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Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2025
I can control on/off of the heat tape from my phone from anywhere! I see exactly how much electricity it uses & when I input the power company costs per kwh I can see just how much I am paying to keep the ice off.
Jerry G. Gregoire
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2025
This was fairly easy to set up.However, it is unclear where to put the SD card more importantly.The rate is limited to $0.00/kwh. Since rates Artificially two hundreds of opinion,eg, 0.0776/kwh, the format should be $0.0000/KWH. Furthermore if you attempt to put in more than three decimal places for the rate the app simply says 'Try again later', Pretty ambiguous , it could be much clearer
David
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2025
Device become in off position each time after couple hours work with load 8 - 13 Amps. Than device killed my plants for a couple thousand $.
T.M.
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2024
I have an old Kill-a-watt and my biggest complaint is the hard to read display. This Aulifants device has a nice easy to read display and you can use your phone for remote monitoring and as a bonus you can turn whatever is plugged in on and off remotely. It also apparently has logging capability (to an SD card even, very nice) but I haven't tested that yet. Overall I'm quite pleased with this power meter.If you have lost your user manual: Hold the "Back" button for 3 seconds to go into pairing mode. The light on the front should start blinking. Then go to the app, delete any old instances of this device and then hit "add device". Follow instructions in app and you should get it setup pretty easily. To make the process easier make sure your phone is connected to a 2.4ghz WiFi network first. This device doesn't support 5ghz WiFi and by default it will try to connect to the WiFi your phone is currently using.The bad:1. User manual is a tiny folded slip of paper. hard to read, not much info. And easy to lose according to other reviewers2. If you use the phone app you need to connect it to some unknown Chinese cloud server somewhere. Who knows when this will go away, and I'm not a fan of ANY cloud based devices and especially foreign ones being hooked up to my local network. If your router supports a guest network, you should consider using that for all cloud devices so they are isolated from your computer, phone, etc.3. 25 amp rating is probably BS. The plug on the back is a 15 amp style, as is the socket on the front. They mention 9 ga wire, which might be sufficient for 25a, but there are other components in there. The 25 amp rating says "continuous" but this is a switch. Switch load capacity is not stated. I'm pretty sure this device uses a relay based on the sound. It requires a pretty hefty relay to safely switch 25 amps, and I don't think the one in this device is big enough. If you are using a high power device like a heater you should probably avoid using the switching function. The remote switch should be fine for things like lights (this would work well as a remote christmas light switch, just don't put it outside in the weather)
AuxPowerUnit
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2024
I had a different brand of plug-in watt meter previously. Then I got this one because it allows remote monitoring via internet-connected apps. The meter plugs into a wall outlet, and my monitored device is plugged into the front of the meter. Data about the voltage, current, and wattage are sent via the internet to either of two free apps: Smart Home or Tuya Smart. Both apps allow me to remotely turn the monitored device on or off. The meter worked well when I tested it on my bench polisher. I anticipate trying it on heavier loads later.There were some minor problems with this meter which caused me to subtract one star. First, the power button on mine was stuck, even while new out of the box. It feels like some glue got under the dome switch. I was able to unstick the button by wiggling it back and forth many times. Second, the bottom of the case protrudes too far down, so this meter blocks the use of the second outlet on a typical dual outlet. Third, each cellphone app starts by connecting to the closest wi-fi network. But after connecting to the meter, the app insists on switching to a 5GHz connection. If 5GHz wi-fi is not available, the Smart Home App refuses to monitor this device. That is puzzling, because the data rate from this monitor is refreshed very slowly, about once every 4 seconds.
David L. Ellis
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2024
The manual uses a 3 point font, and the app has even smaller font on my phone and does not allow zooming. Some menu items have low contrast colors, e.g., white on light blue, that make them even harder to read. The app also demanded access to my location as well as the expect Bluetooth. You are also required to create an account to use just about everything. The device failed to pair automatically. The app is the main reason I am rating this unit so low.The display on the unit is bright and easy to read. I cannot verify the readings as I have no calibrated standards, but the readings are similar to the nominal values on the heater I used to test the unit. At worst, they are "close enough". I tried the voltage/current/wattage screen as that is what I am most interested in using.All I wanted was a remote sensor to monitor my sump pump. Is it too much to ask that we not give up our entire life story to every company? And why cannot these companies and seemingly all current graphics designers take into account that not everyone has the same eyesight as a 21 YO? If you have perfect eyesight, are tech savvy, and do not mind exposing your life to yet another company, the meter seems to work well.ADDENDUM: I finally found the button and sequence to pair the meter to my tablet. The information was hidden in the overview of the buttons. I still think that institutions that essential me to load the app and pair it are inadequate.I also find the time intervals between readings recorded in the app to be too long. I am trying to capture a 15 second event, and the app seems to only record over some indeterminate longer interval.
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