Dirty Electricity: What it is and how to fix it 

I love how you try to explain complicated processes and then you say, "so now you're probably wondering, what do I do with this, " and I'm like no, I'm stuck on "flux capacitor" which got me thinking about the movie Back to the Future, and I completely missed everything you said from that point, anyways, still enjoy your videos! 😊👍💗

This is by far the most detailed video about dirty electricity I've found to date. Thank you

Best summary on this subject. Thanks Scottie cracking a unit open and sharing your findings.

Hey Scottie. Thanks for all the vid os man. I really enjoy your no BS approach. All the best.

Good morning Cletus and Scottie! Grabbing my coffee and happy for a new vid🖖🏻

this is the best and simplest explanation ive heard so far and i was up bought on electronics and installation of electrical equipment

i want to thank you for this video. I have always suspected issues with powerlines at home and at work but could not substantiate my suspicions. As soon as you started discussing the book, I purchased it from your affiliate link (hope it works).

Looking Forward To The How To Build Your Own Video

This was a great episode, looking forward to the followup! A lot of times we switch off entire rooms on the circuit breaker for instance where we sleep, and then also sleep on an earthing mat. It feels like sleeping in a cabin in the woods!

Thank you for the recommendations. I've been searching for a while, not finding anything suitable until today with your help. Much appreciated.

Thank you heaps. So well explained.

Thanks. So glad I came upon your web site.

Thank you so much for this video, Scottie. A friend of mine was talking about it but couldn't explain it and it sounded weird. Now I understand that my friend hasn't lost his mind.

Thanks! Cleared the mystery for me. Great video. Been wondering how to diminish the dirty electricity but thought it was far more complicated than how you presented it

Love your channel !

Thank you for this. I like you and your style of teaching. You simplify well. I am happy that I found your channel. - Hugs.😊

Thank you for the very good explanation. It will help me to clean up the "dirty things"

Thank you great info🤪

great video, @Scottie -- and interesting you mentioned that more 'remote' effect when sanitizing your computer area, and your bedroom getting lower levels at the same time. This is one of these effects that Stezer himself or Orham Miller and other building biologist always point out! Also means that stuff really can come from your neighbors (especially ones that have that "clean"-energy stuff like solar panels -- that aren't so clean after all when they feed-in or use inverters to have AC). When I was little, I used to experiment a lot with DC power for a lot of "household stuff", especially the things that run on low-voltage DC anyway (model railroads, energy-saving halogen desk lamps, many of my other toys and gizmos, radios, fax machines back in the day, battery chargers and what not). Totally would make a lot of sense to use these (from a DC car battery or the like) in order to skip the problem in the first place (at least for these items). I know it still wouldn't solve the remaining issues with your other appliances, DE coming from the neighborhood, let alone shit traveling over the lines if there are smart meters installed in the vicinity etc. On that note, let me also point out what a BAD IDEA the entire "LAN-over-powerline" BS would be! Had the same issues with Stetzer-item shipping you mentioned, thinking of maybe aggregating a larger shipment using some US re-mailing service and then pay the men (including customs thugs, I know) just once. Viabox and some place in IN (strategically located b/c Amazon hub there) might make sense. Anyway, had looked into much of this for some time, but you kind of reminded me to really put it into practice ASAP... Thanks for this one!

Bro. Super strong. Thank you

Thank You . . .

It's interesting , I didn't even guess about such things , thanks Scottie , :)

i had crazy high numbers in my house....certain LED lightbulbs especially the 4 ft shoplights i had everywhere, were really boosting the numbers....changed to all incandescent bulbs(zero on the scale)and got filters for almost every circuit....all numbers are below 50 and i've NEVER slept better !

Thank you.

