P3 Kill A Watt load meter $22 shipped @ Newegg

[steve-u]

I was browsing Newegg and they have a deal on the Kill A Watt meter for $22 shipped. This is a cool little gadget to see how many watts/amps a device uses and also displays current line voltage.

Steve

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16882715001

[Uncle Cracker]

Careful you don't exceed its max rating of 15 amps...

[LCHIEN]

Careful you don't exceed its max rating of 15 amps...

I have put mine on my HF 2 HP DC which draws about 15Amps running and 60-some briefly when starting and it survived.

[RagerXS]

The price on this is down to $19.99, though I didn't check shipping -- saw it in an e-mail from newegg.

~ Fred

[Cike]

I've been thinking of getting one of these. Does anyone know of case studies where people actually used a device like this to make decisions that saved energy (and thus $$)? Or is it just a novelty device for most people?

C

[tsbrewers]

the reviews are very good usually for this. Not sure if it makes people go out of their way to change anything, but they say it works and it surprising how much juice some things use even when off.

Brew

[RagerXS]

If I find anything that sucks power when off I'll be more likely to use some timers or power strips than I would to go replacing things. But I guess we'll see...

[Rslaugh]

it's kinda interesting and for $20 you might learn something about all those energy suckers in yiour house.

probably the best thing you can do to save energy and $$ is to replace your incandescent lamps with compact flourescents from a decent mfg. Be leary of the no-name ones from china. Philips, GE & Sylvania do a lot of testing and have a reputation to maintain as far as specs. Life ratings on no-name bulbs can be questionable. You can replace an incandescent bulb with a cf bulb of about 1/4 the rating and still get the same light output. The rest of that energy in an incandescent bulb is generating heat and thereby contributing to the greenhouse issue.

While CF lamps cost more initially their life ratings more than pay for that. The energy savings is icing on the cake. Nationally 22% of energy is used for lighting. That's a lot of savings available.

[Jeffrey Schronce]

it's kinda interesting and for $20 you might learn something about all those energy suckers in yiour house.

probably the best thing you can do to save energy and $$ is to replace your incandescent lamps with compact flourescents from a decent mfg. Be leary of the no-name ones from china. Philips, GE & Sylvania do a lot of testing and have a reputation to maintain as far as specs. Life ratings on no-name bulbs can be questionable. You can replace an incandescent bulb with a cf bulb of about 1/4 the rating and still get the same light output. The rest of that energy in an incandescent bulb is generating heat and thereby contributing to the greenhouse issue.

While CF lamps cost more initially their life ratings more than pay for that. The energy savings is icing on the cake. Nationally 22% of energy is used for lighting. That's a lot of savings available.

Thats interesting. I picked up a 5 pack figuring I would start trying to do my part and the light absoultely SUCKS. I have heard on this forum that cheap ones have to warm up or something. I assume the better brands do not have this issue?

[Woodshark]

I agree on staying away from the no-name ones. I purchased a 3 pack of floods from the Borg (made in china) and all of them went bad within a couple of months.

[Rslaugh]

Thats interesting. I picked up a 5 pack figuring I would start trying to do my part and the light absoultely SUCKS. I have heard on this forum that cheap ones have to warm up or something. I assume the better brands do not have this issue?

There's more to lighting than just watts, probably more than most people here want to know about. Watts is simply the amount of energy that the device is going to use. Lumens is a measurement of the quantity of light output. CRI (Color Rendering Index) is a measurement of the quality of light output as compared to sunlight with 100 being best. A poor quality compact flourescent might have a CRI in 55 to low 70's range. Philips "twisters" have a CRI of 82 and rated average life of 10,000 hours.

If you look at some of the cheapy incandescents you'll see rated life as low as 850 hours. A good quality incandescent has a rated life of 2000 hours.

[LCHIEN]

A four pack of 100W incandescant bulbs costs about a $1 but over their lifetime they may cost you about $80 to run.

Very deceptive when the running costs are so much higher than the purchase costs.