cstackpole
06-06-2008, 23:25
Hey everyone,
So I have started a project on my own for fun to monitor how much electricity is being used by various items around the house and work. So far I have identified several things that were draining electricity that had no reason to be. It has been a learning experience to say the least.
Anyway, the device I bought originally was a cheep device from a warehouse discount center. It was 15$ and it displayed 2 numbers:
The first was current usage.
The second was usage over the past hour.
That was it. It did what I was looking for. Well, until it broke that is. Now it just reads 99 on both screens regardless of if anything is pluged in or not.:mad:
Well I continue to be interested in things that I didn't get a chance to turn off (like my servers. I wasn't going to shutdown the systems for my own amusment but maybe on the next reboot...). So I have begun to look at other devices. I don't necessarily want to buy some of the professional grade meters as I have seen them in the 1000's of $'s but I would like to get one that is a bit better quality then the first. I have also seen some that plug into a computer to get a digital readout (If it plugs into a computer, that means I can monitor it with Zabbix and graph the usage!).
I am sure someone out there has done this, right? Anyone have any recommendations? Any thing I should avoid?
Any comments would be appreciated!
So I have started a project on my own for fun to monitor how much electricity is being used by various items around the house and work. So far I have identified several things that were draining electricity that had no reason to be. It has been a learning experience to say the least.
Anyway, the device I bought originally was a cheep device from a warehouse discount center. It was 15$ and it displayed 2 numbers:
The first was current usage.
The second was usage over the past hour.
That was it. It did what I was looking for. Well, until it broke that is. Now it just reads 99 on both screens regardless of if anything is pluged in or not.:mad:
Well I continue to be interested in things that I didn't get a chance to turn off (like my servers. I wasn't going to shutdown the systems for my own amusment but maybe on the next reboot...). So I have begun to look at other devices. I don't necessarily want to buy some of the professional grade meters as I have seen them in the 1000's of $'s but I would like to get one that is a bit better quality then the first. I have also seen some that plug into a computer to get a digital readout (If it plugs into a computer, that means I can monitor it with Zabbix and graph the usage!).
I am sure someone out there has done this, right? Anyone have any recommendations? Any thing I should avoid?
Any comments would be appreciated!