BALDR U.S. Electricity Usage Meter for the Home | Counts Kilowatts Per Hour - Plugs into Appliances, Measure Your Energy Usage and Cut Down on Costs - Easy to Read Display

I have a solar generator and want to see how much power each item in my house uses ND what I can hook up to the generator. Also I can see how much per kWh I am using with each item to keep my electric bill lower.

Love this thing! Can set it up with two electricity costs for when using peak energy and non peak from your utility company (called TARRIFS in the directions)

I'd used a Kill-a-Watt before and it was so simple. This meter is designed for frustration. Set, Reset don't match with buttons near them, the instructions provided were so streamlined that they don't help at all with getting it up and going and resetting when you plug into a new appliance. Wish I'd just replaced my old Kill-a-Watt with a new one. Impossible to know if it is accurate.

Like other reviewers I was dismayed at the directions and lack of English in the directions. I know if I was developing a product to say be sold in France, I would hire a good French translator to create the directions. they should get a good English translator. And I am a mechanical engineer and had trouble. Best to just plug it in and try stuff. I learned more than reading the instructions. It does seem to work well for what it is doing. And, like other reviewers I wish the reset would reset the KWH and Elapsed Time without getting rid of your inputted Cost $/kwh.

The meter itself is nicely built, functions accurately, and provide me with most of the information I need. I say most, because the sheet of paper included with the shipment, that they claim to be instructions, are -- 'expletive deleted' ! I have been using the meter for some weeks now, but haven't yet figured out how to reset the kilowatt hours ! My guess is that this bit of information is somehow encoded in that gibberish written in English words ,on that piece of paper, but as of yet I haven't figured out the cypher. Part or the problem lies squarely with AMAZON. Most of the products I have purchased through Amazon, seem to contain the same scribbles that are claimed to be instructions but are, my guess is, meaningless even to the sellers! Amazon should make sellers hire people raised in the country, and fluent with the language of the country, where the product is being marketed, to write meaningful, understandable, instructions, for the actual piece of merchandise we are paying our money for and making Amazon rich ! -- strong language to follow...