washworks installations
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We just came up with a great wat to reduce some of our electrical consumptions used in tunnel carwashes especially but could be used in many applications. Instead of using an magnetic contactor that "spikes" the meter all the time we are using VFD's and Soft Starts. This drastically reduces the "spikes" and lowered the bill by over 20% we figure? Give or take of course. Not a new concept at all but 2 things: We found out how to do them cheaper and also Mr. Obama has passed an energy credit that basically states that if you can reduce your consumptions by 10% the government will cover like 50% of the costs to do so as a write off! That makes the payback on this usually expensive concept that much more attractive. We did it ourselves and it was easier than we expected!