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Panamax - Refurbished Excellent - 9 Outlet 1575 Joules Surge Protector - Black
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Customer Reviews for Panamax - Refurbished Excellent - 9 Outlet 1575 Joules Surge Protector - Black
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Good specs but really bad layout.
on January 14, 2022
Posted by: Ed C
from Ontario Canada
I bought the Panamax MR4300 mainly for its RFI and EMI noise filtering, also for its 8+1 outlets and its power rating. I use very expensive computer equipment and test instruments for work. Although its specs exceed the needs of most consumer home and office users, the MR4300's devil is in the details of its hapless layout.
1. The 8 rear edge outlets are oriented 90 degrees off from the standard wall outlets, so a plug's blades are at the right and the ground post is at the left. This means that wall warts, small power cubes, and even some standard plugs with their profiles and their strrain reliefs can cover up adjacent outlets and so make them unavailable.
2. the 8 rear outlets are way too crowded together. the profiles and strain reliefs of even standard plugs can render adjacent outlets unavailable. Certainly true for small switch mode power cubes and wall warts.
3. Because the rear outlets are crowded and oriented oddly, the RJ connectors at the left rear edge can be covered up or crowded out, and also true for the large coaxial connector at the right rear edge. For 2 examples: my rogers XB7 modem power cube covers up the 4 RJ ports at the left end. If I move it or orient it the other way with the strain relief facing to the right, it covers up the outlet to its right rendering it unavailable. Even something like the small power cube for my Panasonic landline phone plugged into the far right outlet crowdes right up against the large coaxial terminal, and so I can't use the terminal. Oddly, the single front outlet is oriented sensibly. except that even a small plug connected crowds out the USB charging port squeezed up against it to its right.
4. the 2 superfluous bobbles on the front edge (and that's really just what they are) stick out and make the whole design not streamlined.
5. So, when everything is plugged in, the MR4300 set up does take up a large, messy footprint, even though it has a low profile. A better layout design compared to the MR43000 for reference was my ancient Monster power conditioner. It had 2 rows of 4 each properly oriented outlets on its top surface, spaced far enough apart that nothing covered up anything next to it. Panamax should have built the MR4300 with sensibly oriented and properly spaced outlets. Would it have been too much trouble for its price?
6. I am not in favour of soft switches and the implied use of fantom power. Even if I plug in devices through insert sockets with hard on/off switches (and that can introduce more noise into the setup), the MR4300 still runs a little warm.
7. This is to say nought of ground loops, ground noise, and that each outlet really should be isolated and not merely one bank from another.
8. One saving feature is that the MR4300 makes virtually no mechanical buz noise compared to other similar consumer power conditioners.
I would return it for a refund except that I doubt I can find a power conditioner that doesn't have this same inefficient physical layout, and some of them do have an annoying buzzing sound.
1. The 8 rear edge outlets are oriented 90 degrees off from the standard wall outlets, so a plug's blades are at the right and the ground post is at the left. This means that wall warts, small power cubes, and even some standard plugs with their profiles and their strrain reliefs can cover up adjacent outlets and so make them unavailable.
2. the 8 rear outlets are way too crowded together. the profiles and strain reliefs of even standard plugs can render adjacent outlets unavailable. Certainly true for small switch mode power cubes and wall warts.
3. Because the rear outlets are crowded and oriented oddly, the RJ connectors at the left rear edge can be covered up or crowded out, and also true for the large coaxial connector at the right rear edge. For 2 examples: my rogers XB7 modem power cube covers up the 4 RJ ports at the left end. If I move it or orient it the other way with the strain relief facing to the right, it covers up the outlet to its right rendering it unavailable. Even something like the small power cube for my Panasonic landline phone plugged into the far right outlet crowdes right up against the large coaxial terminal, and so I can't use the terminal. Oddly, the single front outlet is oriented sensibly. except that even a small plug connected crowds out the USB charging port squeezed up against it to its right.
4. the 2 superfluous bobbles on the front edge (and that's really just what they are) stick out and make the whole design not streamlined.
5. So, when everything is plugged in, the MR4300 set up does take up a large, messy footprint, even though it has a low profile. A better layout design compared to the MR43000 for reference was my ancient Monster power conditioner. It had 2 rows of 4 each properly oriented outlets on its top surface, spaced far enough apart that nothing covered up anything next to it. Panamax should have built the MR4300 with sensibly oriented and properly spaced outlets. Would it have been too much trouble for its price?
6. I am not in favour of soft switches and the implied use of fantom power. Even if I plug in devices through insert sockets with hard on/off switches (and that can introduce more noise into the setup), the MR4300 still runs a little warm.
7. This is to say nought of ground loops, ground noise, and that each outlet really should be isolated and not merely one bank from another.
8. One saving feature is that the MR4300 makes virtually no mechanical buz noise compared to other similar consumer power conditioners.
I would return it for a refund except that I doubt I can find a power conditioner that doesn't have this same inefficient physical layout, and some of them do have an annoying buzzing sound.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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