Has anyone bought/used one of these? They seem to be a neat device to
analyze home device power usage, such as a new refrigerator will take 20
years to pay back the purchase price, regardless of the wife wanting a new
one. :-) Any experience out there?

WT

"Wayne Tiffany" wrote in message
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Has anyone bought/used one of these? They seem to be a neat device to
analyze home device power usage, such as a new refrigerator will take 20
years to pay back the purchase price, regardless of the wife wanting a new
one. :-) Any experience out there?

WT



I have a Kill A Watt which is a more basic but still very capable
instrument, it's only about 20 bucks and provides 90% the functionality that
one does. Neat device, first couple weeks I had it I was plugging in
everything I could find. The cumulative kWhr feature has been among the most
useful.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:36:43 -0500, "Wayne Tiffany"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Has anyone bought/used one of these? They seem to be a neat device to
analyze home device power usage, such as a new refrigerator will take 20
years to pay back the purchase price, regardless of the wife wanting a new
one. :-) Any experience out there?

WT

Here's a much cheaper alternative, with less features:
http://www.p3international.com/produ.../P4400-CE.html

- Franc Zabkar
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"Wayne Tiffany" wrote in message
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Has anyone bought/used one of these? They seem to be a neat device to
analyze home device power usage, such as a new refrigerator will take 20
years to pay back the purchase price, regardless of the wife wanting a new
one. :-) Any experience out there?

WT


Be careful of interpreting the results obtained for some appliances.
Depending on the algorithm used to calculate the power usage, some
switchmode power supplies that use a burst standby mode, can cause the meter
to give a misleadingly high reading when the device being measured, is in
standby. Otherwise, from all I've read about them (in general rather than
any specific make / model) they seem to be a useful and reasonably accurate
tool for the price.

Arfa

I have a Kill-a-Watt, which seems to give useful information.

Whether any of these devices will save you money by directing you to
high-current-drain devices you weren't aware of seems unlikely. But they're
cheap and fun to have.

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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I have a Kill-a-Watt, which seems to give useful information.

Whether any of these devices will save you money by directing you to
high-current-drain devices you weren't aware of seems unlikely. But
they're
cheap and fun to have.



Mine actually surprised me in how little power some things I thought were
big users actually consumed.

On the other hand, the space heater my tenant was using was quite the
opposite, getting rid of that and installing a proper thermostatically
controlled baseboard in that room really did save money.