mshilarious said:I will pretty much refuse to buy gear that uses wall warts. It's a great hassle in a rack. The one exception I had to make: the wall wart for the Shure wireless receiver in my live rack is always falling out of its outlet in the strip. I'm gonna have to tape that sucker in
Gorty said:I have so many of these frickin wall warts that I have to make sure I keep them with the gear they are supposed to be used for.
I fried some circuitry on a drum machine years ago by using the wrong wall wart!
mshilarious said:I will pretty much refuse to buy gear that uses wall warts. It's a great hassle in a rack. The one exception I had to make: the wall wart for the Shure wireless receiver in my live rack is always falling out of its outlet in the strip. I'm gonna have to tape that sucker in
frederic said:BTW, for studio people, you might consider these outlet strips:
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Those are the same (more or less) as the ones I use. They're VERY handy. As far as warts go, they stink on ice. At least the one for the GenX6 (and my POD) has the wart in the middle of the cord so it doesn't tie up outs by burying unused outlets. For the ones that have the prongs right on the wart I run some srting (or tie raps) around them and the strip so they won't fall out.
frederic said:Nothing is worse than finding a stuffed 2'x1'x1' box with tangled wall warts. Stuffed to the point where the box falls apart while you're carrying it down steep, narrow attic stairs.
Grrrrrrr.
But at least I found all the wall warts for my gear
Track Rat said:The whole idea of a wall wart is to get the transformer away from the electronics to help avoid hum.
cowboyj said:At one point, I took an aluminum rack case and made a bunch of different ac/dc converters and basically used that as one big wall wart. muuuuch nicer, if you have the time and patience to figure out how to do what you need.
After you made it, you just need to run wires with the apropriate connectors to your DC or lower voltage AC gear, and voila! No more wall warts!
Jason
Track Rat said:The whole idea of a wall wart is to get the transformer away from the electronics to help avoid hum.
Tim Brown said:So why not build a power supply unit that powers several units, and lose the wallwarts?