One-spot adaptor & daisy chains

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First glance you may think this is gonna be a noob post haha :oops:

Well at first i don't quite understand this whole thing but after a few searching i think quite fine already.

One-spot is more commonly used so i think i go with the majority, i don't know how well the other brands work.

I'm using only a single boss pedal now with 9V batt running. i think it may die anytime soon.

I'm thinking of buying the adaptor and daisy chains as i will be investing in more pedals. Is it ok for me to run this single pedal with that adaptor right now?

Need recommendations too, heard you all say ranking all this should be selling right.

Really noob here, sorry.
 
it's not about searching again come on.

i did search and read through all regarding one spot.

im not sure for my situation now.

Is one spot popular among the people because it has the capability to give a higher current, 1700mA as mentioned in other thread.
 
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1700mA is good to run boss pedals. if i'm not wrong, they draw very little power. its the digital ones which draw much higher power.

so to answer your question: yes, if u intend to get more pedals but want a single power source, daisy chain with the one spot is a safe bet.
 
Yeah don't make fun of newbs lah.

:)

Ok 1-spot will work fine for you. Having a high mA output simply means you can juice more pedals. It won't "overload" a single pedal. I believe that's your concern right? still puts out the same power or something.*not electronics student so don't know the terms sorry*

If you're looking for alternatives, There's a guy selling something called "GassyPower". try www.gassypower.com
He's a local guy lah. looks like a laptop adapter.
1-spot puts out 1500mA right? if i'm not wrong. gassy power does 1700mA.
Line6 modeller psu puts out 2000mA.

Oh yeah and it's not digital pedals that take up more power... it's DELAYS. main culprit. Others depends on effects lah. like things like eq's and wah's take much less, drives so-so etc etc. If i'm wrong pls go ahead and correct me.
 
Oh yah... Boss psu puts out 500mA only lah and thats enough for a few pedals so... 1-spot for your entire board's enough. unless you run many delays. I run 4 so...
 
u can also go to the boss web and check out the pedals specs, it includes the amount of current drawn for the pedal, digital pedals for boss roughly draws abt 40mA and above, while OD/Dist from 4mA to 10 or 20mA.

Onespot is only available in G77
 
Oh yeah and it's not digital pedals that take up more power... it's DELAYS. main culprit. Others depends on effects lah. like things like eq's and wah's take much less, drives so-so etc etc. If i'm wrong pls go ahead and correct me.
Click to expand...

Actually the whole line of Digitech's X-series and other digital pedals take up loads of current. This includes their Tonedriver overdrive which I love but man does it guzzle up those mAs.
 
the gassypower link doesn't work.

i went to take a look at the daisy chains, it looks like the polarity convertor. Does someone have a close up pic of the main power adaptor you're using and the daisy chains to the pedals.

I want a clear picture of this whole thing, i don't understand yet sorry.

I was at SL they showed me a power supply from boss, 1000mA and it cost like $200+ :roll:

are most of you using onespot? then i'll make a trip to guitar77
 
gassy power can be found here otherwise

unfortunately, even with a big picture, most prolly you still wont see the different between the dc chain and the polarity converter. The different is inside the barrel with the wiring.

the power supply that you were shown most likely is a valid one and they wer not trying to cheat you in anyway. Those has advatanges over one spot and thus more expensive. Eg of few brands are voodoolab pedalpower, Pedal pad-power pad. If you wanna, can do a google search on it.

Onespot is a cheap way to powerup as many pedals and provide basic power needs.

And if you want to read more about power supply and stuff, can go here
 
hey thanks! i guess i'll grab that one.

so all i need now is that adaptor + the daisy chain?

What i dont understand is how does the daisy chain work. apparently in the pack of 3 chains there's 1 with the hole type (sorry what you call that :oops: ) and the rest are all headed. this one is confusing, i dont get the picture you see.

how will i be able to power the pedals?
 
daisy chain by itself, dont supply power. It need to be connected to the adapter.

Adapter is like a main water tank, daisy chain is the tap in your house that provide water, due to the connection from the tap to the main water tank, in this case, the adaptor is the water tank, the daisy chain is the tap.

For every pedal thats connect to the daisy chain, it will draw power from the adaptor.

edited: phuq my fingers!
 
the daisy chain is just to split the power supply so that you can power more pedals.

THEREFORE, the 1spot (headed) goes into the daisy chain ("hole type") and the rest of the headed ones goes into the input on the pedals you want to power.
 
oh i just figured out something.

the hole type CONNECTS to 5 headed so it means i can plug into 5 different pedals for 1 set right?

At first it appears to me then one pack of daisy chains have 3 SEPARATE chains, so that one damn confusing. haaha

thanks man
 
yup, one dc chain has got 5 barrel out to connect to 5 pedals.

But what some people do,is to connect the last point of the dc chain to another dc chain. So as to say, one adaptor will have 9 barrels to connect to 9 different pedals.

It can be done(not encouraged though), BUT BUT, provided all 9 pedals doesnt draw amount of current exceeding the maximum rating of the adaptor. In the case of one spot, its 1700mA.

Although saying that, usually its not encouraged to do this as there will be issues of noise and other problems when mxing reverse polarity pedals in between.

So best, stick with 5 pedals with one adaptor, imho that is. Unless hissing/noise soundart is your choice of playing style..
 
Hey, is there a anything, like a daisy chain, but SINGLE and LONG?
Cuz I have a recording unit and also pedals using the same 1Spot. But recorder on table, pedals on the floor...
1 daisy chain cannot stretch until so far larh.. :smt085

Where can I find a single "extender" to connect to a daisy chain?
 
Yeah it does. But the daisy chain doesn't. :roll:
The pedals are on the floor, and the recorder is up on a table..
Lol daisy chain can't stratch so far larh
 
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