YISHU 6 Ft Surge Protector with USB Ports

i bought this cord specially for a shelf i have displaying things in my bedroom and none of the ones i owned we’re long enough, so i thought, “hey let’s just buy this one!” but its so nice and convenient and the cord doesn’t bend easily so i haven’t had any breaking problems so far! i looove the amount of outlets and usbs on this, since i have a lot of things to plug it. and cord length is perfect and hides behind my bookshelf so nicely. and i constantly have a CD player/bluetooth speaker plugged into it and it still works perfectly and it always charged and ready for use. would recommend

Simplifies my power distribution considerably, no more multiple wall warts trying to fall out of the power strip. The quality of this power “strip” seems fine, no better or worse than any other plastic power strip. I’m happy with it.

This Surge Protector Power Strip is handy and versatile. There are plenty of regular outlets to handle lamps, computers, etc. plus USB outlets for your phones, watches and other rechargeable items. The 6 foot extension is sufficient for office use and provided the extra outlets that I needed.

I don’t trust these unknown products for serious surge protection. I basically consider them to be about the same as a regular “remote power tap” (power strip) with no surge protection, and I have it plugged in to a “real” surge protector on the wall outlet, but the socket layout on this product is excellent. Somehow I have managed to plug small “wall wart” sized plugs into EVERY outlet on ALL sides without any difficulty at all.

Granted, all the wall warts in this case are pretty small, but with most power strips almost always one of them blocks another outlet or something and at least one or two power sockets goes unused due to being blocked by something else. Amazingly, that hasn’t happened yet with this one.

So this is a pretty major accomplishment in the field of industrial design here.

I also have this securely screwed down to the back of a desk using the keyholes on the back of the power tap. Unlike many poorly designed products out there, the keyholes on this power strip are of reasonable dimensions and I didn’t have any trouble finding suitable screws in my random screw pile.

However, I really do not understand why almost no power strip manufacturer includes the screws needed to fit the keyhole dimensions on their product! This would be especially helpful in cases where the keyhole dimensions are metric and the product is sold in a country where most of the screws laying around are not metric

Please, for the love of god, please just include the mounting screws that match the product. I don’t even want drywall anchors, just the screws that fit that are long enough to support the forces involved (weight of the strip, cables, AND force of unplugging things). It’s one of those things that is very cheap compared to the amount of trouble involved when the needed screws are not somehow just laying around nearby.

As for the USB charging ports, I never expect much from the ones on power strips. I only use those to power or charge low-power 0.5-1A devices and these seem to do that just fine. I do not use them to charge phones or tablets or anything else these days that benefits from better chargers. So I didn’t bother to test them with anything that can use more than 1A at most.

I also didn’t check to see if the DC USB supply produces HF radio noise. This is a problem with a lot of cheap USB chargers that use switching power supplies without sufficient filter capacitors and such. It might be a problem for me except I haven’t done any HF radio in a while, but anyway it’s another potential quality issue that could use some testing. (For those who don’t know, people doing HF ham radio often need to pick up weak long-distance radio signals that can easily be “jammed” by radio noise from poor quality electronics.)

So for my main requirements which are: can connect everything easily, can mount to back of wooden desk securely, and can charge low-power USB gadgets, this is a definite 5/5 with no headaches.