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Hi guys, I'm very new to NUT, and power monitoring in general, so please forgive me if this question is dumb. I'd like to write a Linux app that will know, in approximate real-time, how much power is being drawn by a computer plugged into an outlet. Is NUT well-suited to this usage? And if so, can anyone recommend relatively cheap monitoring hardware (ideally less than $200 US) that