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I have three not including clamp on ammeters, one is clipped onto incoming supply and covers whole house, the other two plug in, one of the plug in meters is self contained you plug it in and return latter to see max, min, total, and time under test. The more expensive meter does less,
looks very pretty, but really does not tell you much, the rest are similar
If it actually said average last 24 hours it would be more use, but until just before midnight it really tells one very little, to simple meter gives power factor, and watts per hour watts per day how does that help, it was by the way my kettle.
OK it is a toy, but did expect the computer linked one to be better not worse than stand alone. Are they all this bad? The kettle boils a cup at a time so every time one presses the button should use same amount of power, so different height one cup, two cups or three cups hang on not two spikes the same?
And power usage (W) where is the watt/hour or kilowatt/hour should in not be monitoring energy not power?
If it actually said average last 24 hours it would be more use, but until just before midnight it really tells one very little, to simple meter gives power factor, and watts per hour watts per day how does that help, it was by the way my kettle.
OK it is a toy, but did expect the computer linked one to be better not worse than stand alone. Are they all this bad? The kettle boils a cup at a time so every time one presses the button should use same amount of power, so different height one cup, two cups or three cups hang on not two spikes the same?
And power usage (W) where is the watt/hour or kilowatt/hour should in not be monitoring energy not power?