Power 4 Home Scam – Is Power4Home Just Another Scam?
Is John Russel Of Power4Home The Real Deal?
Recently, there has been a lot of e-books on the web that will show you how to build your own home renewable energy system. The idea sounds very interesting. We can reduce our home power consumption by tapping into free energy from nature via solar power or wind energy. One such green energy guide is John Russel’s Power 4 Home.
Now, many people may be wondering, is Power 4 Home just another scam?
Well, I had that question anyway.
The first renewable energy manual that I bought was Michael Harvey’s Earth 4 Energy. That was back in end of 2008 when crude oil was hitting US150 per barrel. Many people including me was wondering if energy cost going to rise…which it did.
My home electricity bill was adjusted upwards about 10 percent by the power utility company. Now that crude oil is back to a reasonable level, my power bill is still the same. Go figure.
At that time, there was a lot of buzz on Earth 4 Energy and I was interested to find out what was in it. As usual, I have the thought in my mind. Is Earth 4 Energy a scam?
In short, I did buy the e-book. I actually did a Earth 4 Energy review to list down what I learn from the manual.
Is Power 4 Home A Scam?
Many people may have read or heard of John Russel’s Power 4 Home and you may be thinking about buying it. You may have the same question I had.
Is Power 4 Home a scam? Now, what does “scam” mean? Lets look at Wikipedia for some answer.
Here ’s what I found in our friendly Wiki on the word “scam”:
In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and is also a civil law violation. Many hoaxes are fraudulent, although those not made for personal gain are not technically frauds.
I highlighted the phrase intentional deception made for personal gain, because I think it is the key phrase.
Does John Russel has intention to deceive his e-book buyers for personal gain?
Personally, I don’t think that is the case. If it was, all the millions of authors that have written books sold in the bookstores are scammers.
Power 4 Home Scam Report Conclusion
Power4Home, is just another e-book on the web and it is an information product. The idea is to get some valuable information out of it. How we use the information is another question.
Some people may have bought a hard cover or paper back book from the book store. Some books like Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, The DaVinci Code etc are excellent, while other books we couldn’t even finish the first chapter.
Does that mean the author has scammed you? Maybe not…don’t you think so.
If you have an interest to know more on how you can use renewable energy such as a DIY solar panels or a domestic wind turbine, John Russel’s Power 4 Home is a book you can bet on.
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“Scam” means misleading in an attempt to profit. Power4Home says you can eliminate your electric bill by building a simple system over a weekend, for less than $200. Can this be done? If not, it IS a scam. You are obviously shilling for Power4Home, as you never bothered to explain if Power4Home can do what it claims, so easily, for such a low price.
Dear WhatTheTruckMan,
Thanks for your feedback. After reading through my blog post, you’re right, my explaination is not clear enough. That’s why I thought of writing a little more to my post.
If you were to visit Power 4 Home main web site at http://www.power4home.com, the sub heading says:
It’s understandable many people are not very sure how you can generate electricity at home for less than $200. I’ll try to explain.
I’m using solar panel for example. A typical DIY solar panel is capable of generating about 18 volts and 75 watts of electricity. That solar panel can be used to charge a battery unit. The battery can then be used to power your home appliance (s).
To make the solar panel, you will need 36 pieces of 3″ x 6″ solar cells. The PV cells are the most costly. It’ll will take up about 40 – 50 percent of the total project cost.
Are there any ways you can locate cheap solar cells? As a matter of fact, you can find them at Ebay. It will take some leg work though.
I actually did a blog post of how to find inexpensive solar cells at Ebay. Click on the link below:
http://www.diysolarhomes.com/blog/diy-solar-panels/cheap-solar-cells-inexpensive-pv-cells-for-solar-panels/
The rest of the costs associated with making your own solar module are lumber, Jones plug, silicon caulk, stainless steel screw, blocking diode, copper wire, Plexiglass and paint.
That’s about it. The rest of the building material are not very expensive…
Building a solar panel for less than $200 can be done, but it will take a lot of effort. You have to be patient to source for inexpensive building material.
I have read Power 4 Home a few times, it does provide lots of tips and strategies on how you can save money in your home improvement project.
==> Click here to read more about Power 4 Home!
