best energy monitor to buy?

dannyjebb

Can anyone recommend a good energy monitor, want to spend as little as possible but would be interesting to find out whats things are costing us

thanks

kjsmith7

I quite like the one I have - it's a Minim. I find it easy to use, it uses very little electricity itself. You can buy them online (Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Minim-Energy-Monitor/dp/B002KDL4MI) but I know that BG gives them away if you go on the EnergySmart/monthly billing tariff. It measures your total electricity consumption in real time, so it won't tell you what an individual appliance is using per se, however you can obviously look at the difference on the monitor to give you a good idea. The kettle was the biggest shock for me!! I've heard good things about the 'OWL' monitors as well. Hope that helps!

dannyjebb

thanks yeh I was hoping to use it to find out what the kettle uses and the haridryer (the OH is always drying her hair ) will look on the link you gave and at the OWL ones.

cheers Danny

Mrs_Thrify

Hiya, I recomend the Owl cm 119 it is also very good at telling you the cost when turning things on.

penrhyn

Hi OP Your Kettle uses around 3Kilowatts/hour, Your hair drier probably 1 -2 Kw/h.