On Thursday, September 30th, 2010 a Beta test was conducted
for The Eecoshark 480-3 Phase Inductive Power Conditioner
at the building known as 6151 Powers Ferry Rd. in Atlanta, GA. The Director of Engineering for this facility, John Coleman, graciously allowed access to his central plant where we initially installed The Eecoshark on to the motor starter for the building's one central air handler unit (AHU). This unit was equipped with a 125 HP electric motor that has vortex generator dampers as part of its variable flow design. We energized the The Eecoshark using a new EMC 8335 Power Pad electric meter and saw a tremendous drop in amps, a smoothing out of the voltages across each phase, a correction for power factor, and a substantial drop in KVAR. Mr. Coleman witnessed the drop in amps and asked if he could do a check with his own amp meter. He verified our initial findings with his Amprobe meter and was expectedly surprised with the test results. On Friday, October 1st, 2010, we were invited to install The Eecoshark 480-3 Phase Inductive Power Conditioner on to the centrifugal chiller at the same building. We recorded similar drops in amperage, Volt- amps and KVAR. Power Factor similarly, was corrected and phase to phase voltage was smoother. All results are below and were obtained with the AEMC 8335 Power Pad meter.
Beta Test Report The Eecoshark 480V-3 Phase Inductive Power Conditioner 1 EECO Shark OFF EECO Shark ON L-1 91.6 amps L-1 71.2 amps L-2 90.4 amps L-2 70.6 amps L-3 89.8 amps L-3 70.2 amps Voltage L-1 275.2 volts L-1 278.4 volts L-2 273.6 volts L-2 276.5 volts L-3 273.2 volts L-3 275.9 volts KW Average Amps: 90.6 Average Amps: 70.66 43.48 KW 33.88 KW EECO Shark OFF EECO Shark ON L-1: 115.5 amps L-1: 101.8 amps L-2: 118.5 amps L-2: 94.4 amps L-3: 110.8 amps L-3: 100.7 amps Voltage L-1: 277.9 volts L-1: 278.3 volts L-2: 272.5 volts L-2: 277.6 volts L-3: 275.1 volts L-3: 276.4 volts KW Average amps: 114.6 Average amps: 98.6 55.0 KW 47.3 KW KVAR 67.6 KVAR 48.7 KVAR The AHU The Chiller 2 Conclusions
The Eecoshark has lowered electrical demand for the two large user devices at the facilty that we tested. It appears that The Eecoshark will not only condition power, but due to its design, will also act as a surge protection device against the equivalent of a lightning strike. The drop in amperage was remarkable for the two units. The reduction in KVAR consumption would show a substantial drop in electric costs over the course of one year. www.eecosharkenergy.com 3