BAYO
Reviewed in Mexico on June 28, 2024
BUEN REGULADOR CUMPLE PERFECTAMENTE LO NECESARIO PARA EL USO PROFECIONAL
Bars n Guitarz
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2024
I have this installed in equipment rack for live band P.A. It gives me peace of mind as many different locales have many different potential power quality issues. It is very, very heavy and so I have it bottom mounted, no lights so no reason to mount in top-most rack position. Will not fit a shallow rack and I will be devising a way to support back of unit on rear rack rails due to weight concerns. Furman does not include any provisions for doing so which would make me 100% comfortable hauling this around to gigs. I do not have any test equipment to verify capabilities of power conditioning ability, but Furman is the standard and this unit is extremely robust.
jairo
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2024
gran equipo para dar confianza en la corriente que llega a los equipos sensibles. estoy muy contento
adam rey
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2023
This unit is doing what I bought it to do.Keeping the power to my studio gear supplied and protected.I don't have worries anymore about the incoming power as the unit is wrangling it and I've never seen my downline furman so happy with the power it's getting.Plus aesthetically it's a sleek looking piece of gear.It aint cheap, bit in a critical recording environment in my home studio you can't go wrong buying this.One less thing to think about while creating !!
Richard J. Mcgrath
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2014
I am using this to protect the electronics in my living room: the TV, Amplifier, DVR, laptop computers, etc.Install is easy. No need to read the manual. Give it power, plug in your devices, and let it run. By default, the display on the front shows voltage. I changed mine to amps, a single button click, and I reduced the brightness to its minimum, press and hold. When the TV, Amp, and speakers are running, it shows 5 amps, else 1 amp (router, DVR, etc.). I like this view. If I accidentally leave the TV amplifier on, I can see it immediately in the readout.As luck would have it (or not), 4 weeks after installing the Furman, the transformer outside of our house exploded. As I understand it, these transformers have internal backups, so as one circuit blows out, another takes over, until finally all 4 of them are gone and you lose power for good. As each of the circuits blows, the power is restored momentarily, only to go again. So what happened?Items that weren't protected, like my electric stove and the ceiling lights, flicked on and off rapidly for 30 seconds as the transformer went through its death throes.What the Furman did was interesting. As soon as the voltage went too far out of range (I am presuming it alternated between low and high), it cut power to the outlets, protecting them from the voltage swings. While the stove and the lights were flicking on and off, everything protected by the Furman was safely off.Unlike other voltage regulators (I own an APC LE1200 and a Tripp Lite LC1800), this one doesn't click as it shifts the voltage back into range.Build quality appears good, and the unit runs cool to the touch.Although the P-1800 is designed to be rack mounted, i run mine on a shelf in the entertainment center, which works fine.I also use a Furman AC-215A to protect my fridge. The AC-215 is a smaller unit with two outlets, and is light enough to sit on top of the fridge. Again, appears very well made.I should also note that I did not notice any difference in picture quality or sound due to the cleaner power. That wasn't why I bought the unit, it was purely for protection.A final note. Several years ago, I used an APC Back-Ups Uninterruptible Power Supply. A storm hit, and fried my $2,000 server that was supposedly protected by the APC. I don't buy UPS units any more. I have found that it is safer to let devices power down than to provide DC converted power as the battery backed systems do. Better to have no power, than bad power.