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You could switch the white and black leads in the Distributor to do a "double switch" and cancel one out with the other, couldn't you?
I’m not sure it would work because it’s not a straight through, I think it will always be centre positive at the end because of the barrel? Not 100 sure though. My knowledge of this is limited at best.
It shouldn't (fingers crossed) hurt to try it, as you've already proved that using centre +tive doesn't work but didn't fry the HX FX either, as it presumably has some protection to prevent damage. You can still run it on the Line6 PSU, so it still works after giving it centre +tive power.
I don't think you should leave it like that, as you'll forget you changed it or why, but just to test the Generator will do the job, maybe?
did make my own triple cable for my HX Effects and a double for my Gigrig Atom. No issues at all power wise that way. I believe ready made doubles are available online and maybe a triple too. The large centre pin of the HX is inconvenient as is the reverse polarity of the Eventide H9 but they come with a convertor cable.
A disturbing issue I still haven't resolved with the HX Effects is that of it crashing when receiving Expression pedal commands from the Gigrig controller! It's a real issue for me as I use that all the time on my board. Oddly my old controller, a Music EFX Mk2 was fine. I read somewhere that the HX Effects is prone to buffer issue with lots of Midi commands and I'm currently looking into this. I use a midi logger and can see no difference in messages sent, so the speed seems plausible.
So care when considering a controller methinks. I am contacting GigRig as it\s a fatal issue for me and I can zee no way around it.
Gigrig now have an adaptor that will handle the HX no problem (Mr universe??) Or you can use the approach I've taken with it - isolate every other output from the Generator and make sure the HX is has the 'direct' power with everything else isolated from it. Works a treat.
Word of warning - I had a Zuma R300 and it DID NOT reliably power my HX Effects. Sometimes it did, sometimes it did then suddenly didn't, mostly it got stuck in a startup loop...
This was using the Voodoo Labs adaptor off of 2 of the Strymon's outputs btw...
I Had a plethroa X5 isolated byproxy as it was the only pedal coming straight out of the distributor. This gave it enough power 600ma and isolated it. I'm wondering if swapping it with the HX Stomp will do the same. So long as the rest of my pedals combined dont exceed the generators 5000ma it should be ok shouldn't it? I'll also need the plug adapter.
I use the GigRig distributor direct, I bought the Mr Universe adapter to use, but it didnt quite work. The draw is greater than 1000mA especially on startup.
So I use it exactly how you are using it with the plethora and not had any issues. As you say keep it under the 5000ma and you will be good.
I run 2 pedals and the HX off a 3-way daisy chain connected to the Generator.
HX is straight in, the other two have one of those Joyo isolators each. So everything isolated from each other, nice and quiet.
Possibly because it is.