Check this out...
http://kutv.com/letbillbuyit/local_story_038185542.htmlThe TV station investigator says "...maybe $.05 per month..." but if you look at X-power's own website for the manual, it tells you that the damned thing
CONSUMES 0.45A at 120V, so that's 54W of energy right there! 24/7/365 means 473kWH per year; so here in Northern California at .12/kWH, that's almost $5/month in energy
wasted!
Another big laugher is if you download their "test report" done by an outfit named "Professional Testing (EMI) Inc." in Round Rock Tx.
http://www.ptitest.com/PTI/Home They are apparently a legitimate testing company, but they test for EMC, reliability and the like, NOT energy claims. Even so, if you actually READ their report, they state, unequivocally, the REAL power (the kW, although they don't use that term), which most of the test loads consumed actually GOES UP (just as we would all expect), not down! They make claims all over the place that the
AMPS go down, but right there on the same data chart they show the power staying the same or going up! What's so funny about that is that this legitimate testing company actually does NOT lie, but they definitely abet the crime by allowing the "spin" on their report to be used to construe that it was saving "energy". Shame shame shame.
I sent them an email telling them I think what they did was shameful. I know it won't change anything, but they should hear from everyone who thinks so.
Back to X-Power though, did I understand that they are claiming sales of $1 million??? Wow, that would prove that there are a LOT of suckers out there. Amazing...
