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Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:10:46 GMT

eduesp - this is a Spider 3 you bought? If so, I assume you bought it used and it will not be in warranty, so you can pay to have it fixed by a Line 6 service center, or return it to whomever you bought it from. From the replies above, this series amp had a known problem (bad circuit board).

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:38:12 GMT

Same problem here.

Any idea what to do?

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:21:27 GMT

I recently bought three line 6 spider amps... and one has started to give the same problem as described here.. the amp keeps powering back on... I need help since I live in trinidad

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:46:47 GMT

Well after trying to get ahold of someone about whats going on with my amp, I got emailing back and forth with Line 6 and they put me up to speed. My service center FINALLY ORDERED my part so it won't take much longer maybe a week. It happens to be the main PCBA needs to be replaced, not sure what it is but thats what happens to be faulty with 90% of the Spider models and whats causing the problems. Not much Line 6 can do and not really there fault because they are a growing company, that would be there production lines fault thou. THANKS LINE 6 FOR GETTING ALL THE INFO TO ME QUICKLY.

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:22:57 GMT

Mine did the same thing but eventually it does not help, the problem will progressively worsen so I would do what I did and take it to the service center because its not over heating, its the board that is bad. I understand there a new company and got bigger than they could control and one hand don't know what the other is doing at this point, but they need to hire people that will take the freaking time and check boards and diods much more closely because this kind of thing is a make or break for this company. Im tired of waiting to get my amp back, ive been waiting about a month now for it to get fixt.

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:50:21 GMT

im having the same problems with my 120,i tried a different power cable and that kinda worked (it doesnt do it as often)..i took a fan and set it to blow behind the amp and keep everything cool and that seems to work,ive played for 6 hours straight with the fan blowing and it never shut off like it normaly does.i know a few people personaly that say the spider 3's are known for getting hot but i dont know...try putting a fan behind it and see what that does

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:49:12 GMT

This is my first NON TUBED amp I have owned and I think it will be my last. I wanted to try something new and had this for like 3 weeks before it had problems. Its obvious now why my friends told me to stay away from this type of amp and told me to stick with tubed amps like Marshall and Peavey. Its quite dissapointing that something that cost $500 and IS NOT A FARELLY NEW PRODUCT would crap out so quick. If it does it again when I trade it in, this suckers going down the road. Now that Im owning a Line6 SpiderIII 150 Im reading alot of posts on different sites about people having the same problem. You would think that Line6 would have taken care of this problem when it first rised 2 or 3 years ago I mean this is not like buying a toy at Walmart and it breaking and you can return it to get your money back or exchange it when you would like. I have to drive a 120 mile round trip and PRAY THEY HAVE ONE TO EXCHANGE for this P.O.S

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:00:59 GMT

I'm surprised you haven't been given the stock support answer to most issues presented here ... !!

"Time to take it to a Line6 Service Center"....

And now I realized that had already been suggested.. so I tried to DELETE my post..

NOT !!! yet another thing I'd like back from the old forum ...

this is reallyy getting old !

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:42:24 GMT

None of the suggestions have worked to fix the problem with my amp. The closest service center to me is in Cortland which is 60 miles away and that makes it a total of 120 mile round trip. My question to you is what are you going to do for me if this problem persists with another amp and if that one does the same thing a new one does. That is alot of milage to cover and time. If the problem persists over a years time am I entitled to a refund if this continues to be a problem with this amp because $500 is alot of money for me???

Re: Line6 Spider III 150

support@line6.com — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:12:24 GMT

Spyfunker, thank you for your response:

Yup - have tried the factory reset, this was the first thing that the Line 6 technician had suggested when I phoned this problem in.

Definately a different amp. I had initially purchased a "blemished" spider iii from zzounds. It looked fine on the outsize, but i noticed the speaker was loose, one of the screws was out of the hole and on the magnet :-). I do rememember some of the imperfections on the original one. Zzounds.com didn't have another blemished, so they were kind to replace it with a new one, it was easy to tell.

I didn't try another guitar, but I did try unplugging the guitar entirely and power cycling the amp. The problem came back in minutes. I'm using an epiphone les paul custom silverburst with a pair of humbuckers (also using planet waves cables)

>>Do you live in a house thats been haunted by ex-L6 employees?

I hope not, for all the line 6 stuff that I've used - this is the first time I've run into a problem; so havent had a chance to **** anyone off yet. At this time, I'm using the line 6 gearbox gold as the interface - and have never had any problems with the guitar