Odd to me this was put out THREE MONTHS AGO and I just got it today 1/18/2022???!!!! I enjoy your talks......over my head but still informative. Thank you young man 👍 Texas Nana 🤠 PSALM 91

keep doing these videos your are so right

Thank You for sharing your valuable knowledge on this topic. We have had a LOT of strange health problems and other problems throughout this house we bought eight years ago. Recently discovered spaghetti wire job and hundreds of chewed wire jackets throuout. Sounds like this house would be off the charts...

Thank you

You’ve made a good point that has never occurred to me, simply because I cannot afford these expensive toys. The inverters you’ve mentioned, connected to the solar panel systems, which are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. When you spoke of the inverters, it opened my eyes to the fact that batteries store a DC charge, and so, I would likely be so much smarter to leave any inverters out of the equation, if I’m only going to go plugging in AC/DC adapters into my inverter once I have one!!

Thanks for explaining things. I wanted to remove wifi from my home but the task sounded daunting and expensive. From watching your video 3 years ago I removed wifi and am so thankful for you to make these videos (For Dummies) 😂❤️

Thank you! Super informative, I have some really sensitive speakers and when I turn on the amp I can hear a hummmmmm I guess I need to get myself some filters hehe

Noise? I get tingly and nearly faint. Very interesting, thank you.

This is truly been one of the BEST VIDEOS I HAVE EVER SEEN ON RU-vid!!! TY Scottie for your extensive knowledge!!! I've been getting bad pops and crackling in my Hazelrigg VLC Pre amplifier and I think it because of dirty electricity. I bought the EMI meter and some green wave filters because of you hope I can get them some to see if this is the problem :) is there an email I can ask you a few questions from? Thanks in advance! DJ

i was working once in some small office with those old long flourescent tube blocks, and i swear i could felt the phisycal disconfort whenever thing was switched on

Thank you for explaining things in the way you do, rather than being an alarmist. It helps people that don't necessarily understand and doesn't turn them off from new ways of thinking. I'm not a "techy" myself and am just curious if having the filter plugged in is actually "using" electricity. Meaning, would it change a person's electric bill? Also, does "cleaning" the sine wave up benefit our normal electrical devices in any way? In a typical situation, with an average amount of dirty electricity.

I have been using stetzerizers for years. Very good stuff. Thanks for this video, maybe my hubbie will get it, lol.

Top notch video man. I read a bunch of the book EMF*D by Dr. Mercola recently and I am doing research on these little devices now. Hella expensive little guys but hopefully they will bring some benefits.

Scottie: Thanks for this. I'd just like to add that some naturopaths believe one thing that may make people more sensitive to RFI/EMI is heavy metal toxicity. They theorize that metals in the body could act like tiny antennae and thereby increase the amount of RFI/EMI you absorb.

I had a (probably damaged) PC PSU once, it still worked (no blue screens or any other issues), but it produced a crazy high amount of DE (IIRC it was > 3000 on a GS meter, so at least 72000 mV). Working for 2-3 hours on that PC tired me and my wife out to a point where we needed a nap. After noticing that it affected her just as much as me, I investigated. Swapped the PSU and the problem was greatly reduced. With the new PSU, a single filter would significantly drop the remaining DE, to a point of removing the problem.

Scotti, would you please include a link to the update after using the dirty metres? I scrolled through the videos but didn't see one.

If you have nothing running at night or plugged into outlets, then is there a reason to use a filter?

