psu recommendations

gilby

Have a couple of ehx, a joyo and room for a tuner. All nine volt neg' centre.

Can you good folks recommend a cheapish psu. Shop I asked went with the mxr dc brick. Looks the business but a bit more than I need and definitely the wrong end of the price wedge for me.

Cheers

not_the_dj

Visual Sounds One Spot

jonnypioww

Go for the Harley Benton Powerplant Junior if you're up for changing the plug on the end of the power chord. It comes with a grounded euro plug so I snipped it off and wired a uk 3 pin plug to it and it works a charm. Nice small foot print and loads of cables, plus it's isolated. It's pretty cheap too : http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_junior.htm

kelvinburn

Got a couple of these;

http://www.effectpowersupplies.com/9v-dc-regulated-power-supply-with-integrated-6-way-daisy-chain-2-p.asp

Excellent customer service too

crunchman

DC brick is way overpriced for what it is.  It's priced like the high end ones that have isolated outputs but doesn't have isolated outputs.  The ones mentioned above are a lot better.

The Harley Benton gives you isolated outputs which is good, but at 120mA each they won't run some digital pedals if you go that way in the future.

The One Spot isn't isolated but does give you a lot of current to play with.  Most of the time non-isolated isn't a problem, but some pedals will generate noise with non-isolated supplies.

Given that you are likely to want to buy other pedals in the future I'd recommend getting a decent one to start with.  I'm on my fourth power supply now as I've had to keep upgrading because I was getting noise when the supply wasn't isolated and/or it couldn't provide enought juice when I bought a new pedal.  I'd suggest spending more and getting something like a Hot Stone Deluxe.  It works out a lot cheaper in the long run than buying one anyway after you've lost money on 3 other supplies.

dano91

The One Spot is a good choice for daisy chaining pedals. Does the job and gets a good write up from many guitarists.

I'd recommend getting the combo pack as it works out cheaper than buying all the bits individually. 

gilby

Thanks for all the advice, now feel a bit spoilt for choice !

not_the_dj

Which EHX pedals is it?

dogload

There's a Mooer one available which is quite similar to the Diago for about 18 quid.

ICBM

I really don't like the One Spot types. Don't get any which is a wall-wart with a thin trailing cable, particularly if you plan to gig with it. It will break sooner or later.

Get one which is a box that mounts on the pedalboard, with a mains cable (preferably detachable, although you may not get that on anything cheap). Even the old 'Power Bank' ones are OK if you don't need isolated outputs.

The Harley Benton one looks like the best for the money listed so far.

There is another nasty catch with the One Spot types which I've seen quite a few times recently - if you do accidentally connect it to a pedal with the wrong polarity socket, the supply has such a high current capacity that it will happily destroy the protection diode in the pedal and then fry the rest of the circuitry, making the pedal unrepairable. Lower-rated supplies won't destroy the diode - even though they will sometimes short it, but the pedal will then be repairable fairly cheaply. Any single output with a capacity of over 1A (1000mA) is potentially risky for this - if you need more than 1A total, a supply with lower-rated individual isolated outputs is far better and safer.

jonnypioww

An additional bonus for the Harley Benton Jr is that it comes with a Y cable which allow one of your pedals to consume the power from 2 sockets, doubling the power. I haven't tried this yet but I need to tonight before setting up.

Dave_Mc

ICBM said:

Get one which is a box that mounts on the pedalboard, with a mains cable (preferably detachable, although you may not get that on anything cheap). Even the old 'Power Bank' ones are OK if you don't need isolated outputs.

The Harley Benton one looks like the best for the money listed so far.

I think that fame one (the alleged voodoo labs clone) that musicstore/dv247 sells has a detachable mains cable. I haven't tried it, though (and the one time I bought from music store, my shopping experience wasn't great, to say the least).

ThePrettyDamned

jonnypioww;270646" said:

Go for the Harley Benton Powerplant Junior if you're up for changing the plug on the end of the power chord. It comes with a grounded euro plug so I snipped it off and wired a uk 3 pin plug to it and it works a charm. Nice small foot print and loads of cables, plus it's isolated. It's pretty cheap too : http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_junior.htm

This. I use mine with a shaving plug adaptor thing

Dave_Mc

Does it make your shaver less noisy?

thermionic

Good with face fuzz, not so good with a fuzz face?

ThePrettyDamned

It's really great for smooth tones, but tends to destroy the rough and ready stuff.

AxeWieldingBastard

+1 for Harley Benton Jr.
Ask Thomann for a uk plug adaptor when u buy ur HBJr and they'll throw one in for nowt:)

xSkarloey

Dave_Mc said:

Does it make your shaver less noisy?

Nah, I bet his shaver still hums like buggery.