| View Larger Image | Watts Up Pro AC Power Meter | Misc.by ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL DEVICES
| List Price: | $179.95 | |
| | Sales Rank: | 3,442rd |
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FEATURES | - Determine what it costs to run any appliance
- Displays information in true dollars and cents no need to do the conversions
- Take it with you when you go appliance shopping for on-site testing
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Product Description
Watts Up Pro, which instantaneously displays the wattage being used, as well as the cost, in actual dollars and cents! Watts Up? provides tons of information (see list below), yet it is simple to use. Only six values are displayed in the main modes. Additional information is available in the detail mode. Clear English wording on the LCD is used to describe what is displayed. Watts Up Pro measures the voltage and current thousands of times a second so it has an incredibly fast response time, enabling you to "see the surge" of power when appliances are first turned on. The peak value display captures this surge so it is displayed even if it happens too fast to see live. The minimum voltage display shows the line quality and voltage dips. Minimum current and minimum watts can be used to monitor variances in appliances that run continuously. Watts Up Pro also measures true RMS power (including power factor) which is what utilities charge for. Watts Up PRO has additional analysis tools, like the Payback Calculator, which automatically calculates the time required for a new energy-efficient appliance to pay for itself. Monthly savings are highlighted, and compared to the purchase price of the new appliance. It includes all the displays of Watts Up. In addition, the PRO records all the data into non-volatile memory, which can be retrieved even if power is lost. One thousand data points are stored, starting with a sampling rate resolution of one second. The sample rate resolution increases over time (sample rate equals total time divided by 1000) so years of usage can be accurately recorded. The included serial cable and software program allows the data to be quickly downloaded to a PC where the included software creates a data table and easily manipulated graphs. The data can also be exported in a comma-delimited format to popular spreadsheet programs for further analysis. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 9 reviews)
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Great to see what you are paying your electric bill for. by Jeffrey Osborn (Yonkers, NY)  5 Stars
May 16, 2009
Easy to set up if you have a recent electricity bill on hand. Able to compute average monthly costs based on your current rate. Our electricity rates change for the summer so I will have to remember to change it.
I tested it on my laptop power supply for fun and could see when the battery was charging and how often. (Total power requirement negligible.)
Now to test my 11 year old air conditioner.
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When you need to know by J. Fatz (Palmdale, California USA) 5 Stars
November 26, 2008
While this is not the product of the century or one that will make the top ten list in many peoples minds, this is indeed a great product if you need to know what your current draw and power consumption is on a given appliance. It should be noted that this unit should not be used on high amperage load units such as a refrigerator or an air conditioner, it does have a great function for the miriad of smaller units such as your computer current usage, the display consumption such as a plasma and yes even a LCD since they are getting so large that consumption is up on these as high if not higher than plasmas with the newer power saving electronics.
This is a great item to evaluate reducing your "carbon footprint" and finding what products achieve that end. It is also an incredible unit to document the power reduction in properly setting/calibrating TVs/Flat Panels/projectors and such. Studies have shown that properly calibrated displays can have a 20,30, and even 40 percent reduction in energy usage, and this unit can help document the changes.
The Watts Up Pro requires a computer or notebook to run the software that is available from the company to chart, graph, and spreadsheet the measured parameters. If you are serious about tracking and analyzing your power consumption, then this reasonably priced unit will help you achieve it.
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Power Analyser by R. Coutermarsh (San Francisco, CA USA)  4 Stars
November 02, 2008
The product is exactly what we needed to test the electrical output of our business products.
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AMAZING by Merion18 (Philly) 5 Stars
April 28, 2008
The Watts Up Pro is much more than I'll ever use BUT it is very simple to use for the basics that I wanted it for.
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Sweet datalogger by J. Cox (Washington) 5 Stars
January 11, 2008
All the power data you could ever want, including top notch data logging. I'm working on making some fancy power usage graphs for all of my appliances. For example, my laptop power use in different modes (screen full bright while burning MP3's, dim at idle, and in standby).
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