The Underscore Archives

On 30 Jun 2008, at 13:59, Peter Marshall wrote:
> Pal here has one and just bored everyone stooooopid with power  
> usage data - he did change his fridge as a result although the  
> payback period was sometime in the next millennium.  But then it's  
> not about the money is it?  He also reckoned that stuff on standby  
> wasn't as bad as folks make out.

It's true, standby costs are pretty minimal. The accuracy of the  
electrisave is about 20W, and it couldn't tell the difference between  
all appliances in the house on standby or unplugged. I still tend to  
switch off though, just not zealously.

> Maplins do 'em - or you could go for a device by device version for  
> less http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx? 
> criteria=N67FU&DOY=30m6#features.

I borrowed one similar to that, and was annoyed that it'd only show  
aggregate power used over time (i.e. not a live feed, so you couldn't  
see immediately how much power something was drawing).

Don't know if that applies to this one too, but worth checking.  
Nothing like live data.

Oliver.