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 [WTS] Personal Watt Power Energy Consumption Meter, In stock now!

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iggyboy
post Jun 27 2011, 04:24 AM

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PM me if you still got stock, One unit including SH to Seremban Area. Please provide Payment details as well. Thank You.
iggyboy
post Oct 22 2011, 05:52 PM

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Below are my review of the SELLER that I have purchased.

The seller are OK, I got my product less then a week after I made cash transfer into his account. The seller did PM me a few times to assure that the parcel/product safely reach me. I would say he is a responsible seller and I would recommand him as a good seller.

OK, Now about the PRODUCT review.

This is my first WATT meter. The product does as what it advertise, meaning, it show Power Usage, Voltage, Power Factors etc. However... I do face a number of limitation when comes to actual practical use.

To begin with, I would say the display is PITA (Pain In the AS*) to read, tooooooo small (The digit are no bigger than the size of typical scientific calculator) and no backlight. If you have no clear space to use it, it is barely reader-able/useable. Fortunately for me, I only want to use this device to measure my PC total power usage for an instant. So that is not an issues to me.

Setting are of typical of china make product, like CSL phone, you need to go through a few steps (key presses) in order to make a simple settings, nevertheless you still able to set it as you needed.

On contrary to what it is written on the User Manual or as advertised, the settings are NOT RETAINABLE, every time you power off or remove it from wall power point, all the settings are gone. You need to re-set/re-program everything, like setting TIME, DAY, Unit COST kWH etc. For me, it is not an issues because, as said earlier, I only use to measure the watt usage. Also it is not usable at all without actually plugging it into wall power point.

Overall I would say that this product does work and do as it advertised, But there are few things can be made better for practical use, like Bigger Display, Back Light and Retainable Settings etc. If I timed Back To Future, will I buy this product? probably not... may be another brand of similar product.

P/S1: I'm not very sure about this but I suspect that it is possible the setting are NOT RETAINABLE due to a probable of flat/faulty button cell that comes with the product. I have not check/replace the button cell because it is not in my priority list at the moment. However, as what I have received the product, the settings cannot be saved. Someone who has purchase the product care to verify this.

P/S2: Above are just my personal opinion of the seller and the product.


Thank you,
Iggy


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