P3 International P4460 Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of P3 International P4460 Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor
Customer Review: Kill Some Watts
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great little product for understanding energy consumption in your home or office. Compare how much a 60 Watt incandecent bulb vs a equivalent brightness CFL bulb uses. Perform an energy analysis on your refrigerator and see what it is costing you per year, month, week, day to run it. Would a new refrigerator be a good investment? Find out which devices in your home are consuming power even when they are off. Plug it into your entertainment center and see how much it costs to run your TV, DVD player, stereo surround system and playstation for a year. Compare the energy used by a laptop vs a desktop computer. The P3 Kill A Watt meter will pay for itself in energy savings.
Tip: To make life easier use the P3 Kill A Watt meter with a 10 or 15 foot extension cord of appropriate gauge for the device being monitored. This makes it easier to read during the monitoring period.
Cannot monitor 240 volt devices with this unit. Use TED - The Energy Detective - [...] to monitor your whole house and determine what your larger appliances such as your water heater, furnace, and dryer are using.
Customer Review: P4460 Kill-A-Watt Monitor
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are interested in determining the efficiency of any plug-in 110v device operating below 15 amps, I highly recommend this monitor. One can get an immediate readout of volts, amps, VA, power factor, and watts being consumed. To get a reading over time with devices that use standby power when not in use (e.g., devices with remote controls) or devices with thermostats that turn on intermittently (e.g., refrigerators) one can leave the monitor plugged in for a day or more to get a reading of total KWH consumed and the total time, so that KWH consumption per month, year, etc. can be calculated. By entering your cost per KWH the monitor will give a direct reading in cost for the time plugged-in or per day, week, month, year. The monitor may be unplugged and plugged in elsewhere for a more convenient reading, since the data are retained in memory. Pressing the reset button starts over. It is helpful to plug the monitor into a power strip with a 4 to 6 ft cord for taking readings from places where plugging the monitor directly into the wall outlet is not convenient.
Customer Review: Meter works well as advertised
Summary: 5 Stars
This meter does just what it says - measures volts, amps, watts, RMS. I haven't even used the electricity cost function, because all I care about is the watt reading. It lets you find out which items suck up a lot of power on standby, on & idle, or at full power.
One picture above shows a short cord. This is not included, and unless you already have a short extension cord to use with it, get one (or a five-pack) of these.
Using this meter will show some surprises in who is using how much power. Standby monitors as power hogs? My 21" Viewsonic CRT (old-school) on standby uses 0.8 watt. Printers sucking up power because they're always on? My HP color bubblejet uses 7 watts on and idle. Console power usage? My XBox360 Elite uses 90 watts when on & idle in the dashboard, but 100 watts when on full crank during a game (Transformers War for Cybertron). Much smaller difference than expected. On the other hand, an external hard drive with a physical power switch "off" drew 2 watts! My HP 17" notebook draws 80 watts when off and charging!
Customer Review: This product is really great!
Summary: 5 Stars
This power monitor is really great. I bought a few of them and gave the others as gifts. I think it's worth the extra money for this model to be able to enter your cost from your electric bill and have the unit read out the cost per hour, day, week, month or year! One review complained about it being hard to read when plugged into the wall. Just use it with a short extension cord if the outlet for your refrigerator is behind it. Make sure the extension cord is the proper gauge, 14 gauge for a 15 amp circuit. This thing is so easy to use, you may not even need to read the directions! When you have collected enough data to get the proper accuracy, you can unplug it from the product and plug it in somewhere else to read the data. It doesn't loose the data, just read it out right away so it doesn't count any no energy use time and average it in with your previously collected data. When you are done and reset the unit to start monitoring another product, it clears the data but leaves the cost per kilowatt hour that you entered from you utility bill.Customer Review: Awesome!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The P3 International P4460 Kill-a-watt monitor is a great product. Yes it would be nice if you could read the display unit without having to getting down on your hands and knees when you have it plugged into an outlet on a lower wall level, but other than that, you'll love this product.
I've always wondered how much electricity I was using by running a refrigerator in my garage and also if I would benefit by buying a newer, more energy efficient dehumidifier. This device helps by allowing you to see how much your paying by the day, month and year to operated such electronic devices.
Piece of advise, keep a copy of your most recent electric bill so that you can enter the cost per killawatt that your local electric company is charging you. You will need this info to get an accurate reading of how much you're paying to operate all your electrical devises.
I consider this product a must buy. It will pay for itself over the long haul.
-RB