Harley Benton PowerPlant

This is a pretty cheap PSU compared to the price of a PSU with isolation between each output, so you can?t expect the same performance as with more expensive PSU?s, but you do get very good value for money.

I got the PowerPlant because I was running all my pedals on battery power and changing all the batteries when you have the pedals on a board is a pain.

The PowerPlant dos the job of distributing power to the pedals on the board, but it can be a bit buzzy ? depending on the actual guitar, pedal and amp setup in can vary from no noise at all to annoyingly noisy.

The noise level is not just about the PSU the pedals have an effect to, I have some pedals that have no noise issues, but I have an old pedal that draws a lot of power and if I add this pedal the noise is of the chart ? so this is currently running with it?s own power supply.

I currently have the Power plant mounted on the underside of a Palmer Pedalbay 40 board, where it is mounted with the standard straps that comes with the pedalbay board.

If you can afford a PSU with isolation and have power hungry pedals, I would recommend spending the extra cash to get less of the PSU buzz.

I ran out of flex cables for my old power supply, and instead of buying additional ones i decided to try out the HB Powerplant.

The good thing is that you get a lot of power outputs very cheaply - which is of course the most important thing - but there are also a couple of drawbacks:

The fact that the power chord for the powerplant is seperate means that is takes a longer time to pack and unpack, and the flex cables are a bit loose when plugged in. This is a bit of a concern, but so far it has not caused me any problems.

Another thing i have experienced is that when more flex cables than needed are plugged in (and the amp is turned up loud), a pulsing sound is coming from the speaker. This is only a 'problem' when not playing, as it is not a very loud pulsing sound.

Overall, it is a good power supply at its price.