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this is the most important invention since the printing press it comes in

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many shapes and sizes and has even more names but don't worry about that

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according to the sellers of these amazing little gadgets they do

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everything from saving you money to cleaning your dirty unstable electricity

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to helping you finally get a good night's sleep but you better hurry we're

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almost sold out there's no time for research when other people are buying

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them all just look at this graph

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and if you act right now you'll get 50

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65 no wait 70% off look at all these

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logos of news organizations that you might trust don't they look nice here or

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maybe over here wow these sites really

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are a master class in scummy marketing

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but the craziest thing about these little miracle gizmos they aren't

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actually a scam I mean they absolutely

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are a scam but at the same time you know what this is going to take some

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explaining up roll the thing for our sponsor big thanks to seic for

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some money on your power bill a little bit later on let's kick off with the

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beef you're feeling one with the all metal housing if this thing's just a

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rock and some hot glue this is going to be a real short

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video man this thing is cool we can see

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every individual wire in here on the next slide we get a really good look at

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a couple of resistors a diode uh We've

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also got what looks like a little LED here and this boxy structure if we alter

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our view a little bit enhance shows us that this is in fact a capacitor we can

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see the two conductive plates inside of it now if half of the manufacturer

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claims about these are true that right there is the hardest working capacitor

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on the planet let's change gears and move over to our plastic ones

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well seems like they've got a couple more components on their boards

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including some capacitors on the boards themselves but the design is similar

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overall so why don't we change gears and talk about what these things are

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supposed to do if you're familiar with electrical circuits you might already

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know about inductive resistive and capacitive loads for everyone else

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here's the tldr if something is mostly just making heat like a hot plate or an

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old school incandescent light bulb it's a res resistive load and the voltage and

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current remain in Phase or lined up if

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something is moving ceiling fans and washing machines are good examples here

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it's probably an inductive load and the current legs behind the voltage by

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90° capacitive loads meanwhile tend to be more hidden especially in the home

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this is where the current leads 90° ahead of voltage so these loads are

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typically used to balance out inductive loads and they're mostly found in well

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stuff that has capacitors in it like this Prime PX power supply from our

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sponsor C Sonic who has more models rated at Titanium or above by

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a power factor of 98 or better that

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power factor thing that's going to mean something to you in a minute coming back

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to different kinds of loads if you've got a big industrial building that is

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stuffed full of AC Motors Transformers and the like you can end up with so much

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inductive load that it actually starts to impact the efficiency of the power

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grid itself and I'm not talking efficiency like some waste heat from

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your noodle extruding machine I'm talking the power company needs to send

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you more power than you're actually using harming their efficiency that's

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where something called the power factor comes into play it's a measure of how

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much power is doing work called active power versus how much power it looks

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like you're using called apparent power and we can find it with this very

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Pythagoras looking formula here the ideal power factor is one meaning that

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all the power you're drawing from the grid is doing actual work anything lower

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and you are impacting the efficiency of the grid which your power company is

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100% going to charge you for so then how

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do you reduce the inductive load so your power company doesn't start piling on

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sech charges capacitors the power system

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in any big industrial facility likely has one or more more capacitor Banks

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which act to smooth out their heavy inductive loads hence the capacitors

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that showed up on our CT scans but here's the thing while the theory is

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actually sound residential customers you

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know the people they're marketing these devices too don't get charged based on

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power factor a big part of the reason for that is pretty much all of the heavy

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power devices in a house are either a resistive load or they already have

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capacitors build into them to compensate for their inductive loads we looked from

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Alberta to Zimbabwe and across the board residential and small business customers

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are build only for the active power used

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now I'm sure there's some outliers that you guys are already furiously typing

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comments about but generally speaking it's only when you ramp up to large

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commercial and Industrial facilities that power factor really enters the

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equation and the folks selling these magical gizmos know all of this they

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just don't care power factor is that

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convenient Little Nugget of truth that they can wrap in the layers and layers

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of BS marketing that your conspiracy loving uncle needs to convince them to

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buy these things for the entire family for Christmas this year and some of them

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take their scam even further let's crack this one open using our handy dandy

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Precision screwdriver kit from LTD store.com built-in bit storage fidget

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spinner worthy uncap and built-in magnetic Parts tray with the one screw

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removed uh yeah there's not a whole lot

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going on in here we've got a basic LED power circuit that's how you know it's

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on then we just go ahead and remove this second screw and this IC right here is a

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bridge rectifier that converts AC to DC so far so good but this is the part

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where we get into some funny business do you see our um capacitor here well one

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of the two leads going to it doesn't seem to actually connect to the rest of

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the circuit you can see it in the X-ray or actually just by holding it up to the

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light there's no Trace to that pad so my

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question now then is if this is just here for looks is this even a real

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capacitor let's find out before I connect this it's worth

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noting that this is in nanofarads right now that's effectively zero Moment of

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Truth is it a real

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capacitor survey says no I got to say

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I'm actually kind of surprised that it is more cost effective to build a fake

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Capac fer than it was to drop the 15 or maybe 30 cents on a real one it's got

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some weight to it at least I cut one open see what's oh did you cut one open

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let's have a look at our fake capacitor oh is that like a little bit of cement

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that they just smeared on it it kind of looks like that whatever it is the

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bottom line is if you want to save some money on your power bill maybe you

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until it reaches somewhere in the neighborhood of around 30% load with

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power supplies this efficient more of your money is going right into those

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sweet sweet FPS instead of being wasted

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if those Wireless anti-static wristbands are a scam with the help of our friend

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electroboom yo Jordan how much did we spend on these things um about 20 bucks

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for four well I mean at that price at least it's uh decent value as a

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