cool powerstrip for a pedal board

[john turner]

i know there's a lot of options for powering pedals on a board - i even have one, a 1 spot taking the place of 4 warts.

still, some of my pedals really need their warts- eventides in particular have pretty high current requirements - and others have unconventional voltages like moog pedals or the blowtorch, or require ac like my digitech bass whammy. i don't know if there's any single solution out there for powering all these guys with a single brick, but if there is, i bet good money it's pretty pricey, and frankly i'd rather spend that dough on another fuzz/distortion pedal .

i found a great strip to use that not only can hold a boatload of warts (6 to be exact) but it also organizes the power chords, cost only 40 bucks, and best of all, covers up .

check it out :

http://www.belkin.com/surgeprotection/concealed/

i can fit 6 warts inside it (4 big ones in the wart sockets and the two small moog ones in two of the regular outlets) and have 2 outlets inside and one outside remaining. it's a great strip and was super cheap.

[Bardley]

It would work, but that thing is huge.

[johnnyz]

overkill for my pedals but nice for my house... thanks

[Mark Latimour]

Check out the GigRig Power Supply and the isolation adpaters for the Eventides. You may find you can power everything off the one supply. I Daisy chained my Bass MURF using a reverse polarity adapter.

[zeroncali]

Heh, same company as my Wireless Internet Adapter.

[rockstarbassist]

Originally Posted by Mark Latimour

Check out the GigRig Power Supply and the isolation adpaters for the Eventides. You may find you can power everything off the one supply. I Daisy chained my Bass MURF using a reverse polarity adapter.

Linky?

And good post Jon- I'm looking at something like a power strip as I need at this point, at LEAST 2 wall warts (Eventide being one) and may end up with another.

[john turner]

Originally Posted by Bardley

It would work, but that thing is huge.

-shrug- about 2x the size of a regular powerstrip, and my board is pretty big . i'll take a pic of the new layout when i get home today. it looks big because it covers the warts - it's not really -that- much bigger than a regular strip.

Originally Posted by Mark Latimour

Check out the GigRig Power Supply and the isolation adpaters for the Eventides. You may find you can power everything off the one supply. I Daisy chained my Bass MURF using a reverse polarity adapter.

that seems like it would be an expensive solution. i'll check it out though.

edit : the digitech bass whammy requires an ac 9 volt adapter, and i'm not seeing one of those on that page. still, though, looks like a nice space-saving system, but to get what i would need i would have to spend over $300, and that still wouldn't get the whammy pedal.

[john turner]

Originally Posted by rockstarbassist

Linky?

And good post Jon- I'm looking at something like a power strip as I need at this point, at LEAST 2 wall warts (Eventide being one) and may end up with another.

www.thegigrig.com - they have options for eventides, look at the evenflow module.

[CliffD]

This is what I use, at least until Voodoo Labs releases their Versa:

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

[john turner]

Originally Posted by CliffD

This is what I use, at least until Voodoo Labs releases their Versa:

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

i almost got one of those instead - i liked how spread out the outlets were, could put a wart in every outlet, and not cover any, but it was even bigger than the covered one, and i like hiding everything away.

[rockstarbassist]

Originally Posted by john turner

www.thegigrig.com - they have options for eventides, look at the evenflow module.

Yeah that looks like more than a $50 investment!

[john turner]

Originally Posted by rockstarbassist

Yeah that looks like more than a $50 investment!

i know. besides, i can decorate the powerstrip now . bet not a lot of folks have said -that- before. lol.

[rockstarbassist]

Originally Posted by john turner

i know. besides, i can decorate the powerstrip now . bet not a lot of folks have said -that- before. lol.

What size board to you have? I'm about to have a PT2 come in.

[bongomania]

For users of multiple wall warts, willing to "go bulky", I recommend the Furman Pluglock:



It's rugged, it holds the warts very securely, and has "ears" for bolting it down to your rack or board.

[rockstarbassist]

Also nice. Wonder how high up that ends up being off the board though.

[bongomania]

Pretty dang high. I don't recommend it for sloped single-plane pedalboards, because on those it's like a skyscraper. I use mine inside a rack case, but if I was using it on a pedalboard I would attach it behind the board, like:

[rockstarbassist]

Hm. I wonder if I could mount it to the front of the board somehow then.

[warwick.hoy]

Originally Posted by bongomania

Pretty dang high. I don't recommend it for sloped single-plane pedalboards, because on those it's like a skyscraper. I use mine inside a rack case, but if I was using it on a pedalboard I would attach it behind the board, like:

That's what I was thinking when I look at the Belkin JT linked. As it stands,...I have two warts on my board and I use one of those brown indoor use only extension cords a la.....



One wart is for a Source Audio pedal and the bigger wart is for the G-Bus-8. Eventually I will upgrade to a PPII+ but right now I'm going to research the Versa that was mentioned earlier in this thread.

[rockstarbassist]

So you just run two outlets, eh? I was hoping to be able to avoid that though... I have a wart for my Eventide and the XDS-Plus, but maybe the OneSpot has enough juice to power all my pedals plus the XDS-Plus. I think it draws 300mA.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Originally Posted by CliffD

This is what I use, at least until Voodoo Labs releases their Versa:

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

I've been waiting for the Versa for forever. It's been vaporware for 2-3 years now, and gone through multiple incarnations.