It is power meters which will be useful not only for your PC but also for other equipment that you want to control, be it a monitor, a printer or any other device that consumes electricity.
How to know the consumption of your PC?
On many occasions this information is important, not only to know how much we will pay each month for its use, but also to have other types of information, such as, for example, the maximum peak reached, something that can help us find out if our power supply is strong enough or approaching the limit.
There are many types of devices of which we only mark the current consumptioneven those who record all the data, give us an estimate of our cost on monthly bill and other information.
Here we leave you some examples so you can see what we are talking about. And we start with this one, very economical and the simplest that exists, but that does not mean that it is not useful, and very useful, since it will tell us the current power, as well as the maximum cost and even estimated the total. Also overload protection. And the price… ridiculous.
There are thousands of models of this type with just one socket, we can buy the one that best suits our needs. But if, on the contrary, we are looking for something with which to measure not only the computer itself, but also its entire set, like the monitor, which also has its price, we can buy a smart strip, which we will offer additional functions to the socket.
The one that we leave you below has 4 sockets, as well as USB connectors. All of them can be monitored through a mobile application that not only allows us to know the consumption and power of the connected equipment, but also to turn them on or off remotely. All this with compatibility for Alexa or Google Homeso it will be even more interesting.
In addition, these types of devices can warn us if we exceed a threshold or in the event of an overload. They are very useful for knowing the consumption of the PC but we can even put them on a fan and turn it on or off from bed or with our voice thanks to Alexa.
There are more and more models, which makes the competition stronger and the prices lower and lower for the end user. Before one of these devices was expensive, now a normal power strip costs us practically the same as a power strip with this type of functions, which can be very practical in various situations.
And you, have you already used this type of product or did you know that they existed? If you didn’t have one, what was the reason? Did you think they were more expensive?
