[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Kill A Watt?

  • From: "j. eric townsend" <jet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:24:56 -0500

On 2/10/16 17:02, Steven Owens wrote:

That might be cool, yeah. Mainly I want to get an idea of what's using
how much juice around my house and my mother's house.

That's what I do with mine -- find out how much power some of my appliances use over the course of a week. There's no benefit in making consumer electronics that use as little energy as possible, we discovered our old DVR and cable boxes were basically space heaters when it came to their watt hours.


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