Fun with Energy Meters

[c9]

I got a Kill-A-Watt last week, and carefully measured all the plugged in devices we have to check for excess electriicity usage. I found basically none. Damn our efficient stuff!

Item	Off	Standby	On
17" LCD	2 Watts	2	20-31 (depeding on brightness setting)
Speakers	6 (the evil power brick sucks power all the time!)	7	7
petele's Photo Printer	3	8	19-79
HP LaserJet 5L	n/a (has no off switch)	6	150-349
Computer itself	13	n/a (it can do standby but I never bother with it)	90-127
Shredder	0		54
Laptop			59
TV on, rest of home theatre off (most common mode)			100
Wireless router and DSL modem			19

Wasn't that fun? Here's some more items, but only the power they draw when turned off:

Microwave	2 (our friends have a microwave that sucks down like 50 or something when just showing the little clock)	ghettoblaster	4
coffee maker	0 (physical switch woo!)	cordless phone	2.5 (regardless of whether I'm on the phone, oddly)
washer	0 (new in 2004 and energy-efficient even when running)	dryer	weird plug so I can't check but ditto
little $8 timer I bought to put the fan on	2	fan itself	30-36 (depending on speed)
TV and home theatre rig	12	call display corded phone	2.5
clock radio	2	answering machine	3.5

Math is fun. For instance, I can deduce (just barely) that our power costs under 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, once you include all the fees and shit. This means that the $8 timer I bought for the fan would take... umm... abour four months to pay off if we ran the fan 24/7. Which we didn't. But anyway.

We go through about 7945 watt-hours per day. 331 per hour. So you can see that there are still things munching away somewhere.