Used ac adapter for pedals

[AdamCharlton]

I accidentally plugged an ac adapter into most of my pedals, but they still work. I'm using batteries right now until I get my voodoo lab power supply that I ordered. If they still work is there still a chance that I may have damaged them ?

[GibsonGM]

Yes, you may have damaged them.   Your controls all do as they should, the things amplify and distort and so on, like they are supposed to?   You MIGHT have dodged a bullet!   

I don't see how, but you may have....Technically, all your active devices SHOULD have popped.   Play with them, give 'em all a run-thru, beat on them...if no ill results, then surprisingly you'd be good to go.   Any chance you just 'touched the plug to the jack' and no contact was actually made?

If you get away with this, you're the man!       Welcome to the forum, Adam...if you DO have problems, come back and post about them. 

[AdamCharlton]

Well the pedals that I did this with are, an electro harmonix big muff, Ibanez ts9 tube screamer, and a mc 404 cae wah. I do hear some white noise when I turn the guitar down and pedals all the way up, but I guess that's normal. But on my wah pedal when I have the volume boost on and it's cranked. When I press the wah on I hear a loud popping sound. I'm not sure if that's what you meant when you said pop. I will tinker with all the knobs some more and write back. I also used it with a valeton comprince compression but I can't check it yet because it doesn't take batteries.

[AdamCharlton]

When I have all of the big muff knobs all the way up I also hear a loud popping sound when I turn on the big muff.

[AdamCharlton]

When the knobs are all the way up on the muff I also hear a lot of white noise.

[blackieNYC]

That's probably not a problem. How is that popping at reasonable settings?
He was talking about popping = fatality

[GibsonGM]

That's probably not a problem. How is that popping at reasonable settings?
He was talking about popping = fatality

Yes, LOL.  Pop, as in 'voltage bursting backwards thru a PN junction" ha ha. 

Sound of popping....worse than it was before, you think?  If it is worse, then maybe something did pop in the burst meaning...like, a polarized cap or something...just thinking....DC....could try measuring for DC on the input and output, just to see what you see...

[TejfolvonDanone]

I think these pedals have reverse voltage protections built into them so if there were any and they are designed correctly the pedals should have survived them. If you have sound coming through them when they are turned on they should be fine.

[ashcat_lt]

I think these pedals have reverse voltage protections built into them...

Yep!  Either it was not plugged in long enough or the PSU wasn't able to supply enough current to explode the "protection" diodes.  Or both, I guess.  DON'T do it again.