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Batteries
It seems my battery goes dead in my Martin OMCXAE,if I leave the battery in it. Has any else had this problem?
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Do you leave the.cord plugged into it?
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No,I don't. I hang it on the wall.
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Batteries
My Martin has Fishman electronics in it and also eats batteries. I happen to talk to someone else who had the same issue with his. And no, I don’t leave the cord in. In contrast, my doubleneck Emerald still has the same battery in it, getting close to a year now.
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It could be shorting through the jack. You can test it by pulling out the jack and checking for connectivity across the two leads which act as the switch, which are ring and switch in the diagram below.
http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/i-1521/i-1521.pdf Also, check that the connectors haven’t bent and shorted through the screw-on metal shielding cap (if it’s installed). I’ve found that condition on a couple of guitars and it’s led me to use heat-shrink tubing on each separate connector on any Switchjack I install, because it isolates the switching connectors from each other and from the cap. -mh |
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This is why I refuse to have a battery in a guitar ever. Twice I've been onstage when my partner's guitar battery died.
I'm working to get them to replace it ASAP.
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Bridged circuits
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Many guitars use the end pin to switch the battery. Shorts in the end pin or leaving a cord connected will drain the battery. I’ve spoken to a few gigging guitarists and they use rechargeable 9 volt batteries so they know that they have full power for each performance. Check your jack for a short. Even the slightest connection of the "tangs" will turn on your pre-amp and drain the battery.
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Glad it helped! . Switching jacks are fussy creatures, but treated right they behave well.
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I had a bunch of (NEW) dead batteries in my drawer. All's well now.
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Probably be smarter to teach the guitarist to change his battery every few string changes. In the last 15 years I've never had a battery die on stage and that's playing 5 gigs a week.
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