Strymon Zuma power supply

hotpickups

Has anyone bought one of these yet? Seems like the only power supply one would ever need to buy. Expensive though.

mynamesnotbob

Doesn't hit these shores till Oct/November I think, I think it has shipped in the US through. Looks good, but you could easily get into adding the Ojai if you have a big board and require isolation. 
For the price, it's not bad when compared to having to buy two if you need the isolation and high current combined

hotpickups

I think it'll go on the Xmas list

BigRedOne

I got an Ojai this week to go alongside my PP2+ so that I can isolate everything - works a treat

hotpickups

I take it there isn't a Pedaltrain mounting kit for it yet?

BigRedOne

Nope - but its so light you can just velcro it under the board

Moe_Zambeek

Is that the one with the external transformer / brick? What do you do with that?

Jonathanthomas83

Any advantages over the gigrig modular system? Ive not read up about the strymon.

BigRedOne

It just sits on the floor at the back of the pedal board - it could easily be stuck with velcro under the board if necessary, but its fine as it is.  Here's how I've got it set up

Jonathanthomas83

Looks lovely, but as far as I can tell, not as flexible an option as the Gigrig stuff. Can only power 2x12v pedals? 

hotpickups

BigRedOne said:

It just sits on the floor at the back of the pedal board - it could easily be stuck with velcro under the board if necessary, but its fine as it is.  Here's how I've got it set up

Very neat board @BigRedOne So in your case you'd have to use another plug socket to get power to the Ojai? So you are velcroing it somehow to the bottom you say?

BigRedOne

Nope - it just sits on the floor at the back.  The two plugs aren't an issue, I had to use the stand alone power supply for the BigSky anyway, and this way I get everything isolated.

hotpickups

BigRedOne said:

Nope - it just sits on the floor at the back.  The two plugs aren't an issue, I had to use the stand alone power supply for the BigSky anyway, and this way I get everything isolated.

@BigRedOne ;So you connect everything at the venue itself if it's not all as one solid board i.e. the Ojai not fixed and would be hanging from the pedal board?

hotpickups

Jonathanthomas83 said:

Looks lovely, but as far as I can tell, not as flexible an option as the Gigrig stuff. Can only power 2x12v pedals? 

I very nearly went down the gig rig powering route but it's quite a commitment financially I thought, being scalable but only to it's own products ?

Jonathanthomas83

@hotpickups is a very expensive rabbit hole, ive had some success pickung stuff up on here a lot cheaper than rrp though, so im hoping to cut costs

capo4th

Looks expensive for the features. Cioks DC10 is a fantastic piece of kit double the outlets.

hotpickups

capo4th said:

Looks expensive for the features. Cioks DC10 is a fantastic piece of kit double the outlets.

DC10 doesn't have any 500ma ports though

octatonic

I am buying one- I can finally easily power my Frostwave Blueringer ring mod without kludging cables.

capo4th

I thought there would be a catch I don't own any of those big Strymon units Is it 400ma on the Cioks 

capo4th

Just checked the Strymon stuff and I stand by my original statement.

400ma is more than enough as the Strymons only need 350ma and a H9 is a 375 requirement. Lacks an 18v outlet though....

hotpickups

capo4th said:

I thought there would be a catch I don't own any of those big Strymon units Is it 400ma on the Cioks 

Actually 400ma should be enough anyway for a Timeline/mobius etc. However it depends if you've got other highish ma hungry pedals on the same power supply. It could fluctuate the power to the Strymons I've read.

My only thought is why they put so much into the outer design being that most of us hide it under our pedal boards. Just seems a waste of development money to me