FS Kill-a-Watt meters, delivery at BAR meeting

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Sparkss

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We had ordered a couple of meters a few weeks ago and got shipped 17 more than we ordered. I already contacted the shipper and he has offerred to pay for my time and expenses to repackage and ship the meters back to him. The other option was to get these meters at his cost, which comes out to be roughly $22.

These are brand new, still in their original packaging. They are the P3 International P4400 units. Here is the product home page :

http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html

These are the same units that everyone refers to on RC and sell on Ebay as the Kill-a-Watt meters.


If I can get enough interest in these then I will keep the box of meters and sell them to our members at the discounted price (I saw one or two places that sell them a little cheaper on Ebay, until you add in the shipping that is). If not, then I will just ship them back to the seller. It all works out about the same for me.

I can deliver the meters at the BAR meeting on 6/10 and will accept payment then (advance PayPal is not necessary). I only want to pre-allocate the majority of these before I decide to keep them to sell to our members (I don't want to get stuck with any "extras", I already bought and paid for 3 and don't need any more... and we ended up paying more than the $22 each for our units).
 
kew.. 1 down, 16 more to go :)

I know that this is not a majopr savings over what you can get them for online.. maybe $10 savings, maybe even a little less, but I have them here and thought I would offer them up to our members :)
 
I'll take one, though I can't make it to the BAR meeting. If someone who lives close to Berkeley can pick it up at the meeting, let me know!!
 
I probably could be convinced to take one... especially nice considering the topic of the talk is electrical stuff :) Might have more to take off your hands but need to make a few "calls"
 
Ok, here is what I have so far :

Elite
JHipkin
sfsuphysics
zivic2play
tonggao
fishme
raddogz
Vincerama2
magma01


kinetic if someone can pick it up for him

That is 9 confirmed, 1 tentative and 7 left to go :)


Patio,

I did both. I plugged my lighting timer strip into one and let it run for 48 hours, divided that KWH result by 2 and multiplied that by 30 to give me an average month;s KWH cost. I multiple that by the highest billing rate, which is .35 per KWH and our lights costs us around $120 per month to run (uuggghh)
I also plugged individual equiptment into it to see how close the rated amp draw was to reality as well as how air valve restriction impacted the load on our eheim nw pumps on our skimmer. Also our skimmer has 2 recirc pumps and 1 feed pump, they are all on their own strip, so I could judge the wattage for using the skimmer (that came out to about $35 per month, I think, I don't remember exact numbers now).

I actually bought 3 ourselves, so that I could check multiple appliances and equipment. I had suspected our refrigerator of being too inefficient (been making alot of noise lately and I suspected compressor issues). While I now still suspect compressor issues, the fridge itself was let run for almost a week on the meter and averages about $20 per month to operate, and that using the highest KWH prices.
 
That is from our 300% + tier, which is our top one. I will dig out our last electric bill and post the tiers and prices later on this afternoon for our area.
 
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