Ah, silly me. I edited my comment to include a link, and naturally RU-vid deleted the whole comment :D. Anyway, I have both the Greenwave Broadband EMI meter, and the Stetzerizer Microsurge meter, and they're both very useful. The Greenwave meter measures dirty electricity in mV, and has a speaker for an audible representation of the 'noise'. The Stetzerizer Microsurge meter is the OG meter, which was used in a lot of the early dirty electricity studies, and measures in its own units, the GS [Graham/Stetzer] unit, which uses a bit more mathematics and I believe takes frequency more into account. I personally tend to use the Greenwave more often, and use the Stetzerizer for secondary measurements. The speaker is an extremely useful monitoring tool, and gives a lot more meaning to the mV readings, especially for diagnosing an issue. However, it's important to note that a lot of the measurements made in the original research studies were made in the Stetzerizer's GS units. While it's a fair approximation to aim for similar 'values' on the Greenwave meter, it may be a factor that makes someone opt for the Stetzerizer meter instead. Another major thing to take into account - the Greenwave meter measures over a much wider bandwidth (3 kHz up to 10MHz), while the Stetzerizer meter is focused on what they believe to be the more biologically active range of 10 kHz to 100 kHz. This just means that each meter can give slightly different results on the same circuit depending on the noise characteristics. Does it make one better than the other? I'd be lying if I said I knew for sure! For those interested, a link to the patent for the Stetzerizer Microsurge meter is on stetzerelectric[.]com/store/microsurge-meter/ ~ text search for U.S. Patent #6,914,435

I bought the Greenwave filters to remedy a problem I had with computer equipment doing weird things I couldn't explain and had troubleshot it down to EMI on the line. Like off the charts it was so bad. My electric utility here in Canada wouldn't fix it so I went out in search of power bars and anything else I could find that said it would filter EMI. The Greenwave filters are hands down the best device out there for cutting it down. What I actually did was at my main breaker (fuse) panel I installed 2x 15 amp circuits as the first breakers where the 2 lines of the split-phase power I have coming into my North American Supply. It's 220 volt but split phase of 110v and 110v. So I have one 15 amp breaker on the one leg and another on the second. I installed 2 plugs on these breakers and put in 2 Greenwave filters on each plug of each of the split phase lines right at the breaker panel and I dropped my incoming off the chart noise down to 104mv as measured by the Greenwave meter. I then bought extra to put one in each room of the house and I managed to get it down to 24mv at each spot in the house. All the random issues I had with my computer equipment rebooting stopped, I swear I feel better (anecdotal, nothing to confirm though) and I swear that we are having less issues with electronic devices in general. I also noticed that the sine-wave is clean waves now and not fuzzy waves when I look at it with my Oscilloscope. Anyway, just thought I'd pass along the information.

I'd like to reccomend The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg also if you're interested in the effects of electricity in its many various permutations.

Dude fantastic! Does this mean that I should get a filter for each device or can I run a power strip on one filter?

Great video! Thank you for making it. I live in a mobile home and recently discovered I have aluminum wiring. Kinda scary. Can you tell me if these filters would work with aluminum wiring and if there is a difference in how dirty the electricity is in aluminum compared to copper? Many thanks.

Very informative and disturbing video. Thanks. Could you not measure EMI and electrical induction with a multi meter though? Its crazy how much they charge for meters. I also bought an RF meter and even with router and such electronics off Im still measuring crazy RF in the house and bedrooms. I wonder if the meter is picking up some of the induced RF by the electrical wiring?

Is there any reason you couldn't just install a cap(s) into the breaker panel? One cap per phase? or add a cap to each outlet? It would be a lot cheaper.

"They may explode, they may work--we'll find out!" LMAO at this!!! 😆Had to stop video to laugh it out & recompose myself for the final minute of the video. Yes, FAFO is often how we learn about life. 😜 I'm _far_ less cavalier with electricity than you are, sir, but that's because I'm far less versed in it than other areas where I am much more of the "eh, I'll just do this thing in an extreme manner and find out what happens." LOL I'm certainly grateful for folks like you who can provide top notch info and layman's explanation for the rest of us who don't know the ins & outs of this topic but are searching for the information to make our homes and daily lives less polluted by EMFs, chemical toxicants, and other things most folks never give a thought to because these things are just their norm. Thank you!!!😊

I was looking at the reviews on Amazon and had a question about the bad reviews. I bought some for my house and according to the greenware meter it does reduce the dirty electricity. My question is does it increase the EMF throughout the house which we know is terrible for your health or is the EMF just confined around the filters. . I saw something that said not to stand within 2ft or sleep within 2 feet of the filters because they do emit EMF. Is the EMF greatly increase just around the outlet and suddenly dissipates or is there a larger emittion of EMF throughout the room?

