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You could even get away with hanging it behind a flat panel TV mounted on the wall.Clean Power Surges are awesome. This particular model is nice because you can hang it on the wall (included bracket) and the wires plug in sideways, allowing home theater furniture to be placed closer to the wall. I now have 2 of this particular model. I have many of the Monster surge protectors and think that they are the perfect mate for any home theater application.
PS the blue glow does not bother either of us. Then you can plug in the bulky 3 prong plug to the right of those two coaxial cables, and the rest are no problem. It seems to provide a high level of protection, with a $150,000 equipment warranty. We used the second bank of coaxial connectors only, and we had 2 to go in side by side. I liked the way it looks, I like the fact it was labelled for different cables and plugs, and a blue glow light is my favorite color light if I am going to be annoyed. Since we do not have much trouble with this, I can't comment on that aspect. We thought that was what it was for. I'm only given it a 4 because we have not had a lot of time to use it yet, so I am being conservative.
We had to hook it up to multiple things - the wall, the TV, the DVD player, the receiver for the speakers, the cable box, and a couple of other things. Put in the cable closest to the flange overhang that projects right behind them (and the reason it is so hard to get them in) first. Unplug. I was also a bit disturbed to read in the little booklet that came with the unit that you should unplug the power center in the event of a lightning storm. Here is my advice. We had recently purchased a Panasonic Blu-Ray player and have a Panasonic hi-def plasma television and decided it would be nice to protect this equipment. We have frequent power surges, brief power outages, and lightning strikes have ruined a lot of our appliances over time, so we probably need all the protection we can get. He did say they still recommend that you unplug all this stuff during a lightning storm, as that is a sure means of protection, but that in fact you can leave it plugged in.
It helped to have two people, I have smaller fingers by my husband is stronger, so I held the cords upright while he screwed them in. Then get that second one in. After testing to be sure where every cord was coming from (and therefore needed to be plugged into), I would remove all the labelled cords (do label them with the provided labels) and do it in this order. I'm still not sure why, but at least I got my basic question anwswered.
If it does not, you are given the coverage mentioned above. You could consider covering the light in some way if it bothers you. I talked to a tech person at Monster and he told me that it is in fact, not neccessary to do this, that if you are not home and cannot unplug it, it should save your equipment. After looking at lots of reviews, including ones that I had no hope of understanding due to their highly technical nature, I decided on this surge protector.
I am certain he would have manged this himself, but it would have been harder. We learned this by trial and error. I understand that it "cleans up" noise in people's sytem. It is a devil to get the coaxial cables plugged in, even with small fingers.
Everything works great, and I have made it thru several severe storms without even worrying about power surge. I used this to hook up my new plasma TV and entertainment center. I has enough plugs for the TV, DVD player, Satellite box, Stereo Receiver, Amplifier, X-Box, Nintendo Wi and network router.
To my surprise it actually cleaned up the picture enough to make a noticeable difference.Very happy with it. I hooked it all up for piece of mind and for a goof even ran the coax cable through it. I bought this to go with the new plasma and blu-ray player I bought because I felt like I had to do something to protect my investment. Amazon was selling this for about half the price anywhere else was.
was saved. so they bought another one, waiting for the other to come back and put that to use with other things. My parents had this, and recommended it to me.
it did its job and got fried in the process. They told me this and highly recommended me to get one for my new TV as well. While it has a warranty, they didnt want to be without the coverage.
I dont know from personal experience, and I really hope not to. was shot. so I did.
The transformer outside their house blew and killed the other electronics in their house, but the Big 50" Flatscreen TV. But the surge protector.
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