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  • October 2, 2013 at 10:33 am in reply to: Soul Preacher Nano, issue with power splitter. #119372
    FrauBlucher
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    I’m sorry for resuscitating a dead thread but this one saved my (pedal-)life pointing me in the right direction on some annoying power issues I was experiencing

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    I would like to hear from EH staff wether this is an expected behavior or not.

    If some of you have the Soul Preacher Nano and a splitter power cable, I would appreciate if you could do this quick test:
    – Play with only the Soul Preacher connected to the splitter power cable and make note of the audible volume level.
    – Insert a nail or anything metal in another DC jack of the splitter cable, and touch the cover of the Soul Preacher with the nail.
    – Check wether the output volume of the Soul Preacher gets higher or not.

    Short answer: I’m no EH staff but yes, I think is an expected behaviour.

    I checked almost all my pedal with a tester and a great deal of patience, turns out that in some pedals (all the ehx I own – Soul Preacher Nano, Memory Toy, Memory Boy) the power minus is NOT connected to ground.
    Daisy-chaining that pedals to others with power minus grounded results in assorted issues depending on pedals (I noticed the same volume boost on the Soul Preacher and some changes in quality and number of repetitions of the memory *oy) and I’m suspecting it’s affecting somehow the tension on the sanyo power juice I’m using to power all the pedalboard.

    That said, I like EH effects a lot, so using a separate power supply is not tragic, still it would have been kind to mention that kind of things in the manual. AND I’m still thinking of it as a bug until someone explains me why it’s a feature.

    Thanks again Mrelwood / Cryabetes for the heads up

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