Ever calculate how much electricity used by your home appliances and other small appliances at your home? You can find the total usage of your home electricity from your monthly electric bill, but you may want to measure the energy used by each electric-powered items at your home, then how to do the measurement?
You can use a simple power meter, and can be purchased in local shops. Simply insert it into the meter of the device, and then plug meters to the supply point. When the device is drawing current, watt-hour meter will read the usage. This small device will tell you how much electricity is used at a given moment, in a longer period of time. This simple meter measuring small appliances does not run constantly, window units, air conditioners and refrigerators as kilowatt-hours of electricity usage, is very useful. If you like to monitor whole house energy uses at any given moment, or how much you have used so far for the month, then you might want to consider an installation of a whole-house meter.
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