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P3 International Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor P4460

This nifty little device manufactured by a well respected company in the home electronics field can bring you savings of hundreds of dollars each year.

For the first time I know how much my refrigerator costs to run per year.

We all know Energy costs are on the rise but most of us do not know where to start in cutting our power usage. Well I do now that I know what things are actually costing me to leave them on. The p3 international p4460 kill a watt ez electricity usage monitor will work out for you the cost per day, per week, per month and per year, all at the push of a button. Your only input is the information you get from your electricity bill the cost per kilowatt-hour.

Now you will know if it's in fact time for a new refrigerator or if that old window air conditioning unit is still saving you money.

With the awesome Kill A Watt EZ you will recognize "Watts" killing you.

So here is the scenario a long day a good movie and then bed, turn of the lights and instead of stumbling of to sleep in pitch black what are we greeted with but all the colours of the rainbow coming from the standby lights on all the appliances that are not “really” switched off Some blinking at us some just staring into our quite living rooms or kitchens. In the diagram below it shows the maximum power that would be sucked through your meter if everything was left on stand by for 24 hours a day every day of the year. Importantly this table shows what it would cost you - assuming average cost of home electricity is $0.14 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) including GST (see illustration below numbers in red). Please refer to your energy provider for your exact costs per kilowatt-hour (kWh). Standby power usage figures were taken from the 2005 Intrusive Residential Standby Service Report.

By attaching a electricity consumption monitor you will know which appliances are costing you.

Measuring how much energy your home appliances are consuming is just the beginning of putting you in control of the energy coming into your home. Because the kill a watt electricity usage monitor not only monitors and calculates how much electricity you are using but it also can let you see if an outlet is actually working or not, it will tell you the quality of your supply from your utility company and also will record fluctuations in your lines and can lead to predicting brownout conditions. It can also be used to make sure that a new homes outlets are all in working order before purchase.

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Just how much electricity are you using

From the United States Department of Energy comes a report that states 20% of our electricity usage bills come from items that are left plugged in when they are not really being used at all, or items that are in standby mode. With the Kill A Watt P4400 we can monitor the energy eaters in our homes and cut down our electricity usage bills at the same time. Plug whatever item you want into the device and it will tell you the efficiency of that item by displaying the kilowatt-per hour (kWh). This device will help you determine which items are costing you the most to run.

The Kill A Watt P4400 also calculates voltage, line frequency, current, and power factor. You can calculate your electricity usage bill before you even receive it from the utility supply company.

Technical Details

• Electricity usage monitor connects to appliances and assesses efficiency
• Large LCD display counts consumption by the kilowatt-hour
• Calculates electricity expenses by the day, week, month, or year
• Displays volts, amps, and wattage within 0.2 percent accuracy
• Compatible with inverters; designed for use with AC 115-volt appliances

My last electricity supply bill jumped to an astounding (for me anyway) $434 for the quarter although I had noticed that my bills were indeed rising with each quarterly bill I did nothing about it but for me this was the last straw I had to know where it was all going. So I purchased the P3 International Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor P4460 which at the time was Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping. My wife has been at me for a while about our refrigerator freezer which I acquired before we were married and I bought basically because it was the only black refrigerator I could find and I was remodelling my kitchen at the time and my theme was black and white. Energy was consumption was far from my mind it sleek and black and shiny and has a filtered water supply, ice crusher and ice dispenser. Long story short it is costing me $900 dollars per year to run. My old refrigerator is not long for this world. I have just put deposit on a new one that is going to cost half that to run.

Bottom line: the Kill A Watt P4400 device will focus your attention on some of the devices that are costing you unnecessary money, and will definitely change the questions you will be asking as you purchase future household devices. I'd like to see a more feature-laden version, but not if it makes the Kill-A-Watt cost much more than the $35 I paid.

Here is a list of energy guzzling items we all have in our homes which one do you think consumes (read wastes) the most electricity

a) A television on standby,
b) Overfilling your kettle, or
c) Not switching your PC off at the electric outlet?
In our more and more energy-conscious planet, queries like this ought to be easy for anybody to answer. However the info we get about the electricity we use in our houses remains very insufficient - easy user friendly "smart meters" have been spoken of for a long time but are still very costly or a rarity. As luck would have it, however, you are able to now buy easy-to-install products that will help you grasp the power-consuming practices of your home lifestyle and then enable you to arrive at electricity- and money-saving modifications.

The cent-a-meter wireless power monitor is a dandy place to start . The LCD display gives a clear indication of the overall real-time electricity usage of your house so you can see at a glance how much power you are using and the immediate outcomes of turning lights and appliances on and off. It also works out the how much you're spending and the kilograms of carbon that you're plunging into the atmosphere. With it, you will soon get a feeling for the outcomes of your day by day usage of all your household switches and buttons. But and its a Big But it  is a bit pricey.

If you want a more careful picture of the electricity used by separate household appliances, you'll need a portable socket meter. This is an absolute breeze to use: you connect the meter into the mains socket then plug the device into the meter which then shows the power being drawn. There's a link on the page above to buy one such meter.

I can assure you that you'll be amazed by what you discover. With much attention given to switching TVs and other electronic devices off, instead of leaving them on standby, you could accept that "off" means "off". But it does not. For instance, I use a laptop computer  at my house but still have my old energy-guzzling desktop in the room. I was dismayed to detect just what an uneconomical brute the desktop is: even when the PC and monitor are physically turned off, they keep on to drawing 31 watts from the wall (exactly what the laptop eats up when it is on and in use). Likewise my CD player only draws nine watts when it is operating but discretely uses seven watts when the box, but not the plug, is switched off.

Maybe you may now have gauged the answer to my first question. With the selective information from my meter, I can work out and compare the 24-hour electricity usage of each action. As the confounding kilowatt-hour is the work of the devil, I'm using the common unit of energy, the joule, instead (one watt is a rate of energy usage of one joule per second). Our new integrated digital TV has an estimable one-watt standby so if left it in this mode for 24 hours it blows 86,400 joules. Our kettle needs a crappy 2,100 watts so if it continues for an additional 30 seconds because of  overfilling, we blow 63,000 joules per boil. Four brews per day equates to a total of 252,000 joules blasted. But if I fail to turn the desktop PC off at the socket I will waste an astonishing 2,678,400 joules in 24 hours - twice what my A-rated fridge will demand over the same period.