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 Beware of misleading descriptions January 8, 2006
R. A. Edington (Boise, ID, United States)
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is a great device and works well.
However, I think the product description and some of the reviews are a little misleading. From the information, I would have thought this device had a place to plug in my electricity cost, and then it would actually show me the COST of usage.
It does not do that. If you leave it plugged in, it will show you a running total of how many kilowatt-hours have been used, along with the time that's it's taken to use them. That's it. You still have to take that kilowatt-hours and time, and crunch it manually against your electric bill's rates, to find the actual cost for a given period.
This makes sense, in a way, since appliances such as refrigerators, that cycle on and off, need to see an average over time -- an instantaneous readout doesn't tell you anything.
However, it would have been really nifty if you could plug in YOUR cost of electricity, and have it show you the daily/monthly/yearly cost of running the device automatically. This device, again, will NOT go that far.
Having said that, it's still a pretty cool device. It does show both watts and amps, along with the aforementioned cumulative kilowatt-hours. Less useful is the volts and frequency readouts -- geez, if it doesn't read something close to 120V/60Hz, you've got a problem! It's not like those readouts are going to be changing a lot.
Worth the money, for the curious. Just don't expect it to do TOO much.
 not what you think September 7, 2005
G. waszcyszak (oyster bay)
9 out of 127 found this review helpful
DON'T BUY THIS...I read the review and thought this would save me work and some math, I was wrong. This product reads like it will calculate your power usage (hour, day, week, etc.) it doesn't they don't even give you the formulas to figure out the information the "large LCD" gives you. SAVE YOUR MONEY, the power usage numbers that come with the product will serve you just as well
 Great Gadget January 11, 2007
Paul Niebergall (Kansas City, MO United States)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Easy to use and understand. Now when I look at electrical appliances in my house I see dollar signs. You will make up the cost of the item in your electric bill in the first month.
 No Data Storage Is a BIG PROBLEM March 13, 2007
C. Field (boston, ma usa)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Others have noted the same thing -- you can only read the output when the unit is plugged in, which is often in a hard-to-read location. A backlit screen would help greatly, but even better would be a memory function to enable reading the data after the unit is disconnected. If anyone knows of another product with that ability, please mention it! Thanks.
Otherwise functionality is good. A 220V appliance version would also be very useful.
Really Amazing April 2, 2007
TexasxTumbleweed
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I moved into a new apartment when I got my first months electric bill...$275 bucks!?!?! I couldn't believe it. Thanks to this gadget I discovered I had faulty wiring on one of my plug sockets.. the outlet was using constant juice with no appliances plugged in! This thing was a life saver...not bad for $20 bucks!
-TexasxTumbleweed
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