Don't know. Normally I would happen to agree with you if we were talking about Monster cables. Just not sure if that same logic applies to the rest of their products. That one is about $150, cheap ones with similar Joule ratings come in around $50 or so. Monster also claims to have a $150,000 warranty on any attached gear that gets fried.
The problem is, I have never had an issue with electrical equipment being damaged by surges, brownouts, blackouts, or lightning strikes. I do use an APC UPS for my HTPC and have always used cheap surge protectors but never knew if they were actually doing anything or whether I was just lucky. I have always lived in areas with pretty constant (and clean) power so that's probably a factor. But I do know that there is a difference between "clean" and "dirty" power and that the things I mentioned above can destroy electronics. So hopefully someone on the list has had experience with cheap surge protectors failing or in getting Monster to live up to the money and hype, or something along those lines. ----- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Eli Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't Monster by definition overpriced and not worth it? > > Eli > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:42 PM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter > > Looking for what the list uses to protect their computers / home theater > equipment. I'm a EE by training so you don't need to educate me on the > benefits of clean power, I'm just looking for advice on what products > people > have used that are good and those that are crap. It would be protecting > my > home theater and a HTPC and a phone cable jack would be nice. > > I was thinking a Monster Power HTS 950 would do me just fine but I don't > have a lot of experience with their products. > > ----- > Brian Weeden > Technical Consultant > Secure World Foundation > >
