APPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES NAVY
by Power Control Company 4115 Olympic Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84124
It is important for the sake of brevity that we dispense with the technical explanations as to why this technology will do what we will illustrate here. That is for the technical people who have already had their say and found what we do is technically correct and proven over exhaustive testing. For the rest of this document we will only present the what part of the question. We will also only illustrate key issues. There are many more that do not need to be presented but could be.
Ships at sea and land bases have many power questions in common. Both use similar sources of power and both have POWER FACTOR ERROR and TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION to the extent it has hampered efficient operations.
COMMUNICATION AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
We will eliminate garbled communication and weapons anomalies resulting from distorted power. Circuits that become hot and burn out will remain cool and become efficient and accurate. They will last for years instead of weeks. Computers will stop locking up and printers will no longer balk at electronic orders. Complicated encrypted messages will be clear with one send and one receive. Sonar and radar will be clean and clear.
MOTOR EFFICIENCY
Where any motor is operating on board ship or shore, Power Factor Error slows them down, heats them up and robs them of power. Air conditioning takes longer to move air. Water is pumped slower to clean, dilute and put out fires. The average military installation has a .75 PFE. That means aircraft lift elevator motors are operating at half their rated torque. Corrected elevator lift time is twice as fast as uncorrected systems. We will correct Power Factor Error from any condition to .95 or better. After our correction, fuel, water, air and steam will double in output volume previously experienced.
SAFETY
Noisy lighting and hot electrical equipment causes fires and endangers hearing when it matters. Harmonic distortion is a major cause of hot and noisy motors, howling lighting and early burn out of equipment. The next time there is a fire, remember that the volume of water being pumped should be twice what it is without correction. Occasionally sailors are knocked unconscious by a mild shock on board. That will end.
PRESIDENTIAL ORDER
In 2002 the President ordered all military installations to cut back on electrical power by 10%. The only answer anyone could think of was to cut back on production, turn out lights, and fire employees. That was the wrong thing to do. The average military base has a PFE of .75. Plainly, that is a pure waste of power in the range of 17%. By correcting PFE to within parity, the Presidential Order would have been met with full production and without any compromise to light, safety or employment whatsoever. It is still not too late to make a better decision than to cut back. In fact, this correction will and would have met the Order and allowed a 7% increase production to go along with it. That option is still true today.
TACTICAL READINESS
Aircraft electrical power is at 120/240 Volts but 400Hz instead of 60Hz. It is a fact that on board ship and on base, navy aircraft cannot be serviced in quantities above two for each 400Hz generator. This generator imitates the electrical power that comes from jet engines. On a carrier, the only way to run the weapons systems, avionics, or instrumentation is to either run the engine or plug in a 400Hz power source. Fifteen years ago, it was learned that for every aircraft beyond two, another generator was needed. American Carriers have dozens of them to allow more than two jets to be serviced. These generators are large enough to handle as many as twelve jets or more! Two is Tactical Readiness Failure!! The reason is because each jet adds to the harmonic distortion until the third aircraft makes the power unusable. We solve that. One generator can now run 12 or more aircraft at one time. Two generators now become plenty to meet TACTICAL READINESS requirements for ship and shore aircraft service availability. Multiple generators in a hangar or service deck are a waste of space and power.
The same goes for weapons calculations under fire. No need to test a second time on the target profile. Eliminating Harmonic Distortion puts efficiency and response speed back into all operations.
MAINTENANCE
Ask any quartermaster. The stock of replacement parts for motors, contactors and transformers is huge. And, the time to replace them is costly in man-hours. Harmonic distortion is the main cause of motor burnout and reason for re-wind. Motors are not designed to ‘burn out’. There is no friction in electricity or magnetics. Arcing in contactor surfaces is the main reason for replacement. We will eliminate the THD and allow equipment to work years instead of weeks.
STANDBY POWER
No base or ship ever seems to have enough power. When the shortage becomes critical, more panels, more generators, more equipment is requested. A typical statement is ,“If I only had just 10% more power I could do this” The average base and ship power loss due to PFE and THD is 17%. Correcting that is like getting 17% more power without more installation. 17% is a whopping big reserve - already there.
MEDICAL PROFICIENCY
In spite of the Surgeon General’s warning to avoid x-ray radiation, every Sailor and/or Marine gets two shots automatically. Then they wait and often get two or three more because the picture is not clear. The culprit is Harmonic Distortion. We make small filters that make one x-ray shot good enough. There are many other electronic problems in medical situations that are affected by this problem.
