Thread: Wireless Energy Monitors
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Old 01-12-2008, 13:30   #5
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Re: Wireless Energy Monitors
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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy View Post
Doesnt just turning things off do that, how is a meter going to help
The meter tells you your current usage, and your average usage and how much its cost you. It shows you the real-life representation of the costs of leaving a tv on standby for example.

I posted in another topic that in our house we leave the dvd, sky, tv, microwave, washer, pc, all on standby. That came to about 38watts 24/7. Which works out at 15p/day wasted. Thats £53/year just leaving those things on standby when a few extra seconds could be spent turning them off at the socket.

I even just bought a new server (needed one anyway) which uses under 1/2 the power of the old one (75w not 165w). Those savings do add up over time, and it doesn't have to be something big, even a phone charger being unplugged saves about 2p/day for the very inefficient ones.
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