If there's one switchable voltage jack and a half-dozen 9v ones it should cover the average pedalboard, which might have a multiFX or Whammy or something else that needs 18v or whatever. Could have one switchable 110V inverter socket with a bunch of DC sockets but the inverter will cost a lot of battery life.I think a lot of the noise problems from wall wart PSUs come from daisy-chaining the pedals, my theory being that the digital pedals dump a ton of ground plane hash into all the high-gain pedals. If the individual 9v legs are stiff enough and the ground connections are good then there should be minimal interaction between pedals.

154 wrote:Also agree. The Voodoo Labs stuff is overkill for me, but the Fuel Tank Jr. has been rock solid, small, and not much more $ than a tuner pedal (or a lot of the battery options proposed here).FYI: the VDL ISO5 is priced exactly the same at the FTJr. It also has 5 outputs and is about the same size.Fuel Tank Jr: 5 x 9VDC (120mA each)ISO5: 3 x 9VDC (100mA), 1 x 9/12VDC (400mA), 1 x 18VDC (100mA)Granted, the 18V is only useful if you have a pedal than either runs on 18V or you at least have one that can run up to 18V (many companies do these days). The ISO5 also doesn't have a switchable mains voltage, so you can't use it overseas as easily...

Anthony Flack wrote:TylerSavage wrote:we've also got 9V, 12V, 18V and 24V - does anyone care about 12 and 18V pedals? Safe to say anyone with a different voltage than 9V will have another pedal supply for it and the charger be damned?Any PRF-endorsed power supply really ought to support 30v...I see that the EA Rusty Box has a sticker on it telling people not to lose the power supply, and the supply is zip-tied to the pedal just to be sure.hah! good point

Bon Hoga wrote:Voodoo Labs, BBE, Strymon, Cioks, T-Rex and a shower of Chinese manufacturers have been making high quality pedal power supplies for 20+ years now. I've been using a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 1st gen. for at least 15 years without a single problem -- the thing is dead quiet, designed to survive a nuclear war, doesn't have to be recharged and doesn't contain toxic chemicals. I don't quite see what I stand to gain by replacing it with a battery.Yeah the pedal power is a full stop answer to power issues - some people have told me they've still run into issues with them but I don't know how. The benefit to a battery pack situation still I could see is if- Cost (I think the only reason everyone everywhere doesn't have a VL pedal power is cost- You still have to plug it in, Which means in some clubs you're running extension cables to god knows where because the sound system is using up all of the visible outlets and there's barely anything for your amps, and your bass player is already plugged into the power strips that YOU brought and won't help you out.

Same - I just get excited about groupwork. it would be nice to have a set of pretty much any jack you could need, with a switchable voltage - that you could easily hook up / wire in a battery - so if a new super awesome and cheap badass battery comes out, you can swap that in and reuse the jack part.My wife and I play guitar in the same band - as of five minutes ago I ordered a pedal power 2 because no-one took my birthday hints. I'd still like to get/build something like this and then we can see who's having more fun at shows/practice/studio

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Bon Hoga wrote:Voodoo Labs, BBE, Strymon, Cioks, T-Rex and a shower of Chinese manufacturers have been making high quality pedal power supplies for 20+ years now. I've been using a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 1st gen. for at least 15 years without a single problem -- the thing is dead quiet, designed to survive a nuclear war, doesn't have to be recharged and doesn't contain toxic chemicals. I don't quite see what I stand to gain by replacing it with a battery.If you leave the thing plugged in like a non-battery guy, it would just act as a really stiff PSU, likely better than any of the things you mention. The key difference being it wouldn't need to be plugged in to work.

chris jury wrote:TylerSavage wrote:Same - I just get excited about groupwork. it would be nice to have a set of pretty much any jack you could need, with a switchable voltage - that you could easily hook up / wire in a battery - so if a new super awesome and cheap badass battery comes out, you can swap that in and reuse the jack part.My wife and I play guitar in the same band - as of five minutes ago I ordered a pedal power 2 because no-one took my birthday hints. I'd still like to get/build something like this and then we can see who's having more fun at shows/practice/studioI think the idea of making something that is modular- where the battery unit is separate or can be swapped out- really appeals to me. I've been through so many generations of cordless tools and laptops and such. Battery is always the first thing to go. So maybe just a power supply sort of thing that takes a standard DC voltage input, (12 or 18 seem to be popular w/ the available external power units) and had a few more options than just 9v?yeah that's exactly what I'm thinking. If we cobbled something together for around the $60 I think it would be a winner. I could see bringing that just for times where I don't care about running an extension cord

Maybe about 8-10 years ago I was playing in a band where the singer / guitarist had a rechargeable pedalboard power supply of some sort. I seem to recall the local guitar shop here kind of championing these with some of the local guys for a brief window. I need to hit up my friend to see if he can recall what it was and why he stopped using it.

This looks like it might work if you can spend $150.BoxKing PB4813 Rechargeable Pedal Board frees your pedalboard from the wall!! https://www.amazon.com/Rechargeable-Ped ... B074J3FP1X ¢ #1 Enough Noise-free Power Pedal Board 12800mAh.Separated 10DCoutputs: 9Vx7 12Vx2 18V/24Vx1 ¢ #2 Last 12hours for 5pedals.longer for analog pedals and lower for digitals. Fully charged on 2hrs and a half. ¢ #3 Includes Gigbag. Pedalboard Size L:48cm W:13cm 1row place 5pedals ¢ #4 It can also use with plugging into the wall if forgot to charge. With one of these you might be able to save a band member!