Program to measure watt

aimfox · Post by **aimfox** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:41 pm

Anyone know a program that measures watt instead of purchasing Kill-A-Watt meter device?

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:39 pm

afaik, there's no such program. there's a watts-up meter that can be connected to a pc and has a monitoring application.

scdr · Post by **scdr** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:50 pm

Not exactly what you were asking for, but
PowerTop can use a notebooks battery drain information to estimate
power usage.

http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

Most desktop computers aren't set up with devices that would monitor this.

I recall seeing an item someplace (probably on SPCR) about some kind of a computer peripheral like plugin power meter. But as I recall it was prety limited, and a Kill A Watt sounded like a better deal.

There are a few remote metering products that connect to household entry and can show your usage. Some of them have computer interface. (But again, not quite like a kill a watt).
[Don't remember name of the devices off hand, but a couple of them are linked from the wikipedia entry on electric power meter.]

aimfox · Post by **aimfox** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:28 pm

ah okay i also there wasnt a program except for kill-a-watt.. i want to order a p4400 but shipping cost a lot on ebay