Several of these can be found from the internet already, but I will be updating this list based to my own measurements, so I can only list those pedals which I have in hand. Some manufacturers are stating these in their manuals, but they are always with the pedal on. What about when the pedal is off? It is still drawing current as the the circuit is still powered although the signal is bypassed. I’ll update this every time I get a new pedal.
So, let’s say you have a Pedaltrain Volto -battery power source. It is stated to be capable of providing a total output power capacity of 500 mAh. You will be powering three pedals, for example Boss ML-2, Fulltone Catalyst, MXR Dyna Comp and MXR Carbon Copy. Current draws for these are 30,3+2,4+4,9+11,3 mA = 48,9 mA considering they are all on. Volto would power them for 500 mAh / 48,9 mA = 10,2 hours. That easy. Or maybe not. Overall working time is affected by overall current draw. Also, you cannot drain Volto totally empty, as it will not feed pedals below certain charge level. So you can only get some estimation of the working time between recharges, as it cannot be calculated exactly.
The power source used is Visual Sound’s 1Spot. All the values are current draws when off/on (max).
Aria
- AUM-1 Ultra Metal 8,7 mA / 13,4 mA
BBE
- Boosta Grande (Big box) 2,5 mA / 3,2 mA
Behringer
- BO100 Blues Overdrive 11,9 mA / 12,8 mA
Boss
- BD-2 Blues Driver 11,3 mA / 12,8 mA
- CE-5 Chorus Ensemble 20,2 mA / 21,2 mA
- CE-5 Chorus Ensemble w/ Monte Allums TB-relay 23,8 mA / 24,2 mA
- DS-1 Distortion (dated early 80’s) 4,0mA / 4,2 mA
- DS-1 Distortion w/ Monte Allums TB-relay 10,7 mA / 12,3 mA
- ML-2 Metal Core 29,4 mA / 30,3 mA
- RC-20XL looper 96,3 mA (On, idling)
- SD-1 Super Overdrive 5,0 mA / 5,8 mA
- SD-1 Super Overdrive w/ Monte Allums TB-relay 8,4 mA / 9,9 mA
- TU-3 Chromatic Tuner 17,6 mA / 24,3 mA (On, not tuning)
Carl Martin
- Red Repeat Delay 29,5 mA / 31,8 mA
- 2Wah 2,6 mA / 2,6 mA
Catalinbread
- Formula no. 5 0,6 mA / 1,3 mA
Danelectro
- Cool Cat Chorus 12,9 mA / 15,7 mA
Devi Ever
- Karaoke Party 0,6 mA / 0,9 mA
DOD
- Overdrive Preamp 250 Reissue 0,9 mA / 1,6 mA
Dunlop
- Fuzz Face Mini Germanium 1,8 mA / 2,3 mA
- Dunlop Jimi Hendrix JH-2S Classic Fuzz 1,7 mA / 3,9 mA
EBS
- Multicomp (Newer, TB-version) 11,6 mA / 11,7 mA
- Unichorus (Newer, TB-version) 16,5 mA / 17,3 mA
Electro-Harmonix
- Bass Big Muff Nano Pi 2,3 mA / 3,0 mA
- Bass Big Muff 2,2 mA / 2,8 mA
- Neo Clone 6,1 mA / 7,3mA
Fulltone
- Catalyst 2,5 mA / 2,3 mA (?)
- Soul Bender 2,3 mA / 1,9 mA (?)
FYA Electronics
- Fancy Change Fuzz 1,0 mA / 1,3 mA
Ibanez
- Chorus Mini (CSMini) 7,5 mA / 20,6 mA
- Delay Mini (ADMini) 21,6 mA / 34,1 mA
- TS-5 3,9 mA / 5,5 mA
Korg
- Pitchblack PB-01 0,1 mA / 23 mA (On, not tuning)
- Pitchblack Poly PB-03 0,1 mA / 16,4 mA (On, not tuning)
Mad Professor
- Sweet Honey Overdrive 3,9 mA / 5,4 mA
- Blueberry Bass Overdrive 2,6 mA / 4,3 mA
- Stone Gray Distortion 6,5 mA / 7,1 mA
Marshall
- Blues Breaker Mk.1 2,5 mA / 4 mA
- Drive Master 2,7 / 4,2 mA
MoVall
- Scorpion 9,4 mA / 10,6 mA
MXR
- Dyna Comp (Late TB-version) 0,9 mA / 3,1 mA
- Carbon Copy 11,9 mA / 11,4 mA (?)
- M89 Bass Overdrive 19,0 mA / 19,4 mA
J.Rockett
- 10 Ton Hammer 5,1 mA / 5,3 mA
Pigtronix
- Fat Drive 30,1 mA / 30,4 mA
TC Electronic
- Ditto Looper 67,5 mA / 70,4 mA (Off/Recording)
- Polytune Mini Mk.1 15,6 mA / 45 mA (On, not tuning)
- Spark Mini Booster 6,8 mA / 7,1 mA
T-Rex
- Sweeper 2 Bass Chorus 64,7 mA / 84,3 mA
Way Huge
- Red Llama 2,7 mA / 2,7 mA
- Aqua-Puss 11,4 mA / 12,7 mA
Warwick
- Rocktuner PT1 2,8 mA / 15,1 mA (On, not tuning)
Vision
- MTL-5 Ultra Metal 8,2 mA / 12,3 mA
Xotic
- AC Booster 5,1 mA / 5,0 mA (?)
Yerasov
- 5000V 4,1 mA / 6,3 mA
Zoom
- B3 143 mA (On, idling)
ZVEX
- Super Hard On 0,8 mA / 2,2 mA
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