Can this work? I want to drive my pedals with this 9VDC power supply (see attachment). I am going to daisy chain the pedals. This power supply is supplying up to 11 Amps. I want to drive 5 pedals. It has 2 channels supplying 9VDC. :D
Will this power supply setup work?
yes, it'll work but that is severe overkill for only 5 pedals. Make sure about the polarity before you use it.
11 AMPS! Yoh, yes you could source your 50 pedals off of that power supply... Just watch out for polarity and be careful not to kill yourself.
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Check Polarity, 11 Amps! Is this total load before the taps or after per supply tap? Joh! I power 7 stomps with a 9V PSU at 1Amp
What is the current on the 9v supplies? If you have two supplies the load amps on each should be less and doable (Don't know what the other voltages are)
Check Polarity, 11 Amps! Is this total load before the taps or after per supply tap? Joh! I power 7 stomps with a 9V PSU at 1Amp
What is the current on the 9v supplies? If you have two supplies the load amps on each should be less and doable (Don't know what the other voltages are)
Yeah, that really is over-kill. If you're looking at something like mantech, I'd like for a 2-3amp smaller p/s. That one will be big, clunky and pretty untidy. You could even buy 2-3 smaller 1amp supplies if you wanted to have different pedals on isolated supplies.
I know, I Know! Yes it is a overkill. But I'd rather pay R244.00 for this power supply than loosing a pedal due to insufficient valtage. The Fuel Tank Junior power supply is so expensive - R1631.22! Another power supply I saw with dedicated outputs to every pedal was R 1069.00! I heard so many stories about daisy chains and power supplies that's not giving enough amps and this then cause the pedals to start behaving in a weird manner. Sorry - I'm not so clued-up on pedals. So I thought rather an overkill than a underkill! I can do with R244.00 for a power supply if I can use it for life. Unfortunately this power supply comes only in 11 amps. I will definitely check the polarity!!! I just don't want to run into trouble. Why I asked if this would work is because I saw these Fuel Tanks and stuff and how expensive they are and thought by myself why not use a normal power supply? Why spend all this money?
You can't damage pedals by not giving them enough voltage. Only way to damage them is by giving them too much voltage or if the polarity is reversed.
So feel free to use whichever supply you want, as long as it gives 9VDC and the polarity is correct.
The reason people use the more expensive supplies is because you know they're quiet and also because they're small. A lot of us have to carry all our equipment out of the house and into the car, out of the car into the venue (bar, friend's house etc), out of the venue into the car, out of the car into the house. All this multiple times per week. So smaller and lighter equipment makes your life easy in this case. If you're only going to be playing in your music room, then it doesn't matter.
Of course, the gear I use for this is neither quiet nor small. Go figure.
So feel free to use whichever supply you want, as long as it gives 9VDC and the polarity is correct.
The reason people use the more expensive supplies is because you know they're quiet and also because they're small. A lot of us have to carry all our equipment out of the house and into the car, out of the car into the venue (bar, friend's house etc), out of the venue into the car, out of the car into the house. All this multiple times per week. So smaller and lighter equipment makes your life easy in this case. If you're only going to be playing in your music room, then it doesn't matter.
Of course, the gear I use for this is neither quiet nor small. Go figure.
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Total overkill, but it will work very well.sarel0 wrote: Can this work? I want to drive my pedals with this 9VDC power supply (see attachment). I am going to daisy chain the pedals. This power supply is supplying up to 11 Amps. I want to drive 5 pedals. It has 2 channels supplying 9VDC. ?
I would also worry about the noise level you will push into the pedal chain.
Will work fine but,...You will need to put it in neat box, get adaptors and sockets and cables to the pedals. Will cost a bit and time as well soldering and putting it all together.
It might work and it might not depending on what you want from it.
Typical SMPS power supplies such as the ones pictured are inherently noisy as they have fast switching components. Also, daisy-chaining will possibly introduce more noise as there are ground loops formed between the pedals.
Another point is 11 A is complete overkill ? unless all 5 pedals are "Super-Ultra-Mega-Unthinkably-Insanely-Power-Hungry monstrous Digital pedals" of course.
Many off-the-shelf non-pedal power supplies are unregulated. These will provide the specified voltage when the specified current is drawn, but the voltage will likely be higher—often by several volts—for lower load currents. These power supplies sometimes have high voltage ripple which means more noise.
For the cleanest supplies, regulated supplies work best, however are inefficient at dissipating heat if not designed correctly and thus more expensive.
Typical SMPS power supplies such as the ones pictured are inherently noisy as they have fast switching components. Also, daisy-chaining will possibly introduce more noise as there are ground loops formed between the pedals.
Another point is 11 A is complete overkill ? unless all 5 pedals are "Super-Ultra-Mega-Unthinkably-Insanely-Power-Hungry monstrous Digital pedals" of course.
Many off-the-shelf non-pedal power supplies are unregulated. These will provide the specified voltage when the specified current is drawn, but the voltage will likely be higher—often by several volts—for lower load currents. These power supplies sometimes have high voltage ripple which means more noise.
For the cleanest supplies, regulated supplies work best, however are inefficient at dissipating heat if not designed correctly and thus more expensive.