You like USB Scale, Kill a watt? Well, I like this.....

[Jimmypoo]

Charlie's cousin?

[MacMagus]

I just saw one for $35 bucks at Microcenter.

Very tempting.

[AllGold]

You know me too well.

[JoeBob]

Man, those things are fun to play with.
Brother in law works at Grainger, and they have a demo model to play with.
Good way to kill a few minutes.

[decocritter]

Watts Up ?


This another brand that has a Pro version.

https://www.doubleed.com/secure.html

[decocritter]

http://www.generatorsales.com/calculator_GOOGLE.ASP


http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/howmuch.html

[AllGold]

That generatorsales link is obviously designed to up-sell people buying generators. The data on surge watts is questionable at best and probably just downright bogus.

It says a window air conditioner uses 4800 surge watts. That's 40 amps at 120V. A washing machine uses 3400 surge watts, 28.33 amps. No way. Who has their window AC or washing machine on a 40 amp circuit?

Maybe they really do surge that high, but if so, it's only for a couple milliseconds and a 15 amp circuit can handle it. Otherwise, we'd all be tripping breakers every time an electric motor switched on.