Energy Conservation Saves More Than Energy

  The ENERGY TRIMMER^®

U.S. PATENT NO. 4,687,947

    The ENERGY TRIMMER^® improves the efficiency of available electricity by reducing the resistance to its flow.  It does so by balancing the electrical fields.  An analogy would be that of two automobiles with identical engines with equal horsepower.  If one has superior aerodynamic design, it will produce greater fuel economy and faster speeds because of its more efficient operation.

Public Utilities

    A Public Utility can increase the amount of its generated electricity actually delivered to its usage venues over long distances.  The ENERGY TRIMMER^® conditions the electrical power by reducing resistance, substantially reducing its unit costs.

Commercial and Residential Users

    Commercial and Residential Users can reduce their load demand without modifying their usual and customary electrical usage. 

    It is important to note that the ENERGY TRIMMER^® works within the energy grid system of the existing major power utilities and is not technology positioned against the utilities, as are some forms of alternate energy technology and co-generation.  It is completely safe and complementary to all energy utilities.  Thus, it is a benefit to electrical utilities, heavy industry, commercial applications, as well as small users, and does not interfere with environmental considerations already in place with major and minor energy users. 

Background

    The ENERGY TRIMMER^® is the result of more than twenty years of intensive research and development, making use of a conventional transformer of a 1-to-1 ratio and technologically advanced circuitry.  Typical on-site savings of 19-23% have been measured.

    Beta-tested at several factory facilities and proposed at several utility substations throughout the State of California, engineers and company users have observed the effectiveness of the ENERGY TRIMMER^® .  Southern California Edison has approved the installed ENERGY TRIMMER^®  units for its rebate program. 

The Technology

    The energy efficiency and savings are accomplished by balancing the electrical fields, thereby reducing the resistance to the flow of electricity.  Thus, the ENERGY TRIMMER^®  does not produce more electricity, but rather maximizes the efficiency of the electricity that has already been generated.

    The ENERGY TRIMMER^® employs a transformer having three windings for coils.  The primary and secondary windings are wound in the same direction upon a magnetically permeable core.  A third winding is connected to a load and produces flux in the core in the opposite direction.  The magnetic field produced by the third winding proportionally decreases the power input to the primary winding while maintaining the power output of the secondary winding.  The magnetic flux in the core produced by electrical current flowing through the third winding is in the opposite direction to the magnetic flux produced by electrical currents in the primary and secondary windings.

    In the ENERGY TRIMMER^®, the magnetic fields of the windings are equal in absolute magnitude (i.e. the product of current times the number of turns in each winding is equal in absolute magnitude.)  The sum of the magnetic fields of the primary and return windings is equal to the total magnetic field of the transformer.

    The presence of the opposing flux of the third winding acts to increase the impedance of the primary winding.  This increased impedance results in a reduced current flow in the primary winding, thereby reducing the current drain from the power supply.  Since the current flow in the secondary winding is induced by the current flow in the primary winding, the secondary winding acts as a load with respect to the primary winding.  The flux produced by the third winding reduces the impedance in the secondary winding, but does not reduce its output.  Thus, the presence of the third winding on the transformer produces a magnetic field which decreases the energy input to the primary winding, but keeps the energy output to the secondary winding constant.

    To produce a commercial use energy conservation circuit of high efficiency, the primary and secondary windings of a typical ENERGY TRIMMER^® unit would consist of 120 turns of wire, while the third winding would have 50 turns of wire when the transformer is used with a conventional 60 cycle power.

    Depending upon the number of turns and the load magnitudes, the transformer unit can reduce the power consumption necessary to operate a given load, producing savings from 15% to 30%, as compared with conventional power supply systems. 

    The ideal conditions for maximum efficiency and minimum energy consumption are:

1. The magnetic fields of all three of the windings are to be equal in absolute magnitude.

2. For current times the number of turns in each winding to be equal in absolute magnitude

3. For the sum of the magnetic fields of the primary and the return windings to be equal to the total magnetic field.

TESTIMONIALS ON FILE

California State Senator Edward Vincent, Member Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee

City of Los Angeles, California, Randall C. Bacon, General Manager, Department of General Services

Mark Twain Library, City of Los Angeles

Burroughs Corporation, J. Orcutt, Program Development Manager,Third Party Programs, Corporate Program Management

Honda Corporation, Torrance, California

Raymond’s Market, Los Angeles, California, Helen L. Allen

Great Western Forum, Lee Zeidman, Director of Operations

Key Benefits

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