Hama Energy Costs Meter

Electricity meters are supposed to help reduce electricity consumption and thus the high costs. Guter Rat tested six available models, unfortunately with one failure.

Once you have freed Hama's energy cost meter from its blister packaging, the rest is easy: plug it in, wait, read off. The device requires little power, but measured less accurately compared to the rest of the test field, even if it is still sufficient for home use. With the uncritical ohmic load (incandescent lamp), it just about met its specification...