15v vs 18v for Ashdown OriginAL pedal

[glassmoon]

Hi all

 

I was blessed by my awesome wife with an Ashdown OriginAL pedal for Christmas. The paraphernalia in researching the unit, stated that it didn't come with a power supply, so we ordered an 18v unit from Amazon. 

Well, the unit did  actually come with a 15v power supply. 

 

I emailed Dave at Ashdown who said to use the supplied unit, but I'm curious to know what supply is used by the players from basschat.co.uk. 15v or 18v? The unit says 18v on the chassis and nothing else in the manual (not supplied but downloaded). 

 

Anyway... My thanks in advance. 

Julian

[paul_5]

I've jut looked for the specs on this pedal and it confirms what I thought - the pedal drops the supply down to 12v for the tube (any more would overheat them), so (assuming it's a 7812 voltage regulator) as long as it's at least 15v and can deliver the required mount of current (300mA) then there's no real benefit to running it at 18v, the 15 one will be fine.

 

Congrats on a great little unit, and even greater spouse.

[Lozz196]

If Dave at Ashdown says it will be fine that’s a good enough recommendation 

[Delberthot]

I have a Radial Bassbone that also runs at 15v. According to Radial you can use 18v but it reduces the life expectancy from 20 years to 18 years. I'm guessing that this is due to the extra heat produced (the supplied 15v adaptor gets quite warm as it is)

[glassmoon]

Thanks guys. Yeah, I'm, as always, 100% behind Dave and the Ashdown lads,but I thought I'd run this up a flagpole and see what you all thought.

This is going to be epic...Ashdown OriginAL into Ashdown Retroglide into 2 modded 210 Ashdown cabs (thanks @Lozz196).

Now to get MORE GIGS!!!!!