Thanks Les. Yeah its brand new. Im not saying you are wrong but the first couple of times of plugging in, i think it simply worked without any kind of sequence. The only time i saw any flashing lights was when my powere adapter seemed questionable.
Yeah i tried a couple other adapters and it seems like i got a different result for each one.
The amount of work that goes into these circuits would take this into account ( as if you now the actual 1176LN or later they are not that small there are some manuals for them with some schematics floating on the internet). I bought my 1176 and the LA-2A(Teletronix from UA) compressor pedal at the same time as well around the time of your post. The startup is a red green blue flicker and then the final colour depends on your settings. The pedal is an A/D/A system so over powering seems easily taken care of between resistor trees/cascades and some of the power regulators you have latitude. If you are putting transformers in your guitar to make up for cord length then you may wan't to check with UA. I have accidentally run pedals at twice the rated voltage and they just got a little warmer (about 40 degrees Centigrade). When you turn the power off the 'stomp' switch is everything from 1throw to 4 throws (I just bought some of these for a pedal I'm making) and an equal amount of pulls, when pressed it will flip the switch on the battery, usb, and dc 5.5/2.1 mm connectors. If your pedal does the startup of cycling colours then never comes to a stop of flashing you should first update the firmware then check the pedal all else fails send a note off to UA. I know strymon pedals have to have knobs in certain positions or you may start reprogramming what the knobs do! it sounds like you are doing the safe thing of using designated power supplies. Somewhat in the same vein is I've found UA love a little extra amperage, I had to juice my del verb with amperage, but all five smaller size pedals I have from UA (not including DelVerb,Ruby,MaxComp which are bigger) flicker (the Orion and Heavenly naturally have a lilac coloured LED package.Good luck with this amazingly well built pedal I hope it works. I should mention the manual is a card in the lid of the box and also a web page that you should have no problem finding on UA's site if you have the option (like in Mac's Sonoma OS) save the page as a pdf. file for later.
