V Phase?

[Loopytunes]

Hi guys,

In the wholesaler earlier and picked up a leaflet for "V-Phase", a voltage management box that keeps your bills down and is apparently "green". I've never seen one of these installed so if anyone else has....

- Are they any good? Do they actually make the savings they claim?
- Use a full EIC to install it etc?
- Tips/problems etc??

I have some regular customers who like all the green energy stuff, but I don't want to recommend it to anyone if its naff. Apologies if theres been a thread on this already, couldn't see one....

Cheers

 

[SolarCity]

It depends who you listen to. A lot of people think they're the mutts nuts and give a decent saving - others think that they would need to defy the laws of physics if they were to work.

I think that they probably do work but maybe not to an extent that makes them economically viable - yet. They're a advantage if there are lots of lights in the home but they won't make any difference to applicances like a kettle, immersion heater or heater.

 

[monkeyelectric]

Or electric showers

 

[JulianC]

They'll work on yer bog standard non-thermostatically controlled electric shower.

 

[Gavin A]

They'll work on yer bog standard non-thermostatically controlled electric shower.

no they won't.

they're 8 amps standard, 20 amp temporary peak IIRC. No electric shower is that low powered.

 

[monkeyelectric]

They cutout after 20 amps, i think the money would be better spent on low energy lamps, bulbs and tubes

 

[JulianC]

Sorry, was thinking VO in general, not VPhase in particular.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Read all about it here: http://www.electriciansforums.net/g...t/search.php?searchid=2473564&ss=970j234132j7

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