Battery/chargeable power supply

RobDavies · March 1

Anyone ever used a chargeable power supply for a pedal board?

Quite tempted by the Harley Benton effort over at Thomann….

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_powerbank_mk2.htm

Jonathangus · March 1

Been using the Joyo JP-05 for a while. A charge gets me through several two-hour rehearsals so will easily do a gig. Try to find one from a UK supplier, as I got mine from Thomann and had to buy a 3-pin adapter.

Danny1969 · March 1

You can use a standard power bank and a DC to DC converter, but you might need to put a resistor across the output as some of them will turn off if at least 35mA or so isn't pulled.

Drill batteries are also suitable, being 9,6 and you can buy adapters to flying leads off Ebay to fit a lot of them

thecolourbox · March 1

I've just used a bog standard phone bank battery thing with one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0721MX1P5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ;

That specific model is out of stock at the moment but i'm sure looking around on Amazon or ebay will find you the same thing. Was about £10, i also seem to have ordered a polarity reversing cable at the same time but it's been a while since i used it so I can't remember if that was needed or not, guess it depends what polarity your pedals need compared to whta's on the other bit

timbuk02 · March 1

The Engl Powertap portable looks quite neat for pairing with a generic powerbank

Acdeezee86 · March 1

Wiz’s for the standard power bank idea with a converter - as long as you’re ok with 9v. I get 100 hours out of a full charge and it fits right under my pedaltrain nano.

AntonHunter · March 1

I use one of these with just a standard Anker phone power bank.

https://www.joyoaudio.co.uk/joyo-zgpw-usb-guitar-effect-power-supply-and-noise-filter-isolated-output-power ;

Kittyfrisk · March 1

Hmmmm, seen this before. Calling @digitalscream

digitalscream · March 1

Yes - I used a ZY12PDN trigger board. The point of these is that they don't convert voltage, unlike the other two, which means they can use the full current capacity of USB-C at 9V (well over 2A) - the Joyo one can only do 400mA, and the Step Up Converter on Amazon can only do 800mA.

Of course, I have to use a Joyo ZGP to clean the power before it hits pedals, but I can also power an HX Stomp or HX Effects (or anything else that doesn't care about a dirty power supply) in parallel with it that.

Anybody who shows up to The Guitar Show this weekend will be able to see it, in fact

maharg101 · March 1

I've got a Sanyo Eneloop Pedal Juice (sadly discontinued now, I believe) which is excellent.

JonB · March 2

Out of interest how do you distribute across multiple pedals using either the step up or trigger board? Just a daisy chain?

Does this option not address pedal noise in anyway?

digitalscream · June 10

JonB said:

Out of interest how do you distribute across multiple pedals using either the step up or trigger board? Just a daisy chain?

Does this option not address pedal noise in anyway?

Just returning to this, because I've just made a really nice discovery.

To answer the question...you absolutely need to address the USB power supply noise, because it's unusable otherwise. I used a couple of Joyo ZGP isolators and a GigRig Distributor (effectively a daisy chain in itself). That was fine, until I had more than two pedals that didn't play nicely together. I did buy a couple more ZGPs, but it started getting quite messy under the board.

However, I've just discovered that I can power the Harley Benton ISO-1 Pro from the ZY12PDN trigger board, in 12V mode (if anybody gets one, it's the green mode). That gives 8 x 9V 500mA isolated outputs (albeit with a maximum of about 2600mA between them), and works beautifully powering:

Tuner
Mooer Ninety Orange
Mosky Silver Horse
Ibanez Chorus
ToneX ONE
Keeley Eccos

I just chucked the board together, and it gives zero noise either with a power bank or a USB wall wart. Now, admittedly it's not the cheapest of possible power supply solutions (£40 for the ISO-1 Pro, £10 for the ZY12PDN and £25 for the USB power bank), but it's got more possible backup power options than anything. Can carry a spare power bank, and almost any phone charger will run it too.

Gotta say, this is now basically my perfect board, I just need to do a proper job on the cables (making all the power cables to length, then using the spare Boss solderless kit for the signal cables) and I'll put it up on one of the pedalboard threads.

LionAquaLooper · June 11

RobDavies said:

Anyone ever used a chargeable power supply for a pedal board?

Quite tempted by the Harley Benton effort over at Thomann….

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_powerbank_mk2.htm

Did you end up buying this @RobDavies? I'm quite curious about it as well.

Wazmeister · June 11

AntonHunter said:

I use one of these with just a standard Anker phone power bank.

https://www.joyoaudio.co.uk/joyo-zgpw-usb-guitar-effect-power-supply-and-noise-filter-isolated-output-power ;

This.

Anker units are truly outstanding.

RobDavies · June 12

LionAquaLooper said:

RobDavies said:

Anyone ever used a chargeable power supply for a pedal board?

Quite tempted by the Harley Benton effort over at Thomann….

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_powerbank_mk2.htm

Did you end up buying this @RobDavies? I'm quite curious about it as well.

Yes I did. Initial impressions are that it Works like a dream. Not sure about its long term use yet because I haven’t picked a guitar up for a month or so,

digitalscream · June 13

If anybody's interested, I just bought one of these for my revised board (it definitely fits under the tFB DIY pedalboards):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CSKLD5VD

...because I was lucky enough to spot it when it had 40% off. This thing's nuts, it really does charge at 90W - full charge from nothing in around 40 minutes. It can also put out 150W, which is mind-boggling.

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