Schneider driver - aka: Inventor

stevep1977 · Nov 4, 2015

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Have been with Schneider for about a year, but there was a time when I worked in power plants, factories, skyscrapers and other large buildings..Started inventing stuff when I was 7 and did electrical experiments instead of playing with the other kids. By age ten I was working with a large dry cell battery to power several projects. One evening the battery finally went dead. Had heard of battery chargers and decided to make my own. Hooked up a lamp cord to the two terminals and plugged it straight into the wall receptacle (running 110 volts AC directly into this DC battery. Well there were two explosions at once that night. One of them was when my battery blew up in my hands the other was the main circuit breaker tripping with a loud bang (this is called "selective tripping"). My parents were watching TV downstairs when the television and everything else in the house turned off. Dad went down to the basement to close the breaker while I quickly unplugged my lamp cord (what was left of it). When he came upstairs and saw the mess the explosion made he started to spank me. Mom told him to stop and just look at me. My eyebrows were burnt off and I was solid black from all the carbon dust. Even my hair was caked with this dust. It was also all over the beds and on parts of the ceiling and walls. Well I was grounded for life after that, but within only a few months I got back on my dad's good side when I started to invent stuff (drew the plans and a schematic first and showed it to the television repair man down the street). Then got his approval to build it. Eventually my projects actually worked and were useful.

After high school I joined the Navy (tail end of Vietnam). My parents pleaded with the recruiters to put me in a position that taught me electricity. So I was a naval electrician for 6.5 years.

Have invented over 400 products and many new services. Most of my products have been built and sold. Some of them were quite large and sold for over $10,000..

Schneider doesn't really like us to idle the trucks with the air conditioning (AC) on because of the high cost of fuel. An idling engine burns about a half gallon of fuel per hour, but when the AC is on this jumps between one to two gallons. What if you could run the AC and be as cool as you wanted (down to ten degrees F) and the truck would use less than a half gallon per hour? Well this has been done many times already. In October 2008 I invented a way to increase the capacity of AC by over 800%. In May of 2009 I went down to Alabama to train a new distributor of my products. The AC product was never tested and they wanted to see it work. So on Sunday we tried it on several vehicles. The first one was a 1987 Chevy pickup. To my surprise the temperature of the conditioned air went from 64 to only 14 degrees F in 3.5 minutes at idle. When we drove the truck on the highway the temperature hit 28 degrees below zero. There was a vent at the bottom of the dash that was blowing on my leg. That frigid air hurt!

One of the trucks was low on refrigerant. We knew this because the compressor was turning on and off continuously. We tested the product on it anyway and two minutes later the compressor was staying on. The temperature also fell, but only by ten degrees.

The new distributor told me about a radio show on Saturday morning where we could talk on the radio for 30 seconds to sell something. People were selling cars and junk. When it was our turn I told people about the AC product and what happened in our tests. The DJ went crazy and we ended up being there on the radio for 2.5 hours. Four HVAC companies called the radio station and we set up a test to be done on a single family home with all four companies there to run tests. They had tons of equipment hooked up to the condenser outside as well as thermometers setup throughout the house. We watched the AC system for two cycles before installation. It would run for 45 minutes and be off for 20.

When I installed the product as the AC was running the guys outside started yelling after only a few minutes. The temperatures of air coming from the vents dropped from 63 to 32 degrees. Three hours later it was at 27.5 degrees. The AC would run for only 4 minutes and be off for an hour. One of the HVAC techs said that it was short cycling and wasn't staying on enough to remove the humidity. Told him to switch the fan on continuous and change the dip switch to high speed. It worked and they told me in August that it was using $140 less electricity per month less than it was the previous year.

Some of my other environmentally friendly products include:
- Increase fuel efficiency by 16 to 21%.
- Eliminate the need for regeneration and DEF.
- Making a water softener use less than half the salt and the resin lasts forever
- Remove scale from pipes, water heater and boilers without acid or other chemicals
- Eliminate the need for a scale inhibitor or water softener for a boiler.
- Increasing plant growth by 650% (ten foot tall tomato plants with tomato slices so big that they overlap the bread). No fertilizer used.
- Eliminating the smelly air from paper mills (hydrogen sulfide).
- Zero emissions from gasoline engines. Theoretically this will also work on diesel engines but I never had the opportunity to try.
- Enabled diesel vehicles in coal mines to not have to change out their exhaust air scrubbers as much. It is now once a month instead of three times a day at $350 a pop per vehicle. They are also much more efficient. Their range was increased by 17%.
- Figured out a way to keep high pressure water nozzles clear without the use of a filter.
- How to clean a plate heat ex-changer without taking it apart. It is also cleaner by far. Takes only two to four hours to clean instead of twenty-four.
- How to eliminate dust on quarry roads putting down water only once per week (no chemicals).
- Lowered fuel use on a steel mill by 16%. They can also raise production by up to 27% using no more fuel than they used to use when they are busy.
- Eliminating bacteria growth in fuel without any additive.

