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SYSK 350: How Much Electricity Does Your Computer Actually Consume?

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There is a nice device called Kill A Watt™ which plugs into the wall outlet or power strip, and then you plug in the device you want to test (be it your computer, a light lamp, or any other appliance) and it will tell you how many amps or watts the device is drawing.

 

Check it out at http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/ or search for “kill a watt” using your favorite search engine.

 

Special thanks to Richard Carpenter who brought this to my attention!

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  • Anonymous
    June 20, 2007
    I am really shocked: Sorry to say that but in issue of ecology and the wasting world wide resources of this planet, Americans must really live behind the times. I'm from Germany and everyone I know, no overstatement, here has such a electric power consumption meter. Of course that is also because electric power is very expensive here. 1 kilowatt costs at least 0.24369$. What did you pay in the US? I also don't know for what kind of electric power you pay in the US, here in Germany we pay for the "Real power(W)" not for the volt-amperes (VA). Many people think that is the same and also many of the measure meters showing VA as W and are unable to measure the real power consumption of a device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_power Marco