Help!!! 1spot screwing up on me

jbarks

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I bought a 1spot last month from G77, but it's screwing up on me. I can't seem to power the pedals I plug it into and if they do get power, it's like the light is flashing on and off. See what i mean: http://tinyurl.com/88dgd

ANybody know? I have to leave for JB for a conference I'm playing for on Thursday and I don't know where the reciept is.
 
Perhaps your pedals combiened exceed the 1spot's maximum power of 1700mA altogther. Do check to see if you're overloading the 1spot, thus leading to underpowering to your pedals.
 
Troubleshoot one by one. If it can't power even one pedal, it's obviously faulty. If it powers one pedal, then slowly add the rest till you located the problem.

Powering pedals by wall adaptor, you must be very careful, especially the requirements and polarity. If you don't know such things, get someone experienced to explain to you. If you still don't understand, get someone to wire it up for you and do a matching system labeling for the connectors and stick to that.

If you cause a short/overload condition, you might damage your pedal or the supply adaptor. Electronics is one way, damage is damage, no tomorrow will be better kind of thing.

Still cannot, buy a new one, lah. These kind of things not worth repairing.

Additional information: 1spot uses switching power supply technology. Which is more advanced than the traditional transformer only stepdown. Benefits, is autovoltage, lightweight, compact, some short circuit protection, efficient, high current to weight ratio. Disadvantage is less robust than a good transformer system, expected lifespan shorter as more components possible to failure, higher cost, not economical for small current requirements.
 
eh..i doubt 2 boss pedals and 1 hartke pedal would exceed the 1700mA... but thanks anywy. I tried powering the TU-2 with just the 1spot (no daisy chain) and it was still flashing like that. As for polarity, it's okay because it was working fine before this. The pedals are still working on batteries so I don't think I've damaged anything as of yet.

visual sound provide a 1-year warranty on stuff from date of purchase so i'm hoping to settle that before anything else.
 
Don't have one to test out man... it works fine with 9v batteries though. I think if the power was screwed up the battery circut would go nuts too.
 
Where do you live? If you're around the east, I can loan you a Boss power supply to test out, or you can test with my 1-spot which works fine.
 
Wow. Thanks for all the suggestions, but the people from Visual Sound are really the best:

Joshua,

You have a bad 1Spot. It has a 1 year warrenty.

If it's still under warrenty you can return it to the place of purchase or
you can return it to me for a replacement. Let me know what you would like
to do.

Dave Mullins
Visual Sound LLC

Anybody know how nice people at G77 are?
 
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