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[Graham]

I have some Boss Pedals (a DS-1 distortion and a OC-2 octave) and in the booklets that came with them it says I have to use a Boss adaptor with them or it may cause risk of fire etc. Is this true or are Boss just trying to make more money out of me?

[GraemeC]

No its fucking horse shit...as long as the power supply is the correct voltage and polarity its cool.....
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Ok Ian you can tell them about the tuner I fried now...!!!

[soundian]

Heh heh, fried tuner steaks on the barbie anyone.

One more thing though, these Boss pedals can suck a lot of power so make sure the transformer can supply the minimum ampage. That could be the risk of fire they're on about: overheated transformer coils.

(Polarity is very important too, you can fuck some DC equipment with the wrong polarity)

I think they put all this info on a little silver sticker on the bottom of Boss pedals too. If memory serves, Boss are normally 9V, 500-600 mAmps, positive centre.

But don't take that as gospel.

[David]

as long as your adapter covers the correct suppy needed by the pedal you will be fine

most adapters will cover this, boss is pretty much a standard in power needs i think

David

[Graham]

I just tried using my DS-1 with an adaptor but it seemed to cause alot of buzzing but it was okay with my other non-Boss pedals. I'll try my other adaptor and see what its like.

[soundian]

Originally posted by David
as long as your adapter covers the correct suppy needed by the pedal you will be fine

most adapters will cover this, boss is pretty much a standard in power needs i think

David

I think I covered all that. Anyway, as I said, Boss do seem to be power hungry. Also, as I said. make sure the max ampage of your transformer is more than your pedal and the polarity is right, and you shouldn't have any problems.