Electricity Saving Box Scam (The WORST I've Seen) - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk

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This is one of the most B.S. product I've ever dug into. From the marketing to the science to the real-world testing, the "Electricity Saving Box" is totally a scam. Here's why…

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[marcogenovesi]

As a general rule of thumb, if Nikola Tesla is mentioned in the marketing material and you are not buying an electric motor that runs on AC, it's guaranteed bs

[VraerynDaDragon]

"These YouTubers already covered that!"

Never understood why people would actually say this. Are YouTubers not allowed to talk about the same thing? Unless someone is being plagiarized I don't see how multiple people talking about one thing is a problem.

[TheHoaxHotel]

90% savings? Pathetic, I need a 200% savings minimum.

[jonathanX]

Fun Fact: Power companies will actually encourage you to save power. The reason is that if so many people use too much power, the power plant may have a hard time keeping up, which will lead to power outages so they would have to build a new power plant to keep up. Which that is a pain, the cost to build a new power plant would be way too expensive, plus they will have to find a location as you can't really place power plants all willy nilly. The state I am from, the power company will actually provide residents a free power saving kit. Which will often include free light bulbs, a free power strip, and a few other things that will help save you electricity.

[TheRogueWolf]

There was a typo in the promotional materials. Instead of "fireproof", it was meant to read "fire proof", as in, evidence that it burned your house down.

[prinzlunas]

"other creators have covered the product". You are the first one that got recommended to me and the first one i am watching because of it.

[batterybroken]

I knew this felt scammy right away 😞 my mom just bought some. I’m hoping she can return them asap and not lose her money.
The box on one side says “save electricity- save money- make money!” THREE TIMES on just _one side_
I lost it 😂💀

[efficiencygaming]

10:03 That appears to be a misspelling of "spike buster", a term synonymous with "surge protector". It seems to be commonly used to describe fake power-saving scam devices like this.

[mrunknown]

Whenever you hear a sales pitch like, "This is what your power company doesn't want you to know.", that is the red flag. Power companies will always back you using a device that will save power. There are devices on the market that will help you to save power, however their cost exceeds the benefit. There is one that sells for around $5, 000 and some have been sold in Hawaii, and in Alaska where power costs are much higher than in the lower 48 states.

[mybootscamewithoutstraps]

Other YouTubers may have covered this topic, but when I went to go searching for how these devices are a scam, I found your video first and therefore this is the first time I'm even hearing about them. I really hate the whole notion of somebody else. Already covered a topic as if to say that nobody else should talk about it with a different perspective.

[DeeSpriggs]

I know UVLen didn't cost much, but I think that was marginally more scummy than this box, just because it was giving people a false sense of security that they were protecting themselves and their loved ones from infection.

[spudd]

Actually depending on the light it may not be changing brightness. High quality LED lights use better power supplies to provide continuous current and incandescent bulbs just stay hot enough through the change in current to not really change in brightness.

[hgbugalou]

There can never be enough videos exposing scams.

[jad.george]

The worst part with that product is the power rating at 30000W (30kW)🤣 The whole thing would melt instantly!!! 30kW means almost 100A from the outlet🤣 I could power the whole building (2 floor with 6 apartments each)!!

[ragingfred]

There was an identical product for your car called fuel shark and it claimed the exact same things. You plug it into the cigarette lighter and it's supposed to smoothen the alternator output to make it more efficient and take less power from the engine meaning you get more fuel efficiency. When you open it up it's just some LEDs and a capacitor. Exact same thing.

[happypants]

Imagine how I (an electrician) felt when my mom told me she had bought one of these 😂

[BaconKingOfficial]

I don't recommend the "power saving" box. It almost burnt down my grandparent's house. In July or august 2020 at around 4 am the box started smoking and a few minutes later my pillow dropped and my uncle woke up and saw smoke coming from behind the TV. And my grandpa found out it was the power saving box. 0/10 Useless and almost killed my family because it started smoking out of nowhere. If my pillow didn't fall on the ground I probably wouldn't exist anymore.

[jamesedwards]

I did what you said, I plugged one of these into every socket in my house, now the power company is paying me $200 a month.

[zh]

It reminds me of a scam product sold in Britain during the 1980s which claimed to cut your telephone bill by 100%! The box contained a pair of scissors with which you were to cut the wire of your telephone. I hope they were insulated (telephone circuits in that period carried, I think, 50V) but it would certainly have worked. After a fashion.