Software-Defined Electricity Automatically Balances Phases in AC Power Networks (For the most recent article with updated images click here) The Software-Defined Electricity method controls and balances power flow in Real-Time by using an innovation in computing and power electronics and an advancement in sensing and controls. The balance across phases is a critical component to…
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Energy storage is a very popular topic throughout the world today. Effective and efficient energy storage is a security issue, it is an environmental issue, and it is an economic issue. It is safe to say that this topic is important to the world at large. There is news that will bring relief to everybody…
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Update, October 2026. Software-Defined Power is the name 3DFS used in 2016 for what it now calls Software-Defined Electricity. The server rack in this video is the ancestor of the 2020 test at a 208 V panel, where the neutral current fell from 15.6 A to 2 A with one unit on. That test and…
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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory releases the Energy Flow Chart for the U.S. every year. The latest Energy Flow Chart is here. As we have highlighted previously, the U.S. loses more than 67.8% of the electricity that is generated in our Grid. These losses are categorized as “Rejected Energy.” The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates…
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Data centers electrical networks are filled with thousands of loads all demanding power at the same time. In this video, we isolate a server rack loaded with various storage arrays and GPU accelerated blade servers and individually review a few of the beneficial effects of subcycle correction. The server rack shows a clear operational difference…
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3DFS began performing electrical network analyses for prospective clients in October 2015. The analysis takes less than an hour, does not interrupt power, and demonstrates the benefits of subcycle correction within that specific electrical network. A report is compiled and delivered in a few days showing the difference the electrical network with the power corrected…
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The time has long come for us to retire our initial promo video. As a company, we have grown past the this representation and have a much clearer value proposition for our current and prospective clients. We will keep the video here on our blog for reference and a fun reminder of how far we…
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As we work on publishing our most current case studies, we are releasing the performance study that took place on October 21-23, 2013. This study was performed at a water treatment facility in Florida. The VectorQ2 production prototype was installed without interruption to the service and a third party evaluation was conducted by Intelligent Building…
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Power quality is a term that we are all seeing more of these days. What does it mean though? How can the importance of power quality be conveyed so that the average person understands the impact of power quality on their daily lives? Most of us were introduced to electricity as kids in school when…
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The performance claims of 3DFS Technology have been met with some skepticism, so as a teaser, here is some data of a North Carolina 3 phase facility’s electrical network at the point in the time (05:45) when the Vector Q2 was turned into its correction mode. The data provided was gathered by a Tektronix PA4000…
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We appreciate everybody’s interest in why Power Quality is important. There is a more current description of why power quality is important in relation to electrical losses and carbon footprint on our blog here. Thank you for your interest. Almost everyone in the United States uses electricity. Surprisingly, few of them know that there is…
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In today’s world customers are offered an array of lighting choices. Several light bulb producers promise tempting energy savings, but beyond the higher cost of bulbs, are you getting anything beyond the promised energy savings? Lighting products can be broken down into three categories: incandescent, halogen, compact fluorescent (CFL), and LED. We are going to…
