Wher Can You Buy Them ?

[LKIBA]

does anyone know where you can buy them gadgets you plug into the wall and they slow down that little electric thing that spins round very quickly in ur meter when u put the air con on, i dont want 1 im just a poor old nosey person

[Gary A]

Those little gadgets were invented to separate naive people from their money. How many do you want? The only way they save money is because you can't plug anything else in that socket. There would be a savings if you filled every socket with one of those amazing little devices.

[JetsetBkk]

does anyone know where you can buy them gadgets you plug into the wall and they slow down that little electric thing that spins round very quickly in ur meter when u put the air con on, i dont want 1 im just a poor old nosey person

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[Scott]

You'd be surprised the things that people believe. My father worked for a power company for many years. Once a farmer was complaining about his electric bill and asked if there was anything he could do to reduce it. My father, jokingly told him to put a large bag of salt on the electric meter. The next month, when they were out reading meters, nearly everyone for about a hundred mile radius had a large bag of salt on their meter!!

When I heard that I laughed so hard I thought I was going to p*ss myself, but my dad seemed really upset. When I asked why, he said, "Christ, had I known everyone was going to do it, I'd have told the guy to put a 6 pack of beer on the meter!"

[jstumbo]

I have seen them at Chatachak market.

[LKIBA]

You'd be surprised the things that people believe. My father worked for a power company for many years. Once a farmer was complaining about his electric bill and asked if there was anything he could do to reduce it. My father, jokingly told him to put a large bag of salt on the electric meter. The next month, when they were out reading meters, nearly everyone for about a hundred mile radius had a large bag of salt on their meter!!

When I heard that I laughed so hard I thought I was going to p*ss myself, but my dad seemed really upset. When I asked why, he said, "Christ, had I known everyone was going to do it, I'd have told the guy to put a 6 pack of beer on the meter!"

well u better p*ss urself this 1s true

[LKIBA]

does anyone know where you can buy them gadgets you plug into the wall and they slow down that little electric thing that spins round very quickly in ur meter when u put the air con on, i dont want 1 im just a poor old nosey person

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sorry about that sir

[JetsetBkk]

sorry about that sir

[deejah]

what device?

mai cowjai

[Strap]

That item should not be considered illegal , as it doesn't do anything except help you regulate the Amperage flowing to any one device.

Nothing wrong about that, But if used for a high-current appliance like an Air-Con, It can easily cause the the unit to over heat from being underpowered and possibly burn up from trying to operate.

Unless you are just looking for a voltage converter as in 220/110 drop down converters are fine.

Cheers

[kmart]

Good stuff. I remember a few years ago when I rented a house in a small mu baan in Rayong. The nosy old shopkeeper couple opposite me were continually asking me how much I paid for everything, water / electricity bills, cable tv, etc. Getting tired of their continual badgering I started telling them how cheap my electricity bills were. Next thing I knew, the miserable old cow started frequently slapping my meter, saying it wasn't functioning properly; totally aghast to think that some farang was paying less than her. Ended up she called the local electricity board and actually had someone come to replace it. I could have totally refused to agree to this but knowing their was nothing wrong with it anyway, asked them to go ahead and change it.

It was fun to later inform her that with the new meter, my bills were half the previous amounts. I didn't push my luck and later moved somewhere else. I bet she still comes out after dark and taps at the bloody meter to this day...

[Jingjok]

Good stuff. I remember a few years ago when I rented a house in a small mu baan in Rayong. The nosy old shopkeeper couple opposite me were continually asking me how much I paid for everything, water / electricity bills, cable tv, etc. Getting tired of their continual badgering I started telling them how cheap my electricity bills were. Next thing I knew, the miserable old cow started frequently slapping my meter, saying it wasn't functioning properly; totally aghast to think that some farang was paying less than her. Ended up she called the local electricity board and actually had someone come to replace it. I could have totally refused to agree to this but knowing their was nothing wrong with it anyway, asked them to go ahead and change it.

It was fun to later inform her that with the new meter, my bills were half the previous amounts. I didn't push my luck and later moved somewhere else. I bet she still comes out after dark and taps at the bloody meter to this day...

Hilarious story! Brilliant.

Devices which plug into a power socket to slow the meter down are obviously ridiculous rip-offs, targeted at the gullible.

But there is something to do with power factor correction which can make a meter run faster than it should, in the case of inductive loads with a bad power factor. I have never really understood this propertly - are there any electrical/power distribution engineers on TV who can explain this stuff?

For example in a large development, where the power is metered on the HV side of a main transformer via CTs (current transformers) and a single meter, then the power resold by the management to individual home owners, can poor power factor make the individual (private) meters run fast? Or is this a myth?

[Cuban]

....agree to this but knowing their was nothing wrong with it anyway, asked them to go ahead and change it. It was fun to later inform her that with the new meter, my bills were half the previous amounts.

Fantastic.

I would guess that the OP is refering to PFC units that are sold in a number of places, I have even seen them at local open air markets around Thailand.

However as the OP does have a history here of being quite bad at using langauge to describe the wild flash that has burst forth from his mind - I will persevere for a while as others may benifit from a few issues arising and then touch on the other possible, 'slow the spinny thing down' idea.

Power Factor Correction is a feature included in some applicances that reduces the amount of reactive power consumed by the device. With power factor correction, the power factor is the ratio of true power divided by reactive power. The resultant value is between 0.0 and 1.00. The closer the power factor is to a value of 1 the more efficiently is the device working. The small plugin units that are sold in some Pattaya shops and open markets alike are simply a capacitor in a plastic box and aim to act as a PFC on a small domestic scale. These links offer futher reading on the subject, techie - domestic.

However as to whether it is a worthwhile investment on the long term, read this.

I believe that the OP might be refering to his electric meter, on the pole outside the house. There are technics that can directly slow down and reverse the rotor disk (the spinny thing) within an Electric Meter., and so under read the electricity comsumed. However as interfering with the meter is probably illegal in Thailand I will stop at this point - the mere fact that the OP might zap himself in the process almost encourages me to PM him the details.

[Cuban]

Devices which plug into a power socket to slow the meter down are obviously ridiculous rip-offs, targeted at the gullible.

The devices advertised on the Pattaya radio stations are PFCs and probably function - as to the real cost benifit I doubt. I wonder what the advertizer means by the phrase, "...the current's not static here...".

As for buying one for every applicance in the house, as brighter readers will have considered the manufacturers of most electric power devices are aware of PFC and fit suitable capacitors in the power supply circuits of their products to improve the PFC already. Doing so costs little and allows them to claim greater efficency for their products.

I'm sure some people will attempt to use small PFC units to run large air-con appliances, I hope they don't burn their fingers or their houses down when the thing melts.

[JetsetBkk]

I believe that the OP might be refering to his electric meter, on the pole outside the house. There are technics that can directly slow down and reverse the rotor disk (the spinny thing) within an Electric Meter., and so under read the electricity comsumed....

That's what I thought he meant. Very small drills and tooth picks come to mind...