When will we get good quality uninterrupted power supply in our country?

[mbhangui]

Noting as “we” are selling power now to neighbouring countries, the “surplus” term may be justified.
But the reality of continuing power cuts gets covered up/hidden.

It is not "we" as in India who is selling to neighbouring countries. It is just one individual (made powerful) who is selling. That surplus thingy is just a rhetoric.

 

[Analogous]

Yes. There will be some loss with the stabilizer. So your net reduction of electricity bill will be a bit reduced by the stabilizer loss. This can be calculated only by measuring the current being (full load) consumed before using the stabilizer and current consumed after using the stabilizer.

But the stabiliser itself will consume some power.?

 

[mbhangui]

But the stabiliser itself will consume some power.?

That is the stabilizer loss I'm talking about. Apart from the stabilizer loss, the only consumption by the stabilizer is a small electronic circuit which consumes very little power. In general transformers are efficient devices.

My rough guess is that anyone whose electricity bill has increased by Rs 2000 pm in the last 4 years will benefit.

 

[Hari Iyer]

Imo if you are going to use anykind of stabilizer ( automatic, servo), UPS, CVT etc, for an audio amplifier, then it becomes high impedance power supply for the amplifier. Yes your amplifier could be protected from over / under voltage, but the SQ would be affected to a great extent. Because of this reason, I plug directly to wall outlet, no power conditioner or power regeneration etc. Even a humble line filter is a strict no for me as they rob the power lines of the harmonics content which is so important to play music.

 

[availlyrics]

But the stabiliser itself will consume some power.?

Stabilizer is also one type of transformer, so

• Hysteresis Loss.
• Iron Loss.
• Eddy Current Loss.
• Copper Loss. (Or Aluminum)
• Stray Loss.
• Dielectric Loss.

Transformer efficiency is also load dependent, so no load at output dosen't means zero power consumption , there's narrow range in the transformer output power vs η curve where the efficiency is the highest. e.g. small PC UPS idle power consumption at no load is 10W while charhing batterries is 20W+. So you can safely assume no load power consumption of a 3KV stabiliser to be atleast 30W min. Bigger transformers have better efficiancy, so our problem should be solved at utility company's distribution transformer level itself. Using stabiliser is akin to using air purufier. This is the reason why an SMPS is more efficient (but not audiophile ears freindly), though some very good designs are an exception