multiple pedals off multiple legs of one power supply

[bonkdav]

i have this power supply thing here, basically it takes 2.1 amps 9v in (the cord and brick arent in the picture) and can dish it out to ten boss style jacks if you want it to. or just a bunch of 9v.  i was wondering since i should be able to power 2 effects off one leg of it, (one jack) would it be possible to have the effects in a different order from each other. like ill power effects a and b off the first jack and the second jack i will power effects c and d. so then could i have my order of effects go a -> c -> b -> d? because that would be awesome. this is kinda confusing to type up but hopefully someone can understand what im after.



im pretty sure i can power ten with it but i just wanna see if i can squeeze some more out of my one stop power station, cuz if your gonna go swimming you might as well get wet. i plan on putting all the effects in this one enclosure. (below) ill eventually start a thread where im going to be asking tons of questions to the diy community on what effects to put in it and mods and hooking them up and wiring and grounding and probably many more things ill encounter that i cant quite fit my head around even after some searching.


i bought a store display off ebay, it came with 5 digitech bass oriented pedals so now i have the sturdy enclosure and what seems like the mother of all power supplies. so thats how this all started.

[darron]

not SURE that i understand you, but are you asking if the power jack has to be relative to the effects position in your chain? the answer for that question would be no. it makes no difference at all. the amount of pedals that you can power may be 10, but give or take a few since all pedals consume totally different amounts of power. an average power supply can give out about 500 milliamperes, and a decent one can often give around 1500, or 1.5 amps. you can also plug multiple effects into one jack. it looks like the power board in the picture is using 4 diodes per jack to regulate the power, followed by a moderate (220uf or so) capacitor to take out some ripple. just keep in mind that you could be better off spreading the load around, and that two pedals in the same jack will obviously be running off the same power and may effect each other a little but, but that isn't common.

do you know if the power supply offers some sort of internal load protection? hmm.. i have limited knowledge on this matter by the way, so wait for some better wisdom (:

[bonkdav]

im asking that if i power two pedals off the same jack do i have to have those pedals next to each other in the overall chain? or can i have pedals split off the main 10 supplies (i havent finished putting them all in yet it came with 5 and i put a 6th in to see if it would power things) and have say....15 effects running off the supply and then have my chain go in any order? 

the power supply is 2.1 amps (2100 milliamperes) so im guessing it should be able to power a lot of stuff. plus they all wont be on at the same time.  the big cap thats next to each jack is 1000uF, the 2 super big caps are 4700uF.  the things that look kinda like an ic socket pattern are resistors. really small ones. theres a few super tiny caps around the thing. the disc shape thing in the top left is marked L1 and has a bunch of copper windings, not too sure what it is. the two diodes directly to the right of the 2 huge caps are 1n4005 and the other diode looking things are marked L2 and L3. the resistor above them has a single black band.  hope this info helps.

i still have to fill in the last 4 spots to complete the ten total.

thanks for the help.

[slacker]

The powersupply doesn't care where the pedals are in your signal chain. So long as when you make a splitter or daisychain lead the outputs are in parallel and the same polarity as each other that's all that matters. Of course you need to make sure the powersuppy can provide enoughh current for all your pedals however you wire them but with 2amps available that shouldn't be a problem.

[bonkdav]

thanks slacker

now if anyone knows how i can get positive ground pedals to work with the supply that would be really awesome, but if not we can just let this thread die.