Nazo
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I remember some time ago I passed by mention of a project to essentially build your own home-made kill-a-watt. It seems like I remember it being a relatively simple design with a resistor placed across or something and all you had to do was measure the voltage across the resistor with a multi-meter or something like that. If there is such a simple way to do this, I'd love to give it a shot right now, but at the time I didn't want to do such a thing. Now I can't seem to find anything about it when I search the Internet though. (It might even have been here, but I'm not having much luck here either.) Maybe I'm just searching wrong? I don't want a really complicated one like that jar project or anything though. I'm imagining just taking an old power panel and modifying it to be able to take a multi-meter reading with ease or something.
Anyone have any details on this more basic design? In particular, I'd like to see how much energy my computer uses now that I have a newer videocard.
Anyone have any details on this more basic design? In particular, I'd like to see how much energy my computer uses now that I have a newer videocard.