CyberPower CPS1215RM Basic PDU, 100-125V/15A, 10 Outlets, 15ft Power Cord, 1U Rackmount

Great product, its perfect for when your power source isn't located close to your network rack. Easy install and great reliability. I've used several and zero issues

This is perfect for gathering and centralizing all the USB and other power plugs for today's home theatre. More and more people are moving from intgrated compenets to distributed low power components for increased flexibility and low cost versus starting all over. This is perfect for centralizing all 120 VAC power taps and works well with/or without the rack.

High quality power throughput. Sturdy mounting ears, and the outlets are positioned to minimize the annoyance that massive bricks cause.

First things first, accept what this is. An overglorified, rack mountable, 15 amp power strip with 10 outlets. It is not a UPS, it is not a surge supressor, it is merely a PDU. It is limited to 15 amps of total current I work in large enterprise IT as a systems administrator, and I deal with rack PDUs all the time from the likes of Dell, Cyberpower, APC, Belkin, etc... I was doing a relay / networking rack install for my home training lab / office , and I wanted a clean way to run power to all of my devise. You may notice a good number of those devices are actually desktop type. And yes they have wall wart type transformers, and no they don't work well with the PDU. I had to run 1' power extensions from the PDU to the wall warts. 3M double stick foam tape holds the wall warts to the tray immediately above the PDU. It works great, and has as clean of a look as is physically possible considering the sheer volume of cables running to and from this rack. The PDU itself is bade of a sturdy metal construction housing, drilled for rack mounting holes, with a convenient master switch, and 10 standard black outlets along the back. A heavy duty, long power cable provides incoming power. I have mine set up as the only device drawing power from an OLD CyberPower CP585AVR UPS that I refurbished a few months ago. No more daisy chains of power strips hung off the UPS, and no more UPS on my desk. The UPS sits nicely behind the desk on the floor, and like I mentioned, the cables are routed neatly within the rack. All in all I am quite pleased with the reliability, and performance dollar for dollar that CyberPower products have provided myself, and my employers / clients over the years. I fully intend to continue doing business with them for the foreseeable future.

Fits perfectly in my 19" rack, and works well. I would suggest to the manufacturer that the front outlets should be rotated 180 degrees so that the ground pin is on the left. Why? Because power cords with "flat" plugs will have the cord exiting up instead of down if the ground pin is on the right. You want the cord to exit down to avoid a sharp bend, and also to avoid interference with any unit mounted just above the power strip. With straight plugs it doesn't matter which way it goes.

As with many simple mechanical products, there’s not much for me to say here. Like my silly title: the electricity goes in one spot and comes out a bunch of others (if you plug things in there; no lightning bolts). I have no opinion about, nor tools to measure, the electricity that comes out of it, so I cannot rate it for noise or whatever. Heck, I didn’t even check to make sure every socket was wired correctly with an outlet tester. Shame on me. If I do, I’ll try to remember to update the review. I’m sure the joint on the safety cover over the power switch would wear out with a lot of use, but I’m hoping I won’t need to use it a lot. The switch works. It’s used to stop vampire loads wasting electricity. The build seems good. So far, I would buy more of these (I might, actually, buy another; my “studio” seems to never have enough electrical outlets). It could stand to have at least two sockets on the front. It’s odd that most rackable power strips are made with ALL the sockets on the FRONT. That’s why I chose this one: it’s the unit you get if you want all the clutter BEHIND the desk. Still, two sockets up front would be an added convenience, but the price was right for this one, and the more “convenient” rack strips were also more expensive. As others have said in their reviews, this product is not shipped in a proper shipping carton. It comes in an unprotected (no packing materials) basic manufacturer’s product box (low profile plain brown cardboard). Luckily, mine did NOT come damaged. I don’t know why Amazon ships these things in this way. They’re probably hurting themselves with returns due to shipping these without proper packing. The manufacturer should redesign their packaging so that it secures and protects the product. Then the pickers at Amazon’s warehouses wouldn’t need to pack it in another carton, which they already don’t do (probably because they don’t know they should).

I added a UPS to my rack setup recently, so I needed to pull my old surge-suppression PDU and add one that doesn't have any built-in surge suppression (that function is handled by the UPS now). It voids the UPS's equipment warranty if you have devices hooked to a surge strip of any kind, so you need something like this instead. I'm very happy with what CyberPower produced here! Plenty of outlets, a nice long cord (it was overkill for my setup, but still great that they have it), and the plastic protective cover over the power switch is a nice touch to prevent accidental switch presses. It's a heavy gauge of steel and feels VERY sturdy. It's doing the job I bought it for, and it looks good in the rack. Great product.

Overall, awesomely engineered. No complaints other than adding some switched power banks would have been better. Given 10 outlets and 5 receptacles, 5 switches would have been ideal. The other thing that could be changed is to make the power cord detachable. 15’ is quite long and is likely overkill for most people. Being able to swap for an alternative NUMA cable of similar gauge would be preferable. This product is ideal for use in conjunction with a UPS as it is does not provide any surge protection or line conditioning, which would be provided by the UPS. Using surge suppression inline with a UPS invalidates the battery warranty and can cause problems with the load and consumption calculations. Highlights —————— - This product uses 14 AWG wire to connect each power receptacle from the back pressure locking holes. - Grounded to case with 14 AWG wire for proper protection. I have seen other Chinese products cut costs by using thinner gauge, sacrificing safety. - Full metal (coated steel) case. Very durable. - Receptacles are of good quality with tight fitting outlets.