Monster Digital PowerCenter MDP 900 with GreenPower and USB Charging
Jan 13, 2010 in
Computers & Software
- Ships in Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging
- Monster GreenPower stops standby mode energy waste and saves money
- Exclusive PC Clean Power Stage 2 filtering rejects noise and interference
- Surge protected coaxial, network and phone connections
- 10 surge protected, color-coded AC power outlets
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Monster Digital PowerCenter MDP 900 with GreenPower and USB Charging
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5 comments
Andrew J. Khinda on January 13, 2010 at 9:53 pm
My father got duped into buying one of these things when buying a large screen TV at PC Richards. He was ambushed by salespeople hyping up Monster products before he could purchase. Sure… it works well, but there is no need to buy something like this when you can pay a quarter of it’s price for a Belkin 12-Outlet Home/Office Surge Protector with Phone/Ethernet/Coaxial Protection and Extended Cord. They do the same thing, but the Belkin does it better: more protection on more outlets and a better warranty.
S. Latta on January 13, 2010 at 10:55 pm
We purchased this Monster Digital PowerCenter MDP 650 with Green Power primarily for the “green power” feature. We already had a perfectly good surge protector our A/V equipment was plugged into, but my wife wanted something which would prevent the standby power consumed by our Wii, a DVD player and a Blu-Ray player.
We first tried plugging our satellite receiver into the control outlet. When the receiver was shut down, the other components continued to stay on in standby. We figured maybe the receiver was going to standby as well, and therefore wasn’t triggering the switched outlets to turn off. We then tried plugging the TV into the control outlet. Even with it off, everything in the switched outlets continued to receive standby power.
Monster advertises this surge protector as being for computers, and maybe a computer would shut off completely triggering the switched outlets to turn off, but our AV equipment couldn’t do it. I’m giving it two stars because it seems like it still works as a surge protector, just don’t expect to save any “green” on your power bill from it.
Matt Orme on January 13, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I use one of these at my desk at work. It does just what it says.
Thinh Dang on January 14, 2010 at 2:05 am
Very nicely made,.. Monster is the best for your money.
I tested with kill-lo-watt reader,..standby is 0 sometime 1 watt.
Will get more soon,.. my old similar size surge protector used about 30 watts standby.
This might pay for itself within 1 year.
HMMWV on January 14, 2010 at 3:38 am
Almost every electrical device nowdays draws some small, meaningless amount of power – say 4 watts in “sleep” or off mode. Its waiting to hear from the remote to turn on usually, or perhaps waiting for a wake on lan signal that nobody uses. Not to mention those so called “wall warts” that plug into the wall outlet and look like, well, a wart. Well, technically a 7 watt wart.
The idea of this device (my lab was involved in early certification) is to ONLY turn on secondary devices when a “MAIN” device is operational, thus saiving the 6 devices x 5 watts = 30 watts x 24 hours x 365 = 262.8 KWH / year * 10c/kwh + tax = about $30/year, so the device pays back conservatively in 3 years, faster if you have more addon devices.
Say your home stereo centers around the nice TV. CD player – 7 watts, Amplifier for THX audio? 16 watts, equalizer, 10 watts either on or off – doesnt care, CD changer – 4 watts off, all those devices are wasting electricity – called 24 hour loads, they load the electric grid 24 hours a day and do nothig with that power.
By installing this and selecting the TV as the master device, plug in your protected devices, then plug in all the devices you need to run your audio video system into the remainder of the plugs. When the TV is off, everything else will be off too. Turn on the TV and your whole audio video system is ready to go.
There is a 2nd advantage. With the storms comming all your precious devices will be disconnected when you are not using them – like running around unplugging stuff that is valuable before surges hit the power lines. Grounding protection is also built into the product.
You’ve heard it before and I’ll say it again, if everyone saved 262 kwh per year, we would have less emissions from power plants maknig power that is wasted, we would have less ice melt, lower sea levels, and a healtheir planet. And people who know me would never call me a tree hugger or an environmentalist, I drive a humvee that gets 8 MPG although my commute is only 2 miles, but when whales are slaughtered and power is wasted, I feel like something must be done, because if I don’t nobody will. I do secretly clap for the tree huggers who stand up for their principles, so I am standing up for mine. Wasting power is bad, and everythig is made to do it these days…..
There you have it – 3 years it’s paid for itself in the WORST case, 1 year with the typical home theater system. Works for computers too, turns off displays, printers, faxes, external drives, and all those wonderful chargers that plug in, plus routers if you do not have a wireless home net with more than one pc, and even the dsl modem. Another application of the same product.
I have 3 of these remaining after tests were completed, and I found it to be of superior quality. Today my TV, computer, and laboratory equipment is protected by the remainder that were leftover. And my electric bills shrank right away. QED.