Just bought a Kill-A-Watt electricity consumption meter

[dremd]

Old Thread, new Deal
$14 shipped from New Egg
Kill A Watt Electricity Load Meter and Monitor - Slickdeals.net

[mloveland78]

I have a different meter that does the same monitoring with data logging that can be downloaded to a computer. It helped me to make the decision to change refrigerators after I saw how much energy my old one used in a week.

[mloveland78]

posting it up

[alvaro84]

Cd! Wait a minute! You can't double a 12" diameter screen to get a 24" one... you have to quadruple it!

Anyway, I use my 24" LCD around minimum brightness so and this way it consumes much less power (was ~55W when I last checked), generates less heat, doesn't burn my eyes and its "black" is a darker shade of grey

(Bad that I can't turn it truly off with the computer and amplifiers because it instantly forgets its color settings. Since day one, it's a bug...)

[don_chuwish]

Check your local library, not sure if it's a widespread practice but ours is offering Kill-A-Watt lending. I may just have to give it a shot this weekend...