Guest guest Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I just obtained a"Kill A Watt" Electricity Usage Monitor, from my local, Harbor Freight, store.Reg price $29.99, on sale for $24.99. It works esentially the same as Watts Up Pro, and is considerably less in price.It also can be obtained online with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Got one online myself this year. VERY COOL tool. I highly recommend it even at the website price (which is what I paid) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 GaryBo wrote: I just obtained a"Kill A Watt" Electricity Usage Monitor, from my local, Harbor Freight, store. Reg price $29.99, on sale for $24.99. I also got one some months back, somewhere in that price range. Based on my measurements so far, it looks like my display is going to average somewhere around 100-150 watts of power for all the lighting. The display is 99.99% LED, with regular bulbs acting as two projector lights (those two bulbs alone will account for half of the power consumed... 40 watts each is what the Kill-A-Watt is telling me).When it is all hooked up, I'm going to use the Kill-A-Watt to...1. Determine 100% that I can put all of my LORs on a single outlet [just to say I did]2. Determine what the electricity usage (avg and peak) so I can publish it3. Let it run for 24 hours and get a true daily measurement of usage and costSo far, my tests seem to indicate that the lights in the display will eat as much energy as leaving a large tube TV running, or leaving a home computer on.BTW... if you get a Kill-A-Watt or another one of these measuring devices, be sure to measure your refrigerator and/or freezer over a period of time. My refrigerator read as somewhat inefficient... until I cleaned its coils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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