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Harley Benton PowerPlant?

MarshallLaw

MarshallLaw

Feb 21, 2010
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thieveland ohio
#1
As my effects collection grows, I've been looking into boards and isolated power supplies. Harley Benton makes some that are very affordable... even after paying to ship from Europe, the price would be about half of the cheapest ones I had been looking at.

Anyone have experience with these? They seem to have generally positive reviews.
 
#2
Just be aware of some marketing double-speak that's used to sell power supplies:
"isolated outputs" are NOT the same as "isolated grounds". If a power brick has 12 outputs and only costs $40 US, there's a good chance it's not a true isolated ground power supply, but an "isolated output" power supply, which is a glorified daisy chain in a box. Which is OK if that works for your setup!

I just looked at the Harley Benton power supplies, and as I suspected their "ISO" supplies are isolated output, not isolated ground.

There's a reason a VooDoo labs power supply costs twice what the Harley Benton does. An isolated ground power supply has separate secondary windings on the step-down transformer, so it is essentially separate power supply units with a common power feed.
 
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Hmm thanks for the input... I'm trying to learn as much as I can about them, as I'm new to them. I've been running 2 pedals off wall warts for a few years, but I keep adding effects and I'm going to need something other than more 1spots or a daisy chain.

Every review I've read says there are none of noise issues that come with daisy chains. I may just have to try it myself an unload it if I don't like it...
 

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