Product Description Harmful power surges and voltage spikes can travel up AC power and coax connections and damage your components. Lightning, automatic garage doors, power tools, refrigerators and fluorescent lights all cause power surges and voltage spikes that can travel up AC power lines and coax cables to damage the sensitive electronic circuitry of your connected audio video components. Ordinary surge protectors, or the so-called value brands, often fail to provide the adequate level of protection your AV components need. Plus, standard surge protectors often cause as much as 20 to 30dB of signal loss which can adversely affect the output performance levels of coax connections.
Just died after 3 yearsAugust 5, 2010 Richard Pearce I bought this model (or virtually the same one) three years ago. It's been fine all this time. Last night it just blinked out. No surge, no storm, no ozone smell...just gone. I had to reconnect everything to a regular power strip and will need to get a new surge protected one today.
Not What I SpectedJuly 27, 2010 stojan First and last time buyer, during last Friday's thunderstorm had a power surge and didn't protect anything connected to it. The HD receiver cable box is burned and so it's my "New" LED TV. The cable company can replaced the receiver box but.... my LED TV?
Get some Bandaides!July 7, 2010 Observer The product as shipped looks great and I accept the representations of the manufacturer and other reviewers that it will work as described. Hopefully I wont get to hear it shriek as it does its job. In practice it seems to be short a few outlets since today every gizmo seems to use a wall rat for power and they come in all sorts of odd sizes and don't like living side by side. But the AV has well spaced plugs that accommodate most.
So far no problems. Except one - opening the cursed plastic container. I've seen some challenging ones but the Monster packaging takes the prize for being impenetrable. You almost need an RPG to get it open. The blade proof plastic is studded around the edges with metal rivets that making prying it open impossible. The plastic itself stands up to a box cutter blade, a kitchen butcher knife, and most other implements of destruction. After creating a few cuts - in me, not the container - I found the perfect weapon. Using heavy poultry shears wedge in one blade between the plastic layers midway between rivets then cut around the rivet Repeat this between other rivet pairs as needed until enough plastic has been cut to gain access. Final step is to clean up the blood.
Great ProductJune 14, 2010 J. Karas It made connections easy for all my electronics. I have receiver, sub, plasma tv, ps3, dvd, etc all running to it. Have not experienced any instances to test it out, I hope I never will, but I feel protected. I looked around for a reasonable price and found it here.
Nice looking surge protector.April 25, 2010 E. Ng(East Coast USA) I came across a couple of choices for surge protectors that will protect my entertainment system. I settled on the Monster brand over the Philips brand as Monster is known for its electonics cables, etc. I especially liked the way the plugs are color-coded and labeled so I can unplug the component I need without tracing the cords.
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