Truetone 1 SPOT mA Meter and Cable Tester

Name: Truetone 1 SPOT mA Meter and Cable Tester
Brand: Truetone
Rating: 5 (19 reviews)

Guitar Pedal mA Meter and Instrument Cable Tester

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Measure How Much Power Your Pedals Draw

Measure the power consumption of your guitar pedals with the Truetone 1 SPOT mA Meter. It's also got a handy cable checker, helping you troubleshoot faulty cables. The 1 SPOT mA Meter has an input voltage range of 9V to 24V and will display up to 999mA. Guitarists at Sweetwater like using the 1 SPOT mA Meter to make sure they're not going to overload their pedalboard power supplies, and the built-in cable tester can help solve problems too. The Truetone 1 SPOT mA Meter requires 9V power to operate.

Truetone 1 SPOT mA Meter Features:

Simple way to measure the power consumption of your guitar pedals
Built-in cable tester helps you troubleshoot faulty instrument cables
Input voltage range of 9-24Vdc works with practically any guitar pedal
Requires 9V power supply, not included

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Tech Specs

Type: mA Meter/Cable Tester
Compatibility: Guitar Pedals, Instrument Cables
Power Source: 9V-24V DC Power Supply (sold separately)
Manufacturer Part Number: MAM

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This milliammeter does the job of measuring the current usage of your pedal or pedals. And it fairly accurate. I compared readings with my Simpson VOM and a more modern digital meter. All three were withing 3 milliamps of each other.

The simple usage manual requires a little thought - you need to supply power from an external power supply and the pedal (or daisy chained pedals) need to be powered on which usually requires that a plug or cable in plugged into their input jacks. And for a proper reading I would suggest using the pedals as you normally would - effect enabled with an input signal so that the pedal is doing something and not just idle.

The cable tester works but is very simple - it can only test 1/4" Tip/Sleeve cables.

This device would get a sixth star if it could also measure the voltage from the power supply so you could tell if the supply is able to adequately power the pedal. It would also be nice if it could test TRS (balanced or stereo cables) and measure any resistance in the connections, but that would require a more sophisticated device.

But as is, it makes the task of checking current draw quite easy and provides basic cable testing capability;

It is working. You can find out that some pedals don't use as much Ma as the manual says. Rafael and associates at Sweetwater do a great job packing products and getting them out quickly.

I've had great success with Truetone products and this one is no exception. Very simple to use - and gave me exactly the info I needed to plan my power support for a new bass pedalboard with about 6 pedals on it - some of which are big current hogs. Highly recommended.

Great product. Eliminates the need to do simple but often necessary arithmetic conversions to get effects pedal user manual power consumption info and pedal board power supply info in the same mA units. Also, reconciles ambiguous power consumption info in product manuals. Works like a charm. Provides more confidence when building out a powered pedal board.

I didn't think I'd use the cable tester feature. Then, two days after I got the 1Spot I encountered some signal path issues. I was able to test whether or not cables were the problem. Quickly solved the signal path problem and got back to playing. Nice.

I recommend this product for people who have a need for this type of device.

After experiencing unusual responses from high end investments for rhe pedalboard, the meter provided guidance to expertly solve. Thank you.