Monster Green Power HDP 650g Power Center w/ Cable Tv Conditioning - Frustration Free Package

I got one of these smart power strips some time ago (Niagara Conservation brand) from my power company. Love the idea: have your monitor and peripherals turn off when you turn off your computer. Unfortunately, the one I got from the power company assumes your computer pulls a lot of juice. My application is an HTPC. It's attached to a TV that my family *always* forgets to turn off. The HTPC is pretty low power (probably pulls 20 watts) and it wasn't enough to let the Niagara know it was on. So it would never turn power on to my TV. After being angry for a while, I decided to buy this to replace it. I'm glad I did. This power strip works perfectly. It's a little silly that they put labels on each plug instead of simply stating which plugs turn off when the control plug is not pulling any power. Also it's very wide. But it works well. When I turn on my computer, it waits a few seconds and then sends power to the TV, which I can then turn off. When I turn off the computer (or it turns off because it got idle) this disconnects power from my TV. I'm now very satisfied. A few gotchas with this: The first is that the few seconds wait time between when I turn my computer on and when this enables the TV is a little annoying. I don't know why they can't make it almost immediate. It's probably about 4 seconds, I'd guess. Just something to get used to. The other thing that was a problem is that when the computer would hibernate this would turn off the TV, but when I would wake the computer somehow it wasn't enough juice to let the power strip know to turn on the TV. It was frustrating for a while. My solution was to disable hibernation and create a windows task to shut the computer down any time it was idle for enough time. There are guides online that show you how to do this. Anyway, I no longer worry about my kids turning on the TV and leaving it on for a long time. This smart power supply is sufficiently smart for my needs.

Thought I could use this to turn everything on at once, but the electronics only go into pilot mode. Green marketing should be suspected, since the unit has 3 bright lights that always shine.

This devices does not work as intended. Got a 55" TV connected as the controlling device and several peripherals (PlayStation 3, Apple TV 3, Audio Amplifier). The peripherals would come ON after 2-3 seconds of getting the primary device ON, in this case the TV. But then 20-30 seconds later, everything connected as a peripheral would get powered OFF again. One time even getting the PlayStation to fully boot wasn't enough time. Got very frustrated, tried different was to connect my peripherals and the sequence to boot everything. At the end I just disconnected the Monster Green Power HDP 650g Power Center w/ Cable TV Conditioning and at the end setup everything with a regular power strip as it was before. No problems like that. My opinion as a Engineer/Technorati. This device measures the primary controlling device current to determine it's of standby and fully functioning, then it triggers a relay to the peripherals to come on. Since modern TV basically use so little power these days, the current consumed (measured by this device) it's not enough to keep the everything working and while the TV it's ON specially in black/low bright imagery the power it's so low it thinks the TV was turned OFF and turns the peripherals OFF too. Just my observation and opinion. In conclusion: Device was designed for TV's that actually consume a lot more power than current day TV's (example: LED TV's consume lot less watts than a few year ago) so the device under discussion does not deliver the intended functionality anymore. At least when Amazon support found out about this, the purchase price was refunded. Hope my experience helps you. Do not get this device if your modern TV consume little power.

I found out the hard way what 'green' means. 3 of the plugs are 'linked' to a 'main' plug. If you turn off the device plugged into the outlet, it automatically turns off the devices plugged into the other 3 'linked' plugs. This can clearly be useful for some stuff, but not when your cable box and router are turned COMPLETELY OFF and the cable box has to completely reset. Maybe for lights or something it would be a good device but not for tv's and the like.

Works as advertised. I have been using monster power strips and conditioners for years. Good value for the money. Didn't give it a 5 because the cord is a little stuff making it difficult to get the strip to sit where I want it.

great monster product, keeps the line free of noise, and since I live near public transit (rapid transit), and one of the 6 points where the system takes power off the grid, and also puts it back on the grid during braking operations, and the brand new super expensive building complex i live inhas the worst kind of elevator design. hydroelectric which causes major spikes and sags in the power all the time. my complex has its own substation as we are off the transmission line that's 235kV, so any bad power is 1 block away from the rapid transit system with trains coming every 2-3 minutes during peak period, and sometimes in both directions at the same time and each train that's 10 cars pulls roughly 765kWh from the grid, plus our building with 150 2-5 ton A/C units, Electric Dryers(resistance coils not bad, but on off on off all the time plus the motor), Microwaves 1.7 kWh, Pool pumps, sump pumps, electric gates, and 70kWh of lighting that is florescent and metal halide which is also not good for the grid. We have three-phase power for each unit, its really odd, but since the building required three-phase (elevators, lighting, pool pumps), they just distributed it to each apartment/suite/condo in the complex.

Did not like it. Not what i needed. Everything shuts off when TV shuts off.

SOME OF THE PLUGS DONT WORK. I USE TO PLUG IN MY CABLE BOXS AND IT DIDNT TURN ON. I PLUG IN MY FAN AND IT DIDNT TURN ON.