Tripp Lite Metered PDU, 15A, 13 Outlets, 5-15R, 120V, 5-15P, 100-127V Input, 15 Ft. Cord, 1U Rack-Mount Power, 2 Year Warranty, Black, PDUMH15

This is an updated review. I had originally stated that the meter always displayed "0", regardless of what was plugged in. But apparently, I was just not drawing enough to push it. I plugged in more devices today and started seeing the meter display change. Overall, I think this is a great PDU. Tripp Lite has always been good to me and this is no exception. It fits perfectly in my half-rack and has plenty of plugs to power everything within it.

Love triplite and love these metered PDUs even more. Works great after years in the datacenter.

If you need something like this, it's a great choice. Tripp-Lite makes great equipment at quite reasonable prices for the quality. You can get cheaper, but it's cheaper. Electrical equipment has to have tight connections and be assembled correctly or it's a fire hazard, so spend the money. These are great, I have multiples of them and I'm very happy with them. Keep in mind with today's proliferation of transformer-equipped power connectors (wall warts) that they're really unsuitable for use on a PDU of this type. You'll end up being able to use the one outlet in front and every second or third one on the back, depending on the transformer size and configuration. It will eat up your outlet access with the quickness. Tripp-Lite has a solution, it's not metered, but it's a PDU with wide spacing and vertical orientation of the outlets. I have a couple coming in and will daisy chain them into these metered PDUs to free up the outlets on the back. Take that into consideration if you're just starting an order, you might want to get both. I saw some packaged together like that (too late) on Amazon with a modest discount associated with buying the two pieces together. Plan on putting the metered PDU in your rack above the wide spaced one you daisy chain into, or the transformers and power cords will interfere with the configuration of the outlets on the back of the metered PDU, and you'll be right back where you started. Need to plug in a pile of conventional plugs and know how many amps your drawing? These rock.

Short Review: It works for what I bought it for Long Review: I'm not entirely sure if I trust the Amp Meter. I bought this so I could know how much I was pulling from my wall, but I had calculated a bit more than this thing is telling me. A little perspective: I'm running a Dell R510 w/10 drives, Dual Xeon CPUs, and 64GB RAM, a Cisco 2821, a Cisco 3750, a Ubiquiti ER-X, a modem, two wireless access points, a monitor, three laptops, and a raspberry Pi. I have everything plugged into a single CyberPower 1500VA UPS and it only registered 2 amps after plugging in my monitor. I rated this four stars since it performs the duty of a power-bar as well as it can. My only complaint is my skepticism on the AMP meter. I feel like my setup should be pulling more than 2 amps, but maybe I'm just dumb when it comes to this. If the meter is accurate then I learned a lot, but I feel like it is on the low end. Also, it doesn't register any current until two amps are present. I searched for this and found that a few people had no current reading until >2 amps. This was true on mine as the bar read 0 amps until I turned on my monitor. The display instantly jumped to 2 amps after this.

I've used Tripp lites for my rackmount computers in the past and thought this unit would work great in conjunction with their Tripp Lite HT1210ISOCTR Home Theater IsPRar Power Center w/ remote 12 outlets 5700 Joules power conditioner for my home theater rack (Omnimount RSF). With a receiver, some external amps, and all the sources / consoles I can plug in, I needed more plugs. This rackmount unit is well built, helps me monitor my draw and I can shut it down to avoid any phantom power draws (the game consoles love to suck power it seems). A solid option. And, in this application, I needed the plugs on the back versus a mix of front and back or all in the front, but that's because I wanted to hide the wall warts behind it in my rack. I prefer Tripp Lite to the more expensive Monster....plus, by rackmounting these, I get them off the floor, as I worry these get hot near the carpet.

This PDU is rigid. It Doesn't flex and it doesn't leave me worried if it will break. The meter's accurate +/-2% from my test. What I like most about it is that it doesn't have a switch to kill all the ports. PDU Does not come with mounting hardware, most people have spare hardware anyways so this wasn't a problem.

These PDUs are great. I have six of them, and love them. Highly recommended to help you clean up your power cables and power bricks (use a small six inch or one foot extension cord for power bricks), and to also know what your power load is at all times.

If you need this and you know why you need it and what it does it is perfect. If you are in the data center rack space you should know. If you are a musician, sound guy, lighting person, etc, you might or might not but this is not really what you need.

I have several of these and they work great. Obviously you need to draw at least 1 amp for the lcd to go from 0 to 1. No decimal places. The paint on this is a dark gray colour. Rack mount ears can be moved to the back if you need that. Update, after almost a year still 5 stars. Verified the meter with another device and it is definitely accurate

works great as my homelab PDU, gives a rough idea of power usage of my rack (its not terribly accurate, but its close enough to say "ok I doubled my power usage" has enough plugs for everything in the rack, cord is of a good length, I'm happy with it and will probably keep it for awhile