Dirty electricity, or "electrical pollution," is a prevalent health issue in urban areas. It is invisible and difficult to detect, causing various symptoms like headaches and difficulty focusing, known as electrohypersensitivity or EHS. Understanding its causes and effects is crucial. Electrical energy flows into our devices, converting into heat, light, sound, motion, pressure, radiation, or a mix of these. Any remaining electricity returns to the breaker panel through the neutral line.

On a standard electrical plug, you may notice one blade is smaller than the other. The small blade provides power to the device, while the larger blade completes the circuit. The third prong is the ground, which reduces the risk of electric shock. Starting from 2017, neutral should not be connected to grounded enclosures according to the National Electrical Code.

When you turn on a vacuum cleaner, it can cause interference with other electronic devices. For example, your TV may show a line or your stereo speakers may make a popping sound. This happens because the electrical current from the vacuum flows through the wires in the wall to the outlet, then to the vacuum motor, and finally back out through the common line that is shared by the TV and stereo. This "dirty electricity" from the vacuum motor affects the TV and stereo through the common line. In fact, all the common lines in your home or office are connected on the same common bar in your breaker panel, so any circuit in your home can affect any other circuit.

A Power Perfect Energy Management System™ wired in at your panel is the most effective way to clean dirty electricity as it bridges and directly filters both phases and the neutral line for all circuits in your home or office. A plug-in unit such as the EMF Eliminator™ is effective on a single circuit and to some extent cleans all circuits on that particular phase, but not as effectively as a wire-in unit at the breaker panel. A wire-in unit has the shortest path to all circuits and the incoming power to the breaker panel from the utility and thus is the most effective technology for cleaning all of your home or office circuits.

If you or an electrician check your electrical system with power meters, you'll notice voltage fluctuations and harmonics. Some of these variations come from the power you receive from the utility or a neighbor's electricity usage, while others occur when something turns on or off in your home or office. Sound unbelievable? Try testing one of our power conditioning products with appliances like a refrigerator, freezer, or air conditioner.

In the USA, most homes and apartments have 120-volt "single-phase" electrical systems. This name is misleading because single-phase systems actually have two 120-degree out-of-phase phases. Specifically, there's an A phase and a B phase, each with 120 volts of electrical pressure. About half of your outlets are on phase A, providing power to your appliances and devices and returning it through the neutral (common) wire. The other half of your outlets are on phase B, receiving power from the B phase and returning it through the neutral wire.

In general, if you are going to use a plug-in EMF Eliminator, we recommend that you place one unit on a Phase A circuit and one unit on a Phase B circuit. It is best to place these on the circuits that draw the most power or create the worst harmonics.

Seeing variation in voltage and harmonics is normal. Did your neighbor turn something on, or did you? Filtering is an ongoing process: more sources of distortion may require more filters and that’s why filtering or synchronizing your electrical system from the source is the most recommended solution for cleaning dirty electricity throughout your entire environment with the whole Home/Business Power Perfect Management System.