$200? No way. You left-out the cost of converting the energy from the charged batteries into 120-volt AC power to run your appliances. The cost is thousands, not hundreds. You would need many solar panels and/or windmills, many batteries, and many inverters.
Oh, and I left out the cost of the regulators that are also needed to switch-off the batteries from the solar panels to stop them from overcharging. $200 is a dream!
Bill is right. I work with powerconverters and that is where the real cost is. Going from DC to AC at precisely 120 Volts and 60 Hertz.
DC is practically useless as a stand alone supply with batteries. Nice to run your yard lights and a fountain or so. If you had an electric car it would be nice to charge the batteries (but you have to wait a few days at 75 Watts).
I all for green tech and would take this project on today, but there are no savings this way.
I found that a ’standard’ 800 watt inverter will not work. Was told that the typical inverter used with auto’s will be ruined – it was!! I have located an inverter that will deal with 11 volt / 50 watt input, hook to your grid system and will be SAFE. You need to consider what happens if you away from your system and the utility company has to do a repair. . ?? This project is getting expensive, 100 cells, controller, battery, inverter, and 120$ to cover the panels. Don’t need hail destroying all my effort – used 1/8″ Lexan.
We purchased the Earth4 Home which also promised me that I could build a wind mill for $200 (all of the similarities in these two sites makes me KNOW they are the same person)
Well yes I could build one for $200 however I was going to need about 100 of these $200 windmills to generate enough power to heat my house. One might run the lights but the lights are not the costly part of my electric bill. This is a scam-run the other way!
Having lived off-grid for over 15 years on solar, built solar homes, written a mainstream published book “Green made easy” and consulted with companies like Mercedes benz on the first solar powered auto-dealership in the U.S. …this is not a scam..it is fraud.,,and potentially dangerous.
Connecting to the electric grid requires UL approved systems with emergency shutoffs in case the gris goes down to protect a lineman working down line.
Claims of powering a washing machine for $200 are completely untrue. ..unless you have a DC washing machine and you want to only run it for about 3 minutes. Far better to invest in efficient lighting, kill power vampires, weatherize your home, etc.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Its great to be here. Something kept holding me back to make that payment, and I knew when stuff like that happens, there is always a reason.
Thanks to your comments but can you tell how and where I can buy a solar system for my PC?
I hope to hear from you dear “I Install Solar”
Hi Obinna,
A PC does not really consume a lot of energy. You can buy a a ready made home solar system from Amazon.com.
Check out the following article ==> Solar Panels For Homes – Plug & Save System
$200 System for generating electricity for your house?
Good luck. I install solar systems for SCADA system RTU’s. A typical system ,60 Watt, cost roughly $900.
This is enough to power a small RTU(Computer) that draws roughly 15 watts constant. Factor in night time, cloudy days , and it will get by. Now, in your house,this will power a dim light bulb.
A solar system to make your electric meter spin backwards would cost $15000-$20000.
If something sounds too good to be true it is usually just so. A little common sense is in order. I admit, I did not have much of it when I ordered a similar outrageously over- promising book on electric car conversion. What I got was a hodge podge of ruminations about raping scrapyard and similar to get what you need on the cheep. Useless in its entirety. Fortunately enough for me the click bank returned my money promptly and w/o asking any question so ultimately I had just a run of fun at my (and the author guy’s) stupidity. Lesson learned.
I am not trying this snake oil4home one.
Yes…by all indices even w/o reading his books and watching his videos this guy is, no offense, just that.
On the other hand there are people who share with you their concerns. Some share even what looks to me very good ideas or even patentable inventions about power sustainability. It is without you costing arm and leg if you decided to build…and they put the info on the net for free. One person invites you to check his calculations first. You build only after you do the maths, literally, yourself (and he offers help). This person hates advertising so I am not making it too easy for you. (Yes…he suffers because his pages are so tediously long-winding that even well meaning people find them unpalatable…definitely not this snake oil4home salesman like here that employs dozen of shillings or confederates to dumb you down. Good that real experts like Chris Prelitz or I Install Solar are here to tell.)
A hint: google: solar roof “motor oil”, and sift through the links. Only the motivated one finds what he/she seeks. Then come back here and tell me whether it is really as good as I think it is. Good luck.
