Monster Cable HTUPS 500 2-Outlet UPS Power blackouts can potentially damage expensive projection bulbs, make you miss your favorites shows and lose all your settings. Monster Power Home Theatre Uninterruptible Power Supply HTUPS 500 has two battery-powered AC outlets to keep your home theater running when the power isn’t. And it features exclusive Monster CoolDown Technology, which automatically turns on your TVs fan to cool down your projector bulb in case of a blackout. For a home theater power supply that keeps running the electronics you need to keep running during an outage, use Monster HTUPS 500.
Customer Review: Defective and Annoying
My original unit stopped working soon after getting it. It sounded its loud, shrieking alarm and then THUD!. It wouldn’t power back up. I sent it in and received another unit which seemed to work fine for the next year or so. Just last night however, for no reason at all, it did the same thing. The alarm sounded, there was a thud, and it wouldn’t power back on. In both cases, the TV was not on! We weren’t using any audio/visual equipment and it went dead.

The other annoying thing about this item is that on random occasions, when I power on my amplifier - which is NOT plugged into the HTUPS 500, the HTUPS 500 sounds its loud shreiking alarm for a few seconds. I can’t seem to mute the alarm. One other thing: the lights on the front are extremely bright. Too bright for my tastes. In a dark room they light up the floor! I have to turn the unit 90 degrees so the lights face a different direction.

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