As I interpret this, I am getting dirty electricity from the grid as well as adding my own from my "smart" appliances. How do I keep dirty electricity from my 200v drier from entering my home network? Is there a "whole house" filter to address dirt from the grid?

Hi, thank you so much for your videos, they have been very informative. We have a question concerning the follow up video you had mentioned that you were going to do about the benefits after addressing your home or work area with dirty electricity filters. Were you able to do that? What were the benefits? Thank you so much

I have problem with not smooth PC i put ferrites cores it helps a lot. Can I buy only one filter to my PC will it help?

Can these be used to reduce noise in audio equipment.

The Bob Ross of electricity!

Hi Scottie, I watched with great interest your presentation. I built myself some filters, using only 2,2 uF capacitors and I wonder if you measured, eventually, that voltage with the noise-meter device. Can you tell me how much milivolts showed in your case ? (with the filter you presented) - in your other video, you measured 41 mV ... and I presume is the same as with the original filter ?

I wonder whether it would make more sense to put some kind of 50Hz stabilizer before your electric switch board instead of those 10-15 Stetzer filters on each outlet. Or it doesn't work that way?

Would this help when I’m using a backup generator in a power outage in the United States?

Wow good explanation! Do lots of gigs🎤 and the mixer reacts somthimes wird, especially in big bars, for example, suddenly de refurb shuts off.when the kitchen is closed then problem is solved..i think. Is one of those filters the solution? Yhx b

do you need both an EMI and EMF or RF meter

In essence what you have is an RC filter that shunts out RF frequencies that are well above the 50/60 hertz line power.

Thanks, most interesting. I'm on solar power, with a 350watt pure sine wave inverter. This is only active for fairly short periods of time, so am I right in assuming that dirty electricity would not be an issue? But I know of other vans that have 3000watt inverter, so could that change the scenario? You're always most interesting and helpful thanks.

Given the voltage rating of the MKP62's EMI Filter, other than install safety pre-cautions, why not put an MKP62 across L1 & L2 terminals (each phase) to the main panel in a house? This would help filter dirty AC from the substation? Or DIY individual filter for each leg (hot to neutral). This as a whole house filter.

Does a voltage regulator do anything to reduce that capacitive coupling?

Is this the same tech as stopwatt? If i but stetzerizers in a 3000 sq ft home- how many do i need?

So, the dirty power is not coming from the grid, and/or it is being created in the house? I would have to assume that there is no house level cleaner because we are creating it in the house.

After a bit of research into AC line EMI I came across something similar called an AC line conditioner. It seems they are popular with the audio community. I understand how a capacitor acts as filter to clean up power. Is it really that simple? The AC line conditioner has something that is missing in the Stetzerizer filter called a common mode choke and in some cases two additional single chokes. Can this be incorporated in your design in some way? I'm not exactly sure how and where these components can be most effective. I would much rather install one large unit at the source than have a bunch scattered around the house.

will negative ion generators help with dirty electricity side effects?

Hey Scottie, Looking at your schematic at 17 mins in I do think there should be circuit protection (a fuse) in the live feed where it goes out to the 3 big capacitors (and 2 resistors) because if one of those caps goes short circuit it may burn up or even catch fire if the only protection is back at the consumer unit which (in the UK) will be 32amps MCB (for a ring main feeding sockets) or 20amps MCB (for a radial circuit feeding sockets). This means up to 8 Kilowatts or 5 Kilowatts respectively which will be easily enough to burn up the capacitors and start a fire (depending on the characteristic of the short circuit and how quickly it would trip the MCB). I say this with more confidence because when I opened up a EMF protection brand dirty elec filter (here in the UK) that had stopped working (the only way to tell it had stopped working was that it had stopped getting warm from the discharge resistor inside- theres no indicator light which I find disappointing and (IMO) general low quality inside too)- anyway that brand has a little surface mount PCB fuse rated at 4 amps- which had blown. It also had a thermal fuse on the neutral side rated at 135 degrees C, (which was fine). So I replaced the surface mount fuse with a wired in 20mm fuse holder in which I installed a 5 amp fuse. So these guys do bother with circuit protection so perhaps you should too? By the way I also installed a neon indicator on the load side of both the current and thermal fuses so if either blow again I will know straightaway. LASTLY SCOTTIE I DIDN'T WANT TO NIT PICK- I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR CARE & GREAT VIDEOS.

