TaffyGuy
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hey what the hell. i finally get off my lazy ass and get a wall wart for my meta and it doesnt work. you all use radio shack wall warts, but which one? since the concensus seems to be 18-22v, the closest i could do was an 18/24 which i know is dangerous because they are notorious for going overboard on small loads, but instead of going overboard this one just refuses to produce power.
so is my load too small and it goes into some sort of psudo-intelligent auto-shut off? what a great feature.
EDIT: more specifically it goes to 5 volts for a second then just shuts off, like it doesn't bother to charge up the caps before it judges weather its a short or a load or something. well i don't get it.
so am i right? i guess i'll go back and get the 12V one, since 6V is enough anyway, and if it sucks enough maybe it'll put out 16 or 17 volts which would be perfect... or is the 12v gunna auto-shutoff too. or did i just wire the **** wrong? (hell no i didn't wire it wrong) eh, do all my radio shacks suck and yours all carry a nice 18v or 16v only adaptor that works fine?
dono if this has ever been covered in the past, but i never read it so i'll go ahead and arrogantly assume it wasn't. if i'm wrong, sorry for the spam.
teach me to try and do something productive on a saturday.
EDIT: oh and for reference the amp works fine (i'd even say great) powered by my bench voltage source, in case you think i did something that stupid...
so is my load too small and it goes into some sort of psudo-intelligent auto-shut off? what a great feature.
EDIT: more specifically it goes to 5 volts for a second then just shuts off, like it doesn't bother to charge up the caps before it judges weather its a short or a load or something. well i don't get it.
so am i right? i guess i'll go back and get the 12V one, since 6V is enough anyway, and if it sucks enough maybe it'll put out 16 or 17 volts which would be perfect... or is the 12v gunna auto-shutoff too. or did i just wire the **** wrong? (hell no i didn't wire it wrong) eh, do all my radio shacks suck and yours all carry a nice 18v or 16v only adaptor that works fine?
dono if this has ever been covered in the past, but i never read it so i'll go ahead and arrogantly assume it wasn't. if i'm wrong, sorry for the spam.
teach me to try and do something productive on a saturday.
EDIT: oh and for reference the amp works fine (i'd even say great) powered by my bench voltage source, in case you think i did something that stupid...