Inspired by another thread on here, and for the princely sum of £9.80, I've made two battery-box power supplies for my mini board - one takes 6 x standard AA batteries (6 x 1.5v = 9v) and the other 8 x rechargeable AA batteries (8 x 1.2v = 9v).
The standard box works fine but when I tried the rechargeable one nothing, no power to either pedal. To eliminate the rechargeable batteries being the issue I put six of them in the other box and this also worked fine - this surprised me as I didn't think there'd be enough volts to power the pedals, only 7.2v?
Would I be damaging the pedals by running them on a lower voltage or will it just mean that the power supply won't last as long between charges?
The items on the board are just a Bogner Ecstasy Blue and a Line 6 G30 receiver.
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The Line6 will almost certainly be fine at 7.2V and probably run slightly cooler - it's likely to have a regulator which drops it straight to 5V anyway. Not sure about the Bogner, but if it works fine and doesn't sound different (eg lower headroom) then it should be no worse than running at 9V.
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Thank you, that's good to know, thank you.
I think the 8 box is definitely faulty somewhere inside as there's no output with either standard or rechargeable batteries.
These are Energisers and are quite a tight fit in both boxes.
I'll have a good play with the 6 box over the weekend and see how long they last..
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson