Monster Power
Protect your investment and get the best possible sound and picture from your Home Theatre with Monster's new line of power management and power supply solutions.
Featuring Monster Clean Power™, Hantrex now offers five exciting new products for Australia. Click on the product list to the right to read more about these essential additions to your Home Theatre set up.
Monster MULTIPLE SURGE GUARD CIRCUITRY absorbs harmful power surges to give you Audio Video System Protection
Harmful power surges and voltage spikes can travel up AC power and coax connections and damage your components. Lightning, automatic garage doors, power tools, refrigerators and fluorescent lights all cause power surges and voltage spikes that can travel up AC power lines and coax cables to damage the sensitive electronic circuitry of your connected audio and video components. Ordinary surge protectors often fail to provide the adequate level of protection your AV components need. Plus, standard surge protectors often cause as much as 20 to 30dB of signal loss which can adversely affect the output performance levels of coax connections.
A properly designed surge protector can help protect your sensitive audio video components. Proper connection to an advanced surge protector that offers integrated system protection can help minimize the risk of permanent surge damage.
Monster PowerCenters give you the level of protection your system needs.
Unlike standard surge protectors, the Monster PowerCenter™ with SurgeGuard™ protection provides multiple layers of defense against harmful surges. Strategically placed multiple Metal Oxide Varasitors respond within one nanosecond (a billionth of a second) to power surges and voltage spikes before they can reach and damage your audio video components. Plus, Monster's ultra-low loss RF circuitry minimizes signal loss to maintain the peak output performance of your coax connections.
Power spikes are as unpredictable as the weather, but they do happen, most of the time without us realising it. But when we do suddenly find out what's happened it's often too late - your gear is fried and there's that sickening burnt plastic smell filling the room. Thankfully this kind of event is pretty rare, though we have dealt with a lot of insurance companies purchasing replacement gear for customers - so it does happen!
However, there is a much more common problem with the 240V supplied to your home, that is - it's not always 240V.
We've been asked my many customers how to tell if you need a Monster Power Power Board, and we've come up with a few suggestions. Any one of these is reason enough to invest in Monster Power, if you have more than one symptom, then it's a must have piece of equipment.
- If you find that the lights dim when you switch on other appliances, or the fridge cycles.
- If you don't get anywhere near the lifespan of light bulbs that you should (bulbs have life expectancy written on the box).
- if your computer reboots for no reason.
- If your wireless router won't connect to your devices and requires a reboot.
- If your tv or stereo system seems to get louder then softer for no reason.
- If your digital tv gets blocky, or the sound pops or drops out this could be a combination of power problems or a reception issue.
The Monster Power range also protect set top boxes with hard disks in them, which are prone to early failure due to the sensitive nature of the hard disk and related components.
So, how do the power boards typically minimise the most common voltage spikes? Your use of electricity is measured in watts, and on your power bill is expressed as Kw/h - or how many kilowatts you use each hour. This is usually a pretty constant number when everyone is out of the house, when you just have things like clock radios and the fridge running - then when everyone comes home your power usage increases as you start to turn on lights, computers, TV's etc. What causes the spikes is when you're all home and using a lot of electricity and then something big comes in and uses a large amount of power very quickly. This could be a microwave, or an air-conditioner starting it's cycle - these are very quick high wattage spikes which affect the power which can be supplied to all your other appliances.
It's these repetitive spikes which cause early equipment failure due to the drop and spike in voltage. Imagine you have a hose flowing at a constant rate, then you pinch it to cut off the water supply. When you release it, the water comes out a lot faster initially. It's similar with electricity. The voltage will increase. Monster Power units remove this excess voltage by diverting it to a ground wire, sending it safely to earth.
This means that all your expensive TV and HI-FI gear will never see another power spike again - and last a lot longer, happily running on a constant voltage.
Most of the Monster Power boards also have line filters which can be used with your telephone/modem or tv antenna - even your pay tv decoder. The phone line filter is probably the most important one, as most phones are connected directly to the street with no form of in line protection. This means that a high voltage incident out in the street makes it all the way to your head without so much as a fuse in the way. The same applies for some pay tv installations, though most have some rudimentary breaker in the box on the side of your house. The same cannot be said for your antenna though - which is a direct line from not only static but in rare instances lightning strikes. We've had to send out new digital tv receivers to a surprising number of customers who had their box fry due to lightning hitting their antennas - so it certainly happens!
With Monster Power boards, you're protected against all these things, for a fraction of the replacement cost of the items. Monster Cable will even guarantee anything you have connected to one of the Monster Power boards from $75,000 through to $350,000!
