How a Watt Meter can Help in Reducing Electricity Bills

For many decades electricity meters are around. The electrical consumption is measured by an electricity meter and it displays it on the screen. But we are very much used to the electricity portable kWh meter that measures the total electricity consumption of the entire house or office.

What is a Kill a Watt meter?

Measuring the consumption of electricity of the appliance directly connected to it, A Kill a Watt meter is a device. It is originally called a Kilowatt meter. It has an LCD that shows various readings like power factor, reactive power, current, true power, apparent power, voltage, energy consumed in kWh for the connected appliance. About the number of units consumed, some models also display estimated costs.

How to Use a Kill a Wattmeter

It is very simple to use a Kill a Wattmeter. In the line between the power supply and the appliance (of which you want to measure the electricity consumption), it needs to be installed there.

If you want to measure the electricity consumption of your refrigerator then unplug the power cable of the refrigerator from the power source and plug it in the port in the digital kWh meter. Now in the PowerPoint plug, this Kill a Wattmeter.

Leave it in that particular condition for a few days (or hours, whichever is suitable to you) and after that, you will observe that there is a reading on the LCD screen of the Kill a Wattmeter.

Models of Kill a Wattmeters

You will find kill a Watt meter in different variants. Although across all the meters the basic functionality remains the same few additional features are added in different variants. You must have some idea about them. Hence, these are few points for your knowledge:

• P4460 Kill a Watt EZ: The major shortcoming of a socket mounted kWh meter is that it cannot store information. To overcome this situation, this particular model includes a backup battery which helps in storing the information after it is disconnected from the power supply.
• P4400: It is the first and the most basic version of Kill a Wattmeter. Follow us on Twitter