#21

this should probably be fine, but you may experience some weirdness if you start to light up a lot of the grid. worth testing out.

#22

FWIW, I’m using a Row Power 30 for my little sidecar. No problems here, though I’ll probably bump to a 40 to play it safe. (I’m done with power-related wierdnesses!)

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#23

I have a Row Power 40 for a 6U 84HP, with all the Monome modules, plus some Mutable Instruments and Harvestman (including a Malgorithm, which is a bit of a power bad boy in other systems), and I haven’t noticed any strange behaviour. So I assume a Row Power 30 should be enough for a 3U plus a grid.

#24

what kind of banana gear are you interfacing that sidecar system with?

#25

Bugbrand/Serge. :party:

#26

is there an easy solution to connect Switch to the intellijel psu TPS80W mentioned above? would love to have one less brick, but I’ve already fried my grid once with unstable power, so I want to play it safe.

#27

FWIW I’ve run the grid from the TPS80W for a long time and never had any problems. (I did recently fry a couple of my monome modules but that was due to a faulty cable and another power supply… )

That being said, you could wire the switch up to the second set of power lugs on the TPS80W. You’d just have to carefully solder some wires to the right pins of the barrel connector of the switch and then run them to the power lugs.

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#28

I’m never quite sure with electronics

is it necessary to use switch to avoid damaging my equipment?

earthsea is the only one of 9 modules which requires 5v