Episode 109 | Healthy Harmonics | Satic USA
According to a Dept. of Energy study, as much as 23%, on average, of the power entering your home could be distorted. This can result in all your appliances and electronics getting hot.
Missoula, MT-based Satic USA has been selling devices to "filter" this "dirty electricity" for over 12 years. CEO B.D. Erickson says the increase in DC generation and charging has added to the issue. “The electricity actually produced by the [DC/AC] inverter, by other standards, would not be considered clean,” he says.
A typical electrical signal is measured by voltage, wattage, amperage, harmonics, distortion interference, power factor, and frequency. B.D. says harmonics and distortion is where the energy losses can happen. Have you ever noticed a hot TV or battery-powered device? B.D. says that's not supposed to happen.
“It’s fuzz, it’s harmonics or distortion," he says. "Extra waves, on that electrical signal, that really only wants one wave.”
On home energy audits, a meter should be detecting less than 100 mV to be considered "clean electricity." Many homes are over 500, he says. If you have rooftop solar panels, readings could be 10-20x. The solution is to add a filter, typically at the breaker box. The key is to have it between the DC-generated power and your home.
B.D. says most customers actually purchase their products for the perceived health benefits, whether it be family members with autism or trouble sleeping. One of the issues attributed to these bad signals is Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). This condition was brought to national public attention on the TV series Better Call Saul. Both the series and the WHO make the causes for these symptoms unclear, but B.D. believes EHS is real.
“I don’t suffer from EHS. But there sure are a lot of folks that do, and our products seem to help them," he says. B.D. says he's played a “game” where EHS patients turn around and see if Satic's filter is on or off. He claims they get it right almost every time.
“The way we use technology today results in current in a different way than it’s ever been before, and we’re out on the front trying to address that.”
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