Belkin Conserve monitors appliance energy usage

It’s tricky knowing just how much energy each of your devices uses.  You can make a guess at it, but sometimes it helps a whole lot more to know for sure.  Besides, it might help motivate you and your family to start unplugging items when they’re not in use.  This small gadget monitors how much electricity is consumed and the watts, so you’ll know where your major energy sucking appliances are located.

You just plug in your gadget of choice into the Belkin monitor and it’ll keep track.  Not only that, but with this you’ll be able to compare how much energy that expensive light bulb is actually saving.  It’ll also let you know the actual dollar cost of keeping that device operating.  You can purchase this one for $29.99 through Amazon.  Although it’s not released just yet, so you’ll have to wait a little while for it to be shipped.

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Belkin Conserve Valet

Most of the time to charge my cell I’ll just plug it into the charger and leave it all night.  It’s just the easiest way to do things, even if it’s not the most intelligent as far as energy use goes.  Those of you that charge a lot at night, but want to conserve energy should check out this Belkin gadget.  It’ll still allow for you to sleep while it’s charging, but it won’t drain power like many other chargers.

Most of us already have heard that most chargers will continue to suck power, whether or not your phone is plugged into the charger.  Well this is a USB charging station that automatically shuts down once the gadgets using the valet are fully charged.  Plus it has the added benefit of helping you cut down on cords.  You can purchase this for $39.99.  Although as of now this is in the pre-order stage of things.

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