The Power-Mate is the perfect tool to help you control your electricity bill. The Power-Mate can help you to find out the running cost of an appliance or determine the amount of greenhouse gas liberated when using an appliance. See how energy efficient your appliances are and how much energy they use on stand-by.
Product Description
There are many appliances and items where it is difficult to determine the actual running cost due to their intermittent running behaviour. The Power-Mate is ideal to help you determine their hourly, quarterly and yearly running cost.
For business use, the Power-Mate would make an ideal manufacturing aid. For instance an assembly line which assembles electric radiators and has 3 heat settings, the wattage drawn by each setting, including the fan only setting could be checked prior to final acceptance. If the applied voltage and supply current need to be checked simultaneously whilst testing something the Power-Mate is very convenient and safe. The high resolution and sensitivity of the Power-Mate allows measurements of 1/1000A and 1/10W to be accurately displayed.
Operation:
The Power-Mate has several main menu modes:
Instantaneous Volts, Current, Power
Energy, Cost, Greenhouse Gas and Elapsed Time.
When in these main modes extra information is available from 3 other colour-coded buttons.
Whilst in Volts, Current and Power modes, the maximum and minimum values can be displayed.
When in the Cost, Energy and Greenhouse Gas modes, the hourly, quarterly and yearly amounts can be displayed.
Each time the Mode&rdquo key is pressed, the Power-Mate will advance to the next mode. The modes are Power, Cost, Energy, G-Gas, Volts and Amps (CUrr). Extra information is available in each mode by pressing one of the other 3 keys. When in Power, Volts or Amps modes, the Maximum or Minimum values since the test was started can be displayed.
In the Energy, Cost or G-Gas modes, hourly quarterly or yearly values can be displayed. The last two modes are CLEAR and SETUP. When Clear is selected, pressing the Enter&rdquo key clears the totals for time, cost, energy and G-Gas. When Setup is selected, pressing the Enter&rdquo key allows entry of the unit cost for energy (cents/kilo-Watt-hour), and the ratio of energy to G-Gas emission (1.2kg per kWh is a commonly accepted value).
Some appliances (such as mobile phone chargers) consume a very small amount of energy. In the Cost mode it could take many hours before even 1 cent has registered. When checking low power items, the Power-Mate display of cents to four digits is very useful and gives confidence that the Power-Mate is measuring.
When measuring low power items (say less than 5 watts) to calculate quarterly or yearly running cost, greater accuracy can be achieved by measuring the consumption for 24 hours. The Cost function will then of course display the actual cost in dollars to four decimal places. Multiplying the 24-hour result by either 91 or 364 will yield cost/qr. or cost/yr.
Product Features
The Power-Mate will accurately measure & calculate to display the following information:
