Current draw for Moogerfooger effects units

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Current draw for Moogerfooger effects units

Post by latigid on » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:10 am

I got out the multimeter tonight and measured the draw of all of the Moogerfooger effects. I don't have the Multipedal yet, sorry. The current draw changed about 10-20 mA when going from no signal to "red" drive level. And my meter is really cheap/broken, so I could only read to 10 mA.

Measured using a regulated 9 VDC supply.

MF101 40-50 mA
MF102 40-50 mA
MF103 70-90 mA
MF104SD 130-150 mA (long delay setting), 140-160 mA (short delay setting)
MF105 210 mA
MF105B 220 mA
MF107 100-130 mA
CP-251 40-50 mA, but it wasn't processing anything.


This could give a rough guide to anyone trying to daisy-chain effects off fewer power supplies. I'm sure you're supposed to allow for more than this, so if any engineers have any insight, feel free to share.

Of course, YMMV.

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Re: Current draw for Moogerfooger effects units

Post by Brian G » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:29 am

The Multi Pedal uses a different Power Supply from the other MoogerFoogers, it's out put is 12 volts AC with 600ma rating. The power supplies for the others are 9 volt DC. Good news is that the MP201 supply has a larger plug on it than the other Foogers, so there is little chance you could plug it into something that is looking for DC :).

One thing I and several others do is to label what each power supply goes to.
Thanks for taking the time to measure the loads


[quote="latigid on"]I got out the multimeter tonight and measured the draw of all of the Moogerfooger effects. I don't have the Multipedal yet, sorry. The current draw changed about 10-20 mA when going from no signal to "red" drive level. And my meter is really cheap/broken, so I could only read to 10 mA.

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