Check Your Electricity Consumption with a Wattmeter, It Pays.
Do you want to save electricity?
And finally lower your electricity bills!
An effective idea to control your electricity consumption and therefore your electricity bills is to invest in a wattmeter.
A wattmeter is a device that measures the electricity consumption of your home and tracks it in real time.
How to do
1. Get a power meter.
2. Plug it into the wall outlet.
3. Connect your electrical device to the power meter.
Results
And there you have it, you know the consumption of each electrical device :-)
Simple, practical and efficient.
Thus you will follow the evolution of your consumption according to the devices which are connected.
This energy meter is very useful in understanding why your electricity bills can explode your budget.
You can then take the necessary steps to reduce your electricity consumption.
Savings made
How to use it to lower the amount of your bill at the end of the month?
Setup is a snap, just plug the power meter into your wall outlet. And the device whose consumption you want to measure you connect it to the wattmeter.
You can thus measure the consumption of each device and identify those who consume the most.
You will discover that some devices, even off, consume electricity, such as hi-fi systems with standby mode.
To avoid paying for nothing, plug these devices into a multiple socket with an orange switch. And turn off the plug as soon as you are not using these devices.
Some appliances have variable consumption like fridge or laptop.
With our power meter we found that a laptop PC consumes around 2 watts off if the battery is charged, 10 watts in standby mode and 40 watts on. On the other hand, when it is charging your laptop can consume 35 watts off!
Your turn...
Have you tried this easy trick to save electricity? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to hear from you!
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