Power Factor Saver (energy saving box scam evolution)

Electricity saving boxes have evolved into Power factor savers. Not just the name has changed, but also the internals. Let's make an autopsy, including the "capacitor" for inductive load compensation and spike suppression. A few years ago, they were still using real capacitors, but in either case, it doesn't save you any electricity.

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[noco-pfvj]

That sand is an audiophile-grade sand to clean the electricity for audio amplifiers.

[kapegede]

You didn't try to sniff the powder. It may have effects of understanding your electricity bill...

[twoina]

Keep the orange wires for your next high power project. They support 28000 watts.

[rfmerrill]

If I had to guess, the powder is probably just silica dust? It's used as an epoxy thickener but they might have just dumped enough to fill the box and then only used enough epoxy to seal the end.

[Onysis]

I've been following your channel for more than 3 years and i really like your videos. Dodgy chargers in particular. Keep up the good videos.

[pirelli]

I'm glad there are people like you out there who uncover scam like this. Thanks DGW! 👋☺

[whitesapphire]

The luxury version has an LED that ramps up and down in brightness to make it look like there's some active circuitry that's actually doing something. From memory, that white substance is just sand - deluxe sand, but it is just sand. The fake capacitor has the exact perfect capacitance for the job - it's 0.00pF to provide a perfect 0.00 PF correction! It's pure genius!

[Conservator.]

5:18 The way the capacitor was connected made me laugh out loud literally. 😂

9:21 and then this part was even better!

[KuntalGhosh]

That capacitor actually looks like a good way to transport something 💀, like what if they fill huge batch of capacitor with white powder. And pack them inside these power savers then ship it to a destination country. Then there these would be taken apart and the powder extracted..💀👍

[TechsScience]

That powder is silica used in heating coils & some fuse

[antibrevity]

Surprising that they built a bridge rectifier to run an LED; luxury for sure. The non-capacitor connected to nothing doesn't surprise me, but the white powder is interesting. It's probably used as a filler when epoxy potting.

[RavenLuni]

This is why you should train your cat to sniff for drugs

[johnshaw]

What a total waste of everything. Trading standards agencies should prohibit the sale of e-crap like this.

[WagTsX]

that english manual and that capacitor autopsy really made for it. I was just holding it until you open the black box and that strange powder came out of it, ROFL.

[Alexelectricalengineering]

At least it's not radioactive ☢️, nice video 👍

[UpLateGeek]

It's very thoughtful of the scammer to not waste money on a real capacitor, which would make this thing cost more. Like they said, saving money means earning money. Basically buying this thing which doesn't do anything is actually earning you money!

[Elektronenregen]

My first thought of the powder was, if it would be the "negativ ion stuff". Gladly it was not :). Nice video as always! Thank you!

[twocvbloke]

That has got to be the best fake capacitor I've seen so far, that is just hilariously bad!!! :P

[BRUXXUS]

This is amazing… from a purely scam perspective, it’s still a failure. The could have saved so much money by not including most those components. 😂

[michaelseitz]

@5:20 The wires of the capacitor were connected to the same spot to increase it's life span. This capacitor will _never_ fail! 😁
Edit ... @11:16 Damn!!! 😁😁😁