Looking to buy a handy energy monitor to check amps and wattage used by my appliances. Want the plug ones so I can plug it in and get individual readings.
Cheapest one I have found is $19 from Jaycar. Anybody knows of any cheaper ones than that?
Cheers.
Just grabbed it, but the LCD display seems to be too light (The digits seem to be faded instead of strong black). Is this normal?
The display on mine seems fine to me - definitely not something that I'd call "too light".
Yep good point pjetson :)
So looks like its the $30 one from Jaycar. I'll go have a look today.
Cheers. :)
I don't think you want the cheapest one - I think you want an accurate one that doesn't cost the earth. Or maybe I'm wrong :-)
Jaycar have two energy monitors, one at around $20 and the other at around $30. The cheaper one has a poor reputation.
I have this unit http://steplight.com.au/monitor/plug-in-electricity-power-me… and it's a useful product.
Some people have reported that this unit is the same as the more expensive Jaycar unit, and it does look the same, but I don't know one way or the other.
However, should the Jaycar unit turn out to be crap, I suspect it would be easy to return.