Example of sharing a voltage regulator with an OEL-820 load optimizer

Voltage stabilizer for a country house and garden

It just so happened that the power supply voltage in villages and towns often does not comply with GOST, and, as a rule, in a smaller direction. Instead of statutory 220 Volts in the outlet, we have less than 200 V. And during periods of mass arrivals of summer residents or when the heaters are cool on the street and electric heaters are turned on, the mains voltage drops even more significantly.

In such a situation, it is important to ensure reliable and safe operation of life support systems at home. For this you have to use network voltage stabilizer - A simple and affordable way to maintain the voltage of the home electrical network in accordance with GOST.

However, if you feed from it all electrical appliances available in the house, then the power of the device should be very large. Such a stabilizer requires space for installation in a dry, heated room, and it is very expensive.

Moreover, the lower the voltage at its input, the less power the stabilizer can give out, consuming more current. Because of this, very often, the stabilizer is turned off or knocks out the machine, although its marking has sufficient power.

Everything is correct, the lower the voltage, the more current the device requires to raise the voltage to the desired level. Therefore, your powerful electrical appliances overload the stabilizer and the electrical network, causing the overload protection to trip and the circuit breaker (machine) to trip. This machine is often located in the same shield as the electricity meter.

If you approach the problem creatively, it will become clear that to maintain the vitality of the house, it is enough to stabilize not all the voltage supplied to it, but only that which is supplied to the critical equipment.

First of all, this applies to the water supply system, since without water, as you know, there are neither tudes nor syuds! And the pumps are very sensitive to low voltage and easily fail for this reason. We are not talking about heating yet, this is a separate topic, which has been repeatedly considered on our website.

With lighting, now the issue is also easily solved - instead of unsafe twisted “energy-saving”, you need to install Kreonix LED bulbsoperating at a supply voltage of 85 to 265 volts without changing the luminous flux!

This is the best solution for lighting a country house or cottage with unstable supply voltage.

OEL-820 load optimizer in a water supply system

An individual water supply system usually consists of a borehole (submersible) pump and a storage water heater.

In our case, the Ariston water heater is used for 100 liters, with a capacity of 1, 25 kW with an additional ten of 1, 25 kW for accelerated heating, and a submersible pump with a power of 0.8 kW. It should also be borne in mind that the starting current of the pump can exceed the operating current by 2 to 3 times, although for a short time.

If we add up all the power of our electrical appliances, we get 3.3 kW. And if you take a voltage stabilizer with a power reserve for the starting current of the pump and to compensate for the power loss at low voltage, then you would need a 5 kW stabilizer! However, we do with an inexpensive 3 kW stabilizer.

How? Very simple. From the output of the stabilizer, the supply voltage is supplied to a separate wiring supplying the pump and the water heater located in different rooms not directly, but using Network Load Optimizer OEL-820 Clusterwin.

This device consists of two socket adapter blocks with a plug and a socket.Through one, the pump is connected to the outlet, and through the other, the water heater is connected to the outlet. Thus, at any time, only one of two powerful electrical appliances can be turned on.

Our priority is a pump, and our non-priority is a water heater. At the same time, the pump and the water heater can be located in different rooms, since the interaction between blocks OEL-820 remote, over the air.

We connect the pump of the pumping station to block A OEL-820, and the water heater to block B of the load optimizer. When the borehole pump is turned on, the water heater automatically shuts off while the membrane tank is filling up. After turning off the pump, the operation of the storage water heater automatically resumes.

When the pump is operating, its power consumption (0.8 kW working or short-term 1.6 kW starting) easily fits into the power of the stabilizer. When the water heater is working, even in maximum power mode (2.5 kW) it does not overload the stabilizer.

Yuri Shurchkov