Plug-in Electricity Cost and Usage Calculator

[DiamondGeezer]

Down from £25 to £10
Product Features


· Monitor energy consumption from any appliance plugged into a socket
· Great for seeing how much power your appliances are consuming
· Can display the cost of electricity and power used
· Large LCD display
· Set up in less than 2 minutes
· Up to 9 different types of data displayed
· Memory function
· Maximum current 13A / maximum power 3120W

By simply entering the unit cost of your electricity and plugging an appliance or extension lead into the power monitor, the LCD screen enables you to easily see the cost of the plugged in appliances. It allows you to see useful data such as: cost generated by a socket, tariff, power factor, kilowatt hours used (as found on your electricity bill), active watts consumed, apparent power, voltage from the socket, amps used and frequency of the electricity (mains power is normally 50Hz).

Technical specifications:
Ratings: AC 100 V-240 V / 50 - 60HZ / maximum13A
Range of the measuring power: 0.2W - 3120W;
Range of the measuring voltage: 90V - 250V (tolerance: (1%+1))
Range of the measuring current: 0A - 13A (tolerance: (1.5%+25))
Range of the measuring frequency: 50 - 60Hz (tolerance 1)
Range of the displaying amount of electricity used: 0.001 - 9999kWh
Range of the unit price setting: 0.00 - 99.99 / kWh
Operating temperature: -10 to +40 °C
Humidity: 85%RH
IP rating: IP20
Up to altitude of 2000m (indoor use)

Plug-in Electricity Cost and Usage Calculator > Maplin

 

[bignbold3000]

shouldn't the government or energy suppliers be giving this away to householders????

 

[Lanstrom]

I think you could have made that picture a bit bigger

 

[Munkey]

Very interesting gadget. I think I'll try this out. Thanks for posting.

 

[DiamondGeezer]

Very interesting gadget. I think I'll try this out. Thanks for posting.

It's a good little device, pick one up myself

monitoring how many cups of coffees her in doors has lol

going to start using my laptop more often as this only uses about 30w compared to 200w on my desktop

 

[DiamondGeezer]

I think you could have made that picture a bit bigger

tried to edit the post after and remove it but couldn't find the edit link at the time

*** CAN A MOD REMOVE IMAGE *** Thanks

 

[RAB - P]

there is one at only £6.99 at Aldi next sunday

Find out how much electricity your home appliances are using and how much each costs to run.

Measures any electrical appliances in use and on stand-by
LCD display shows consumption in kW/hrs, amps, volts
Find out how much an appliance costs to run by inputting the latest £/unit information
Can set 2 prices per kW/hr (standard and economy/night saver)
Maximum load capacity setting with overload warning function

 

[DiamondGeezer]

there is one at only £6.99 at Aldi next sunday

Can set 2 prices per kW/hr (standard and economy/night saver)

looks even better, the maplin one you can only set one price

 

[jaffa]

The nearest Aldi to me is 84 miles across the Irish sea, would probably work out just a teeny bit cheaper to get the one in Maplins...:Hit:

Nice link anyway RABP, good spot.