Man,, I speak English but that went right over my head. I was watching to see how to make generator electrical clean. Think we just won't run any sensitive things when we need a generator. Thanks though.

I been having static electricity inside the apartment and ringing ear and I notice that the lights blinks .

What tips would you suggest for home? Unplugging appliances and computers when not in use? Turning off wifi at night?

im short on plugs does it work if i plug it into power strip or does it have to be directly in the wall plug ?

Good information - thanks for posting. However, don't the plug-in filters create magnetic fields? And couldn't they cause coupling depending on where they are placed?

good info but why not just add Capacitor bank in your home?

since greenwave also now has the Spectrum 2500-EF Filter designed for EU countries (schuko) do you think that USA to EU adapters which would be necessary for the original US filters, create certaiin types of noise themselves? Even if not EMI, do they increase electric fields or magnetic fields?

I have dirty electricity coming from my computer monitor. Are there any computer brands or models that have lower emission? I guess it's from whatever transforms the current downward for the LED's. Any way to fix this? Thank you.

Can you use an AM radio off tune to find where most noise comes from?.

Could you show us under a scope how it looks like?

yes that right they never had the that kind of tech then i remember one of the lecturers giving an whole session on sw mode power supplies as you the higher the frequency the smaller components needed but they did not know about dirty electricity in them days know its in everything

thanks Scottie for the valuable infos i did watch both videos about dirty electricity . i have a question can i install filters on my solar inverter output? can i also use filters on my generator output? Thanks

Hey Scottie. I've noticed that EMF is frequently being grouped together in the dirty electricity category. As I understand EMF is the effect of electricity passing through a conductor, and is not cancelled by an opposing field. In this video you state that dirty electricity is caused by high frequency transients, caused by the technology used to convert AC to DC, dimmers, and inverters. So to clarify, it appears that the dirty electricity filters can address the high frequency transients, but not the EMF, and to address EMF issues you would need to correct improper wiring in your home...is this correct? And thank you!

Any electronic device made by a reputable brand will have a far more efficient filter built-in than just a capacitor. And it's there to prevent harmonics and voltage spikes disturbing the device itself and also being backfed from the device to the grid. There are standards in place for that, which does not allow "dirt" to be fed in the grid from devices plugged into it. Only if you're mostly using cheap non-brand electronics you have a reason to worry. The capacitors in your filters do close to nothing to suppress the spikes you call dirt. They would only work for inductive loads as motors. A simple first order passive low-pass filter made of a resistor and capacitor would give you attenuation of -6dB only. And your filter is not even that. As shown in your schematics, the resistor is only there to lower the inrush current, protect the capacitor and prevent your circuit breaker of tripping when plugging in the "filter". Also, connecting the resistor and capacitor in series will reduce the filtering effect of the capacitor. On top of that, the capacitor will introduce an unwanted phase shift, which is disturbing other devices plugged into the grid, including older power meters. Similar scam to this dirty power one is the Power Saving devices made of capacitors. I don't argue if the "dirty power" affects human's health, but I do argue solving it is not as simple as plugging in a capacitor in your outlet.

I can across this video initially looking for a cheaper low noise solution for my hifi audio system, not knowing health issues caused by dirty electricity. 'Im definitely going to buy multiple filters for my house. But I have a question, is there any reason I cannot plug a power strip into one of these filter? Will it work ? Does it become less effective? Thanks in advance !