You know how the bunk heater with fill with carbon if you turn it off by turning the ignition key on? I can eliminate that problem. Carbon will no longer come from the fuel.

One Friday I worked on three diesel pickups. George and John had Ram Cummings and Mike had the Ford PowerStroke. They wanted me to do a fourth vehicle, but I was sold out (again) for the day. Told them I could come back on Monday. When I returned Monday morning I said good morning to John. He had a rather mean look on his face and complained that he wanted his money back. Well, before another word was said George came into the room laughing. He told me that John was kidding with me and that he loved my product. Then John started to laugh. Asked them what was going on here. Then John told me that on Friday he told everyone that this was some gadget, that it will never work, that they just lost their money and they would never hear of me again. Told them that I had heard that from other customers in the past. Asked him what changed his mind. He said that they use computer chips to increase horsepower, because they have to haul mini excavators and bobcats on steel trailers and pull them up the steep West Virginia mountains. When they do thick black smoke comes from their exhausts. It is embarrassing, but there was nothing they could do about it. Anyway on Saturday John had a big load and when he went up a steep hill there was no smoke from the exhaust. He then asked me, "What happened to my smoke?" Thought a few seconds and replied that if he wanted the smoke back that I would have to remove the equipment I installed. He shouted, "I don't want it back! Where did it go?" Told him that the black color didn't come from food coloring. That it was unburned hydrocarbon and carbon. That the extra fuel is now in your tank. "You're saving fuel!". He asked, "Just like that?" and I said, "Just like that! Ninety seconds after you start the truck the magic starts to happen." Then he yelled, "I want more!" Converted many vehicles for them including two tractor trailer lowboys and twelve tri-axle dump trucks. Thirty-nine vehicles in all.

Myself, my distributors and dealers performed over 6,000 conversions in the first five years. Also sold six to eight industrial products and services every day, 5 days a week for 5.5 years. Solved many engineering problems that no one else could. Wasn't in the sales department. I was just a mechanical inspector that helped our customers. They liked me because there was never any sales pressure. Just showed them what wss wrong and how to fix it.

Have tried many products to save fuel including a hydrogen generator in one of my test cars. Only a few of them worked There are 100 ways do use them, but only one way works. I know that one way from years of trials.

Lost ninety percent of the business when the recession came. Had to drive a truck again. Would like to show what I know to Schneider, but to them I'm just another truck driver. If Schneider won't listen, maybe another will. Giving Schneider the first chance because I enjoy working for this company.
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SHOJim · Nov 4, 2015

Thanks Steve. I have " how many ships could a ship ship ship
if a ship ship could ship ships stuck in my head lol!

Diantane · Nov 4, 2015

The problem is that I drive for them. This too large of a company for them to think anything, but I'm just a dumb old driver. If the company was smaller they wouldn't be so blind.

I've been told that Schneider is so huge that if they save just a tenth of a mpg, they would save $8,000,000 a year. This means I could save them a billion and they are still made of stone.

My home is currently winterized. Last month my electric bill was $7. The electric company charges $5 for the meter so all I used was two bucks.

Old - School · Nov 4, 2015

I remember you now. We were stationed in Charleston SC in the early 80s.

bigjoel · Nov 4, 2015

I'm in the process of developing a waterproof gun. That way you can protect yourself while taking a shower.

jakecat22 · Nov 4, 2015

Diantane said: ↑

The problem is that I drive for them. This too large of a company for them to think anything, but I'm just a dumb old driver. If the company was smaller they wouldn't be so blind.

I've been told that Schneider is so huge that if they save just a tenth of a mpg, they would save $8,000,000 a year. This means I could save them a billion and they are still made of stone.

My home is currently winterized. Last month my electric bill was $7. The electric company charges $5 for the meter so all I used was two bucks.
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Um, no. If SNI could save money, and it was easy and cost effective........they would not only buy and install your product, but probably give you another job besides being "just a dumb driver" and pay you well.

Cottonmouth85 · Nov 4, 2015

It's getting pretty deep in here. Glad I brought my boots.

PoleCrusher · Nov 4, 2015

Cottonmouth85 said: ↑

It's getting pretty deep in here. Glad I brought my boots.
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Never leave home without 'em.

Cottonmouth85 · Nov 4, 2015

Never get on TTR without em.

KMG365 · Nov 4, 2015

For a minute I thought I was in the "Marijuana and trucking" thread.

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