One power adapter for two elektrons

slx · July 3, 2021, 9:08pm

Hi,

has anyone a good solution to power a digitakt and a digitone with one poweradapter?

Like daisy chain both elektrons with one adapter.

Thanks for any info or hints.

Best,
sebastian

AdamJay · July 3, 2021, 10:01pm

slx · July 4, 2021, 7:05pm

Hehe, I thought about something more fancy with only one power adapter. But of course this would work.

Thanks

slx · July 5, 2021, 7:58pm

grafik

Jukka · July 5, 2021, 9:16pm

OK if:

All units the same voltage.
The PS has enough current to drive all units
The inrush of current when one (or multiple units) are turned on is not enough to affect the voltage enough to cause units already on to glitch.
Unlikely but to be complete, that the wire can handle the current and not melt down.

The wiring of this is with the loads all wired in parallel to the PS. This assumes fairly constant current draws by units, and no noise feedback. Theoretically this could work, practically you’re better off with two PSs.

slx · July 6, 2021, 5:18pm

Thanks Jukka for this thorough explanation, I am going the easy way like AdamJay proposed …

tubefund · July 6, 2021, 5:26pm

Looking for same solution but for 3 elektron’s. Might order this from Amazon:

tubefund · July 6, 2021, 5:28pm

Sadly no information about the lenght of the daisychain cable. Looks like their to short but difficult to tell from a picture.

slx · July 6, 2021, 5:52pm

thats exactly what I was after, but had no matches. Thanks.

tubefund · July 6, 2021, 6:24pm

Your welcome. There’s more to find. A 1 to 2 splitter is somewhat neater the 8 flying unused barrels.

slx · July 7, 2021, 9:42pm

Does anyone use these:

AdamJay · July 7, 2021, 11:38pm

Lots of people do. Type “rip chord” or “ripchord” into the Elektronauts search bar.

Francis.Lamousse · December 23, 2023, 3:19pm

You can use One original PSU adapter (12V/2A) for both Digitakt and Digitone (1A each max) with a daisy chain cable.
I got one that I use with my boss pedals, length and external diameter of the tips are good but the internal diameter is too small and can’t be plugged on the elektron…
I think the one you propose is quite the same? did you try?

shigginpit · December 23, 2023, 3:37pm

I use adapters coming off the daisy chain going from the 5.5x2.1 pedal size and stepping them up to the desired 5.5x2.5, like this:

The right angled adapters are pretty deep compared to the normal elektron PSU barrel ends so you have to be careful, it works fine but it’s not seated very securely when you consider the optimal positioning would have the plastic base flush against the outside of the dc jack housing.

Meriphew · December 23, 2023, 4:25pm

I’m surprised that Elektron hasn’t teamed up with one of the pedalboard power supply builders (Voodoo Labs, Truetone, Eventide, CIOKS) yet. They are missing out on a new revenue stream.