Trik's Kill-A-Watt Thread

[Southcross]

I love these Killawatt things... I did some experimenting with random household items.

Coffee maker (12cup Mr Coffee) uses 1000 watts when on a heat cycle...thankfully its on for an average of about 5 seconds every minute... that first 5 minutes of warmup though was greater than 80% leaving the coffee maker on for 3 hours.

Tivo Series 2
"On" and recording 35 watts... "Standby" and recording 35 watts... On and not recording (not even live TV) 35 watts.... "Standby" and not recording (no Live TV) 34 watts. Considering its a voyage through the menu system to find "standby" (Tivo's don't have power buttons).... I chose to bite the bullet over 1watt and leave the stupid thing on 24-7

[Clev]

Originally Posted by Southcross

"On" and recording 35 watts... "Standby" and recording 35 watts... On and not recording (not even live TV) 35 watts.... "Standby" and not recording (no Live TV) 34 watts. Considering its a voyage through the menu system to find "standby" (Tivo's don't have power buttons).... I chose to bite the bullet over 1watt and leave the stupid thing on 24-7

I have the R10 (DirecTivo) and it records two channels continuously--even when in standby. Power consumption is 26 watts regardless of what I do.

If the drive ever dies on mine, I'll probably replace it with a laptop drive to shave off a few watts.

[nilylav496]

Nice saving. Nice work done bye you. I will also care of it.

[Cobb]

I got a kill a watt one from harbor freight and fooled around with a window ac unit. It was a basic 5000 btu unit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skrLYDBO4nA