Cohu Reviews

After reading tigger221's review I ordered this unit. My house had recently been hit by a surge and I lost tv's, but not the PC since it was on a surge protector. The TV's went because the surge went through the cable lines, so I needed a cable modem surge in addition to the lines and phone. Its a substantial amount of protection, 1080 jules is double what I had. The prior unit did protect, but also failed and needed replacement. The plugs are far enough apart in two socket to take the big plugs for the printer and other peripherals without blocking another plug. The directions were clear, and the cord was sufficiently long. It was a little expensive, and that held me back from five stars. Still a good value. I hope to not use the protection claim offered, which is very good coverage.

When I purchased this unit for 1/3 the list price I thought it was a steal! I would consider it a great deal, even at a considerably higher price.

It comes with 1080 joule lightning protection, a 6' power cord, 8 three-prong outlets (2 of which are more generously spaced), and $100,000 connected equipment warrantee. Its protection for 1 phone line includes a splitter so you can connect two devices. It also has protection for 2 coaxial cable lines (in case you have both satellite and cable TV, for example). Finally, it comes with bonus phone and coax cords (1 each) to help you connect and protect.

I consider this a very functional and feature-rich product.

What I have to say will be short and sweet. I'm currently having some contractors install sheet-rock in my basement where I have my computer. When the contrators kicked on their saws the lights in the house dimmed and so did my monitor on the computer. It was so bad that I decided to shut my everything down. Fortunately for me, this surge protector that I had bought from Amazon arrived on the mail. I decided the construction in my house would be a great test for this outlet block. I plugged it in, and plugged all my accessories into the block . . . one of the workers just now cut a 2x4 and I haven't received even so much as a blink on my monitor screen.

The other reason I bought this protector is that lightning came through the phone line here the other day and burnt out my modem. The modem cost me 54.00. Now, however, I can plug in the phone line into the surge protector and it will save my modem the next time a lightning storm hits.

This plug-in block is well worth your money. . . oh, it comes with a ... warranty as well. I don't think you can beat that.

APC products offer excellent value, and this device is not marketed enough. Besides the obvious features, it also controls the power coming through coax cables. Possibly some people have money floating around to replace all their equipment when the cable gets spiked with power along with everything else. Not me. I have one of these plugged into each cable coming into the house, and I've never regretted it. My neighbors should have regrets. They don't protect their cable drops, and their electronic equipment burned up -- turned into interesting "burned toast" -- during an electrical storm. The cost of the APC devise more than paid back the risk of losing my other equipment.

OFFICE DEPOT order processing was excellent also. This could be a six-star combination.

Several recent upgrades and additions to two different home theater systems necessitated several new audio and video cables. Researching the right video cables for two sets of Sony VCR's and Sony receivers came to the conclusion that Acoustic Research's AP001 video cables would be perfect both in quality and pricing. As we all know, picture quality in VCR's can somewhat suspect at times based on many reasons, primary among them is the quality of the video cable used. After upgrading to these particular video cables, I've found the picture quality to be as perfect as can be expected for a taped VCR.

Overall, I highly recommend Acoustic Research's AP001 Video Cables for both quality and pricing. {ssintrepid}

This is a great cable. I was forced to buy this one at best Buy because they did not have a coax digital audio cable. But thinking this is the next best thing, I bought it and its great. I used it as a subwoofer cable on my home theatre when I'm not using the coax input. Very good, and its even better when not used with video.