How are you powering your pedalboard?

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wickenspoet

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Just curious how you guys are powering your pedalboards?

I've got 8-10 pedals that I need to power and I'm looking for the safest, stronges, and most flexible way to power them. I guess I need something with a lot of outputs and a lot of mA headroom.

Does anyone know how many milliamps the Duncan Shape Shifter uses? I'm guessing 70mA?

What about the Micro Pog?

I just found out that the Boss DD-20 uses a whopping 200 mA on its own. I had been powering it with my NS-2, but after reading a bunch of stuff on current draw, now I'm not sure that's a good idea, haha.
 
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I picked this one up recently. Seems to do a good job.



Specs for the Shape Shifter (says 7mA).
 
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The nice and cheap One Spot and a few misc adapters as needed for isolated power, 24v EXH stuff etc. No point to spend well over $100 more if you ask me.
 
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millsart said:
The nice and cheap One Spot and a few misc adapters as needed for isolated power, 24v EXH stuff etc. No point to spend well over $100 more if you ask me.
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One Spots are cool, easy to set up and easy on the wallet but they are hard on some pedals out there...example Teese wahs can not be run on them and I have not tried a One Spot set up yet that didn't seem to make too much noise...

I see no point in having killer guitars, amps and pedals then cheeping out on the power supply...
 
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I got a G-Bus by Gator for like $50 awhile back as it was a return and had no 18V cables. No biggy, though I still haven't gotten any yet for my EVH Flanger from Radio Shack lol. The one thing that does suck is it doesn't work with Line 6, so I have to power it with a Dno 9V. I'll probably buy myself a Voodoo Labs or BBE eventually, but the Gator was cheap and handy.

EDIT: I should add though, I find it a bit noisy. Considering that the BBE and Voodoo Labs aren't that much more, and the Voodoo has the "Sag" outlet for Distortion pedals and works witt Line 6 too (Or am I confusing them?) its worth it to spend a b it more for them.
 
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Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2+. Just got it last month. It quieted down my pedal board a bit and has dedicated Line 6 outputs that I needed.
 
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How many pedals can the Voodoo power? I've been curious about that.
 
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I have a Juicebox on my big board and use a One Spot on my Pedaltrain Jr.
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
One Spots are cool, easy to set up and easy on the wallet but they are hard on some pedals out there...example Teese wahs can not be run on them and I have not tried a One Spot set up yet that didn't seem to make too much noise...

I see no point in having killer guitars, amps and pedals then cheeping out on the power supply...
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Right you are. As I understand it, a Teese wah will work fine with a One Spot as it won't put out more power than the pedal draws, assuming everything works well. "IF" something happens though it could fry the pedal as it can provide more than 200m/a which the Teese wah can't handle. So its basically more of a safety precaution than anything else, but one I still do take by using a seperate 200m/a rated supply for the wah.

For me the One Spot works well and is cost effective. My EHX stuff is all 24v (such as the Qtron and Mistress) so they need their own PS regardless, and a few others are 18v.

Fuzz pedals I use 9v carbon batteries so those effects are taken care of and that basically then leaves the rest of the pedals like the Boss stuff, Voodoo Lab etc running off the One Spot for which is works great.

Nothing against units like the Pedal Power II, but at least for me rig, even if I bought one, I'd still need some dedicated adapters to provide 24v, some AC inputs etc.

No point is spending $169 though to power various 9v Boss and similar stuff though when a $30 unit works just as well for them if you ask me
 
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I've heard a negative report or two about One-Spots so I bought a spare. I've never used it. The one I bought four years ago still works great and my pedals are quiet. My Deluxe Memory Man is hard wired for 110V so its lead and the One Spot wall wart both run back to the same power strip my amp is plugged into. The One Spot powers an AnalogMan min bi-compressor, Boss/Keeley BD-2 Phat, EHX Small Stone, AnalogMan Chorus, Fulltone OCD, Fulltone Supa-Trem, and a Peterson tuner.

I like not having the weight of a power block on my board.
 
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I use the power supply on my Furman Pedal Board. The only pedal I have problems powering wtih this is my TU-2 tuner--using the power supply made it tune sharp. But, I just plugged a Boss adaptor into one of the AC outlets.

Life is good with a Furman.

Bill
 
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Extant: The PPII+ will power up to 8 pedals.

I know some guys have different needs and desires for power supplies but for me the PPII+ ended a lot of issues I had been having wiht pedal board power supplies for several years...it was well worth the money foe me.

FWIW, Bob Bradshaw has a new power supply coming out soon under the Dunlop/CAE Brand he's been woprking on for a while...he says its much nice than the VooDoo labs...Im curious to see what it's all about.
 
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I just realized last night that anything more than one lead off the chain from the TU-2 is overkill for me. Then again, I tend to set up my entire "effects chain" on top of my amp and I still have room for a cup of coffee, my cell phone and wallet.
 
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Funny that this thread should come up today, I just added one of these to my board this afternoon...

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Cheers.................................wahwah
 
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Thanks for supplying me with the milliamp rating for the Duncan Shapeshifter. I was quite surprised. I thought it would be much higher for some reason. That's great news.

Okay, I don't know if I've already asked this, because I've gone to a couple of different places already and posted without much luck (and it's 7am and I'm home from working the night shift, haha). So, if I've already asked, I apologize, but here's my situation...


I've got a Dunlop DC Brick that's powering:
a Korg DT-10 tuner
EHX Micro Pog
T Rex Mudhoney Fuzz
Morley Dragon Wah
Seymour Duncan Shape Shifter Tremolo
Boss DD-20
and a Boss NS-2 which powers 3 more pedals (Zoom Hyperlead, Zoom Power Drive, Coffin Blood Drive)

So that's 10 pedals... 7 directly from the Brick, including the Boss NS-2 which is daisy chained to power 3 more pedals. They're pretty much all 9 volt pedals... but the Micro Pog doesn't take batteries, just comes with a 9.6 volt adapter.



So, that leaves me with 3 questions:

1) Am I at risk of frying anything?

2) Is there an ideal way to hook these pedals up to get the most from my power supply?

3) Would the BBE Supa Charger or anything else be an upgrade from a Dunlop Brick?


Can anyone help with info?
Again, sorry if I've already asked any of this. I over think everything to death. One of my bandmates said watching me put my pedalboard together is like watching a dentist perform a root canal, haha.

Anyway, I'm off to bed now.
 
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