Friday, April 16, 2010

Otejiri Oghoghori-Electrical Hacker

In 234Next Ben Ezeamalu reports on the work of Otejiri Oghoghori:
To ease the inconvenience usually associated with switching off generators and switching over to the national power supply whenever it is restored, Mr. Oghoghorie said he was motivated to invent the device."I invented the changeover due to the unstable power supply, and before I invented it," the 23 year old said. "I realised that most portable generator users do not know when NEPA (the power company) is on and so their generator keeps running until someone comes to tell them to switch it off."
According to him, the device, once installed, will automatically switch from generator power (when it is on) and at the same time switch off the generating set. He estimates the speed of changeover to be 0.1 seconds because, according to him, it is so fast that the switching goes unnoticed.
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photo courtesy of 234Next

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