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  • #86173
    SebPalmer
    Member

    Hi, a friend has just given me his dead Lumberjack pedal. He told me he connected it to a 48v power supply and it stopped working. I’ve just tried it: the clean/bypass signal gets through fine, and the power LED lights up when you activate the switch. But there’s no effect signal at all. Is this fixable? Is there a specific component that might’ve been blown/overloaded, that I (or someone better qualified!) can replace? Thanks, Sebastian

    #125903
    j_flanders
    Participant

    If there’s a fusible resistor in there it can be fixed, but in those cases the led usually doesn’t come on and nothing but the bypass works.

    Otherwise it will be hard. But it can be a fun challenge if you like doing this kind of stuff.
    Apart from a few caps it’s all smd…

    I see it costs around 70 euros new. It will cost (a lot) more than that to get it repaired by a technician.
    Maybe you can post some clear photos of the pcb?

    Here’s a blurry one I found online.
    EHX-Lumberjack-guts.jpg

    #125905
    Scruffie
    Member

    Well, unless there’s some form of over voltage protection (possible, but there’s no schematic to say with any certainty) I would suspect it’s super dead… I doubt the electro caps are rated to take 50V, op amps generally have a 36V max rating, even most standard transistors aren’t rated to take that much.

    But as flanders said, a photo might help, I think I spot a ICL7660 in there so perhaps it has zener protection which will probably be quite clearly blackened if the supply was in there for any period of time.

    #125906
    SebPalmer
    Member

    Thanks for the replys guys. Here’s a photo of my pedal. Unfortunately the forum limits picture size to under 75kb. So I doubt my pic will be any use. I’ll post some better quality pics on my blog, and put a link here.

    #125907
    SebPalmer
    Member

    As I’m unable to post a useful image here, due to file-size constraints, here’s a link to one of my blogs, where I’ve posted better quality images:

    Music: Fried Lumberjack

    #125908
    j_flanders
    Participant

    Thanks, but that photo is not really helping a lot:
    IMG_1119-239x300.jpg

    By clear photo, I actually meant something like this: (just an example photo of my ehx Worm)
    https://i.postimg.cc/zzjcM6RR/DSC06906.jpg%5Dexample photo

    That way, we can zoom in on the components, like this:
    Screen-Shot002.jpg

    #125909
    SebPalmer
    Member

    Which photo are you referring to? The one I posted here? If so, as I stated above, I’m unable to post anything useful: I get a message saying attachments must be smaller than 75kb! Or are you referring to the photos I posted and linked to on my blog? They should be significantly better. But perhaps you’re saying that even those aren’t clear enough? Can you clarify please.

    #125910
    j_flanders
    Participant

    The first photo in my previous post comes from your blog.

    #125916
    EHX STAFF
    Keymaster

    please contact service at info@ehx.com
    they can fix that FAST and cheap!

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