The Bogus Bill-Saver Product Bin

  • wizzo227's Avatar
    Level 23
    https://www.migilife.com/collections...ny-cooling-ace
    Sounds too good to be true? Well 1 out of 1 qualified physicists thinks that it isn't true and that you should never give money to sellers of bogus products like that one.
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  • rwh202's Avatar
    Level 13
    @wizzo227
    Yep, and in winter you’ll see the magical heaters that warm your room for 2p a day and somehow avoid the rules of thermodynamics.

    Oh, and those energy saving devices that either claim to control the house voltage or power factor to reduce bills…
  • Indyk_EONNext's Avatar
    Community Team
    Hmm interesting 🤔 @wizzo227

    Thank you for sharing, not something I have come across before so not really familiar if it would help towards energy saving. Has anyone tried any of the products before?
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  • wizzo227's Avatar
    Level 23
    Trials are welcome here but if you make stuff up we will kidnap you and tie you to the railway tracks. On the air conditioner replacement which I linked to, I'm sure without trying it that we have an example of a bogus product to avoid. The people in the advert pictures look happy with it. Don't be fooled.
  • wizzo227's Avatar
    Level 23
    Another friendly email arrived in my inbox overnight.
    £13.29
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    300W/600W Solar Panel Kit Complete 12V Polycrystalline USB Power Portable Outdoor Rechargeable Solar Cell Solar Generator

    I'm a great fan of solar panels, but Not when they are being miss-sold like this one is.
    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007116094157.html?ug_edm_item_id=1005007116094 157&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21GBP%21%EF%BF%A135.36%21%EF%B F%A111.78%21%21%21%21%21%402102ea9d174648867414163 85d4330%2112000039452708017%21edm%21%21%21&edm_cli ck_module=alg_products&edm_log_data=gmod-edm-item-list-three-columns.track-edm-item-list-three-columns-log-link&tracelog=rowan&rowan_id1=aeug_edm_84132_1_en_ US_2025-05-05&rowan_msg_id=0532biz_pay_after_purchase:0:0_577 822816$f71ce5368f7a42b6a3d0fa8480cef139&ck=in_edm_ other&mem_info=+fJ8lcTGgqWkzYEUvuF7hA==-100104-aeug_edm_84132-t72IvXG7smgdGcdgENK3T+VTa/C3V4526wkyYn98d5M=

    After doing what physicists do, which is mainly looking at the size of it, I think you could get a reasonable 10 or 20 Watts top-up charger for a car battery from this, and nothing more. Because there are blatent lies about the max power and Amps in the specification table, I have no confidence in the claimed efficiency, and no idea whether you'd get a part which could be used outdoors for any longer than one summer. Buy these at your own risk if you need a 10 Watt 12 Volt solar panel and be cautious about headline titles.

    Notice the inconsistency - the title says polycrystalline and the spec table says Monocrystalline Silicon. What I think goes on here is that we no not say wa country headline generating computer trawls the records to find phrases numbers and photos like those found in adverts of products which people have bought and liked. Then it churns out a similar headline and advert for a cheaper product, in this case a one square foot solar panel advertised for power which should need about 30 square foot. Your best defence is to ask somebody who has at least bought and tested a real one, and never give money to mainly-deceitful adverts like that one.