NUISANCE FACTOR
Repeated computer reboots are usually not the fault of the equipment or the software. It is due to invading frequencies right out of the wall plug. Portable generators often cannot provide dependable power without a tech to tune it. We make equipment that makes generators behave without service. Tell that to a Marine in the field.
NAVY ELECTRICAL APPLICATONS
ELECTRONICS
No more burnouts or over heated circuits. No computer lock up. Efficiency and accuracy increased. Circuits work and not fail. Transformers don’t overheat.
MOTORS
No more motor burn out. Cool running and double power than previously known. PFE changed from .75 to .98 constant in both leading and lagging current.
SAFETY
Pumps run cooler. Fire equipment can double water output. Noisy lighting becomes quiet decreasing hearing risks. Lights put out more light with less power. Sailors no longer are shocked at water sources, the occasional cause of unconsciousness.
PRESIDENTIAL ORDER
Eliminating current inefficiency will save an average of 17% reduction in power usage. Bring all laborers back to work. Resume full production and even increase by 7% and still satisfy the order to reduce electrical power consumption by 10%.
TACTICAL READINESS
Jet power generators now can service 10 aircraft. Today’s standard is two. TRD has been at 20% for over 20 years. We provide a way to move it up to 80% and comply with the directive. Carrier aircraft lift time is slow. 75% PFE leaves motor torque at 50% of rated power. Corrected motors can put aircraft on the top deck and back down in half the present day time. In today’s Navy, target requisition is often slow. In a fight, harmonic clean power makes for higher accuracy in better time. Radar and Sonar are sometimes not clear. We will make every scope and sound data clean.
MAINTENANCE
Clean power can eliminate 2/3 of repair electrical parts inventory. Maintenance man hours is also reduced by 2/3. Down time for repair is priceless when it all keeps working instead of failing due to high frequency arcing within equipment.
STAND BY POWER
By reducing the average waste of electrical power by distortion, it is the same thing as increasing available power by the same amount. The average panel and transformer now has 17% more clean available power than it did before being controlled.
MEDICAL PROFICIENCY
One shot x-rays. No more of today’s’ average 5 takes. Diagnostic equipment should work every time. That condition is not true without our solutions.
NUISANCE FACTOR
Any Marine will tell you field generators often don’t work right. They have to be adjusted. Our equipment changes all that so that any soldier can start it up and have dependable power immediately.
by Power Control Company 4115 Olympic Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84124
It is important for the sake of brevity that we dispense with the technical explanations as to why this technology will do what we will illustrate here. That is for the technical people who have already had their say and found what we do is technically correct and proven over exhaustive testing. For the rest of this document we will only present the what part of the question. We will also only illustrate key issues. There are many more that do not need to be presented but could be.
Ships at sea and land bases have many power questions in common. Both use similar sources of power and both have POWER FACTOR ERROR and TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION to the extent it has hampered efficient operations.
COMMUNICATION AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
We will eliminate garbled communication and weapons anomalies resulting from distorted power. Circuits that become hot and burn out will remain cool and become efficient and accurate. They will last for years instead of weeks. Computers will stop locking up and printers will no longer balk at electronic orders. Complicated encrypted messages will be clear with one send and one receive. Sonar and radar will be clean and clear.
MOTOR EFFICIENCY
Where any motor is operating on board ship or shore, Power Factor Error slows them down, heats them up and robs them of power. Air conditioning takes longer to move air. Water is pumped slower to clean, dilute and put out fires. The average military installation has a .75 PFE. That means aircraft lift elevator motors are operating at half their rated torque. Corrected elevator lift time is twice as fast as uncorrected systems. We will correct Power Factor Error from any condition to .95 or better. After our correction, fuel, water, air and steam will double in output volume previously experienced.
SAFETY
Noisy lighting and hot electrical equipment causes fires and endangers hearing when it matters. Harmonic distortion is a major cause of hot and noisy motors, howling lighting and early burn out of equipment. The next time there is a fire, remember that the volume of water being pumped should be twice what it is without correction. Occasionally sailors are knocked unconscious by a mild shock on board. That will end.
PRESIDENTIAL ORDER
In 2002 the President ordered all military installations to cut back on electrical power by 10%. The only answer anyone could think of was to cut back on production, turn out lights, and fire employees. That was the wrong thing to do. The average military base has a PFE of .75. Plainly, that is a pure waste of power in the range of 17%. By correcting PFE to within parity, the Presidential Order would have been met with full production and without any compromise to light, safety or employment whatsoever. It is still not too late to make a better decision than to cut back. In fact, this correction will and would have met the Order and allowed a 7% increase production to go along with it. That option is still true today.
