Powering my Moogerfooger Ring Mod...

[Insouciance]

Will everything be hunky-dory if I connect it to my Voodoo Labs pedal power? Or is there some exception to powering them?

Thanks TB!
Taylor.

[gnasher1993]

It's centre positive so you'll need a polarity reverser.

[RickenBoogie]

Moog pedals are best used with their own power supply, the one that comes with them.

[Insouciance]

Alrighty,

Thank you for your help!

Taylor.

[fightthepower]

I have all my 'foogers powered on PP2+'s with the white tipped reversed polarity adapters, works great and noise-free

[gnasher1993]

Originally Posted by fightthepower

I have all my 'foogers powered on PP2+'s with the white tipped reversed polarity adapters, works great and noise-free

I have no problem using my Gator Gbus 8 with a polarity reversing cable. I don't see the need to use the specific Moog power supply.

[fightthepower]

Here are some rough readings taken by a member on the moog forum, should serve as a basic idea of power requirements, but basically the Murf's, Freqbox's and Delays should go in outputs 5 or 6 with the 250ma; all others should be fine in the standard 9v 1-4, 7-8 100ma outlets:

Measured using a regulated 9 VDC supply.

MF101 40-50 mA
MF102 40-50 mA
MF103 70-90 mA
MF104SD 130-150 mA (long delay setting), 140-160 mA (short delay setting)
MF105 210 mA
MF105B 220 mA
MF107 100-130 mA
CP-251 40-50 mA, but it wasn't processing anything.

[markjazzbassist]

thanks for listing those. huge help when figuring out my moog motherboard and how to power all of them.

thanks!

[Colonel Monk]

+1 on the polarity reverser - you don't want to burn up your cool new pedal right?

Those who haven't had noise trouble using a combined supply are either:

a) only using one Mooger with other non-interfering pedals
b) using a brick with ISOLATED outputs.

Most bricks DO NOT have isolated outputs, as I found out too late with my trex fuel tank.

So for now, my Foogertron 7000.3 mk II is still running on wall warts.

I have a project in the works though, some old Line 6 supply boards with 8 isolated outputs that are gonna solve that as soon as I get the box machined....

CM

[rcubed]

I would hope the Moogersfoogers have diodes to clamp the voltage if you accidentally hooked up center negative power.

[Taylor Livingston]

I would guess they have something more sophisticated than that, actually. Diodes, series or shunt, actually are not the best protection against reverse voltage. Since space is not at a premium in a MF, they really ought to (and probably do) have an arrangement using transistors to switch the voltage off when it's reversed.

[rcubed]

Better yet they'd have switching to flip to polarity of the power automatically.