Dunlop power brick or similar

Started by littlegreiger, September 04, 2004, 01:31:19 AM

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littlegreiger

Hey I was wondering does anyone have a diagram of the wiring for the Dunlop power brick because I would really like to build something like it to power my pedals.

smoguzbenjamin

Check out the Spyder article on Geo. It does however involve mains voltages so be careful with them. It's not recommended as a beginner project.

On the other hand, you could do what I've done. Get a *very* well regulated PSU, I use an old one from the 70s that works great, nice and clean. Anyway what you do then is wire DC jacks in parallel to acommodate any daisy chains you have. You could use single cables but that's gonna greate a lot of mess. I have a little preamp before my effects and it has 3 DC jacks, one for input and two for my two daisy chains. ;)
I don't like Holland. Nobody has the transistors I want.

smoguzbenjamin

Oh by the way, a daisy chain is a bunch of male DC jacks wired in parralel. And, make sure that the total current consumption of your rig stays below the max current of the wallwart cos otherwise you either blow a little fuse and that's a pain cos you acn't play, or in a wallwart with no fuse, you'll just blow the wart.
I don't like Holland. Nobody has the transistors I want.

littlegreiger

I'm not quite sure how to wire them in parallel.  So maybe if someone has a picture it would help.

And by the way thanks for the quick reply.

smoguzbenjamin

Well what you do is you wire all the rings and tips together, if you hang on I'll put something up in just a sec.
I don't like Holland. Nobody has the transistors I want.

smoguzbenjamin

I don't like Holland. Nobody has the transistors I want.

littlegreiger