Utility for measuring power supply usage...

[jtelep]

Does anyone know if there are any good utilities for measuring how much juice you PS is putting out at a given time and what kind of condition the power is? I have been looking around but so far have been unable to find anything.

Thanks.

 

[StevenYoo]

there's a product called the kill-a-watt, which measures wattage of items plugged into a particular outlet

 

[jtelep]

Ya but I mean something that actually resides within windows. What I am looking for is a utility that will actually monitor the usage of the PS so I know whether or not I am using too much and will also let me know if the quality of the power coming from the PS is bad.

Is there anything out there like that?

 

[PottedMeat]

Maybe theres a UPS that does monitoring like that, but a computer based one? I dont think so, it would have to do current monitoring as well as voltage monitoring to tell you the power usage. Most do voltage monitoring ( usually inaccurately ), none do current as far as I know.

 

[Zepper]

Something like the KillAWatt is it for home use. You'd have to build the same thing with A to D conversion to be machine readable - not worth the cost when the KaW is less than $20..

.bh.