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Has anyone seen this - Voltserver: "Digital Electricity"
rrinker:
http://voltserver.com/
Once you get past the marketing wank (and boy is there a lot of it...), it looks to me what thy are doing is combining data and power via square waves with variable duty cycle. Sounds to me an awful lot like DCC model train control. One of our (non EE background) guys went to a demo and was describing it as the power going into a capacitor bank and the data comes out the other side. One of our sales guys has an EE degree (background in PIR design) and I overheard this conversation and we were both like - there has to be more to it, capacitors alone can't store and recreate digital information. Poking around on their web site eventually gets you to a page describing the technology at least a little bit, and the first thing that struck me was that it looks like DCC for trains.
StillTrying:
"VoltServer Raises $5 Million to Expand Digital Electricity Commercial Deployments
VoltServer receives $1M Department of Energy Grant
VoltServer closes $2M Series A financing
Slater Invests $250k in Energy Management Startup"
It doesn't have to produce or have anything.
I think I'll develop a new Digtal Light Bulb, with two special Digital Modes, - ON and OFF. :)
https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/868253
http://www.google.com/patents/US8068937
frozenfrogz:
So basically they are advertising for two halves of a high frequency switch mode power supply that can modulate additional data packets onto a DC / PWM Signal?
Sounds like a "War of the currents" re-enactment somehow.
Another patent for "Packet energy transfer" from that company. Man have they filed a lot of these!
phil from seattle:
Man I hate marketing crap that completely hides what the product actually does. Best I could tell from looking at their installed products page, it's some sort of power supply - mostly POE. Meh. Whole lot of words over a whole lot of nothing.
But perhaps the worst is their attempt to brand electricity. Digital Electricity - I think I puked a little over that one. If I heard someone say "we're using digital electricity!", I would be hard pressed not to give them a round-house bitch slap. And using Edison and Tesla in the same image? WTF??? What's next, 64-bit power?
frozenfrogz:
--- Quote from: phil from seattle on February 14, 2018, 09:01:01 pm ---And using Edison and Tesla in the same image? WTF??? What's next, 64-bit power?
--- End quote ---
Next up in line would be »quantum state electricity« or »quantum entangled electricity« :popcorn:
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