So would these filters clean up a generator power supply? a regular generator as to a inverter generator?

Merci beaucoup! In which area do you live in Fr? What filter do you use for thise famous L*n*y filters?

Ok, it's early in the video, but I would like to run a new, forced air, natural gas furnace with a generator. What type of generator will I be needing? I plan to wire the furnace to go straight to the generator. Thank you for your time!

You got me thinking about my solar collectors on my roof. Each panel has a micro inverter that synchronises to the power grid frequency. These inverters are sophisticated such that they can compensate for some pretty gnarly power conditions. They compensate for 100 -1000 times the fundamental (60Hz). Can they smooth out repetitive noise through feed forward techniques? Can they do the work of the compensating capacitors sometimes placed on the power lines to correct for the "power factor" problems caused by large motors and the like? Do the inverters try to clean-up the grid line power noise? If not, why not?

so it is safe to say that I need 1 filter for every room?

Certain expensive electrical equipment, comes with those pre installed in circuit. I heard in another presentation, that those Smart Meters, introduce noise, and supposedly quite a bit, and, if there are any "Green" providers on your cities circuit, (Wind/Solar) your incoming supply will be tainted. What I watched was a Canadian documentary on the ravages of Green Energy. At a point, iirc, they provided a DIY circuit (similar to yours) for a Filter that should tack on near the start of your home's circuit. An Project Box would work fine for a small room. Canadian Electronics companies, back in the day, used to install Baluns and a .10 to.20 u Capacitor as a pre filter. I still see this arrangement on very expensive equipment motherboards.

My.lennox heater won't ignite people say.i need a capacitor in line to my.main power coming in, will this fix it!! Thank you dec 1 23

hey bud! Will an Online UPS solve some buzzing issues in my home studio? Thanks

Hey we have alot of dirty electricity in our home im sure of it.. the problem is i dont know where to put the filters if u wanna use that wall socket, it will take up its space or am i stupid? And we live in a 90 square meters home how many would i neee, we have 4-5 computers and a few televisions

My solar generation uses a microinverter on each panel to convert panel output to AC and then send it to my home for use. Soe of this ac charges batteries which ultimately will be called upon to run my house (after reconversion to ac of course). I am guessing that, since the generated ac is distinct from the grid, it is "clean(er)", but what about that converted from my batteries?

Will one of these dirty electricity filters dump the dirty electricity into a grounding mat that is plugged into a wall socket?

Didn't think a harmonic of a few volts could effect people that way from a few metres away. Maybe if it were in the audible range, but how can non-ionising radiation cause cancer?

Not all switching power supplies are like that. The cheap/bad ones are the problem, unfortunately that are basically the only ones we get. Even in overpriced electronic there are cheap switching power supplies. Are they also ones for the electrical cabinet? That would be one thing the government could easily change to improve our health. ... instead of stamping on our rights.

If the appliances cause the dirty noise on the electricity. Then having a plug with a dirty filter built in to fit to the offending appliance would seem to be the way to go. Even better. If you’re building your own, then you could customise the filter on each filtering plug to suit that appliance. Or if you’re a manufacturer, you could do a range of plugs with varying filtering strengths. Actually, maybe you could just put the filter in the lead of the appliance?

I measured the emf of my cordless phones with my Trifield meter and immediately threw them in the garbage. Old school land line phones a much better. However, in a few years landlines will be discontinued.

I've been working on lowering all the DE in my home with device/power supply swaps. My server rack is basically a horror show in regards to DE. It took 9 filters between the two dedicated circuits to bring it down to acceptable levels. I have two rack UPS units that run the servers and equipment. On their output side the noise levels are almost more than my greenwave can measure. When I unplug the machines plugged into it the noise levels drop. Could I separate the equipment on the output side of the UPS with isolation transformers to lower the DE between all the components?