How to Kill a Watt AC Power Monitor

Kill a Watt meters are devices used to monitor the amount of electricity appliances use in day to day applications. All appliances come with manufacturer labeled power consumption level stickers, but most appliances only run occasionally to perform their required actions. These meters let you know exactly how many volts, amps and ultimately watts each appliance plugged into it uses. This is helpful when performing a home energy audit, or before sizing a renewable energy system for a particular structure.

Kill a Watt meter
Electrical appliance

Instructions

- 1
  Plug the Kill a Watt meter into a standard 3-prong power outlet.
- 2
  Plug the appliance you wish to monitor into the outlet on the front of the Kill a Watt meter.
- 3
  Turn on the appliance.
- 4
  Press the Watt/VA button to cycle through the amounts of watts being consumed instantaneously, the volts the appliance is drawing and the amps the appliance is drawing.
- 5
  Wait for the desired amount of time you wish to monitor the appliance. This is usually best done over a 24 hour period in order to determine the amount of energy the appliance draws over the course of one whole day.
- 6
  Press the KWH/Hour button to see the amount of energy, in watts, the appliance has used during the monitoring period.

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