Energy Meter w/ LCD Display - EM100
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Energy Meter w/ LCD Display - EM100
Customer Review: Fun device!
Summary: 5 Stars
Offers really neat electricy use measurements. Very fun to use! Buttons are a little cheap feeling, but still work well.Customer Review: cheap, works
Summary: 4 Stars
Very cheap feeling buttons, but it gets the job done. I haven't used the advanced features at all, just plug it in and see the current watts then come back and look at the kilowatt-hours used and elapsed time.
Customer Review: good stuff
Summary: 4 Stars
Don't know how accurate it is and it is in desperate need of an on/off switch to save the batteries but seems to work good. The batteries are button cells and can get expensive if you don't shop around.Customer Review: cheap but works
Summary: 4 Stars
The product is not high quality but it works. Although, I question the accuracy of it sometimes. However, it is good enough to get the work done (find those appliances hogs.)Customer Review: Mostly works, but it is not reading correctly, replacement is good.
Summary: 2 Stars
Even though next to my name it says "Upset in Detroit", I am not upset (that is misleading from the part of Amazon just because I picked two stars) and I do not know how to change it.
I bought this item because I thought that it would be interesting to see the money spent by certain electronic devices even when they are not being used at all. Most of the features work but the watt read does not. It keeps constantly jumping ( I have it in front of me, it is monitoring my computer) 48W -7W-46W-9W every 1 second and I have no idea why. If I put the display to read current the current is not changing at all but the watts do. Something is not right. To be fair I have not contacted the manufacturer, but I think that I will return it and buy the more simpler one.
Update June 18, 2009. I just received the replacement from the seller. It works as advertised. Before I returned the defective unit I talked to the manufacturer and they immediately told me that the unit was defective and that I need to send it back to the seller. I contacted the seller and they gave me an RMA number. Within minutes it was in my inbox so I sent it out the next day. It took over to two weeks to get there and 1 week to get the replacement back. Besides the use of snail mail at the cheapest rate (I think that I could have walked the item and back home faster than the post office took to deliver) I am very happy with the seller and with the product. I cannot change the star rating, but I now give it 5 stars.