Installing Voltz

Step by Step Tips on how to install Voltz

Installation Voltz (Text)

voltz Hello my name is John Roesch with Amperor Music. Today I’m going to be showing you how easy it is to install the Voltz battery powered Pedal Supply to power your pedals on a gig box original from Gator Cases. Basically the key is preparation.

You are going to want to first, take everything out of the box & get familiarized with the product and your actual pedals of what voltages they require, and things like polarity & tip size.

Take the supplied Velcro & apply it to the actual bottom of the Voltz Pedal Board Power Supply. After you do that, you can set that to the side. And then decide which four Y cable milli-voltz DC to DC converters you’re going to be using & then apply the Velcro to the bottom of those. Make sure that you’re still able to see the LED on the top so you know that the power is in good condition when it lights in green.

OK first off you’re going to want to take the pedals that you’re going to be using & then place them on the pedal board in a way that’s most comfortable. After you’ve got everything arranged, you’re gonna wanna take some masking tape & then just tape across the top of it. And what you’re gonna do on this masking tape is actually mark off the locations of each pedal. After you mark out the location just write a little note of actually what pedal it is. After you’ve marked everything down and you’re well aware of where everything belongs, remove your pedals and then remove the actual top. Noting that the handle is going to be toward me when I do this, so that’s just something to keep in consideration.

Ok with your Voltz system you’re going to want to plug in your AC & DC cords so that you don’t have to worry about them falling out during transport & it’s always ready to charge. So, taking your AC cord, plug that into the Voltz AC socket. Make sure that’s nice & snug. Then take your DC to DC cord that’s also provided, and this is in the instruction manual also in case you need any more questions. And then you take this, and then you just align it so you can actually, where that handle, where that hole was on the top of the pedal board, you can actually turn on and off the actual power supply & also you can also be able to see the battery indicator light from the top without having to pull the actual pedal board up.

After you find your final position for that, you‘re gonna wanna press down with that Velcro, make sure its snug on there so it doesn’t get loose during transport. Flip it on, make sure you have good battery power & strength so we’re good to go & then you want to basically transpose what you wrote down here into the guts of your actual pedal board.

Right now, I’ve got the micro 24 volt so I’m going to be finding the 24 volt DC to DC converter & then I’m going to plug that one in first. And since that’s closest to this hole right here, I’m gonna go ahead and try to align it since I do have everything lined up as close as I can possible. Now, I’ve already installed the actual tip and I know the voltage that its going to require because I did check the manual.

The next is going to be the baseballs, which is the positive tip. That’s going to be the 1/8 inch style just like any of the TS808 or the Ibanez Tube Screamers. Take this, then you take the actual DC output that shoots through and you plug this in here. That’s going to be the 18 volt coming out from the actual battery itself, its just going to keep on continuing. And I’m gonna line that up so this output aligns with that hole, about right there. I’m going to get the 9 volts, I’ve got these 3 stretches about that I told you I’m going to be using the actual Daisy Chain adapter. So what you do in that case, is you plug your voltage in and whatever tip that you are actually using, the replaceable tip that you actually plug in is going to be what is going to be transposed on the outputs of the actual 5 output Y cable.

So since I am using the boss style, which is negative tip 9 volts, these are all going to be negative tip 9 volts. So I’m going to be only using 3 and because of that I plugged up and you can see that I plugged up the top of these with plastic insulator caps, which are also included in the Voltz system.

I just plug that in as such, and then last but not least is going to be the digital delay at the very end. Gonna go ahead and plug that in and wind that up. And since this is going to be the end of the cabling system for now I will temporarily isolate this by adding the black insulator caps that are available.

Now you grab the board & with this, since you did mark where everything does go all you do is take the actual tip off, one at a time. This is going to be the 24 volt micro, and then you re-attach the tip back on. Now, doing this will make it so that when you pull the board up and down when you’re doing the tips further on down the line they’re not gonna fall back because these holes are too small for this to actually go back into the board itself.

The next is going to be the baseballs, which is the 9 volt positive tip & just do the exact same thing, and then after that you’re going to have the actual 3 which is going to come out of just a single DC to DC milli-voltz converter. So you’re going to take your actual Y cable and thread this through, take the last one of it and thread that through.

Now, making sure that you’re not cramping any wires when you put this back in, just slowly close the lid. Make sure you get a nice fit, make sure that nothings hitting. And everything seems to be fine. Since you have your wires out it would now be a good time to actually test to see if everything is wired properly & when you do flip this on, all the lights on the actual milli-voltz DC to DC converters are gonna go to green. So now that everything is double checked to make sure that its working properly we’re going to turn everything off. Install the board again & then just easily as that, plug in the pedals where I would like them to belong. And there you have it, everything is installed & powered. Now all you do is have to install your guitar cables & analog cables & then you’re ready to go. Thank you very much & if you have any questions, we’re on the web.

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