XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: ham789@netzero.net   
      
   On 3/26/2014 9:47 AM, amdx wrote:   
      
   >>   
   >    I put a power meter on my water heater in 2008.   
   > Look on Ebay, they're cheap.   
      
   Got a link?  I didn't find anything that would work on   
   a hard-wired water heater.   
      
   Cheapest water heater power meter is an electric clock   
   across the element.  You'll need a 240V clock or stepdown   
   transformer or a relay or some such.   
      
   Another fun thing to do is to use a 25-cent Palm III PDA   
   to watch the flashing light on the power company's digital   
   meter.  Graph the power consumption in real time.   
   Pretty easy to see when the water heater comes on.   
      
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