Measure Energy Usage with Kill a Watt Energy Meter
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The Kill a watt is a low cost Electricity Usage Monitor that allows you to measure the actual usage of your electrical items. This this tool, you will save money on all your power bills.
You can then determine what items are wasting energy and need to be replaced or turned off.
We were able to find that a hot water pot drew tons of power. We now unplug it at night or when we are out.
We consolidated multiple hard drives into a bigger WD Green hard drive, switched to a 80PLUS certified power supply to reduce the power draw on a desktop computer.
We put power ‘bricks’ on common power strips and turn them off when not needed. The Kill a Watt showed how much phantom power these bricks drew.
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December 26th, 2008 at 5:28 am
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