Has anybody noticed any changes in their Fooger’s performance at different voltages? With some overdrives and compressors, increasing the voltage will allow for more clean headroom, adding some dynamics/depth and other changes or improvements. Noise seems to be a concern on a lot of Foogers and increasing headroom on the drive would definitely be an improvement IMO since the noise floor in my setup seems to be related to the output level. I noticed in the phaser manual it says:
POWER: The MF-103 works satisfactorily on +10 to +15 volts DC and uses about 100 milliamperes of current. Note that most power adaptors that are rated at +9V DC will actually produce +10 to +11 volts, and power adaptors rated at +12V DC will actually produce +13 to +14 volts, when used with the MF-103. For this reason, you can power your MF-103 from virtually any power adaptor which has a nominal rating between +9 volts and +12 volts at a rated current of at least 200 milliamperes, and has the appropriate power connector. If you use a power source other than that which was supplied with the MF-103, be sure that the voltage never exceeds +15 volts. Power sources with voltages in excess of +15 volts may cause serious damage to the MF-103’s circuit.
Obviously, not every Moogerfooger can accept different voltages so please don’t take this as an invite to start plugging in random power sources
I have noticed a positive improvement on a MXR 6-band EQ I modded for 12 Volt operation. Why wouldn’t more volts sound better into the MF-103? I missed that bit in the manual… I think I’ll try a 12V output PSU in the very near future and report back.
Well, my previous post was for another topic but is actually related to this discussion. (Call me lucky )
The fact is that all the moogerfoogers have an internal voltage regulator. Supplying more than say 9 to 12 Vdc should not change anything at all because of that. This will just make the regulator work a bit harder, or eventually burn if you go beyond 15V…
It is stated somewhere that 9 vDC power supply often deliver up to 12v DC, thus a well regulated 12V DC, with a real 12 v DC output will work without any issue, but the extra few volts will not add anything to the “performance” of the moogerfooger connected to it.
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