Re: TweetaWatt

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From what I have read it is able to measure and output volts,
amps,
watts, volt-amps, frequency, power-factor, KWh and time.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Richard \(lists\)" <rich_lists@...>
wrote:
>
> Its actually getting kVAh which from what I have seen on my
measuring
> devices is sometimes a huge difference from the actual power
consumed and
> billed for. Particually on switching power supplies.
>
>
>
> No idea if the chip in them calculates the true watts and would be
able to
> get it out of it easily, but the simplistic measurement that the
tweetawatt
> does will be far from ideal on things like dimmed lights, horrible
energy
> saving lights and PCs which at least for me are where a bulk of the
power
> goes to.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> Mark McCall
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:45 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] TweetaWatt
>
>
>
> "Using "off-the-shelf hardware", we have modified a
Kill-a-Watt(TM)
power
> meter to "tweet" (publish wirelessly) the daily KWH consumed
to the
user's
> Twitter account (Cumulative Killowatt-hours). We are releasing this
project
> as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words,
anyone can
make
> these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and
> methods..."
>
>
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/tweetawatt_our_entry_for_the_
core77
> .html
>
> Or
>
> http://bit.ly/12dEH
>
> M.
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