Re: Watt meter

On 11 Jan 2006 10:38:50 -0800 in article <1137004730.093965.80770
@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, galt_57@xxxxxxxxxxx spoke thusly...
> Anyone tried this thing?
>
> http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?T1=112+0240
>
>
An appliance, like your fridge, will tell you how many watts it uses (which
is watts per hour). But it isn't on all the time so you really don't know how
much energy it actually uses. This looks interesting. I'd be curious to know
how much power my notebook uses in sleep mode while it's plugged in to the
wall. I also want to know how much my VCR uses, since power has to always
flow through it to know when to turn on and record a program.

I read an article that if you sum all the power used by built-in clocks in
your house, like on the stove, microwave, TV, VCR, etc that you have
significant power uses. But what does "significant" mean? Does that mean if I
turned them all off I'd save $1 per month? Or save $2? In Feb 2005 my
electricity alone cost me $250, so $2 is not going to break me. And I have a
tiny house (850 sq ft).


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