You can now buy a 100W USB-C cable with a built-in power meter.
They’re just $20 on Amazon, and they work!
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This is quite cool! I think all plug sockets should have one so we can check power usage of equipment.
I tested an old Yamaha amplifier and a new Yamaha receiver some years back and the power consumption between the two was huge (both were set to output one set of stereo speakers).
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Except reading power levels involves taking a little bit of that power while also adding in some variances in it that didn’t originally exist, it’s a tradeoff. That’s why getting those little readers that you plug into a slot and then plug a cable in to it are so nice, you only have that cost when you need it. Plus cables wear out much faster so having one on a cable sounds annoying, lol.
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I’m not sure where mine is now but I think it’s one like this:
Would be interesting knowing how much it adds on to the total…
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But how the hell do you put 8 of these in a power strip and be able to actually read each, separately?
Always bothered me. I really want to monitor the power usage of some of my tech but having to do porn poses with my ass in the air and below the desk when I want to do a reading just sounds mega-annoying.
I’d buy wifi ones if I wasn’t a techie and didn’t know how easy they are to hack. But maybe I have to make a proper research for those that are a little more secure (if there are any).
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Maybe start by monitor the whole strip then doing them individually? Though somebody’s probably created a strip with individual monitoring I expect - for a premium I expect 
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I’ll pay. Send me a link. 
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£300 is a lot of money for a power strip 
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What the f… 
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They missed the memo that people don’t want to spend more money than they would save with the monitors… 
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In fairness to them their products are aimed at server farms/centers where this kind of monitoring is probably done per setup (to decide whether to purchase more of the same).
But anyway you said you’d pay
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I actually would, and the link is bookmarked. But the tiresome part is that I’ll have to research and find feedback from people who already used it. If I am convinced of the product afterwards I’ll not bat an eye at 250 GBP.
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