Re: talking wall warts..

["K. Douglas Baldwin" <dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us>]

My suspicion is that the Alesis and Lexicon wall warts are AC (alternating
current) while all others are DC (direct current). The symbol for AC on the
wall warts I own is a wavy line like a sine wave. I imagine an AC adaptor
*could* run a DC unit, which is why the Alesis/Lexicon warts run other
devices, but the DC adaptors would *probably* create precisely the "frozen
on" condition you're experiencing because it's like the current is "stuck"
at one point in it's cycle. If you can find a source for good quality AC
wall warts, they may be cheaper than the brand-name 50 dollar units. Good
luck, and be careful with wall wart mix-and-match games. You could probably
burn something out pretty quick with the wrong mix!
Douglas Baldwin, Alpha male Coyote, the Trickster
dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Malhomme <malhomme@vete.ucl.ac.be>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 8:45 AM
Subject: talking wall warts..


>Because the subject was raised, I have a
>question for technically literate people in
>the US...
>
>It is impossible (I'm french) to run properly
>either alesis or lexicon stuff with generic
>wall warts here. No matter voltage or
>polarity, it gives (on the jam man for
>example) a lighthing of all leds to red, all
>led segments on and nothing working. Id with
>the vortex; id with a midiverb 3. I checked
>everyhthing i caould (polarity, voltage) and
>found nodiférence with the usual ones...
>An alesis one will work perfectly on the
>lexes and visae versae. I don't get where is
>the difference...
>the same wallwarts work perfectly with any
>other brand (?!?!).
>Trouble is I f I want a buy one from alesis
>for example, here it is 50 dollars. Which is
>quite expensive...
>