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The last bill I had came to a whisker over £500....the kicker? I was on holiday in the Philippines for 5 weeks of that quarter!

Needless to say, I complained. Loudly. Turns out the minimum wage monkey that came to read the meter got it completely wrong. I asked for a new bill with the correct reading on it and it came too £130.....

I had a pay as you use Electric meter installed after that fiasco!

OK.

I call it an inverter (I think there is a link somewhere to that name) because I have for over a year, I live in a 3rd world country.

Texas Instrument wrote:

ineptus astartes wrote:

Texas Instrument wrote:I thought Bush was born in Conneticut?

Also, bs.

Also BS on the inverter.
What it is is a battery pack, essentially. Inverting ac into dc, and then back again. It doesn't get charged by magic.. Here in the states you'd be paying for the energy used to charge it.

WRONG.

I checked it in the states, it only has as much of a drain on th energy bill as a machine.

You seem to be just raging at everyone.

Most of all I'm raging at that asshat Newton.
Says who you can't get more energy out of something than you put in?

Lol, get real. Also, check out the other posts claiming you're wrong.
And then saddle the yoke on your unicorn powered grid to type a response.

Ahh the Laws of Thermodynamics. Maybe one day we can break the laws and get equal or more energy from a system in output form than we used to input.

ineptus astartes wrote:OK.

I call it an inverter (I think there is a link somewhere to that name) because I have for over a year, I live in a 3rd world country.

Your living in a 3rd world country does not give you an excuse to continue to be ignorant about something, when multiple people have corrected you about it. I covered the incorrect terminology issue several posts back. If you had bothered to read it, you would have understood this issue and saved half a page of posts from people still trying to correct you.

ineptus astartes wrote:sigh.

I have a link, this is a tool that is in several countries.

it does not change the current, it is a DC something (It's tech term) and it powers my entire room for about five hours with the computer, th lamp, the lights, the fan and the phone all charging and running, this is not including powering my parent's room with the lights, phone, hub, computer, lamp, fan, mosquito thing.

Yeah, thats a UPS. There is an inverter ON the device, inverting the AC current into DC current and storing it in a battery. Then, when you need the power, it clicks on (that orange light you mentioned) and the stored power is changed back into AC current that powers your devices.

For about five hours, until the energy that was stored runs out. Its not magic, and you still have to pay for that power.
Actually, you have to pay more. This is due to the basic fact that no machine runs at 100% efficiency.

I admire your steadfast resolve on this one, but the fact is you're greatly mistaken on what it is you have, and how it works.
Maybe don't condescend to people that are trying to help you understand. Its hardly endearing and causes some of us to laugh behind our hands at the absolutely adorable notion that its just a machine running to give you more power than you put in.

Edit: Also, if you have a link, why not post it? It would certainly help us point out specific parts of your source material to try and help this idea along in your mind.

Doomthumbs wrote:

ineptus astartes wrote:sigh.

I have a link, this is a tool that is in several countries.

it does not change the current, it is a DC something (It's tech term) and it powers my entire room for about five hours with the computer, th lamp, the lights, the fan and the phone all charging and running, this is not including powering my parent's room with the lights, phone, hub, computer, lamp, fan, mosquito thing.

Yeah, thats a UPS. There is an inverter ON the device, inverting the AC current into DC current and storing it in a battery. Then, when you need the power, it clicks on (that orange light you mentioned) and the stored power is changed back into AC current that powers your devices.

For about five hours, until the energy that was stored runs out. Its not magic, and you still have to pay for that power.
Actually, you have to pay more. This is due to the basic fact that no machine runs at 100% efficiency.

I admire your steadfast resolve on this one, but the fact is you're greatly mistaken on what it is you have, and how it works.
Maybe don't condescend to people that are trying to help you understand. Its hardly endearing and causes some of us to laugh behind our hands at the absolutely adorable notion that its just a machine running to give you more power than you put in.

Edit: Also, if you have a link, why not post it? It would certainly help us point out specific parts of your source material to try and help this idea along in your mind.

Thank you. that clears things up.

All of that was covered on the second page of this thread....

Yup. Apologies are customary in this situation.

And... just wow. Three Texans bringing the knowledge to the world.

Im just so... damn.... proud... ::tearwipe::

Kilkrazy wrote:

Skylifter wrote:Either electricity is a lot cheaper in Germany, or you are just using way more of it across the pond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

Americans use about 80% more energy per head than Germans.

Medium of Death wrote:Even more than Japan too.

Decadent Americans.

HEY! Our lamps need nightlights to yanno.