Plug in leccy meters

[Doki]

Are these available anywhere cheap?

[tim.....]

do you mean these things:

[Malcolm Stewart]

Maplins were charging last time I was there.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Or buy the same thing from CPC, part number PL09564 £17.57 inc VAT (or on offer for £16.98 inc VAT until 4th May as part number PL0956404). If you want 10 of them, they drop to £11.35+VAT each.

[Mathew Newton]

If you're willing to wait they appear in Lidl/Aldi for around a tenner (IIRC) from time to time...

Mathew

[Malcolm Stewart]

Think I saw them in my local B&Q this morning for £10.

[OG]

I got one from B&Q a couple of weeks ago for that much.

I'm not sure how good they are at measuring very small currents; so checking the cost of running mobile phone chargers may be beyond them. The Maplins one claims to draw up to 20W, so I guess that's a reason why small currents are not practical to measure.

[Tom Woods]

my maplins one says nowt is happening when a nokia phone charger with phone is plugged in through it.

[Doki]

electric meter without being outside or mildly complicated to read. My gran doesn't know how to read her meter and is convinced that it's being meddled with...

[Lurch]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:15:03 +0100, "Doki" mused:

Not for a tenner. 50 quid and up for a decent recon spinning disk meter or 100 quid or so and up for a decent digital meter. Add to that associated costs of correctly fitting them.

[James Salisbury]

What is the view regarding this item at farnell part number 8163650

[Lurch]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:48:51 +0100, "James Salisbury" mused:

Depends what you want to do with it. Does seem quite cheap, although I've not bought any meters for a few years but for measuring electricity I can't see there'd be any major problems.