Refrigmatic Mega Voltage & Surge Protector for Large Refrigerators

With most modern refrigerators, they are loaded with electronic control boards, lit touch panels, and so forth. A power outage, especially the type that goes out, and right back on are hard on your compressor as well as the electronic components. This unit, during a power outage, keeps the power off for several minutes to allow systems to be better suited to a restart. In addition this acts as a surge protector to further protect sensitive electronics from being burnt out or "fried" I have used these on our refrigerator and find them a good way to prevent high repair bills.

Product seems to work as advertised. The start delay worked and I am counting in the device chopping voltage spikes.

We had a bad electrical surge during Hurricane Beryl...it came right through our city north of Houston and messed up a few things electrical in our home. One thing it really ruined was our refrigerator with a surge. So, we had to get a new fridge and that's when we purchased this surge protector. Since we installed it, we haven't had any storms near that strength or with that much lightening etc. so I cannot speak for how it works during a storm or electrical storm, but it came on time, packaged nicely, looks nice and I am pretty sure that should we need it to work to protect our fridge, it will do it's job! Easy to install...just plug it in (of course lol). It also is a nice looking item.

I bought this device to replace a competing refrigerator surge protector that cost about half as much and served me well for two or three years. Recently, I came home from work and thought my refrigerator was making a clicking sound and beginning to warm up. I pulled it out of its alcove to investigate and discovered that the clicking was actually coming from the old surge protector, not the refrigerator. I unplugged the protector, left it disconnected for a few minutes, and then plugged the refrigerator directly into the wall. I was very relieved to find that the refrigerator was working normally and had begun cooling again. I did some research and learned that refrigerator surge protectors with time-delay circuitry are designed to protect the compressor when power is interrupted and then restored quickly. That is a recurring problem where I live. When the power goes off while the compressor is running and comes back on before the pressure in the system has had time to equalize, the compressor can be subjected to a potentially damaging restart. The time-delay protector prevents that immediate restart. The material I read described the protector as "sacrificing itself" to protect the refrigerator from taking the hit instead. As far as I know, my old protector had not absorbed any significant electrical surges other than those associated with our frequent brief outages and rapid power restorations. Nevertheless, it had apparently reached the end of its useful life. I ordered a replacement immediately, both because I wanted protection between my refrigerator and our unreliable electrical service and because I wanted to install it while the refrigerator was already pulled out of the alcove and the freezer was still fully loaded. Having learned how repeated power interruptions can eventually take a toll on a time-delay protector, I chose this heavier-duty Refrigmatic Mega model as its replacement. So far, it is working exactly as it should. I am hoping the heavier-duty construction will give it a longer service life than its predecessor. I gave it four stars because I have not yet had it long enough to know how well it will hold up over time. If our unreliable electrical service continues and this protector is still working three years from now, I would consider that evidence that it deserves five stars. For now, however, it is doing exactly what I bought it to do, and I am very pleased with it.

I experience a lot of brief power glitches, outages and brownouts where I live. My last fridge died twice when the power glitches fried circuit boards. I bought a brand new fridge and one of these Refrigamatic Mega Voltage Surge Protectors, and it's almost been 2 years without a problem. (Knock wood!) I saw this on a YouTube video and bought one right away - worth the purchase price!

This device passes the first surge through to your appliance and then disconnects if the voltage stays out of bounds. It is designed for power outages, not surges. When the power is restored, there is usually a big surge and because this device disconnects your appliance for an additional period of time after power is restored, that surge will not make it through. However, small transient surges will be passed through and they can be very damaging over time. You need an actual surge suppressor in addition to this device. A surge suppressor will have a rating in several thousand joules, which is the amount of surges that it can suppress before it stops suppressing and requires replacement. Note that this device has no such rating, because it doesn't suppress transient surges like a surge suppressor does. That's why this device is called a surge "protector."

So far it seems to be working okay (only a few hours). Our previous refrigerator was fried when the power was restored after a scheduled power outage. The only issue for this device is the placement of of the quick restart button. Our new refrigerator has one of those flat plugs where the cable is at a common 45 degree angle. That 45 degree angle has the edge of the plug going right over the quick restart button. I ended up adding a short appliance extension cord that points downward so that the button would be accessible and not accidentally pressed.

I like these point protectors. We have brown outs more often than I like and it is good to know that there is something protecting the compressor. Also we have a back up generator and it is helpful that on transition not all the loads in the house come back on at the same time.

Looks good, installed it and it did take a couple yof minutes to power back up. That's what it is supposed to do so all is good in refrigerator land. We will see what happens when the power goes out.

Preciso y 100x100 funcional, vale mucho más de los que cuesta

Lo recomiendo. Eso comoacto, cumple su prometido, funciona bien y además se ve que es duradero. Igual a la descripción.

Conforme à la description

Asumo que es buen producto y desconecta y protege el refri a bajo voltaje. Y buen precio