Stupid question but I cant seem to find an answer anywhere. So I just bought these adaptor thinggys where you plug one end into a 9 volt battery and the other end into there power supply input on a pedal. So... if I plug it into my daisy chain and plug the daisy chain into the pedals will it work or will there not be enough power? I'm only running two pedals, a boss cs3 and a daddario tuner pedal. Thanks
It'll work. Obviously, the draw on the battery will be a lot worse than on a single pedal and when you're running a digital pedal that requires 250+ mAh, fun will be over quickly.
Well, your average Varta 9V cell has around 550mAh. So when you activate tuner and comp, you should get more than 6 hours. And people usually use the Tuner only for a quick tune up, so you should get a gig and a few practices out of one cell.
While the spirit of your answer is correct, technically a 9V battery isn't a cell. It's six cells in series. Just sayin.
When you bypass a pedal the audio may bypass the circuit but it doesnt cut power to the pedal so it will be drawing power whether you are using it or not.
That's why it's called a battery. Thank you for the correction, I was not sure whether or not a 9V was a battery or a cell.
Draw on/off differs greatly from pedal to pedal. I actually keep a spreadsheet of ones I've had or have for power source reasons:
I power an entire board - TC Polytune > Empress compressor > Fairfield BS > Broughton H/LPF with a single 9v. Tuner is negligible since it’s only used a few seconds at a time and then goes into standby. With 9v rechargeable at 800mAh i get more then 15 hrs runtime.