Review on Panasonic KX TG4500B Expandable Cordless Answering by Rachel Guzman

This is a good all in one phone system for the home office or small business. Like other Panasonic phones, it's reliable and has very good sound quality. And like other Panasonic phones, the user interface isn't the best, but it does the job. While this model hasn't changed in a while, the only useful feature I think was missing from later models is something that flashes on each remote device to indicate that a message is waiting on the underlying device. However, I had a problem. About a year later, the phone started flashing – first the battery indicator, then the LCD backlight, and later the line is on. More recently, the strobe effect has started. Today, about two years old, the phone was completely inoperative - the LCD, LCD backlight and line indicators would flash for a moment from time to time, but the phone was completely non-functional. Like others before me, I interpreted the early flashing as a bad battery and replaced it to no avail. Today I assumed that the base unit was toasted. Fortunately, a closer reading of the comments pointed to the root cause. The DC power supply for the base unit is only slightly larger than for the wireless units and too small for the power drawn by the base unit. It crashes faster than it should. Replace it with a more powerful universal DC power supply and you've got a good phone system again.