powering a pedal with less than the recommended ma

At times it may crap out, breakup or just have degraded sound.. My Boss Chorus pedal didnt work when I used the Boss PSA1 to power the daisy chain and other pedals were on Visual sound makes a wall wart that is rated at 1700ma.. Got mine from amazon with an 8 plug daisy chain for $26.

 

Which pedal is not working right?

 

Often the manufacturer's stated power requirement just happens to correspond to the adapter that bears their brand, even when the pedal consumes less curremt than the adapter can source.

Virtually all DC adapters have protection against overload. The worst that'll happen is that your pedal will function poorly or not at all until ypu plug in a suitable adapter.

 

Unless it's digital the pedal will be fine. Starving your digital pedals for amperage could wreck them.

 

Really? How's that?

 

The Zoom MS-70 CDR is rated at 500 mA I think, but I use a 200 (or 300) mA out and it works fine because the actual consumption is much less than 500. I'm not sure how it could wreck the pedal, but please do explain so I don't get in trouble (has been working fine for a couple weeks since I got the pedal, I play it everyday).

 

Don't worry it just won't work or will work and the sound will be degraded. If the pedals are working fine I wouldn't sweat it.

 

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if it sounds fine and is operating at full capacity, just go with it. I have an old AD-80 that's meant to be powered at 18v, but I run it off 16v from my Supa Charger - not a problem.

 

There are some power supplies that you can vary the output to simulate a worn out or old battery. Sometimes the results are desirable .

I've heard some guitarists will only use alkaline batteries because the say the tone is better.

I'm just Happy when my pedal works when I step on it.