Customer Reviews

Monster Cable PowerCenter Audio/Video Surge Protector (MPAV700RP) (MP AV700 RP)

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Buyers beware of the protected equipment claim ($75,000 repair or replacement)--it is apparently worthless. Had $1100 damge to plasma tv and home theater receiver which the factory approved repair technician certified was caused by lightning surge through the properly connected Monster PowerCenter; filed the claim and returned the device to Monster Cable which then took 6 weeks for them to deny claim. Do your research and you will find that there are much less expensive and higher joule rated supressors available, although I don't know if they would do any better at protecting your equipment. In addition avoid the claims by salesmen (such as at Best Buy about signal reduction in lower priced HDMI cables--Consumer reports found there is no difference. Digital signals are either on or off there is nothing to degrade. Expensive lesson for me.

I have owned two of these now. I have a TV, DVD, 5 Disc player and Tuner plugged into it. After about 6 months the "Resettable" thermal blows and will not reset. No warrently info in the box. I guess I got what a I paid for. Another piece of junk from China.

I've had the AV700 for about a year and a half now (though mine is gray, not like the one in the pic here on Amazon) and tonight plugged a small space heater into it. It's below 20 degrees in NYC this evening, so I put the heater on high and after about 20 minutes, my TV, Blu-Ray and all my other AV equipment (all plugged into the AV700) lost power. I unplugged everything from the AV700, and searched around for some obvious way to reset the thing since the light inside the power switch was still on. No joy. What's worse is that in the middle of the night on a Friday (right now) I can't seem to pull up [...] to see if I can find instructions that will tell me how to reset the thing. The site keeps timing out, even though Amazon came up in a snap. I even tried Google's cache of [...] and, again, no joy.

So, in the end, if this thing is only usable once? It's a total waste of money. Sure, there are times when it may get fried, but from a handful of standard AV appliances and a space heater? Seems pretty lame to me. I suggest finding a different, better power strip to protect you AV stuff with.

the product is good as advertised how ever it came with out any written warrnity or instruction on use.

If you spend thousands on a home theater system, this product is a must have. For $30-40, you get a warranty on your equipment as this product has a $25,000 payback if your equip is damaged by a surge, including lightning. Why buy the in-store warranty when this product guarantees it for much less? And the color coded tabs come in handy...make sure you use the stickers on the power outlets so when your system is set up you can easily tell which plug is which.

I agree with the other reviewer. This is one of the first things you should buy. My brand new plasma tv had issues with "dirty power". It shut off automatically and then it did not start. After talking to customer support, decided to invest in this. Had no issues with dirty power since then. If you have a considerable amount of dollars invested in your home theatre setup, I strongly recommend a device like this.

Living in Florida I was surprised to learn that there are something like 4 to 5 thousand lightning strikes every single day in this state alone. Fortunately most dont really affect anyone but those that do are usually costly.....

When lightning strikes, even near your house, EMT (electro magnetic) waves are emited and usually travel along any cables, above and below ground, to enter your house at any acess point, electric, cable, telphone or satellite dish. These shocks absolutely love low power cables and Ive had phones and intercoms burned out many times ..

As well, with most cheaper power strips you are forced to use a 2 prong plug in order avoid a very powerfull grounding humm ...

Its well worth anyone's while to kick out the 50 mbucks or so to protect stereo and TV equipment that probably costs thousands ....

this is a great item for the price , others sell at pc richards for $ 80.00