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Neg-a-Watt Technologies' goal: Produce Neg-a-Watts not Megawatts to save energy, reduce wear and tear and lower greenhouse gas emissions.  Join our pledge to the Arbor Day Foundation and plant a tree in one of our nation’s forests to help neutralize greenhouse gas emissions.

 

 

 

 
INDEPENDENT LABORATORY EVALUATION

Hedges Technology

Invented and patented by the late Rhey Hedges.
Matches the motor’s work to electricity supplied…creating optimum energy efficiency.
Received over 52 US and International patents.
Had successful run of 20,000 units in a pre-mature market the 1990’s.
Received the National Bureau of Standards Recommendation #187.

 

Two experienced inventors, Dr. Louis W. Parker and Mr. Rhey W. Hedges, joined forces in privately funded research from 1974 through 1985. Directed by Mr. Hedges, their close collaboration proved synergistic during this period, producing a variety of new discovery Parker/Hedges patents.

 

Dr. Parker's 'inter-carrier' reception process is used in all currently manufactured television sets. Recognizing his contributions to mankind, Dr. Parker, now deceased, was inducted in 1988 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame along side such notable inventors as Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell.

 

Mr. Hedges has been active in industrial electronics for over forty years. He has founded several technology-based companies to take his proprietary and/or internationally patented inventions to market. Most recently, Brain Communication Research, Inc., a non-profit, company, was founded to develop Hedges’ Electronic Glasses and other inventions in the public interest.

 

One of these developments with Parker/Hedges was the Energy Economizer Technology ('EET'). This energy saving concept was developed by Mr. Hedges into a family of 9 US Patents and 40+ Foreign Patents. More EET Patents are possible as this unique technology is applied to meet the worldwide need to conserve energy and natural resources.

 

One day in 1978, Rhey Hedges, technical director of Parker Electronics watched an undulating trace on the oscilloscope in his lab.  This trace was monitoring the power going to a motor.  As Hedges adjusted the load during operation he noticed something that caught his eye.  That 'something' was a smaller ripple that changed slightly as load varied.  "Sometimes inventors are lucky" Hedges said, recalling the development of EET. 

National Bureau of Standards

The U.S. National Bureau of Standards’ four-year study of the Hedges technology used in Save-a-Watt concluded:

  • “There is evidence that a significant amount of energy can be saved through widespread use of the device.”
  • “The technology is based on sound technical principles and can be expected to perform as claimed.”
  • “The product technology is a fundamentally sound system for automatically reducing the electrical energy used by induction motors at less than full mechanical loads.”
  • “In practice, it appears to achieve nearly optimum energy savings.”

Independent Testing Being Conducted By:
Western Mass Electric
Texas A&M
Solar Power, University of Central Florida

   

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