With a Powercost Monitor™, you'll be able to monitor your home's electricity usage real-time, moment to moment. The monitor features an attractive, table-top display unit. At the push of a button, it displays your moment-to-moment and total electricity costs in dollars and cents and in kilowatt hours, in real-time.
It consists of two components - a small wireless display (that you can place anywhere inside your home) and a sensor unit. The display unit receives a signal from the sensor unit, which is attached to the outside of your electricity meter. Distance between the sensor unit and the wireless display should be 100ft or less. Both use two AA batteries (included). A battery indicator lets you know when your battery power is low and a signal indicator lets you know the strength of the signal being received from the sensor unit. The sensor unit transmits your meter information to the in-home display unit, where your electricity information is displayed in kilowatt hours and dollars and cents. The PowerCost Monitor is programmable for local utility rates, including flat, multi-tiered and time of use rates, and it should be accurate to within 5% of the actual usage.
The PowerCost Monitor has been designed for easy installation onto your electric meter. The sensor is simply attached to your utility meter outside the house. It does not affect the meter or a meter reader's ability to read the meter, and once fastened in place, the sensor reads the amount of electricity the household is consuming in real-time and transmits the information wirelessly to the display unit. It works with most North American electromechanical and solid state/digital electric meters where the optical sensor or rotating disk is not blocked, including smart meter technologies.
Included are one display unit, one sensor unit, an installation guide, setup guide, user's manual, installation DVD, and 4 AA alkaline batteries.
Additional Information: Installation Guide (pdf)
Additional Information: Setup Guide (pdf)
Additional Information: Instruction Manual (pdf)
Note: Maximum distance between display unit and sensor unit should be 100 ft.
