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jokuhl on October 16, 2006 - 10:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Odo;
 Just got a Kill-a-watt myself.  Great little tool!  

I would like to see a panel in the house that just displays all the current running down at the box.  It's so easy to let the power just run invisibly, but if you have an intentional, in-your-face reminder that you're actively spending money through everything that is on, I think it would be a great reminder to shut stuff off.  Sounds like one more gadget, and it is.. but I think it could be a worthwhile one.

  There was similar talk some months ago about a display on your dashboard, telling you how efficiently you are operating your car, just like the Hybrids have.  Don't you think this would almost become a game that (some) drivers would play, keeping that consumption down?  I think a lot of people surely love to buy, love to consume, live 'Big',.. but so many of us are also essentially cheap bastards, and go to lengths 'for a discount', 'to get a deal..'

My answering machine cordless only draws 2 watts standby, and 4 when the speaker-amp is on.. >> now, that times the 4 years or so that this one has been plugged in nonstop..  priceless!

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Everett on October 16, 2006 - 11:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The ScanGauge is compatible with most cars and trucks made after 1996 and will display your instantaneous and trip MPG:
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/store/ScanGauge/FAQ.htm
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jokuhl on October 16, 2006 - 4:23pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Fine looking device.  Not bad for $165!

You use one?

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Wharf Rat on October 16, 2006 - 1:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"I would like to see a panel in the house that just displays all the current running down at the box.  It's so easy to let the power just run invisibly, but if you have an intentional, in-your-face reminder that you're actively spending money through everything that is on"

  I have one of them thar things. Actually, the meter, which runs both ways and tells me how much I am producing or consuming at the moment.  There's another meter on the solar inverter, telling me how much I am making.
  You're right; getting the readings from the inverter has prompted me to change some habits, trying to get the meter to move backwards. Easiest thing to do was to put all my entertainment stuff on a switched surge protector, which easily gives me the option to kill all those stand-by lights....
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Even turning a television off completely rather than leaving it on standby can save a significant amount of electricity -- and with it money, Lawrence said.

"That little RED dot is costing you a lot," she said
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061006/sc_nm/environment_life_dc_1;_ylt=AvSpf2LUfL6Npwz1Oshsn11rAlMA;_y ...

 I also figured out that I didn't need to play my TV thru the stereo. It became a habit to have both going, but who needs to hear Keith Olbermann in 6 channel surround sound? TV sound is good enuf for that. Only need sound to shake the house when I have a concert DVD on.

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tate423 on October 16, 2006 - 4:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You can not tell me watching Black Hawk Down (won the award for best sound that year) is the same sound on the TV as the 5.1?  Feeling explosions just does something more than hearing them.  One thing I know I will miss is high fi audio equipment for both cars and the home.
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davidsmi on October 16, 2006 - 5:53pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
One thing you may gain is live drums from close proximity - I've had the chance to hear and play (with) some large taiko drums - talk about feeling the music!
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Wharf Rat on October 16, 2006 - 10:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"You can not tell me watching Black Hawk Down (won the award for best sound that year) is the same sound on the TV as the 5.1?  Feeling explosions just does something more than hearing them"

:>)
 No, I can't. Nor Lord of the Rings. Nor any outer space show.

  I won't miss high fi, cuz I have solar, and I have concert DVDs. (And lots of other, less high tech, forms of stored music. Even something from the last century called  "records".)

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