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Has anyone seen this - Voltserver: "Digital Electricity"
Cyberdragon:
Something about their website also makes it look like they made it on Wix in about five minutes... :P
rrinker:
Lots of discussion, this is great. I don't think it can be debunked, per se. Unlike Solar Freakin' Roadways, these guys DO have something that works, not merely a disco floor that draws more power than it will ever generate from sunlight. How WELL it works - unknown as of yet. It's not a client I get to much, if at all, so I still haven't seen the installation in person. It's only been a few weeks, but they aren't rushing to replace it yet, so it must be doing the business. Is it cost effective? The client was convinced - I will also add, we did not sell this to them, our part comes in getting the data to the downstream devices and configuring them. If it's used at the customer site I think it is, running additional wiring is a very labor intensive task - the building is poured concrete and cement block.
EEVblog:
Revising old thread because someone just pointed out this on Twitter and I was looking at doing a debunking video.
Seems like:
a) They have real professional level stuff that's been installed in large commercial installations
b) They are leveraging the fact that in certain places you can't install the usual power wiring, or power and data together due to regulations, and they have a niche solution to put usable power over what's legally classed as "data" cabling.
Where the bullshit comes in is comparing it to PoE and how it's going to revolutionise everything. Clearly it's not. They use 18AWG cable to transport the power they are claiming, they can't use existing CAT5/6 cable.
So I guess nothing to bust here really?
Obviously if you could install normal mains cabling you'd just do that, no need for any of this pantented niche wankery.
Marco:
The whole pulsing thing sounds stupid ... but the idea of a powerbus which determines mA range shorts by communicating the received power and comparing it with the send power (or lack of ACKs from the receiver) is interesting. Finally a system which can protect you from a two handed blunder.
It might allow you to declare a 330V DC wire voltage band 1.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Marco on January 03, 2022, 02:14:20 am ---The whole pulsing thing sounds stupid ...
--- End quote ---
Yeah but you can't get millions in venute funding without some patented techno-babble solution.
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