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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

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This was at a local bass day. If a gig a Radial JDX 48 DI would be there too. I’ll call it a board as it’s sitting on wood, cool
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kevk said:
Sometimes I want just a couple pedals in my amp effects loop. Modified a PT riser (7”w) to reside by my amp (always prefer IEC power connectors, even if I don’t need all the outlets)…SOL clears the bottom nicely, using 1” tall rubber feet.View attachment 5377745
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Can you use the Mercury7 without external MIDI switches to recall different presets?
 
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el murdoque said:
You'll face some power restrictions through the USB-C input - have a look into the Cioks manual.
When powered by that input, it will not give you as many watts.

I doubt that you can power the LA-1A this way, since it maxes out 2 outlets IIRC.
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So looking at the manual, 5VDC at a max of 3A via the USB C into the Cioks 4 will give me 15W. Total power output the Cioks 4 is capable of is 24W, so it will probably be running around 65% capacity off the power bank. Haven't done the calculation of current draw on all pedals on both boards but it will be close. LA-1A is power hungry but the other 2 pedals take next to nothing. At a guess it will be ok I reckon. The other board running Super Pre, MS-60B, and GLXD16+ might be a different story.
**EDIT** If the the Super Pre, MS-60B, and GLXD16+ are 9V @ 500mA, which I believe they are, that is 4.5W per pedal for a total of 13.5W + whatever the Spark and LS2 require. I think I will just make it.
 
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Rocksolid said:
So looking at the manual, 5VDC at a max of 3A via the USB C into the Cioks 4 will give me 15W. Total power output the Cioks 4 is capable of is 24W, so it will probably be running around 65% capacity off the power bank. Haven't done the calculation of current draw on all pedals on both boards but it will be close. LA-1A is power hungry but the other 2 pedals take next to nothing. At a guess it will be ok I reckon. The other board running Super Pre, MS-60B, and GLXD16+ might be a different story.
**EDIT** If the the Super Pre, MS-60B, and GLXD16+ are 9V @ 500mA, which I believe they are, that is 4.5W per pedal for a total of 13.5W + whatever the Spark and LS2 require. I think I will just make it.
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I discovered that issue when I tried to run multiple tube pedals off a Cioks 4 through a USB-C Battery.
I the 37,5% capacity loss is (of course) in Ampere, not Volts, and I do think it is per output.
So each of your four your 660mA @ 9V become 412,5mA, and switched to 12V you'll only get 312,5mA.
In theory, you could use three Flex 8800 cables to use three outlets of the unit to run the LA-1A - Cioks PSUs usually err on the good side and rather provide a little more than a little less .. but that left only one output to power the rest.
 
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el murdoque said:
I discovered that issue when I tried to run multiple tube pedals off a Cioks 4 through a USB-C Battery.
I the 37,5% capacity loss is (of course) in Ampere, not Volts, and I do think it is per output.
So each of your four your 660mA @ 9V become 412,5mA, and switched to 12V you'll only get 312,5mA.
In theory, you could use three Flex 8800 cables to use three outlets of the unit to run the LA-1A - Cioks PSUs usually err on the good side and rather provide a little more than a little less .. but that left only one output to power the rest.
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A 37% reduction per output would indeed be a killer rather than just a limit on total output regardless of how it is distributed across the outputs collectively.
 

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