Timeline for Can it be safe to break both power and ground in a switch?
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| Apr 27, 2021 at 6:50 | comment | added | Transistor | (1) Why not just switch the mains on-off to your 9 V PSU? (2) If you want to switch the DC then one switch on the 9 V+ is all you need. There is no need to switch the 0 V line. (3) As you have found, switching the 0 V line results in some pedals being powered by the audio ground. | |
| Apr 27, 2021 at 5:29 | answer | added | Enrico Migliore | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 27, 2021 at 5:14 | history | migrated | from diy.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Apr 27, 2021 at 1:12 | comment | added | user263983 | Same things happen then you take plug out of receptacle. | |
| Apr 27, 2021 at 1:08 | comment | added | Ben Wiley | I don't have the schematics handy but I've done extensive testing plugging and unplugging different cables and I'm pretty confident this is what's happening. My question is, can it be safe for a switch to break both the neutral and hot wire at the same time? | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 23:56 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | This might be easier to solve on EE.SE given that it depends on the internal circuits of your pedals (many pedals do weird stuff with their power circuits) and is all LV/audio (no mains electricity directly involved) | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 23:49 | comment | added | jsotola | sounds like you may be on the wrong track about the cause of the problem ... please post a schematic diagram of a guitar pedal that is exhibiting the problem behavior | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 23:30 | history | asked | Ben Wiley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |