KILL A WATT P KILL A WATT P3 - Southeast Colorado Power
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1. OUTHEAST COLORADO ace POWER ASSOCIATION A Touchstone Energy Cooperative KT gt A KILL A WATT P3 USER MANUAL TOGETHERWESAVE COM Southeast Colorado Power Association likes having well informed Members so we have created this easy to use manual to help you better understand energy consumption in your household You will learn how to identify appliances that are Power Hogs and what might be a Vampire slowly using energy when not in use We hope this will help you decide what appliances need to be replaced and what might need to be unplugged as it sits idle This in turn should cut down on your power bill KILL A WATT KWH Money Button Press this button once to see electricity used since Volts w monitoring started Push This should read l KILL A WATT m button again to view time something close to elapsed 120 0 the standard voltage in US electrical outlets METER CLOCK Hz PF 60 hertz cycles per second alternating current in US electrical outlets PF stands for Power Factor The Volt Amp and Hz buttons are of lesser relevance to testing appliances for electrical efficiency Amps Press this button to measure the flow rate of electric current Watt Press this button to see how many watts the appliance is drawing at the moment Using the KILL A WATT P3 Plugthe Kill A Watt into the wall then plug the appliance into the socket on the front of the Kill A Watt2. Next turn on the appliance or equipment Suggestion When monitoring a refrigerator or freezer use an extension cord to position the Kill A Watt in a location convenient for reading Before testing the appliance find the name plate that tells you how many volts watts etc the appliance should pull when in use For example if a toaster s name plate says it should be pulling 1800 watts when its plugged in press the watt button on the Kill A Watt it should read 1800 watts or less Another example If your coffee maker is pulling 7 4 amps and the rating on the name plate was 7 5 this is good because it is reading correctly When you first use the Kill A Watt the time is displayed in minutes and hours 00 00 but after 99 hours have gone by the display will switch to show only hours up to 9999 Once the time limit is reached it will start over again at zero Pressthe Watt button to read the power usage in watts For some appliances the reading may vary depending on what the appliance is doing For example a printer will use more power when printing than when idle Try turning the appliance off and see if the power usage goes to zero Many appliances continue to use power even when turned off this is referred to as a power hog vampire or phantom and it can add up over time since the power is being used 24 7 Appliances that use power when turned off can be unplugged or plugged into a power strip and the user can turn
3. the power strip to off An appliance that uses 20 watts even when turned off will use 176 kilowatt hours of energy in a year costing you about 18 annually Pressthe purple KWH Hour MONEY BUTTON once for KWH usage and twice for time elapsed The final button is the MONEY BUTTON Use this button to toggle back and forth between the number of hours over which the equipment was monitored and the kilowatt hours of electricity used over that period Record the numbers for both hours and kwh on the worksheet provided before disconnecting the Kill A Watt monitor from the wall The accumulated kwh data will be lost when the meter is disconnected because this is how the Kill A Watt resets itself Determining the cost of running appliances or equipment SECPA recommends that you keep your appliance or equipment plugged in for at least 12 hours to gather and record sufficient data Now take the kwh use and the amount of hours recorded and plug that data into the attached worksheet s formula columns The more items you test the more you will see where you can save on your electric bill a KL QUTHEAST COLORADO A Touchstone Ene POWER ASSOCIATION tev ortae KD gt J KILL A WATT WORKSHEET Average Kilowatt hours number Number Total KWH KWH of Hours Cost per Day of Units Consumed Total Cost Appliance Equipment of Electricity per on each day 0 12 per KWH in per Year per Year Hour House A
4. B C D E F G BxCxEx from Kill A Watt BxCx 0 12 365 F x 0 12 example Older computer w CRT monitor 0 30 24 0 87 1 2628 315 36 ENERGY STAR computer w LCD monitor 0 10 24 0 29 1 876 105 12 Appliance Operating Cost Estimator Appliance Est Wattage Est Hours month Est KWH Est Monthly Cost Audio Entertainment System 250 6o 31 Ss Clock Convection Oven S00 io 148 Curing ron o 5 s Dishwasher Washing 280 9 81 08 Garbage Disposal OO 83 10 Electric Blanket 178 0 32 388 Fan Paddle x m 3189 f 148 Hair Dryer Portable OOF 1 9128 Heater Auto Engine Winter 1000 X 180 180 22 18 Heater Portable 1 0 4 X 60 9739 Heating System Warm Fan L sA 88 90 eno Lighting Compact Fluorescent 18 100 34 022 Lighting Fluorescent E o 4 049 Lighting Incandescent 75 10 8 9092 Lighting Outdoor Floor 120 90 1 133 ado SY I m 988 Range Sel Cleaning cya 2 00 3 8 092 Satellite Dish and Receiver o seoj esf eef 9812 Vacuum Cleaner S00 ao Washer 1 07 Waterbed Heater i SL SIT83 Water Heater 500 Si 0 5045
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