[GreenKeys] Measurement of Power Line Noise

[Nick England]

Greenkeys content - my 28RT has two 15uF power factor correction capacitors
https://www.navy-radio.com/tty/28rt/28rt-64.JPG
- other tape relay equipment does too because there were so many motors in
one of those installations.
I don't think individual KSR or ASR sets do, but maybe?


Nick England K4NYW
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 5:42 PM steve bennett via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> BS for sure but there could be some basis in truth.
> My electrical engineering teacher said that the power company would offer
> price incentives
> to industrial customers if they could improve their power factor.
> So for example if a factory had a lot of motors which present an inductive
> load they could improve
> their power factor by adding capacitance.
> Why would the power company want this?
> Because reactive loads cause energy to be lost in the transmission lines.
> So yes this could be a real thing in an industrial setting but for the
> average joe at home it's BS.
>
> -Steve Bennett
>
>
> On Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 02:56:29 PM EDT, Harold Hallikainen via
> GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, March 24, 2024 10:36 am, Roy Morgan wrote:
> > Has any one seen a rational, competent analysis of Elon Musk's magical
> > device supposed to save lots of your electric bill?
> >
> > The needle on my BS meter is wrapped around the upper stop peg.
> >
> > Roy Morgan
> > K1LKY Western Mass
> > K1LKY68 at gmail.com
>
> Your BS meter is working! Apparently Elon Musk has nothing to do with
> these device. Sellers claim he does to make it more believable. A teardown
> of one such device is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLj4Dl_7c4E .
> It's a capacitor.
>
> Harold
>
>
>
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