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Real Adriatic Store - Watts Up Pro Power Analyzer Datalogger, 99333
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List Price: $169.95
Our Price: $130.95
Your Save: $ 39.00 ( 23% )
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Manufacturer: ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL DEVICES
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Binding: Misc.
Brand: Electronic Educational Devices
EAN: 0892221000026
Feature: Measures any 120V device
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL DEVICES
Manufacturer: ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL DEVICES
Publisher: ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL DEVICES
Studio: ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL DEVICES
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Features
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Measures any 120V device
Record line quality and diagnose voltage drop and loading problems
Track cost of electricity and True RMS power over time
Identify surge and steady-state demand requirements
Monitor voltage dips and surges
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Use to record line quality, diagnose voltage drop and loading problems. Track cost of electricity and True RMS power over time. Identify surge and steady state demand requirements. Monitor voltage dips and surges. Stores 1000 data points that are downloadable to a PC. Includes: Serial Cable and software. One-Year Warranty. (USA)
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Customer Rating:
Summary: When you need to know
Comment: While this is not the product of the century or one that will make the top ten list in many peoples minds, this is indeed a great product if you need to know what your current draw and power consumption is on a given appliance. It should be noted that this unit should not be used on high amperage load units such as a refrigerator or an air conditioner, it does have a great function for the miriad of smaller units such as your computer current usage, the display consumption such as a plasma and yes even a LCD since they are getting so large that consumption is up on these as high if not higher than plasmas with the newer power saving electronics.
This is a great item to evaluate reducing your "carbon footprint" and finding what products achieve that end. It is also an incredible unit to document the power reduction in properly setting/calibrating TVs/Flat Panels/projectors and such. Studies have shown that properly calibrated displays can have a 20,30, and even 40 percent reduction in energy usage, and this unit can help document the changes.
The Watts Up Pro requires a computer or notebook to run the software that is available from the company to chart, graph, and spreadsheet the measured parameters. If you are serious about tracking and analyzing your power consumption, then this reasonably priced unit will help you achieve it.
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Summary: Power Analyser
Comment: The product is exactly what we needed to test the electrical output of our business products.
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Summary: AMAZING
Comment: The Watts Up Pro is much more than I'll ever use BUT it is very simple to use for the basics that I wanted it for.
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Summary: Sweet datalogger
Comment: All the power data you could ever want, including top notch data logging. I'm working on making some fancy power usage graphs for all of my appliances. For example, my laptop power use in different modes (screen full bright while burning MP3's, dim at idle, and in standby).
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Summary: Exactly what I wanted
Comment: This is a terrific tool. It works great. It collects a huge amount of info, that is easy to download to your computer. There are analysis tools in their software package (the meter itself does a lot of calculations on it's own, you don't have to download the data to get a lot of meaningful numbers) but the software works on one set of data at a time (that I've found). To do multiple items, I'm going to need to write a spreadsheet that will analyze the data while combining different items, or time periods, but I'm sure it will pay off.
Already found some surprising things: Coffee Maker with timer, uses almost a watt when NOT in use. That's around 10-15 cents a month to sit there. I know it's not much but why waste? I'm unplugging it now. When brewing and keeping warm, it uses 878 Watts. That's about $11-20 a month at 3 hours per day. I think I might look into getting a thermos to keep the coffee warm after brewing. It should reduce the cost to about $1-3 a month to brew 1 pot a day (maybe less - I can't remember exactly how much time it takes to finish brewing a pot). Then I'll keep it hot in the thermos. The thermos will pay for itself in 2 or 3 months. I should be able to get some more years use out of the Coffee Maker also.
Computer with way too many bells and whistles, is much more efficient than I thought. $5 to 8 dollars a month if I run it almost 24 hours a day.
The transformer chargers for cell phones, pda, etc. which so many people insist use lots of energy when plugged in and not in use, don't. My pda DC Converter, uses about 1 cent a month when not charging. Voltage is so low it doesn't register. I'll pay a penny to avoid having to unplug and plug that in constantly. When charging it consumes between 2/100ths to 5/100ths of an amp.
Same with the cell phone charger. When plugged in but not charging. It doesn't consume enough wattage to register and the monthly cost of leaving it plugged in is 1 cent. Maximum consumption while charging is 1/10th of an amp.
I've also noticed, that many items have a spike in power draw when first turned on or plugged in. I wouldn't be surprised if I found that the converters use more power by continuously spiking when plugged in repeatedly. I'll have to run an experiment.
Empty battery chargers are worse though, but I already unplug those when not in use. My four slot AA/AAA charger uses about 4 cents per month when not in use. While charging 3 AA's it consumes about 70 cents a month but that is if I used it constantly. I only use it about 4 or 5 hours a month.
Oh, and my old Tivo that I mindlessly left plugged in when I bought a new Tivo was consuming $1.50 - 2.50 a month.
Still need to run 24 hour tests on this stuff to get the best averages, but it's been interesting finding out what individual products really use.
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