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Electricity Saving Box Scam - Beware

The Electricity Saving Box is one of many power-saving scams. These scams often claim you can reduce or even eliminate your power bill by plugging in their devices around your home. The fact is, there is nothing that you can plug in that will reduce your electricity usage and lower your household power bill.

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The problem with these scams is that they often rely on a grain of truth, which is why they come across as believable. The marketing spiel for the devices makes them seem technologically sound and capable of meeting their claims. Additionally, these devices are often found on mainstream online marketplaces and retailers, increasing their appearance of legitimacy. But the truth is, they are not legitimate. And if you read the comments from verified purchasers, you'll see that they learned the hard way that the devices are a scam.

Such "energy-saving" devices go by many names and will often even change names to avoid the backlash that comes when customers feel ripped off. Some common examples of these devices include the Power Pro Save and Heunwa Power Save. Regardless of the name, they all have a similar claim that if you buy several of these devices and plug them into outlets around your home, they will balance or clean the power, thus saving you money. A vital part of this claim is that it takes time for the savings effect to be noticed, which coincidentally takes you out of the return period and leaves you stuck with the device once you realize you"ve been scammed.

The grain of truth here is that these devices can technically affect reactive power, and while that is one form of power, it"s not the form that supplies electricity to heat, cool, light or operate your home. That"s called "real" power. And the reason the devices won"t save you any money on your power bill is because CAEC bills you based on your "real" power usage and not "reactive" power. The other truth is that utilities, such as CAEC and large industrial customers, purchase power in units of "total" power, which includes real power and reactive power. So, for a utility or a large industrial customer, reducing the wholesale power bill by managing "reactive" power and improving Power Factor is a real goal. But that's not how any of us as individuals reduce power bills in our households. Instead, the way to reduce your electricity use and lower your power bill is by turning things off when they aren"t in use or by installing more efficient appliances.

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