http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/06/energy-efficient-motors-with-ac-kinetics-software/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/06/energy-efficient-motors-with-ac-kinetics-software/#comment-150194 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:02:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48058#comment-150194 Okay, a classical induction motor won’t work with DC…

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/06/energy-efficient-motors-with-ac-kinetics-software/#comment-150193 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:59:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48058#comment-150193 AC Kinetics, so their product is designed specifically for the “alternating current induction motors, the basic technology for which dates back to the early 19th century”. Electric vehicles will not have a use for such a device as their electric motors run off of a battery bank that has a direct current output. And any industrial electric motor that has its electricity inverted from AC to DC would not benefit either. I am not sure the savings quoted above would be quite that high. It had better be priced cheaper than an appropriately sized AC to DC inverter.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/06/energy-efficient-motors-with-ac-kinetics-software/#comment-150166 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:39:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48058#comment-150166 Great news. The place I live in has two 24h air-exchange fans driven by 100V 50Hz induction motors of some 50W each running an annual bill of close to $200 together. If a retrofit gets below 10 year pay-back I’ll buy it

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