The Owl - Wireless Electricity Monitor |
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The OWL is an attractive device that lets you know the total amount of electricity your home/office is using.
The OWL package consists of a simple sensor that clips around one of the wires to your electricity meter, a transmitter that sits by your electricity meter and the wireless LCD display that you can place wherever you think it'll be most useful. Installation is simple. Effortless energy saving begins the moment you install the OWL. To begin with, you'll notice that often the reading is higher than normal and you'll have to get up and find out what you left on. Soon this becomes 2nd nature. It's claimed that a saving of upto 25% off your electricity bill is possible. When most people first use the OWL, they are surprised how much electricity their home uses when they think it should be using virtually nothing. The thing to do is to note down the reading then go and find something to turn off, write down what the item was and the new OWL reading and keep going until the OWL reads zero. You'll then have a nice list of items to think about. A gas central heating system in the average 4 bed house uses about 120 watts (the same as 2 old fashioned filament 60W bulbs). This 120 watts is the power required to run the water pump. The OWL will tell you what your system uses. There are many uses for the OWL. e.g. You can: - Position the OWL on the TV set as a constant energy check. You'll never leave the immersion heater on all day by mistake. - Leave the OWL by the front door to make sure you haven't left anything on before you leave the house. - Check the OWL before you go to bed to make sure all is off. - Sit and watch TV in the lounge and let the OWL tell you when your electric oven has reached temperature. One advantage of the OWL over the plug-in power meter is you can learn the electricity consumption of things that don't have a plug such as those energy consuming halogen lights, immersion heater, electric oven etc as well as telling you what the total consumption of all those small items in the house add up to. The display can be set to show either the number of killowatts or the average hourly cost of the electricity being consumed. With either setting, you'll soon get to know what is normal for your house so you can take action when the reading is high. The key to energy saving is to know how much you are using, where it goes and when you are using more than you think you should be. The OWL gives you this information. The OWL comes with full instructions and all necessary batteries to get it up and running. Batteries last a few months so we would recommend using rechargable AA batteries in the long term. Additional sensors for use with 3 phase supplies are available. Please call for details. As good as it is, the OWL isn't suitable for the accurate measurement of small currents such as those consumed items on standby such as TV's, DVD players's, mobile chargers's etc. For this, a device such as the Plug-in Electricity Consumption Monitor should be used For more information on how to make the best use of the OWL, please read our No-Nonsense Energy Saving Guide on our home page.
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