| Extending cables from power supplies ???
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OK after a fruitless Google and TB search I'm hoping someone who can remember their electrical theory can help me.
I use a Line 6 Bass Pod XT Live that obviously sits like a pedal board just behind my monitor and mic stand, and a TC Helicon Harmony GXT pedal that sits beside the Pod. The Pod uses a 9v AC supply, the GXT uses a 9v DC supply with the usual length of cable (about 5 feet each). I'm getting tired of running a mains extender block to sit beside all of this with a couple of ungainly wall wart PSU's sticking out of it, and tired of coiling the excess cable when the wall warts are just inches from the units they power, and I'm getting tired of the fact that no matter how much effort I take to tuck all this behind or beside a monitor somebody (including me) always manages to trip over it somehow.
I only use these 2 pedals and can't envisage using any more because I use the Pod as a programmable preamp to jump between ballpark sounds for the songs we cover, and to flip between good tones for fretted and fretless - so an all singing and dancing power supply that can power 10 or so pedals and provide both AC and DC seems like overkill.
Is there any reason why I shouldn't just cut the output cable of each wall wart to a one inch stub then solder and heatshrink some thicker cable on to them to extend the cables to around 15-20 feet? Then, the wall warts could sit in the power strip in the back of my rack and I could just run these power cables plus the signal cables cable-tied together as a sort of umbilical out to the front of stage.
I can't remember enough about Ohm's law, voltage drop or potential heat problems in the cables to work out if I'm just being a crazy fool
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