Hello,
I ended up buying a "TED 1000":
www.theenergydetective.com
I'm quite happy with it. It works well, it's well
made, reasonably priced, and quite accurate (within
1-2% of my electric meter).
It consists of a pair of clamp-on current sensors to
measure the current in the main lines to your circuit
breaker panel, which plug into a little black box
connected to one of your circuits, which measures the
voltage and sends the voltage/current data through
your wiring to the readout unit (which can be plugged
in anywhere).
I discovered that my house has a baseline electricity
consumption of roughly 700 watts due to the
refrigerator, a freezer, a dehumidifier, and all the
other always-on things plugged in to the outlets.
My garage lights need almost 500 watts, so I have
resolved to redouble my efforts not to leave them on
by mistake :-)
Doug
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