[PLUG-TALK] What is using electricity?

[Larry Brigman]

I know the Hillsboro Library has these Kill-a-watt devices and are
available to reserve through https://www.wccls.org/
They will send them to your requested library.


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Ronald Chmara <ronabop at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:28 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I'd like to get to the bottom of this, not just for saving a few bucks
>> on my electric bill, but mostly just out of curiosity. I want to know
>> what devices are sucking on the PGE tit, and how hard they are
>> sucking.  Even if all I can do is identify how much each circuit is
>> drawing that is good enough, as I know what is plugged in to each
>> circuit.
>>
>
> For must outlets, this device is awesome:
> http://a.co/21RF5zm
>
> (It's called a Kill-a-watt, if you don't like/trust amazon short links,
> they're ~20 USD). When I got one, I discovered that I had a bunch of
> "little" lamps sucking the same power as a running microwave, I had an old
> printer that was doing "warm-up" levels of power usage,
>
> If you can't find it with that, you might have something like a
> refrigerator or electric water heater bonking...?
>
> -Ronabop
>
>
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