How do I do this? I want to stick it to my power company.
How do you make an electromagnet?
If you can't see from the picture you posted, I don't think you're qualified for /diy/
>>977850
>image.jpg
Why are phone poster threads so shit?
>image itself
What does a shitty electromagnet have to do with power companies?
Here's the original source,
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-basic-electromagnet./
And it seems other fucktards are using it as clickbait.
>>977850
if you just could get every atom of that battery start a nuclear supercontroled reaction ( i mean not even like a nuclear bomb or reactor, more slowly)you could have energy for yourself for the rest of your life.
>>977936
That's still only heat. OP would never figure out what to do with it.
Reminds me of those "improve gas mileage" cigarette lighter plugins. The ones that consisted of an led, resistor, and capacitor. I wish I would have thought of those and sold them.
>>978032
Those just noise filter the electrical system. It is the same thing you do when making your own PSU. The car's electrical system is supposed to already have that technology installed in the first place.
>>977850
If you really want to stick it to the power company stick a massive inductive load on your residential line. The power company charges residential for real power (P=IV), not apparent power (S=IVcos(Φ)). At maximum efficiency cos(Φ) = 1 and S = P = IV, the load is entirely resistive and all power in is consumed. When you put an inductive or capacitive load on the line you bring cos(Φ) < 1 and you required more current to transfer the same amount of power. It is less efficient and it costs the energy company more money while you still only pay for the real power used. You need a pretty big load though.
Don't try this in a business or industrial environment because commercial and industrial are charged for apparent power since they often run high inductive loads like large motors, solenoids, and what not. They usually employ large capacitor banks and relays for dynamically switching capacitors in and out of the circuit. This is done to correct the power factor and bring it closer to 1, it works because capacitors and inductors basically phase shift voltage/current in opposite directions so by employing both you can negate the shift caused by the other, I'm oversimplifying of course but you get the general idea.
>>978121
>I'm oversimplifying of course but you get the general idea.
Actually, not in the slightest
>>978121
>The power company charges residential for real power (P=IV), not apparent power (S=IVcos(Φ)).
(Not true, by the way)
>>978146
It is in the US. Might be different in other countries.
>>978147
Usually there is some kind of cut off. Like as long as your power factor is more than 90% you dont pay. Once you go over that amount they fist fuck you hard with fees on top of billing for apparent power.
>>978147
Canada only charges industrial consumers for reactive power. source: I'm an EE in Canada.
>>978895
BC hydro charges for reactive loads if you go above a certain amount.
>>977850
>he thinks he can fool his electric meter
Guess what? They have their own meters for whole blocks of their grid down the line and they audit everything regularly. If the sum of the customer meters don't match their meter then they go looking for where the power drain is, both for in case there's a fault somewhere, and also for fools who think they can rip off the power company. They catch you, you can go to jail for theft.
>>978121
Here in Aus, the power companies have the authority to make you install a power factor correction unit, if it's too low
wtf is power factor, it says this on my ac power-point meter i bought 2 days ago
>>979156
A quick Google would have told you.
To simplify, only resistive loads naturally have a power factor of 1; that is to say, the load they put on the grid is actually how much they're using.
Inductive and capacitive loads, by their nature, store some energy each cycle and then dump it back into the grid. The device may only be using a given amount of power, but the load it puts on the grid is greater than that because of the previously mentioned charge/discharge behavior.
>>977850
>>977850
Well you can stick it to your power company if they are made out of iron.
>>980430
HOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT DOES IT CONNECT TO? WHERE DOES IT GO
>>980437
Lol
>>978999
>hydro
Please keep your maple terminology up there.
I am not even American but I hate how canucks come up to me and start talking about hydro supply and then wonder why I start talking about fucking water pipe.
>>977936
Why not just crack the neutrons in my decal matter?
>>977855
>I don't think you're qualified for /diy/
This is an electronics help section of a fucking Anime porn/video game/weeaboo discussion website. There are no qualifications.
>>980457
>This is an electronics help section
Yeah, all that blacksmithing and carpentry and core sampling electronics help is really something.
Retard.
>>980939
All of those are really just small amounts of filler.
You have to admit that /ohm/ is the most posted in thread and where as many 100+ replies thread last for a month and over /ohm/ has to restart in a couple of weeks.
>>980946
>All the other content on the board is literally filler because this one thread gets some posts!
>>980457
No this sites originally started as the diy board everything else came after, regardless each board has its culture and others have no bearing on it, they are seperate boards for a reason. We take giving advice and having group discussion seriously, and as a common courtesy we imply that you put you own effort forward to learn stuff, or at least be straight forward with what you wish to learn (at least try and Google and ask about what gets you stuck when learning). Now this whole post is obv shotpost but that argument of other boards dictating how we run ours is irrelevent, they have there rules and cu lture just as we do, something people seem to forget all to often sadly.
>>981000
And even on a shitpost we find a way to have serious discussion as you can see!
>>978999
BCfag here, I met a nutjob who built a big electromagnetic coil that wrapped around his meter and plugged into a 125v outlet, and claimed it slowed down the spinning disc and thus showed reduced consumption. This was pre-smart meter days. I called his bluff and asked to see his power bills. He quickly talked his way out of it claiming he couldn't find them. *rolleyes*. You know the types: believes in 200 mpg carbs, passive radar jamming, pyramid power.
>>977850
FUCK THE POWER COMPANIES
I'll short as many batteries as I want and I'll throw them in my neighbor's posh front garden and leave them there until they burst
that'll show those power companies
>>978121
Also, the wires feeding your home are probably rated at a power factor of 0.9.
Bringing that down could (and will - see it all the time in industry) cause your wires to overheat and or cause a hotspot.
>>981967
>passive radar jamming
You mean chaff?
>>977850
I know this is bait, but I was thinking the same thing as everyone else when I fist saw that ad online
>a fucking electromagnet
If u want to really fuck ur power company why not get solar.
0$ to them equals what u are looking for.
