Looking for power supply for all of my pedals.

Danie

Hi, im looking for a multi power supply to power all of my pedals( I use 4 pedals).

Please let me know if you have one or know where I can get one.

Thank You

aubs1

Where do you live? If JHB. Toms have the Boss ones, powers 5 pedals. I'm sure most guitar shops will have them.

Gearhead

That'll work fine. Should you have any humming from fluorescant lights or other em sources, it's because the one power supply powering 5 pedals causes 4 ground looks. It probably does not cause too much noise, but if it does: the ground connects between the pedals through your guitar cables but also through the power supply cables. There are two solutions: one is to have 5 separate supplies and the other to cut the ground on the cables between the stomp boxes. My2c.

Keira-WitherKay

yeah get a power block

Shawnvs

Hold on.

Most shops do have those AC/DC boxes (grey), BUT please they make noise. You only need to power up 4, so u can easily get connectors that you attach to the end of your ac adaptor. It is not expensive, sometimes they will just stick it in your pocket. So you still only have to use one adaptor.

But like me, you still need another option. The T-REX Fuel tank is great, but way way way way too expensive. A new shipment of ac adaptors will be coming this year, and they should retail between R800-R100-, depends on if they music shops want to use the excuse of inflation against us again.

matta

Danie wrote Hi, im looking for a multi power supply to power all of my pedals( I use 4 pedals).

Please let me know if you have one or know where I can get one.

Thank You

Sorry guys, I'm going to back track here, you are ALL assuming that the OP is only using 9VDC pedals? I have 9VDC/12VDC and 12AC pedals... so before we offer advice we may want to check they are indeed ALL Boss pedals, or at least 9VDC pedals with NEGATIVE tips.

Shawnvs, I use the AC/DC box... for the price it can't be beat and for a R100-R300 you can put in a new power trafo/regulator/filter caps and end up with a VERY quiet supply, much cheaper than TREX.

Danie, can you provide a bit more information?

Cheers

Matt

Shawnvs

Thanks,

I didnt know you can mod they grey block.

The acdc power boxes some guys use, are able to run 9 and 12 v. I just cant remember what brand it was, but it was available at Music Connection.

How do you modify the filter caps though? That is a great option.

matta

Shawnvs wrote Thanks,

I didnt know you can mod they grey block.

The acdc power boxes some guys use, are able to run 9 and 12 v. I just cant remember what brand it was, but it was available at Music Connection.

How do you modify the filter caps though? That is a great option.

Hi Shawnnvs,

Well I clearly have an older unit as mine is 9VDC out, neg tip on 5 2.1mm jacks, max 450ma rating.

Stock I felt it was pretty quiet but within the year the 'cheap' Chinese power trafo burnt out one of the windings, so I replaced it with a larger, better quality one.

At the same time I switched to a better quality National/Fairchild LM7809 regulator rated at 1amp and with the bigger power trafo, this gave/gives me alot more juice (almost double the stock unit).

Also the input filter caps were fairly small in size. If these are too small they lead to extra noise/ripple, increase these to 1000uF with some high temp, low ESR quality caps from the likes of Nichicon, Rubycon or Panasonic.

It has been a while but I prob changed a few things downstream as well according to the datasheet for the regulator.

All in all these changes took about an hour of my time and R100+ in parts.

Cheers

Matt

MoJo-JoJoe

Bob-Dubery

This looks pretty handy
http://www.voodoolab.com/pedalpower_2.htm

Though I don't think that getting one is a matter of popping into the nearest MusicMate.

Shawnvs

MusicMate? Eeck.

We had voodoolab's power units here in s.a, but they all sold out now. The music shops are currently waiting for a new shipment to come in, and I heard that there are currently 9 power units ordered.

Maybe this forum should look at bringing in, instead of waiting for the stores.