Hey there, I am new to this forum. I have Fishman Fluence classic pickups (which I wired in myself using the exact diagram supplied by Fishman) in a Strandberg-style guitar, and my experience with the G10 has been weird. I am wondering if anyone can shed light on it.
At first I was not aware there was any issue with using the G10 together with active pickups. There is no comment about this in manual. So I just plugged the G10 into my Fluence guitar, and it actually worked fine for a couple weeks. But gradually, the G10 transmitter started to get buggy (dropping, cutting out, not connecting to my THR10ii), and eventually it died. I thought it was a bad transmitter, so I had it replaced. (Thank god for Sweetwater.) I put the new one in my guitar, and I got no signal, and the transmitter stopped working altogether. (Red lights only, or no lights.) I had that one replaced. Same thing again!
Finally I got yet another replacement (#4 -- Sweetwater is the only place to buy anything) and this time I didn't let the transmitter anywhere near my Fluence guitar. It's been working fine. Basically, the evidence I have is that my Fluence pickups are prone to somehow damaging G10 transmitters to the point of bricking them. Does this seem possible? If so why is this happening? I realize there's this general issue with active pickups depending on the wiring, but what I've read is that in the problem cases the G10 goes into some kind of protection mode instead of transmitting a signal. I have not seen reports of the transmitter actually getting destroyed by active pickups, which seems to be what my experience has been.
This sucks, since my Fluence guitar is my favorite. I have read that the L-shaped adapter that comes with the G10 enables it to work with active pickups. I would like to try it, but since I've been through three G10 transmitters apparently somehow fried by my Fluence pickups, I am sort of traumatized, and would like extra confirmation before I test this! If I used the L-shaped jack adapter, is there any way that my Fluence pickups could still possibly damage or destroy the G10 transmitter?
Thanks for any insight!
