From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   Johny B Good wrote:   
   > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:31:15 +0100, Jim Wilkins    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "Bob F"  wrote in message   
   >> news:j58nbe$aqt$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>> I just unplugged the Belkin 1200 VA UPS powering my computer, and   
   >>> plugged   
   >>> it into my Kill-o-watt meter. After the UPS quit beeping after   
   >>> power was restored, the meter shows 7-11 watts being consumed by   
   >>> the UPS feeding the   
   >>> computer, which is way less than the computer (quad core core-duo   
   >>> processor) uses.   
   >>>   
   >>> Does the killowatt have a problem reading accurately with UPS units?   
   >>   
   >> I just checked a KAW P4400 with two stepped square wave inverters   
   >> and a 60W   
   >> incandescent lamp. It shows 111V 55W and 129V 59W. I see odd   
   >> readings on the   
   >> input of a UPS too, but they have always been higher than expected.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >  I would say that's on account _you're_not_ using a Kill-o-Watt meter,   
   > like the OP is. I, like you, ass-u-me d he was talking about a Kill A   
   > Watt(tm) meter.   
   >   
   >  As I mentioned in a reply to another poster in this thread, I have   
   > experience with UK version of the Kill A Watt(tm) meter and there's   
   > no way it would behave in the manner described by the OP with regard   
   > to what is obviously a cheap meter trying to pass itself off as a   
   > Kill A Watt(tm) meter.   
      
   I was operating from memory. My meter is a P4400 Kill-a-watt.   
      
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