Saving Energy With an Electricity Usage Monitor
These gadgets are a useful asset for checking the behaviour of your electrical appliances and detecting potential problems
With the cost of electricity on the increase, an energy usage monitor is a useful device which can measure and track the energy consumption of your home appliances. Costing about $20 to $40 depending on model, these monitors can be plugged into a standard wall socket and display comprehensive information about the appliance connected, including energy usage and price of electricity used, aiding the analysis of energy use in the home.
How Do I Use It?
A typical monitoring device has prongs just like a normal plug. You just plug it into a standard wall socket and then plug the appliance into the monitor. The adapter has a display which indicates energy use.
What Does it Do, and What Can it Measure?
An electricity usage monitor provides information about the connected appliance on an LCD display. Typically the information displayed would be:
- Voltage
- Current drawn by the appliance
- Power consumption of the appliance in watts
