Harley Benton PowerPlant

Bought it to power up my backup pedalboard and I didn’t want to spend a lot of money for a power supply that will only work in the case of emergency. On my primary pedalboard all my stompboxes are powered by a t-rex fuel tank classic which is almost the same product with the Harley Benton.
I’m not going to compare the 2 products as it is the day with night in terms of built quality etc, however the most annoying thing with the powerplant apart from the bad quality of the cables included is a hum noise going through my signal chain most likely due to no isolation of every power port. As soon as I replaced it with the truetone CS7 all the hum was gone.
Again at this price point I did not had any high expectations, but spending some more cash There are better options out there.

From the reviews I knew this would probably add some noise to the signal and it does. Even when just plugged in to the same power strip as my amp with no pedals connected my amp picked up a considerable 60 cycle hum. My practice room is generally electrically noisy so this wasn't a surprise. Tried running my overdrive pedals upfront and my modulation pedals through the effects loop but this was impossible due to the added noise. Running everything up front is tolerable on my amps clean setting, but worse on the more over driven settings. But it powers the pedals as advertized, seems well built so its as I expected.

Most of the basic components in this power supply seem of good quality but in typical Chinese fashion it falls down on the assembly. The soldering is a bit rough in places. The case is made from quite thin low quality steel just held together with tack welds at the corneers and has started to rust under the low quality paint job. It appears to have a voltage selection through a covered switch, but the switch in fact is not connected to anything. That said it is about the cheapest multi-output supply (non-isolated outputs) you can buy for effect pedals and so far it has worked just fine on my pedal board. Like all Thomann electrical products it is supplied with a continental two pin mains lead. I don't know why they can't organise 3 pin leads for their UK customers.