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Hello hello! This week I decided to go ahead and throw out a product review. It has been a while since my last one. I hope you have found this to be helpful.
The review was over the Kill-A-Watt EZ P4460 energy meter. I have had it for around 6 month’s I think. I have used it in the Coleman 40QT Thermoelectric Cooler Review.
I have used it to test how much energy each appliance and lamp’s used up. I wanted to get a better idea of how I can lower my energy bill. Even though it wasn’t very high to begin with, I would still like to save as much money as possible.
The ability to measure the estimated cost over hours, days, weeks, months, and years is quite handy. You can see how much leaving stuff plugged in can cost you in the long run due to the energy consumption.
In the video I show you how to see the voltage, watts, amps and other useful information.
Not everything will draw energy when the device is off, but some do. If you are off the grid and need to know how much energy you will be using in a given time period then you need this!
To change the rate you will hit the menu key until you see rate in the top right hand corner of the screen. Then you will hold the far right button “Set” until the numbers on the screen flash. From there you want to use the up and down buttons to adjust the rate to what ever your rate per KWH is with your electric company. Once at the right amount, just hit the “Set” button again and the screen should read “Saved”. This will save the rate.
To see how much the appliance will cost you over time, you will go to the Cost section and hit the up or down buttons to cycle through the list of hour, day, week, month and year.
Remember that before you can get an accurate reading you much hit the “Reset” button, hold it for three to five seconds and it will reset the data. You should do this anytime you go to test something new.
The elapsed time section is good if you want to get a pretty accurate reading. Once it goes past 99 hours, the hours will reset, but the data will continue processing. The longest I had it running was about 12 hours.
I myself have found this item to be pretty useful!
If you are looking to purchase the Kill A Watt EZ P4460 you can do so by clicking the link, it is an affiliate link, so if you do decide to purchase it I will earn a percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you.