TACTICAL READINESS
Aircraft electrical power is at 120/240 Volts but 400Hz instead of 60Hz. It is a fact that on board ship and on base, navy aircraft cannot be serviced in quantities above two for each 400Hz generator. This generator imitates the electrical power that comes from jet engines. On a carrier, the only way to run the weapons systems, avionics, or instrumentation is to either run the engine or plug in a 400Hz power source. Fifteen years ago, it was learned that for every aircraft beyond two, another generator was needed. American Carriers have dozens of them to allow more than two jets to be serviced. These generators are large enough to handle as many as twelve jets or more! Two is Tactical Readiness Failure!! The reason is because each jet adds to the harmonic distortion until the third aircraft makes the power unusable. We solve that. One generator can now run 12 or more aircraft at one time. Two generators now become plenty to meet TACTICAL READINESS requirements for ship and shore aircraft service availability. Multiple generators in a hangar or service deck are a waste of space and power.
The same goes for weapons calculations under fire. No need to test a second time on the target profile. Eliminating Harmonic Distortion puts efficiency and response speed back into all operations.
MAINTENANCE
Ask any quartermaster. The stock of replacement parts for motors, contactors and transformers is huge. And, the time to replace them is costly in man-hours. Harmonic distortion is the main cause of motor burnout and reason for re-wind. Motors are not designed to ‘burn out’. There is no friction in electricity or magnetics. Arcing in contactor surfaces is the main reason for replacement. We will eliminate the THD and allow equipment to work years instead of weeks.
STANDBY POWER
No base or ship ever seems to have enough power. When the shortage becomes critical, more panels, more generators, more equipment is requested. A typical statement is ,“If I only had just 10% more power I could do this” The average base and ship power loss due to PFE and THD is 17%. Correcting that is like getting 17% more power without more installation. 17% is a whopping big reserve - already there.
MEDICAL PROFICIENCY
In spite of the Surgeon General’s warning to avoid x-ray radiation, every Sailor and/or Marine gets two shots automatically. Then they wait and often get two or three more because the picture is not clear. The culprit is Harmonic Distortion. We make small filters that make one x-ray shot good enough. There are many other electronic problems in medical situations that are affected by this problem.
NUISANCE FACTOR
Repeated computer reboots are usually not the fault of the equipment or the software. It is due to invading frequencies right out of the wall plug. Portable generators often cannot provide dependable power without a tech to tune it. We make equipment that makes generators behave without service. Tell that to a Marine in the field.
NAVY ELECTRICAL APPLICATONS
ELECTRONICS
No more burnouts or over heated circuits. No computer lock up. Efficiency and accuracy increased. Circuits work and not fail. Transformers don’t overheat.
MOTORS
No more motor burn out. Cool running and double power than previously known. PFE changed from .75 to .98 constant in both leading and lagging current.
SAFETY
Pumps run cooler. Fire equipment can double water output. Noisy lighting becomes quiet decreasing hearing risks. Lights put out more light with less power. Sailors no longer are shocked at water sources, the occasional cause of unconsciousness.
PRESIDENTIAL ORDER
Eliminating current inefficiency will save an average of 17% reduction in power usage. Bring all laborers back to work. Resume full production and even increase by 7% and still satisfy the order to reduce electrical power consumption by 10%.
TACTICAL READINESS
Jet power generators now can service 10 aircraft. Today’s standard is two. TRD has been at 20% for over 20 years. We provide a way to move it up to 80% and comply with the directive. Carrier aircraft lift time is slow. 75% PFE leaves motor torque at 50% of rated power. Corrected motors can put aircraft on the top deck and back down in half the present day time. In today’s Navy, target requisition is often slow. In a fight, harmonic clean power makes for higher accuracy in better time. Radar and Sonar are sometimes not clear. We will make every scope and sound data clean.
MAINTENANCE
Clean power can eliminate 2/3 of repair electrical parts inventory. Maintenance man hours is also reduced by 2/3. Down time for repair is priceless when it all keeps working instead of failing due to high frequency arcing within equipment.
STAND BY POWER
By reducing the average waste of electrical power by distortion, it is the same thing as increasing available power by the same amount. The average panel and transformer now has 17% more clean available power than it did before being controlled.
MEDICAL PROFICIENCY
One shot x-rays. No more of today’s’ average 5 takes. Diagnostic equipment should work every time. That condition is not true without our solutions.
NUISANCE FACTOR
Any Marine will tell you field generators often don’t work right. They have to be adjusted. Our equipment changes all that so that any soldier can start it up and have dependable power immediately.