Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun11!josef From: josef@peun11.uucp (Moellers) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Watt Hour Meters Message-ID: <732@nixpbe.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 90 12:03:15 GMT References: Sender: news@nixpbe.UUCP Distribution: usa Lines: 23 mark@retix.retix.retix.com (Mark Hoy) writes: >Is there a <$30 meter that will monitor an appliances power usage? I >would like to know how much energy is being used by a couple of >fridges, aquariums, etc. I am willing to build the thing if >necessary, (but only if it's relatively simple). >-- You may try and dig into old versions of BYTE (and I mean OLD, i.e. from the time when BYTE was readable and didn't consider "computer" being exactly identical to "IBM compatible") Steve Ciarcia had an article on monitoring power consumption. If You can't find the article(s), give me a "ring", I have a small number of BYTEs and can probably find the article easily (I write this at work and the BYTEs are in the basement of my home) Josef Moellers Josef Moellers | c/o Nixdorf Computer AG USA: uunet!philabs!linus!nixbur!mollers.pad | Abt. DX-PC !USA: mcvax!unido!nixpbe!mollers.pad | Pontanusstr Phone: (+49) 5251 146245 | D-4790 Paderborn