SuperMediaStore.com has the Kill-A-Watt - Electricity Usage Monitor for $20 - 10% coupon code EL10P [Exp 9/29] = $18 with free shipping. This electricity detector/monitor can help you reduce your monthly electric bill. With it, you can see how much power those pesky power adapters are sucking up even when your devices are not in use. [Review : BizRate]
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I would buy this but I think it would drastically increase the amount of power I consume, just to see the amount of power I consume.
It actually consumes well under a watt itself, and I'm sure it'll make more difference than that in the way you use power.
Ben, if you see P3's new Kill-A-Watt Power Strip at a good deal, let us know, eh?
When they gonna make one of these with a USB connecton so I can download an hour by hour (minute by minute would be better) memory and review it?
My home is completely powered by a bicycle generator I built out of palm trees.
Useful, every home should have one. Even if you can't reduce your energy consumption, you should know it. Knowledge is power!
Very handy, pays for itself in a month. Hook up to appliances, computers, whatever and see how much juice each sucks down. Turn down or turn off the highest offenders, easy money in your pocket!
i am with 5 and 6. i truly believe this has saved $. easily its' cost in one month.
Palm trees are expensive. You should have gone with oak or pine wood.
#3 You can get power meters with a USB interface. You can even setup a power meter to monitor your whole house.
Among other things, including whole-house monitors, this company has a power meter with a USB interface, though it is $400 http://www.brandelectronics.com/
This UK company has a very interesting wireless power meter with a computer interface option, and it is a lot cheaper than $400, but I don't know if it works in the US http://www.currentcost.com/
I found the above 2 items in under a minute via Google, and I suspect there are lots more.
- Eric, http://www.bacon.com/
I already know how much power the 100 watt light bulbs in my basement use when they burn for weeks at a time with no one down there. Just pay the damn electric bill and shut up!
#3 Another example: Here's the Watts Up Pro with USB interface and built-in data logging for $130 http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7acf/
- Eric, http://www.bacon.com/
There's even a power meter with it's own web server.
The "Watts up? .Net" https://www.wattsupmeters.com/secure/products.php
- Eric, http://www.bacon.com/
How is it that people wanting to save on their electric bill would need to know an exact wattage instead of having unplugged the offending electrical equipment already?
This Kill A Watt does not ever "pay for itself", you can unplug or turn off anything you want to without having to buy it. What would be more cost effective is a master list of typical power consumption that costs zero because it's on teh internetz.
#10 #13 you're morons (literally and otherwise). In this country we live in a world of luxury items. Does the air filter really need to be on 24/7? Do you know how much power it uses? You haven't a clue. Sure you can save alot of money if you cancel your electrical service, but that isn't practical for anyone. It's called conservation, just like driving smarter can save gas (since you're so damn stupid you need an analogy). Finding the worst power offenders helps target power savings where it will have the most impact. Don't want to "bother" with saving money & electricity? You don't have to buy this, go crawl back in your basement and be good little wasteful consumers.
I would rather be a wasteful consumer then a smug thumbplum.
lol Dr Om you don't have to choose, you're both!
No, and you're a moron to think it's a thing to ponder.
Yes, I have a very good idea of relative power usage of everything here.
Methink you have that backwards.
Don't be an rodeo cowboy. Conservation is about unplugging unneed power items, not about anally measuring them all.
Clueless one, I was saving power more than you were because I didn't need to wait for a power meter to tell me to do it. It's common sense to leave what you need to have running plugged in and unplug what you don't. Imagine for a moment that plenty of people managed to conserve power before a Kill A Watt meter even existed. Duh?
My 20yr old washing machine dims the lights every time we use it. Perhaps this could tell me if it would be more cost effective to replace it with a new one.
-Not sure how I would check the AC, that's gotta be almost twenty years old too. Possibly jumper the breaker somehow.
BTW, Dave C - you're an rodeo cowboy. How could you possible argue against using test equipment. Just unplug everything... ignorant.
-Not sure how I would check the AC, that's gotta be almost twenty years old too. Possibly jumper the breaker somehow.
BTW, Dave C - you're an rodeo cowboy. How could you possible argue against using test equipment. Just unplug everything... ignorant.
Wow, another rodeo cowboy. The concept is simple:
If you need to have something running, it is irrelevant what power it uses because you NEED it.
If you don't need to have something running, it's also irrelevant what power it uses because it then should not be plugged in unless it's a type of device that uses trivial power - you don't need a Kill A Watt meter to tell you that if you have basic knowledge, it's not a difficult thing to determine what percentage of power your microwave LCD clock uses for example, and whether it's enough of a loss to bother with versus convenience of having a clock and not unplugging/replugging all the time.
If you need a power meter to tell you that your old fridge consumes more power, you need to learn to read because they all have energy efficiency lables on them and have for over 20 years.
If you are wondering if having light bulbs on matters, you're a moron. Same with anything else, if you don't know, if you can't use common sense, basic electical principles, can't even read the specs in the product instruction manual, then you deserve our pity.
Anyone who needs a power meter is what power savvy consumers like to call "IGNORANT". You can in fact know a ballpark power consumption of any device you have based on education and what it is, and whether your particular device brand and model uses 10% more or less power than average, that's a fairly trivial thing compared to whether you needed to have it powered all the time or not, like I wrote in the…
I plugged this into itself and my power meter started running backwards.