Kill-a-Watt

June 29, 2010



You can now check out a Kill-a-Watt device to monitor your home energy use.

A Kill-a-Watt meter can be used to monitor the efficiency of your current household appliances, as well as televisions and other major consumers of energy in your home. Identifying the energy abusers in your home can help you become a smarter energy consumer.

Plug the Kill-a-Watt meter into a wall outlet, plug an appliance, computer, lamp, or other electrical product into the monitor, and find out how efficient (or wasteful) those devices really are. On the large LCD display you will be able to monitor the kilowatt hour consumption of an item to learn how much it costs to run. You can determine electrical expenses by day, week, or month, cycling through displays including voltage (volt), amperage (amp), wattage (watt), line frequency (Hz), and power factor (VA).

The library has 2 Kill-a-Watt meters, provided by ComEd, which can be checked out at the Circulation Desk for 2 weeks.

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