Hi all, I’m a proud owner of a Q-tron and an LPB-1. I live in Korea; recently during a trip to Singapore I purchased a new Micro POG. It sounded great and was working fine while I was in Singapore and using the power supply that came with it.

However….(uh oh)….when I came back to Korea, I didn’t have the right wall adapter for the plug so I set the pedal aside until I got one. One day when I came home my brother–bless him–told me he wanted to mess around with it, so tried using my Artec Power Brick to power the mPOG (noooo!), and after a few seconds, it clicked and popped and sputtered out. He said “that’s strange,” tried a different jack, and got the same result.

The next day I went out and got an outlet adapter so I could use the 200 mA power adapter that came with the pedal. Now when I step on the pedal, it turns on and stays on, but produces a strange and interesting sound….but not musical. More like a helicopter….underwater…..or something. Not good.

Because I was on holiday I didn’t send in the warranty registration card ten days within purchase.

Opened it up and it looked ok, not that I really know what I’m looking at, but nothing was melted or fried that I could see. So I wonder: 1) Is it totally shot? or, 2) Is this problem fixable, for example is it a matter of replacing the power jack on the pedal?

Hopefully it’s the latter, otherwise I now own an expensive piece of junk.

PS: voltage in Korea is 220 Volts at 60 Hertz, Singapore is 230 Volts at 50 Hertz.

Thanks for any input, rock on!