Anyone used this power supply

voxmanjohn

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323246522414

Looks a bit of a Cioks dc5 rip off ??? Apparently isolated outputs.... 

John_A

I have on, seems as quiet as my Voodoo lab and nad no bother with it a all

vale

maybe search youtube for a teardown vid? that's how i found out about whether the chinese cheapie i bought was fit for purpose. this is the teardown & test for the type i use.



my pedal power philosophy is to run two of these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Caline-Power-Supply-Station-10-Output-For-9V-12V-18V-Guitar-Effect-Pedals-Board/123031989927

my idea being that if one dies i can still get through with just the other if i rearrange.
whereas with an all-eggs-in-one-basket approach there's a risk that if it dies (in transport or in use) you are at the mercy of scrounging & fortune. & if you are mid-set then it's probs game over.

i (kind of) try to keep potentially noisy analog dirt/fuzz & modulation things running from one supply, and superclean digital delay & modulation running from the other. basic idea.

& i also have this vague idea that if i need 12 outputs it's maybe better to run a couple of 10 outputs at 6 outputs each, rather than one 12output maxed out (overheating & fuses).

anyway, that doesn't answer your question but may be another way of thinking about the question?

vasselmeyer

I haven't tried it out but I did buy something similar, one of these, because for less than £30, why not? I have to say it works perfectly. It's completely silent, even with mixed analogue and digital pedals running and it's ultra-lightweight. It claims 500mA per isolated output and I've seen or heard nothing to disprove that.

John_A

It's also totally different to the one in the video, the video one and the Vittos linked to above are basically a daisy chain in a box, the one you posted (which I have) is a proper multi-tapped transformer

vasselmeyer

@John_A I think there's something else going on in the Vitoos with some kind of isolation so I don't think it's just a daisychain. I've got a Mobius, a Nemesis and a bunch of analogue drives and running them from a daisychain gives an unbearable hum and constant noise. When running off the Vitoos, they're completely silent.

John_A

Good to know -  must be cleverer than I thought.  Same with the Mosky, dead quiet.  Dont think theres a need to spend 100's on a posh PSU anymore with stuff like this kicking around

John_P

I recently bought a supply like the one in the video and although I’m sure the it won’t be properly isolated, the very slight noise I was getting when using a daisy chain and one spot has gone so they have something extra.