less electricity. The thought is, you’ve already paid for that electricity, why pay for it and waste it when you can pay for it, store it and reuse it again? This whole process is called power factor optimization.
The authority of the power company ENDS at the sealed meter. Period. When the power company sends you all this electricity, much of the WASTED electricity is emitted and disposed of throughout your home and all around you. Within that wasted energy are EMF emissions you are constantly being exposed to. Unless you have something pulling/drawing that energy from the power source (aka meter) that energy sits there waiting for you to consume it. Even though you are not using ALL the energy that was sent to you, YOU are paying for it. The unit takes that power being sent to you and pulls it into the patented capacitors. There is no other product on the market that offers a more COST EFFICIENT energy saving product than this one. The unit takes the active part of energy and send the excess right back through the transformer and back to the electrical company that is sending it. The legality of this product is in the 14 national and international patents. Those patents are issued with governmental approval and backed by U. S. Department of Energy. The power company’s would love to stop this product from being used. Then take the product and utilize it themselves by offering free installation by their on technicians to every home owner. But they can’t. The product is patented and there by protected.
Aside from the approval and protection of these patents by the governments issuing them, as well as other accredited institutions backing the product with their own tests and studies, (i.e. NASA, EPA, RoHC. CSA, etc) the product maintains an environmental approval rating of reducing the EMF emissions by up to 40%. With globalization of the product use, it will reduce the carbon blueprints being emitted to eliminate the need to build more plants and affect the reduction towards the current contribution of global warming. -
It is the percentage of electricity that’s delivered to your house and used effectively, compared to what is wasted. For example, a 1.0 power factor means that all the electricity that’s being delivered to your home is being used for its purpose. However, most homes in America today have a .77 power factor or less. This means that 77% of the electricity that is coming thru your meter at your home or business is being used effectively; the other 23% is being wasted by your inductive load. With a low power factor, the utility has to deliver more electricity to do the same work. However, the unit increases that power factor in most cases to .97 or .98 thus increasing the effective use of your electricity and lowering your usage. -
DOES the UNIT WORK IN ANY HOME?
Yes it does, as long as you have a circuit breaker panel with breaker switches and not the old screw in type fuses, the unit will work on any single-phase electric application from homes. -
IS THE UNIT TESTED AND APPROVED BY INDEPENDENT LABS?
Yes, the unit is UL listed and tested in the U.S. & Canada, and has also been tested by many other highly credentialed organizations such as NASA, EPA, RoHS. Also, the technology is recognized by U.S. Department of Energy after their endorsement of the product. -
WILL THE UNIT AFFECT ANY OF MY APPLIANCES AND THEIR NORMAL USE?
No, if anything, your motors will run about 10% cooler, which is good for a motor because heat is the enemy of motors. By running cooler the motor's life may be extended by 85%. -
That depends on many factors. The size of your home, the amount of inductive motor loads, and the amount you are paying per kilowatt-hour of electricity, etc. However, generally speaking, users of the product have seen up to 25% in reduced consumption, but the average savings is somewhere in the 6% to 20% range. -
Generally about 12-18 months, but again, the same factors above apply, some will see sooner (approximately 10 months), some will see later (approximately 20 months). The good news is that it is guaranteed by us for 12 years and its life expectancy is 25 years plus. -
We recommend installation by an electrician to warrant the product and insure proper installation and liability. The unit comes with complete installation instructions. It installs in about 20-30 minutes. Check with your local authorities, some cities may require a permit for the installation of the product. - It has a predicted lifespan of up to 25 + years.
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That’s easy; two words “cost effectiveness”. Up until recently, electric rates throughout America were cheap, costing us 2, 3, or 4 cents per kilowatt-hour. Now, electricity is 8, 10, 12, 14 and 19 in some cases New York City is 22 cents per KWH and in Hawaii is 33.5 cents per KWH. At the cheaper rates the Energy Saver didn’t make sense, but at the current rates, it makes all the sense in the world. - The unit stabilizes your amperage and power surges at the panel, it prevents power and amperage surges on the entire home.
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- Yes, 12 year manufacturer's warranty for commercial units, and 5 year manufacturer's warranty for residential units, for full replacement even if struck by lightning.
- Yes it is air tight and water proofed. The unit is contained in a hermetically sealed steel case.
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ARE THERE ANY CODE VIOLATIONS OF MOUNTING THE UNIT TO THE FUSE BOX, PANEL OR PLACEMENT IN ANY OTHER AREA OF THE HOME OR DIRECTLY TO THE INCOMING POWER LINES?
First of all, the power company’s authority STOPS at the meter. Installation of your power unit should be installed by a licensed electrician to warrant the product and to ensure proper installation and liabilities. The unit is licensed and holds over 14 U.S. Governmental Patents and International Patents. It carries a UL approval as well as other accredited organization standards of approval both domestically and internationally. Check with your local authorities, some cities may require a permit for the installation of the product. - Approximately 3 weeks, depending on supply and demand.
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Installation of the unit at the panel should be connected on the top, left side of the panel on a double pole breaker or double throw switch, parallel. It is recommended that you use a licensed electrician to do your installation to ensure proper installation and warranty of the product. -
As the demand for power runs through your home, there is nonproductive current (heat) that strains your home appliances and wiring. This heat is wasted energy that you are paying for. The unit optimizes the power that comes into your home, allowing your appliances and equipment motors to operate more efficiently. This reduces heat (wasted electricity), which in turn lower your electric bill, reduces the chance of fires, and increases the life of your appliances and motorized equipment. -
To solve the problem of sending electricity over long distances, George Westinghouse developed a device called a transformer. The transformer allowed electricity to be efficiently transmitted over long distances. This made it possible to supply electricity to homes and businesses located far from the electric generating plant.
Despite its great importance in our daily lives, most of us rarely stop to think what life would be like without electricity. Yet like air and water, we tend to take electricity for granted. Every day, we use electricity to do many functions for us, from lighting and heating/cooling our homes, to being the power source for televisions and computers. Electricity is a controllable and convenient form of energy used in the applications of heat, light and power.
Memberships & Certifications
- Member of the US Green Building Council
- Member of the TBA Green Building council
- RoHS Compliant
- Cleaner & Greener Certified
- Approved by the U.S. Dept. of Energy
- The Power Capacitor is made in the USA!
- UL Rated (E239850)
- NASA Tested
- CSA Certified (LR78409)
- KVAR™ Savings Inc. is a member of the BBB with a rating of A+ since February 2002.
- Member of the Tidewater Builders Association
