Anyone have a Kill-A-Watt meter?


Does anyone here have or has had a kill-a-watt meter and how do you like it? I have one and I got my power conditoner plug in to it. It is a vary valuble tool but I was wondering how accurate is it? Thanks

Alfredo
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I like mine. It was interesting to see how much current my amplifiers use just idling and how loud I had to turn it up before the power usage increased. And it had to be loud for a while before the power usage would increase. I'm guessing that the power supply caps took a while to run down.

After trying the meter on many things in my house, it seems that electrical items usually use less than the watts stated on their electrical labels. I don't remember the accuracy specs for the meter, but it seemed like it wouldn't be more than cents difference on your electrical bill for most things.
Yes, I also recall seeing 59.9 Hz. I wasn't sure if that was a rounding issue or something that the power company was doing here in So. Cal.

On average when on, my tuner used 9 watts, my HT preamp used 28 watts, my disc player used 15 watts, my vcr used 13 watts, my passive preamp used 5 watts, and my TV used 70 watts. The bigger consumers were my 2 channel amp at 120 watts and my 3 channel amp at 220 watts.