Thanks for the reviews; best I’ve found thus far. Being one who’s narrow mental vision gets him in trouble several times a year by “leaping” before thinking, I decided to dig a little farther this morning before leaping for the Power 4 Home “KIT” because in the early 90’s I installed two Siemens 75 watt solar panels on the top of a motor home (retired, sold everything, and took off with my dog to travel this great country … three years), so I knew enough to smell fish in Mr. Russel’s presentation … as you said, too good to be true. Those panels charged 4 marine 12VDC batteries which allowed me to watch 6-8 hours of evening satellite TV daily. As I recall, I spent about $1500 back then, but BOY was it worth it. So knew I’d need significantly more than he’s offers (my present house hold consumption, depending on season, ranges from 1500-2500 kWh per month.
By now, I expected to see much more output at a much less expensive cost, but it doesn’t appear so, yet anyway.
Thanks for an enlightening discussion.
Jerry K
Plano, Texas
Well, looks like I’ve been one of those “leaping” before thinking” people.
However, I thought I did allot of thinking BEFORE I just made the leap. NOW, I’ve come across this site and have read all of the above comments.
I’m 62, on a limited fixed Social Security income, live in Cleburne, Texas and would like to speak directly to Jerry K in Plano. I’m hoping you will e-mail me.
Victoria
I think it is a scam also… but would like to read more from others. I leapt before checking and 130.00 later I have one lonely video (which I have yet to open)… a scam because there is not a phone number or email anywhere to contact the presenter. Anyone can speak to the contrary?
Jeanne
It is easy to take advantage of people with something like this.
What is missing is any mention of how much electricity (power) this system is intended to produce but in a different part of the scam it talks about eliminating your electric bill and running a washing machine.
Any system built for $200 will power about a 65 watt light bulb. Your house takes up to 80 times that amount with major appliances running.
I could offer a solar power system for a dollar. My little calculator has one but it would do squat for real needs.
Go around your house and look at the label on everything plugged into the wall and find out how much power each thing consumes (watts), then add them all up. Getting off the grid isn’t so easy or cheep when you add it all up unless you are willing to make huge changes in your lifestyle.
I calculated the amount of energy needed to replace my consumption from the electric company. I would need about 45 2′x4′ solar panels at a cost of $800.00 each. Then I’ll have to by batteries, power converters, and wiring.
The entire project will cost more than $50,000.00.
A more efficient use of my resources would be to invest in energy saving techniques, increased insulation, windows, and doors that don’t leak
air.
I found a power surge strip at a local electronics store that has one socket that remains on and five that turn off with the switch, so you can stop the waste of power when your’e not using the devices and keep one on like your cable box, so it does’nt have to reboot everytime.
The $200 mark is a starter kit to get you started or to power something small in your homender that is constantly drawing power.
Hi everyone, I am John Russel… The John Russel! I never claimed to power your entire home for under $200 dollars… But to build a starter kit (75 watt panel) with an inverter, charge controller and battery… yes you can!
How do I know? Because I have built the little darling myself.
I have been building solar panels for over 10 years now. If your are going to power your entire home via solar power and pay someone to install it while paying full pop on equipment… Lets say a 5000 Watt system… You are looking at about $25,000.00 at MINIMUM with a very small battery bank.
My booklets, along with the DVD will explain everything you need to know and if your not happy with it, simply email us for a refund… This is no scam folks as the system works and I demonstrate it working on the DVD. Clickbank handles the money, not us, so you WILL get your money back! When I first opened this company, we were unsure of the volume of questions that we would get. It was though the roof!
That and us having problems with uploading to our customers. If you do a search online, the only 2 problems we had are replying quickly and the download issue. Both have been resolve.
The reason we do not have a phone number is because we cannot afford staff to support all the questions. And thats the only reason. If you have any questions, present them here and I will answer.
Thanks for listening and please remember, we offer REAL info and we do show you how to save thousands of dollars. No lies or scams here, just a misunderstanding. There has been a lot of heat on this subject so please be open minded as i WILL answer your questions.
John Russel,
Power 4 Home
Sorry, the point i was making about the $25,00.00 dollar system is that I made the same system for around $8300.00 dollars. I made my money back in 4 years with selling power back to the utility company.
After the 4 year mark, I was making money. No bull! But not everyone needs to generate that much power. I show you how to calculate your power usage and to go from there. Also, not all utility companies payout for power but at least you can turn the meter back till you pay nothing.
John